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2020-03-20 | 🔗

Other comedians cry on the inside, but Rodney Dangerfield built his entire act around his sad life. Get to know this legendary comic who was nearing 50 when he got his break.

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with the one Mr Rod need Dangerfield. I'm glad to hear that visa and increased under appreciated comedian like I've, talked to listen, people who have not seen back to school. I know I do- and I was actually talking to someone who works here. The festival who said is he dead and, I said yeah. That happens a lot so that he said. Why? Don't I remember that our it's no respect really that's cool about the guy like he that was his whole, stick, those as whole on her gray, what we need to start in the traditional way, yearning very nice. Hey and welcome to the Pakistan Josh Characters Charles W checkers bring it, and we are here at a pub tests, and you lovely people give ourselves a hand?
that the better you feel a little more We are happy with that. One now, we have to start a hooker, How do these? Lady, here people sitting back to school, restart. So as we are seeing the worst thing about Ronnie Dangerfield. Is there he? was his whole. His hope stick about. No respect is actually really really close to accurate as mere fact here and not just I was growing up in a really tragic, terrible childhood, but also he got older and older and even after it blew up he's still people just Kind Who could he was saying and ran with it like you to hear this sorry way? I'm he opened a club which will talk about called Dangerfield. So it's obviously, his club and here
on his way, up to the stage to spend like called up, there, and on his way, some guy stop summonses Rodney can and can also give us more butter like this does happen, is that quite a bit actually yeah yeah. So it does turn out that you will see even after death. The guy got no respect but as chuckle Sir later I predict He is he's a comedians comedian and very actually well respected by the than the ones that count shirt and are enough. You guys know this, but a lot of comedians have entertain. Which is the reason a lot of and get into comedy and a reason. Many of them drink. So they black out on me knights, pain is no secret through the comedy world, but you'd be hard to find someone who was, as legitimately, depressed and sound
is Ronnie Dangerfield. He was like a crying clown furrier. He was. He often talked about the heaviness. He felt every day when he woke up. He said he would got every day and there was a lingering about him. Was it happiness with a capital eight, even here and if you ever. If you ever want to go down a Youtube rat whole just Some enter views with the guy you tube from like the eighties, and you know he does a lot of interviews. It is like local tv stations promoting movies and stuff. And when he's out of his stick element one side of things you ve ever seen, and it's really depressing easy. This air about em. You could tell you that the weight of life on his shoulders- and it all pretty much that stems from his awful awful awful child- his childhood, it's hilarious of arable, so we should throw the beginning with them. He was born in nineteen twenty one On long island
Not in long island check tells me and he was born to evolve billion father, who took off with one of rotten his brothers to go the circuit, and that was that, like you, I think he saw him like once or twice a year for a half hour an hour, something like that. He said he saw his dad literary like twice a year growing up and he was born Jacob Cohen, and his dad was a juggler and a comic who apparently hit the road because of his wife, who was You know we're talking about what an awful person she was we're going over the star it She was but the more I thought about it. She did that serious problem. It was in a back in the nineteen twenty two diagnose things like they do today. Radio, ran off to divide it also pretty much, but she was clearly depressed like profoundly depressed and sadly it completely
then emotionally and neglected little right arm, my guess little Jacob, he was he was left on his own from the top he could remember. His mom literally never hugged him once never kissed, once he swore up and down yet this never complemented him or like try to build them up She was a bad lady and am sturdier probably round age. There's something like that. He I'm real. Is that if he is going to eat dinner on a regular basis, he's gonna have to go, get a job and go grossly shopping himself right. So he basically raising. I'll, show you my age, eight herself and was speaking of she's, one of the one of the great things that stuck out too about his childhood. He was here to get a job and after every school job is still in school. And he lived in a fairly wealthy neighbourhood, but he was not wealthy. So we used to deliver fisheries to his classmates home near which can
demoralising. When you write ten, you know, and He also were, while he was out there running around on the streets, there's a heroic autobiography the year. He died, two thousand for and on it here. Called this chapter male prostitute because he was like tat and he was so unsupervised that there currently at least one or two local molesters that were like hey Rodney, come on up. I got a nickel for you, where's up down that it was just that it was. It was just kissing. Every Heidi, don't worry. The every child was just kissed by the grown man for a nickel he and I have an alarm and is doing it because he needed the money yeah so anyway, Roddy danger feel fast forward out of this horrible horrible. Oh by the way, we're gonna, pepper and some of his bets jokes here and there, and- baited another night, trying to it as him, because
time already promised certain people here there is: do that, started Celeron Dangerfield joke. Without going to do in him, and I took a little informal Paul last night with some folks in there. You oughta have two yeah. I think so it's not like it's a good impression, but puts it. Lee delivering it. My lad, weirdo aspect worm naval, trying at all the weirder so prepare for that too. But one thing that you did and that, of course a lotta comics do as they turn that pain into funny, and he really relied on his. His jokes is away too I mean only time he was happy was when he was on stage performing and ass soon ass. He left the heaviness would come back, but he often about his mom. He would say my mom breastfed me. She told me she always thought of me as a friend the together funny joke, but when you know that the real pain behind it, it's like the saddest thing I've ever heard it takes a tear, better, define us away from it. I've gotta get parent when you ready
