A Great American comedian died today. Jacob Cohen aka Rodney Dangerfield was 82 years old when he died from complications with heart surgery. You may have thought that he was crass and crude but that made him most funny to me. He was incredible in Caddyshack and even better in Back to School. Many of you missed his dramatic performance in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers but he was very good in that too.
He became famous because of his "NO RESPECT" humor. It is how each of us feel somedays and he captured it perfectly. He had no problem poking fun at himself which made him that much more endearing. Everyone should take a little bit of Rodney Dangerfield and laugh at your flaws. So tonight pay a little respect to the man with no respect.
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Nooooooooo!!!
*cries*
The first time I ever heard/saw him was in the cartoon movie Rover Dangerfield. I can still hear him singing about how he'd never pee on a Christmas tree. Well, I know what I'm going to do - try and find my copy of it.
-cgm
I liked the tributes I saw on the Late Show with David Letterman and on Saturday Night Live. Especially the one on SNL, in which St. Peter asks Dangerfield several questions, and he (the actor portraying him in the skit) replies with his well-known one-liners.
After this, Dangerfield realizes that these questions weren't really necessary for his entrance into the pearly gates. St. Peter says, "We just wanted to hear those jokes one more time."
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