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Rikki Gins Lounge => Random Topics => Topic started by: Up All Night on January 24, 2022, 08:18:16 PM
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Check out Fluffy (Gabriel Iglesias) !!
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Got a Netflix gift card for Christmas, finally activated it this week. Caught the latest Chappelle stand up special (where they say it was so controversial he needed to be cancelled) it was funny as hell, most of his stuff is great and one of my favorites
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My favorite Rickles' appearance.
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There was a time millions of people wouldn't consider going to sleep before watching Johnny Canson's monologue, if not a good portion of the show.
The marmoset pooping on his head, the Fukarewe Indians weeks long running gag, the Ed Ames hatchet throw, Zsa Zsa Gabor's cat, Carnac the Magnificent...
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It always cracked me up his three wives' names were something like Joan, Joann, and Joanna.
Just begging for trouble.
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There was a time millions of people wouldn't consider going to sleep before watching Johnny Canson's monologue, if not a good portion of the show.
The marmoset pooping on his head, the Fukarewe Indians weeks long running gag, the Ed Ames hatchet throw, Zsa Zsa Gabor's cat, Carnac the Magnificent...
I saw this the night it was broadcast. It's an overlooked gem among the great Carson moments.
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My favorite memories of Don Rickles were his appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
I was watching the show when Johnny found his cigarette box on his desk broken, from when Don had recently hosted the show. Johnny had a camera crew follow him next door, where they taping Don's sitcom, as Johnny gave him heck for it.
In the summer of 2001, I flew from Dallas to Las Vegas to see the Boulder Dam. I rented a car at the airport and drove to the Dam, and I took the "Hard Hat" tour. That was great! Driving back to Vegas, I saw a Billboard advertising Don Rickles performing at one of the Casinos. I stopped by the Casino and bought an unreserved seat ticket for the evening show. ($60).
I then found a cheap but nice Motel to stay in. I changed clothes, and put on slacks and shirt with a jacket. While waiting in line, there was a guy in jeans behind me. The "seater" asked if we were together. I said no. He seated that guy in the back. He sat me at a table right next to the stage, stage right.
It was great show! Don was very funny. And he chose people in the audience to give a hard time to. He would ask them where they were from, and then riff on that.
As part of the act, he got ticked at his assistant, a black man, that had been with him for decades, and fired him right from the stage.
What really surprised me was, Don, as part of his show, went right back to his Vaudeville roots, and danced around that stage for a good long while.
I actually thought to myself... gee, I hope he doesn't die, right here at this show I'm at !!!
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My favorite memories of Don Rickles were his appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
I was watching the show when Johnny found his cigarette box on his desk broken, from when Don had recently hosted the show. Johnny had a camera crew follow him next door, where they taping Don's sitcom, as Johnny gave him heck for it.
In the summer of 2001, I flew from Dallas to Las Vegas to see the Boulder Dam. I rented a car at the airport and drove to the Dam, and I took the "Hard Hat" tour. That was great! Driving back to Vegas, I saw a Billboard advertising Don Rickles performing at one of the Casinos. I stopped by the Casino and bought an unreserved seat ticket for the evening show. ($60).
I then found a cheap but nice Motel to stay in. I changed clothes, and put on slacks and shirt with a jacket. While waiting in line, there was a guy in jeans behind me. The "seater" asked if we were together. I said no. He seated that guy in the back. He sat me at a table right next to the stage, stage right.
It was great show! Don was very funny. And he chose people in the audience to give a hard time to. He would ask them where they were from, and then riff on that.
As part of the act, he got ticked at his assistant, a black man, that had been with him for decades, and fired him right from the stage.
What really surprised me was, Don, as part of his show, went right back to his Vaudeville roots, and danced around that stage for a good long while.
I actually thought to myself... gee, I hope he doesn't die, right here at this show I'm at !!!
Cool story, I would have loved to have seen Rickles live and unrestrained by broadcast TV standards.