I remember the time- and this is my writing due to go. I remember the time I was kidnapped. They sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. That probably did not happen, but it gets. The point across Yonah employ it's funny and so a few area, one more apparent jello case my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster on a radio funny, that's gonna were better than I thought it would so concerned about aged fifteen thirty. He realizes he's actually kind of hilarious, in that he has a talent for taking all this horrible, tragic, stuff internally and funny stuff, and he started, writing jokes any got good, pretty quick. He started selling jokes aged fifteen or sixteen years, I was comedians rank, yet the market, this duffel bag. He would write jokes, my hand is entire career and put him in his duffel bag, so he literally headed duffel bag. Full of, like thousands
and thousands of jobs. And apparently I think you said that during a typical perform its later like once he hit the big time he would tell us like, for three hundred jokes and a like three fifty yeah Our aid, quick, jokes, still the armies, but he remembered them all and he knelt ones that best like the guy was a comic genius, hopefully that coming across here. Or will by the end of this right, so it gets his big break your age. Eighteen is written jokes for a few years and he's gonna try this and he gets a job at a cat skills resort fur while bucks a week yeah ten weeks. Including remembered yet link dirty dancing that gonna see very much so yeah, but he's like that I've been coming. Comic onstage right. Have you the scene? Iron man made thirty dancing that matter now, check it out, it is still a bizarre. Its both you'll ever see
there's nothing to write a danger that as an add on physically, but I'm so is working. He's working hard, the the state and the cat skills like, I don't think you get three up, but he keeps going back to the chemicals is one of his regular geeks, but on the other side, while he's he's a singing waiter at the Polish Falcons nightclub, where and when one earnest yeah we're Lenny this man was the empty. He was acrobatic diver right feel that an add on physically, but I'm so is work and working hard. Not do the triple lady in the movie. Obviously, for those of you who have not seen better school, there was an end jerk is a diver in the movie, the competitive diver I was gonna less than for not having seen as Falco trying to drive them up
Xo in nineteen fifty wine, he gets married for the first time to addressing your name, Joyce and dig, and he had a couple of kids and moved to New Jersey, which we Those are the death knell for any comedian. Trying New York. Gonna means have given up, but he didn't give up just yet he did. A minute flower you're. Not at that point, though, he was still trying to work, but turned twenty seven. He quit comedy and literally did not perform from Asia Thirty, eight to forty one forty one he was like: let's try this again right. What has he and his wife divorces like got a lot more time. I think I'm gonna go to Carmody again. They actually get back together like the next year and state married for another. Ten years or something like that, but the same around, he was like a living if I can figure out how to balance home life with this, I'm trying to break into comedy right here and let me developing act. I think the first time flounder because he didn't you know,
comedian. You want to be dried singing. You tried provisions even tried proper comedy for a little while, but he also I mean any. Had these jokes about how much is life cyclic? He used. Somebody seem jokes, his whole life, but the didn't hang on and quite right because he had his whole. The head of our money was young and full of promise. That second time around here right there in the sweet spot like aged forty whitish load, desperate kind of sweaty and his jokes about how bad is light about how bad is life. Why? What was going on? Well, like really discussion? It's a lot more. He adopted a persona, basically fanned that definitely yeah I mean it was. It was a sort of him, but it was also a, you're, an Research in this I was like, was kind of thinking about the you don't see. A lot of character comedians anymore. Now like that was disorder, they would like antidotes clay and a well run. It
your field and email, Philips in it, seem like their allotted characters. But now, no one. Now it's dislike. Look at this thing happened in my life, can help funny. It is where are these worthy observations? Should travel about my life, I'd like to see some good character. Comedians I can't think of other any other. I guess Brent, windbag, gonna go away. What about like Larry the cable got his total, I assume you are carried out as a character has started out, as is a completely different, gonna comedian. Oh yeah then adopted that person, but I don't count homesick media himself, but he's not watching too. I know he's not he's really bad jokes. This is the sort of way more with where even our totally take him up and meddling. Other kids watch me with his sacks of money. So here
his character. He changes his name legally. This point to Jack Roy, which was at his father's name. His father stage, name: Elroy yeah. I guess I can change his name legally, the Jack Roy and that was it wait till the day he died in Here- performing under the name for a while until he tried the sick. Go and decided I don't want anyone to remember Jack Roy, so he told us God it was book when a club in Manhattan. Did you just make up a name for me and put that on the other? I guess it when a marquis, but on the other yeah you know in any add they took out yet so the guy who ran this place, the inward lounge. I think I'm came up the broadly Dangerfield right, but the weird thing is: I hid, actually lifted the name from Jack Benny Character like there is an original Rodney Dangerfield? There wasn't riding Dangerfield right it, as we heard a giant twist of of the contest top down health from here.
