Would Don Rickles's comedy make it today?
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Didn't even make it in his day for me. Very unpleasant person behind the very unpleasant and unfunny public persona.
I completely agree. I actually don't find most American comics to be funny. Loud, brash overstatement is annoying, not funny.
I thought he was hilarious. But no, today he would be a victim of political correctness.
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I also thought he was one of the funniest guys around in his day.
He made numerous guest appearances on the TV shows and didn't miss a beat.
He was a personal friend of Don Adams and I can still remember him playing Max's doubting friend on Get Smart.
Frank Sinatra didn't take to kindly to anyone poking fun at him yet made an exception in Rickles case. They became lifelong friends.
Today he would be attacked and cancelled big time.....They would be demonstrating outside of any venue he attempted to play.
Sad sate of affairs really......
He made numerous guest appearances on the TV shows and didn't miss a beat.
He was a personal friend of Don Adams and I can still remember him playing Max's doubting friend on Get Smart.
Frank Sinatra didn't take to kindly to anyone poking fun at him yet made an exception in Rickles case. They became lifelong friends.
Today he would be attacked and cancelled big time.....They would be demonstrating outside of any venue he attempted to play.
Sad sate of affairs really......
He was funny. His humor would not be allowed today.
People today don't have much of a sense of humor. He would be denounced as a racist, especially if he made fun of a black person, in view of their protected status, just like the panda.
People are way too uptight today.
Just another form of puritanism.
A guy like Don Rickles, or Lenny Bruce, or Sam Kinison, they'd never even get out of the gate.
Just another form of puritanism.
A guy like Don Rickles, or Lenny Bruce, or Sam Kinison, they'd never even get out of the gate.
His brash, trash-talking style would work perfectly in today’s world. He would have to perform material that was attuned to today’s standards but there is no reason to think Rickles wouldn’t learn and evolve just like the rest of us.
The biggest problem Rickles would have in today’s world would not be his ability to adjust; however, he would be vulnerable to people playing back his old routines and getting cancelled for stuff he said on the Tonight Show 50 years ago.
The biggest problem Rickles would have in today’s world would not be his ability to adjust; however, he would be vulnerable to people playing back his old routines and getting cancelled for stuff he said on the Tonight Show 50 years ago.
Wouldn't you like to see Rickles in today's political climate...you know, he'd probably be a Trump supporter.
Don Rickles was funny. There are no popular GOP comedians because conservatives lack a sense of humour. Rickles would be a Dem along with the rest of Hollywood.
My original post was for Reagan at the Republican convention...a Democrat entertainer wouldn't perform his act there.
* A lifelong Democrat, Rickles performed as part of Ronald Reagan’s second presidential inauguration. He joked that he took the job because he wanted to hang out with Sinatra.
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There used to be a time when performers could perform at both Dem and GOP events without it being viewed as an endorsement or political statement.
Don Rickles was great. Nobody had a faster brain for comedic insults.
I once spent a week at the same resort in the Caribbean where he was staying with his family. He was privately the kindest person you could imagine.
It so happened that him and I met at the swim up bar, which had a big banner with the name of about 50 drinks. We decided to go through them from one end to the other,
so I spend a couple of hours with him during the week.
I once spent a week at the same resort in the Caribbean where he was staying with his family. He was privately the kindest person you could imagine.
It so happened that him and I met at the swim up bar, which had a big banner with the name of about 50 drinks. We decided to go through them from one end to the other,
so I spend a couple of hours with him during the week.
Wot, Don Rickles, not funny?! And don't confuse him with Don Cherry, Rickles was a genius comic, Cherry is a racist buffoon.