In the late 80s I went to the original Comedy Store in LA. I was on business and traveling for the first time with a new female colleague. The line up that night was very impressive, mostly up and comers (Roseanne Barr, Bobcat
Goldthwait, Yakov Smirnoff, etc.) with JJ Walker as the emcee.
The surprise of the night was Richard Pryor showing up unscheduled to try out new material. He launched into a very graphic routine on the differences between the sounds made by men and women while performing oral sex. I was too embarrassed to look at female colleague, but sneaked a quick peak at one point. She was laughing hysterically and nodding her head up and down.
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My favorite memories of Don Rickles were his appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
I was watching the show when Johnny found his cigarette box on his desk broken, from when Don had recently hosted the show. Johnny had a camera crew follow him next door, where they taping Don's sitcom, as Johnny gave him heck for it.
In the summer of 2001, I flew from Dallas to Las Vegas to see the Boulder Dam. I rented a car at the airport and drove to the Dam, and I took the "Hard Hat" tour. That was great! Driving back to Vegas, I saw a Billboard advertising Don Rickles performing at one of the Casinos. I stopped by the Casino and bought an unreserved seat ticket for the evening show. ($60).
I then found a cheap but nice Motel to stay in. I changed clothes, and put on slacks and shirt with a jacket. While waiting in line, there was a guy in jeans behind me. The "seater" asked if we were together. I said no. He seated that guy in the back. He sat me at a table right next to the stage, stage right.
It was great show! Don was very funny. And he chose people in the audience to give a hard time to. He would ask them where they were from, and then riff on that.
As part of the act, he got ticked at his assistant, a black man, that had been with him for decades, and fired him right from the stage.
What really surprised me was, Don, as part of his show, went right back to his Vaudeville roots, and danced around that stage for a good long while.
I actually thought to myself... gee, I hope he doesn't die, right here at this show I'm at !!!
Wow! I envy your Rickles experience. Years ago I listened to a tape or record of Don's nightclub act and in it, he invited a man from the audience up onto the stage. He then proceeded to teach the guy how to talk like an Indian chief. It was incredibly and horrendously anti-woke by todays standards, but extremely funny. I can't remember anything more about that record or tape, but I do recall laughing my ass off while listening to it.
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Brother Dave Gardner
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Always enjoyed Dana Carvey's impersonation of...well anyone but the Ross Perot's were above and beyond.
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Kinnison
Carlin
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Speaking of Don Rickles, he had an extremely awkward appearance on Letterman back in the early years when the band had the black drummer (pre Anton Fig) 1983? Rickles was telling him, the black drummer, to smile so he could see where he was.. The poor guy didn't know the Rickles shtick and Rickles kept pounding away on him from the chair after his set.
I have the DVD Box set of the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. The episodes have the original commercials too.. the little chuck wagon and the dog, Folgers Crystals, and all those.
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I have the DVD Box set of the Tonight Show With Johnny Carson. The episodes have the original commercials too.. the little chuck wagon and the dog, Folgers Crystals, and all those.
Hopefully they have some commericals with Madge in there too. I suspect that @ShayP had a thing for Madge - smooth Palmolive hands and all.
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Hopefully they have some commericals with Madge in their too. I suspect that @ShayP had a thing for Madge - smooth Palmolive hands and all.
Not really. @Walks_At_Night But...
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Enjoy the Comedy of Bill Burr !! :D
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George Carlin (he went south towards the end, he got his politics screwed up, but it is amazingly pertinent that what he accused the right of, the left is doing and has done)
Red leather suit-era Eddie Murphy
Norm MacDonald
Richard Pryor
Dave Chappelle
Ricky Gervais
Redd Fox
Bob Newhart
Rodney Dangerfield
Don Rickles
Foster Brooks
Steve Martin
Somebody I enjoyed when I was younger, and have rediscovered him... Mitch Hedberg