They reject many came up with his character. I think the forties maybe or something like that of this guy. Z, western hero named Rodney, Dangerfield and down I guess the lounge owner remembered it and came up with that writing age of real. Had no idea about this always walkin around like using this. For years, and apparently he met Johnny Carson wants that one of his shows Johnny Carson. Like you know, your name came from right. And he got near what you talking about Yanks way. The whole jack anything and later on, he thought, Benny inject many wasn't like matter anything actually said. I really love what you did with the character, and you really, you know you did it just right so no harm of here and they have it out from famously. So on the second around he was. He was making a living, doing, ok
but he got his real big break and nineteen sixty seven with Ed Sullivan. He was on he couldn't but honest Sullivan, but the time they would book other comedians for the run through as like this place, holders for dress rehearsal, basically, and so he got a spot but that apparently did so well and dress Rehearsal debt Sullivan. You know too on the side of stage, which means you like this. You know you're funny As you know, it's all about your money does. If you just told remember me with that again, I worked through Nixon to do that. I had great Nixon Actually, there was the result of a huge longshot. He told his agent like just get me on its olive and play came out very well. Being on its old. Unlike seventeen times something. I then a light. All these other late night appear
says he was on Carson, like I think, a record. He holds the record for being on cars in the most seventy times, something like that. Yeah moved. Then do you know, like all the to a running late night and basically, where the taste makers for all the comedians were suddenly promoting the sweaty, weird cooped up part head booth a huge part, has no other way Rodney Dangerfield right and he took it in marine with like right when he here in nineteen sixty seven he got to work together. He was big part, had actually the then do you know like all the due to a running late marijuana and he was serious. You wanna go at that because he smote bodies at Verbenas, see something years, but well up until the day, I definitely think from twenty one on IQ, smoking part in. I see you in the hospital, because here an early medical marijuana exemption long before anyone even knew that loses rhodesia,
I knew there was, but if he flashed in your face, you didn't ask questions. So he got his big gray. Actually, Carson had blackball them for a while because he Carson and a letter of ceiling or one of his writers of stealing one of his jokes, so Carson famously and have him on the show for a long time until they events right Will they eventually met and worked it and then Johnny became like the biggest man ever and if you want You enjoy yourself at home on the Youtube's just go Johnny Carson on runny Dangerfield on Carson there's a lot of clips. Where I mean Carson was just like the ultimate set up, dude just let him do his journey with laugh until he was cry. I was greatly can believe that Dangerfield getting away with saying most of the stuff we were saying on tv on Carson's own show was good, so is it Mary. These work in a light and heat decides that he doesn't want to happen. The his own,
what happened to him, which was to be neglected. So he said you know what I'm gonna do. Even though no one's ever done this borrowing, money, quarter of a million dollars, and I opened my own comedy club in New York City Second stay home with my children, Brian and Melanie. I think right into psyche earning money right then you know if this is a huge, huge risk. Ok, but he had to borrow all not that ok right so everybody tries to talk him out of it. He goes ahead with it and it is such a success. He is alone paid off and, like eighteen months, does a huge success in this. This club actually became venerable in its own right. There are still there today, Runner Dangerfield in Europe yet end. Damn it had the Sir HBO Special there were broadcast out of a pointer comedians, get their big breaks on that. Surely Seinfeld Chris Rock I think you're Jim carry what's his face. Sagoth box worthy have larger box the plans the room, reader Radner. Of course, SAM Kennison incompletely made simply innocence lawyer.
