Don Rickles, a longtime actor and comedian, has died of kidney failure at the age of 90. The Associated Press reports Rickles died Thursday morning at his home. Rickles was born in Queens, New York in ...

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 ...

On his previous Melody Fair visit in the early 1970s, I had interviewed Don Rickles. He'd given me an hour of his precious time in his trailer, just before he went on. I asked some questions he wasn't ...

Don Rickles, the irrepressible master of the comic insult whose humor was a fast-paced, high-volume litany of mockery in which members of his audience were the (usually) willing victims of his verbal ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Don Rickles, the master insult comic who created laughs with ridicule and sarcasm in a decades-long career that earned him the facetious nickname "Mr. Warmth," died on Thursday ...

Don Rickles was Mr. Warmth to a generation of comics as the master of the put-down. But he made his living as a a self-described “aggressive” stage comedian, whose act jelled by accident as he reacted ...

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Comedian Don Rickles was recently inducted into the Gaming Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. Rickles made his first appearance in Las Vegas in 1959 and joins other inductees including Wayne Newton and Donald ...

NEW YORK — Barbara Rickles, the widow of Don Rickles and a fictionalized target of his comic insults, died on what would have been their 56th wedding anniversary. Her death was confirmed by spokesman ...