Only Don Rickles could get away with insulting Frank Sinatra: “Make yourself at home, Frank – hit somebody.” Only Don Rickles (unlike Stephen Colbert) could get laughs from a sitting president by ...

Don Rickles’ 1968 album Hello Dummy! earlier today became the 14th comedy album to be inducted into the National Recording Registry (NRR). The album – even the very title – exemplifies the brash ...

WHO IS HE: Don Rickles made his first appearance on The Tonight Show in 1965 and went on to make another 100 appearances on the show. The New York City native became known as an “insult comedian,” ...

It was like knowing the score to the game before it was played. You knew the outcome. You knew Don Rickles would be funny -- side-splitting funny -- and nothing would be off limits. You knew -- if you ...

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Legendary comedian Don Rickles died today at the age of 90 in his Los Angeles home. The stand up and late night mainstay got his start as the controversial equal opportunity insult comic he is ...

Before Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, before American Idol's Simon Cowell, before Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, one man abused people on TV and in clubs like no other. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

Comedy legend Don Rickles got fed up with Martin Scorsese during filming of “Casino” 30 years ago, the Oscar-winning director revealed. Before a Tribeca Film Festival screening Thursday at the Beacon ...