And that was what he and that's like him- love him so much because it meant more him to play Father too young comics and to give them their start, then Anything else. He really that was sort of his life goal was to seek out towel you thought was original and really can abuse them up, he's a huge freudians near the Holy Father son thing in underway. So why chuck? Where we are We are at danger fields, nineteen, eighty and he decides that you know what start making movies because well you ve made a few movies, but that, but nothing that anyone would know he's actually cast first by slightly cubic and nineteen fifty
for the movie, the Killilea, the killing, the killing great movie, who said yeah yeah great movie, so he plays on big part, and then he was in another moving out of on call the projectionist yeah. It was a big part in a very small movie. He said that it was the type a movie where they went to go issued on location by taking the subway by year having yours, but he played the this movie. Projectionist boss in the projectionist said. Quite it donation, and he was a superhero and Dangerfield. Was this arch villain nemesis didn't eating go very far. While he learned almost nothing. About how to shoot a movie. This is seven Levin and apparently his huge, huge breakthrough came and carries great use already very much a well respected comedian, but,
in his when he shot, carries Harold, Rhamnus right yeah when he directed it? He said later on their clearly I feel that nobody is doing is alive performer. So when we Hell Dream said: action Rainy days, road, the standard big. Like you, we do my bit now that's what action we must rise to your bed, and so they rode you just turned to the camera and like do his whole bit into the camera clinical and we get it. We gotta get this right here, so pretend the cameras, not there one and them, he finally gonna do it, because I was the thing that has broken out yeah and he hated making movies. Like you said he, performing, live in front of people, that's where he got his is rush in here. Compare making movies to arm. He said you know when you make a kid write something a hundred times on the chalkboard. They done something wrong he's like that's what making movies like he, doing all these takes. He hated standing around waiting list that's why you didn't make it on him, he's any. He felt
the live audiences like he compared to a heroine attic like shooting up. You know, like you, just loved that rush and he deafening get that for movies, which I mean, like the crew standing around. Looking at you waiting for You know I wasn't his bag at all. It was not his bag. You this description from rolling stone editor been found Torres, which I think grab some like to a t you. I read that sir ok so bent for us who is in almost famous he He had a coat. He says the Rainy Dangerfield looks like a mid life crisis. There's a surface orderliness he's groomed and his dress, like a business man at the convention, gray, hair slick over a haggard shades of mayor daily, face, dark suit, white shirt, bright, red I socio silk stockings shine issues, but then neatness gives way to what he calls the heaviness that looms over him. Life gives
the danger, the jitters he's an Constance wet. He wiped his brow and setting, He took out his tie. Turkey jerky as he recounts them of his daily life. He sipped his shoulders uncomfortably and his eyes bug out of their bags. He moved The floor MIKE around as he rooms the comedy, store stage looking for sympathy, but only gets there, let's just like that. Drastic man, email, rightly Dangerfield in absolutely, and not his shirt. Try that came about because, while he hated clothes in fashion was just going to say I think it's time he was a slot he was a slob set, an interview so much he hated close. I never cared about clothes and fashion and was people and a robe, basically, and but for This first acts he put on the red tie in the black suit, unlike dress, not dapper, and when it came for the second performance he was likewise They like me in that cylinders gonna where that and that became his stick. Was you know this very?
