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 ...

Rickles took his first step toward national fame in 1957 when Frank Sinatra wandered into the small Hollywood nightclub where Rickles was performing. The still-unknown Rickles eyed Sinatra and said, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed “Mr. Warmth” whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died ...

Insult comic Don Rickles has died at age 90 of kidney failure, but many will remember him for his pointed one-liners, his politically incorrect and offensive humor and his friendship with Rat Packer ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - There's a secret to the success of 81-year-old insult comedian and beloved American institution Don Rickles -- he cannot tell a joke. Sign up here. He's a comedian famed for ...

LOS ANGELES – Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed “Mr. Warmth” whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday ...

Before Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, before American Idol's Simon Cowell, before Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, one man abused people on TV and in clubs like no other. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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Comedy legend Don Rickles got fed up with Martin Scorsese during filming of “Casino” 30 years ago, the Oscar-winning director revealed. Before a Tribeca Film Festival screening Thursday at the Beacon ...