Rodney Dangerfield just died
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NOT REALLY ,
FOR THOSE OF US IN THE COMEDY COMUNITY WE HAVE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON HIM , AND KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN....I JUST PRAY THAT HIS SOUL REJOYCES IN PARADIES....U HAVE SHARED YOUR JOY WITH THE MANY OF US AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT I'LL DEDACATE A SET TO YOU THA LAST TIME I SAW YOU WAS AT THE LATE SHOW AND YOU STILL HAD IT, HOPE YOU CAN MAKE THEM LAF IN THE HEVANS
TILL THEN MY FRIEND....
FOR THOSE OF US IN THE COMEDY COMUNITY WE HAVE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON HIM , AND KNEW THIS WAS GONNA HAPPEN....I JUST PRAY THAT HIS SOUL REJOYCES IN PARADIES....U HAVE SHARED YOUR JOY WITH THE MANY OF US AND I THANK YOU FOR THAT I'LL DEDACATE A SET TO YOU THA LAST TIME I SAW YOU WAS AT THE LATE SHOW AND YOU STILL HAD IT, HOPE YOU CAN MAKE THEM LAF IN THE HEVANS
TILL THEN MY FRIEND....
Associated Press
Oct. 5, 2004 05:20 PM
LOS ANGELES - Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
Sasaki said in a statement that Dangerfield suffered a small stroke after the operation and developed infectious and abdominal complications. But in the past week he had emerged from the coma, the publicist said. advertisement
Clad in a black suit, red tie and white shirt with collar that seemed too tight, Dangerfield convulsed audiences with lines such as: "When I was born, I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother," "When I started in show business, I played one club that was so far out my act was reviewed in Field and Stream," and "Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?' "
In a 1986 interview, he explained the origin of his "respect" trademark:
"I had this joke: 'I played hide and seek; they wouldn't even look for me.' To make it work better, you look for something to put in front of it: I was so poor, I was so dumb, so this, so that. I thought, 'Now what fits that joke?' Well, 'No one liked me' was all right. But then I thought, a more profound thing would be, 'I get no respect.' "
Dangerfield is survived by his wife, Joan, and two children from a previous marriage.
Oct. 5, 2004 05:20 PM
LOS ANGELES - Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, died Tuesday. He was 82.
Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
Sasaki said in a statement that Dangerfield suffered a small stroke after the operation and developed infectious and abdominal complications. But in the past week he had emerged from the coma, the publicist said. advertisement
Clad in a black suit, red tie and white shirt with collar that seemed too tight, Dangerfield convulsed audiences with lines such as: "When I was born, I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother," "When I started in show business, I played one club that was so far out my act was reviewed in Field and Stream," and "Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?' "
In a 1986 interview, he explained the origin of his "respect" trademark:
"I had this joke: 'I played hide and seek; they wouldn't even look for me.' To make it work better, you look for something to put in front of it: I was so poor, I was so dumb, so this, so that. I thought, 'Now what fits that joke?' Well, 'No one liked me' was all right. But then I thought, a more profound thing would be, 'I get no respect.' "
Dangerfield is survived by his wife, Joan, and two children from a previous marriage.