dapper. Looking guy is always very well. But together. In fact, I just saw today when he gave out a best make up a word at the thick eighty seven Tommy awards really yeah heavy and he walked up and he's a nice tuxedo. Everybody right and you'd underneath torn under shorts. This feeling that, like that was the dead. True, I am sure we have like wholly underwear, I'm Syria, you should look that two men, that's great. Because you basically does five minutes of stand up, that he gave words and it gives out so iron man versus thirty dancing, takes a note and then some Dangerfield, I'm sure, we'll take a break. Your check taken out
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he was fine, but I mean you can watch to close for comfort and then let us as much as you. I just don't think it need to be in the movie, I think, bill, Murray and Ruddy Dangerfield. That's what made caddies like a classic, we'll Chevy Chace a tad! You know how I feel about everything my father raised me to HIV changes Didn you really don't. You didn't like an old man still does not like every day. Why? Just didn't thing is when they are visiting cease the pompous area, some about Chase sticks in my dad's cross, any passed it on vehicle. In the weird It is totally what are you doing? You dare not vaudevillian if they pass on weird stuff, like that so. He makes gaddi shackles a huge. Now he was a legitimate. He was sought after four movies and then a nineteen eighty three, he wrote a movie called easy money. Within my Sima anywhere is actually pretty cool
It's not that it's a little weird structurally, which makes sense that he wrote it is clearly did not arrive spread. You know how to write a bunch of jokes so he played a Monti Capuletti in italian american drunk pot head photographer, because because this is back in the early eighties, when any one of any ethnicity could play any one of another ethnicity, sugar. I could use hungarian born but a in italian guy. It's cool so in the movie his mother in law was the inspiration for when beds, and her son in law and when she died, she said I Have all this money for one year. I think like ten million bucks for one year you quit a gambling and boozing and smoking and are doing drugs, so easy money. Was apache it was. It was ok right, like the first half of it movie, is just a series of vignettes there, where he just completely screw
everything up and like that, your stomach all upset and everything, unlike you really emotional, and then nothing comes of it and then finally have through the plot arrives, and then it gets I'm a good actually agreed. Yeah bought build up now, pay off an outline, but one Roger Ebert like the movie, even though it was a little weird and said the basically It was about watching running Dangerfield. He said the danger of your gloriously playing himself as the new. Thing. We are likely to get the w c fields in his lifetime. In writing. Himself said that it was. That was pretty much me, on screen us closer. You come to my real life. Easy might yet right. Yeah he's a baby photographer So light eighty six is when he finally makes back to school, which was The biggest hit think it cost like thirteen.
The eleven million seven million a gross well over a hundred million which in nineteen eighty six I mean today, no good money today dollars it's a hundred fifty billion dollars inflation for Europe this. When he played it, he had the idea. I think you got a story, credit of a guy father that goes back to school. Who is the big loser in life, so he goes at the school, with his son to get his degree and if any, that idea the Herald raises issues like that's good, but what if he was rich, and what have you the and had it all in still goes back to school like knowing what he knows now with a lot of money and in writing is like ok, that's the movie is a good idea, and it actually I mean there was a huge movie when it came out. It was the six biggest move. Nineteen? Eighty six there was behind top gun platoon. The kid to STAR Trek for and there is one other one written down somewhere here.
There are big movies and it was like the six highest grossing movie of the year in its Rodney teacher feel right, yeah, and so he is hit it big at this time is a huge, huge movie star and, in the end, the biggest cuts I think they did a survey and await seventies right before his movies. I, with college students that said that. Ronnie Dangerfield was their favorite comic yeah and he was sixty one years old. Fifty fifty eight all thinking. Basic was when he had it big as a comedian. Fifty years old right and my college kids like into this guy and actually- you ve seen. If all you ve seen a back to school, that's all you ve seen a ready danger. Fill you dont quite have the understanding of what he was actually like. He's pretty edgy comic, actually in pretty hilarious in college kids, above them in the seventies, used it I live in nineteen eighty, yet when when he was, I think, like sixty years, something fifty nine a m
to blow up like at about eight sixty, not crazy shit. We tell a few more of its people. I think it is high time that you're gonna look overview, he is a great joke about his psychiatry. I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me- and he said being ridiculous, everyone has met me it classic MIA. Let's see you like this one is low. But I, like you, classes when you alone, you far, you say, excuse me, that's class, Weird So if you haven't noticed a lot of his jokes, were they were so advocating for himself, but also about his family. He talked about his wife was DOM and fat. Sign? It was stupid.
