CHICAGO — Here, ladies and gentlemen, is Bob Newhart: “Somebody called me up and they said, ‘Look, Don Rickles is looking for a best friend … and none of us wanna do it. Would you?’ “And I said, ‘How ...

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 ...

Comedian Don Rickles has died at age 90. Paul Shefrin, his longtime publicist and friend, said Rickles died Thursday of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home. He would have turned 91 on May 8. For ...

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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 ...

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LOS ANGELES – Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed “Mr. Warmth” whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday ...

And Rickles is proud of his literary effort there are 80,000 copies in print and the episodic way in which it's written. The New York City native opens his heart about his parents, poor grades in ...

Rather than a monologue, Kimmel opened his late-night talker by noting, “This is not going to be our usual show tonight, and I’m going to tell you right up front: I’m going to cry, which is kind of ...