Even when he wasn't. I mean it was all a character. So, even when he wasn't married, he was telling jokes about his wife, but which must be made it a lot easier when he went home, and rightly so, What favorite wife jokes was I tell you my? Why can't cook at all? How can toast have bones? and- and person is getting better as we go along Lincoln whiskeys. I must say that I feel that all of us I've got one, so this is so that is where weird- and I like- that in a comic just this bizarre stir, he was talking. But the bar that he was doing stand up in that nice is what a joint eyes the bartender for a double. Brought out a guy who looks like me, I miss days Van were comedians throat great jokes, set up punchline set up punchline over and over near I
much less than I went to the doktor. I gave my you're in simple. Had an olive in it, another thing I learned about ready data. Given you go back and listen to his stuff, he wasn't like mean it was self deprecate even when he was targeting like his family, mostly nonexistent family. All of it reflect on him and basically what a loser. He was right have very many mean jobs. It Intel, like many gay Joseph You didn't tell racist jokes, anything like that which, in this is like in the seventies when, like everybody, was telling ever figuratively vary, but he didn't have this bad joke. This stuck out to me, are you fat? Do you look at a menu and say Ok, I'd love, love
giving laughs variety days are built a wish to do this. To say, I think we have a new act should now talk about a rush. I got one more. Our idea was dating a woman. She called and said come on over nobody's home, I went over. Nobody was all good stuff, I have a new career reading, Roddy Dangerfield, Turks. That's a hold, no one's done that cover comedians. Rare do shark, NATO, and now this you're always sure Chuck predicted shark neighbouring. He did you're welcome. Ok, the more you anymore. You, like the one about his dog to tell their own
Ok, I, my dog is lazy. He so lazy doesn't chase cars legislation. The driveway taking a licence. Our rights and our do not stop lad. In the early nineties, eighties he's making these movies he one best comedy album Grammy further. Album no respect beating out Richard prior Monty Python. The Radner and filagreed us our duty I can only to Smithsonian Institution, but his red tie in his shirt. Smithsonian european history, National Museum of American history right, along with Jimmy Drain, had Archie bunkers reclining. Charles Limburg Plain, but rightly said, was eager to feel enough. They left their discoveries, assured the white down the lane,
always self deprecate again Andy and when he handed on the surety said this is a bigger a big deal. I only have two shirts it may have been true and also in the nineteen eighties, who remembers the Miller, light commercials from the nineteen eighties taste very spilling their men There has his hand upon this party really were great commercials. They were name. It was like named the eighth best advertising campaign in history we can accept at age. Why wouldn't watched a ton of an earlier today- and I remember more from being little kid and it was we They were further. Those you haven't seen him. Premise was you would get a bunch of ex athletes and then Mickey Spillane and rightly Dangerfield and some other random pop cultural icons at the time and
to sell Miller line you know, get a big argument about taste rate less willing at the Inn. Ronnie would usually come in as the the champagne something wrong spoil everything through everything. Just such a weird, like Bubba Smith and Dick Bacchus baseball I know they must belatedly spelling. I don't know it was so strange, but there are huge and they monies people's power, the weed for everybody. They let him on January, nineteen, eighty four. If any one remembers his hit rap single, happen. Rodney. Because this really it's something it is, and it was a big here. Actually it was a top sixty had just pretty big tat top fifty nine should give it its due. That means it was number fifty nine yet, so it was behind uptown girl anyway, Ronnie Dangerfield wrapping about being all
sounds really bizarre and out, but like legitimate wrappers at the time like say the sugar he'll gang wrapping about like having dinner a year, friends, moms house, so wasn't there the market for the time you know I'd, be nice to your family. That's what, we're about three months, the good old days He was on the simpsons having a couple times when it there. No, if he was on more than once these out, is but a ninety. Ninety six he played Mr Burns illegitimate unheard God no regard no regarded on I wonder why they didn't say respect today, not, I think, they're dosage, messing around yet the man himself as there would have been surprised. It feels like look cases. One thing I want to say respect, maybe not only that it finally things here, the branch on which actually did branch. I was actually really creative guy. He had a
a Broadway, so they ran for couple weeks and nineteen. Eighty eight appropriately Roddy Dangerfield, live on Broadway exclamation point for a couple of ways here, a romance novel. Lock intensive and if you Google, the image for this, it is disturbing yeah. It's basically like your typical, Like its Fabio, basically with a woman except it's got Ronnie Dangerfield space on it an end its available an audible. I was there. As it is with rightly Dangerfield reading it nowhere. Ice? I kid you not. When I joke about. What's on audible,. While his eyes looked up earlier to see if it's all about autobiographies on there, it is not the only rightly Dangerfield thing honour its awesome because it has the hour Martin. So you get them for free with the EU
he wrote and against the hidden directed, but he he produced and wrote the Movie Rover Dangerfield, the animated classic about a dog. Gets no respect, Mister Oliver Stone called him up. One day said, This role for you in a movie called natural born killers and its the statistic: Father who is molesting his daughter raping his daughter and I think you'd be perfect and run it and get it virtues like. What do you want me for this Gunnar all his ideal c, and did you see that natural born killers the scene on Youtube between our astounded that the Phoney Sit Tom. That's how they betray that, part of the movie so they have a laugh track in its. It's really stirring, it's like every three layers of bizarre rights, others. So it's like rainy days reveals a incestuous molester
but it's Rodney Dangerfield, that's the weird part and then there's a laugh track to just throw you that little extra bit it is Germany's there was pretty well done, but that the notable about. That. Is there stone like Rodney Dangerfield, rewrite olive his lines and he got a lotta critical, a claim for boats like Rodney Danger, Phil. We had no idea and he's like Cecily. If you go today and just Google the ride me Dangerfield of you can find a whole list of things. You such a cultural icon. That phrase itself is becoming no way. Petites around as the Rainy Dangerfield of California wine or the Memphis Tennessee City Council is the rainy dangerfield of local government. Seriously that's a thing: and saw a guitar. Preempt was the ruddy Dangerfield of guitar prejudice,
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so here's some more examples of the lack of respect in any sort of the thing The irony is yet nothing but respect from his peers throughout his career, but outside of that There was still doesn't doses throughout his life and examples of times were he didn't get any respect when he sued STAR magazine capable story about him being in LAS Vegas said he would drink like levels of vodka and smoke pot all day long and do cocaine, which was all if we truly at that, but he knew that they could improve it. So he threw them for libel. The court ruled in his favour right, yeah. So let's respect right. So they awarded him. One dollar further damage to his reputation and one dollar for personal rights and the judgment Yeah sorry lives. People realise that our kind he did it. Either get awarded. Forty five thousand dollars for presume damages and
a little more research today on that he apparently salute on coke, and we apparently star magazine showed that they didn't turn a profit, so he couldn't go after inform. You couldn't appeal for more. Right, so we try to go after their parent company and it went all the way to the Supreme Court and they said you, you didn't start that way is hardly worth using our debates. I know Thanks. And even in death, as we mentioned earlier, runny Dangerfield is dead. Why didn't? I know that I have an example for you all, I'm before he died. He was on Howard Stern, the year he died, and so Watch that interview the idea man ass, the present his eighty wine is clearly like at the store, buddy as is his sense of humour about em, but somebody called in to Howard Stern and said he Rodney it Bob hope of sea in fifteen minutes and Howard Stern is like that's not funny about hope is dead.
Though they were saying like the barber, was coming from behind a grave and would see rightly Dangerfield. Fifteen anything you're, respect from a collar on the Howard Stern, show where King respect, This is actually in the interview which I said is it's like forty five minutes long, it's completely depressing Sid, don't go watch it, but not just because he was all but Howard stranded. Talking about his childhood and stuff and well here, just written is autobiography. I really just laid it all out there, like he'd, alluded to the rough life that it had in interviews and stuff like that that he published this book right before he died and it was Well, I think the saddest thing to me about his mom was that, despite being completely like emotionally and getting no love at all as a child. He still wanted to be like a good kid they still work to support her. Unlike apparently, home and shudder. His report, Guardy, were targeted. Grades should even look at it dislike signed without looking at
those who sat a smart. Is he still sort of defence? her in the interview like right before he was. He was dying at any made up with his dad before his dad died. Apparently Even though he never saw him, he said he forgave him for the all that stuff. Oh yeah, yeah, really sad stuff there more jokes at work actually wants to help its ahead. Well, in this interview in the aim, interview telling Howard's or how it sounds like he's about to go in for de I should have pretenders NASA. And in the background he's going in for surgery and Howard Stern Ass, unlike our you afraid, you're gonna die, and he goes. You know why dying in surgery would be the best way to go like I, I would go to the drug me up, I go to sleep and then I just wouldn't wake up, that's like as good as it gets right. So he goes him for this very surgery. He falls Do a coma, very surgery, others there, and then he wakes up.
Then he has a heart attack. Then he dies. That is how run these Unifil went after that, but he had that's how you, when he was so close to going the way that he wanted to go and no, no, back yawning respect. A year after he died, CNN tried to get in touch with them to get his reaction about the passing of Johnny Carson and an end. If you read, is obituaries a lot of a shocking amount mentioned that he was well known for his role in the scout. He wouldn't it scout. I got the bottom o o late army. He is going to be in the scout. Hurrah was originally intended for him and SAM Kennison and HEAT didn't. Do it for unknown reasons and ended up going to our Brooks and Brennan Frazier? Ok, but it was one of those things I think we're one of those internet me things on the internet where someone print something that everyone else's copies and base it? So I think, person wrote that
Everything else I saw was worded the exact same way like listen movies. As the scout, when she was never and now he wasn't now, things are looking into them in future. That's what you get when you hang with Chuck, but did find love again in a situation in eighteen. Ninety, three that everyone probably thought was like a typical, digger. He was sixty one years old. Any married a thirty year old woman who was heartfelt blonde in away, but I'm all accounts everything I looked into. It was not that no like she really really loved them and was great form, and they were super happy together. Happy as he could be undone turns out that it wasn't that kind of a deal after always made me feel good yeah like, for example, when he died. She made sure that his funeral was an until five dusk because he always asked the schedule, any appointment form before five p m
so she made for his funeral income until after that his funeral was a really big deal. Everyone basically came out in droves. His Paul bear. Included Jim Carry, who he is and carry on the road for two years when he was struggling comedian and the open forum in Vegas and childcare is getting off the stage. Everyone hated him in writing stuck my info for two years and Jimmy never forget that critic the mountain Larry David George Carl Angeleno, Adam Sandler, and then your boy, Michael Bolton, Michael Boldness was the saying what he was, but he was too choked up to sing it rightly Dangerfield Sphere. Rarely they were really really really tight friends. It has. Michael Boltons Song, everybody's crazy with him back to school, and I guess he parlay that into a trip to the set or yet meet riding data field. They became friends for their survive. So Michael, was to sell to sing Dangerfield sooner.
And you know arose disappointed There are a couple of people there. There were alike who it's ok, Michael. We know Europe's you don't have you don't have to do this. You know why everybody will understand that's all they said to us before we went on so. I we're gonna closed this with with a final myself cherry on top about Ronnie Danger old and sort of his outlook on his lack of respect with when it comes The academy of motion pictures motion picture sciences. Yes, though difficult yet as you guys call and allay the academy he applied for membership. Does he want beyond the academy in here the credentials using movies and
They said no, no! You! You had to be like at least three major roles and he had thirteen under his belt by this time, including natural born killers, for which we received a lot of critical appraisal and they turned him down like jerks right even got a letter from Malcolm Mcdowell, rival Roddy make Thou Wishest Malcolm Abdel, he's a good one the brothers for no other, no relation, but well, ok was radiant, net was riding, it was Malcolm X, out saying, was Roddy Mcdowell, unconquered Orange or Malcolm Mcdowell. That was Malcolm Adele, ok, good, because I feel better about this right Mcdowell. What is it? The apes, yeah, so ok, I'm glad that those two separate in my mind is I was like. I really liked them in clock records. You get
Roddy Mcdowell, who everybody hates wrote a letter to run. You dangerfield this rejection later. That said that he had not. He had not had enough of the kind of rules that allow performer to demonstrate a mastery of his craft, fatally you're, just plain Ronnie Dangerfield and we all know it, even though we had all the credentials to get in right, so Roddy days filled it he's like. Let's what years at? What is? Ninety? Ninety five, what's new? it's on the horizon for the internet. I think I'll build the world's first, ever entertainment website any built his own website and realise that this would be a great place first fans some like vent their anger, and it was as may affect like this gaelic think about that. Does ninety ninety five year and on his vans came on and we're like to hack with the academy that kind of stuff and down the academy actually related instead, urine
You're Rodney come on in what's right when he says no yet he said banks, but no thanks. He saw has a website Ronnie dot com, and if you go to that, despite this out earlier, there's a section called you Anna had audio clutches, ECHO is great, but it's not him. Some dude reading like as bad as me, really just saying, has little one liners over an overt and it's not in front of people. It's like a dead quiet. This is some good thing is jobs is really weird. Can't tell you how much I love the cover comedian idea, just you know how still from other colleagues has such a taboo. We just needed just do it. In front of their own, and it makes up a little like Miss Hedberg, enrich little mind. Do a little Stephen right there in the middle. You perhaps
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For he wrote a lotta jokes about his wife, cheating on honey, and hundreds of both does. He was may if it wasn't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. Seen from my high school, is tough after they sector back. They went after his family. That's a good, clean joke, What else we got here My drinking problem I join a- I mean I stopped. I just use a different name: I'm getting old and at my age, shooting up means using an animal bag. I think there is one more about a dog that what a dog I got, what a dog his favorite bonus in my arm. I think this is for me I'm pretty sure. I want to say that I have another one hiding in here somewhere, but I cant find it yet. There are the Youtube folks, yet
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