Talk:Don Rickles/Archive 1

Rickles-Newhart vacation goose-stepping incident
Rickles told a story on the Late Late Show with Tom Snyder regarding him vacationing with Bob Newhart and their wives in a European city.



I have unsuccesfully searched for a citation of this story. When verified, this would be a good trivia section entry for Rickles' page. Both for Rickles friendship with Newhart and as an example of Rickles 'no holds barred' style of comedy. 69.39.172.16 (talk‎) 20:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

cigarette box incident
A minor change. When Rickles and Newhart appeared on Jay's Tonight Show after Johnny died they told that story. According to them, Newhart was hosting that night and Rickles was his guest. Rickles broke it when he was yelling at Newhart and slammed the box in mock-anger.MrBlondNYC 10:39, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

john stamos
on the tonight show episode that aired fri jan 19, 2007, both don rickles and john stamos were on the show. during the latter's interview, it was revealed that the two hold a close friendship. is this worth mentioning (and did anyone else see this)? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Shuckiduck (talk • contribs) 10:42, 21 January 2007 (UTC).

His wife Barbara; anecdotes
OK, many of you are younger, and may not appreciate that Don's wife, Barbara, is from the [Wynnefield]] section in west Philly; which, back in the 1950's, was an upper-middle class Jewish neighborhood famous for JAP's.

Having been a fan of Don's since I was a boy in the 1960's, it was a real treat to see him when I was all of 13 at the Latin Casino — Preceding unsigned comment added by Discpad (talk • contribs) 06:51, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Surname
What is the national origin of Rickles' surname (i.e. where in Europe did his parents or grandparents emigrate from)? Was it changed from some more "Jewish-sounding" name? Badagnani 23:28, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Footnote 4 is a dead link. Cheers -- John

Possible copyvio
Much of the article text is exactly that found on Rickles' own site. Rob T Firefly (talk) 02:54, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

That site just went up recently. I added this info in May 2007: "Frustrated with the lack of acting work, he began doing stand-up comedy. He eventually became known as an insult comedian by learning to respond to hecklers. The audience liked these insults more than his prepared material, so he developed them as part of his act. His act reminded some observers of the older insult comic Jack E. Leonard, though Rickles has denied that Leonard had any influence on his style." so I can honestly say that the site copied the info from here. Copying from Wikipedia is common since it's not copyrighted. Whoever worked on that site didn't do such a great job. There's much better stuff in this article that he could have copied. MrBlondNYC (talk) 05:44, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Interesting. Then it is in fact a copyvio in the other direction; in order to properly reuse Wikipedia content, Rickles' web staff would need to cite WP and keep the GFDL on it, as per Copyrights. Rob T Firefly (talk) 17:19, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Los Angeles or Florida
In the article it says:


 * "While working in a Los Angeles nightclub early in his career, he spotted Frank Sinatra, and said "I just saw your movie, The Pride and the Passion and I want to tell you, the cannon's acting was great. Make yourself at home, Frank: hit somebody!" Sinatra, whose pet name..."

Tonight on Charlie Rose, he said that Sinatra was working at the Fontainebleau Hotel, in Miami, Florida. And he was working in a little 100 seat place, Murray Franklin's (23rd Street At The Ocean, Miami Beach). His mother, Etta, ask Frank's mother to get Frank to go to the club to see him, and that is where he said the line. Frank was a friend from them on, and got Rickles to come to Vegas.

Anyone know if it was LA or Florida for sure?

REF:
 * "Hey, Hockey Pucks: It's `Rickles' Book'" The Associated Press - (Yahoo! Entertainment) Thursday, Jul 05, 2007
 * Rowe, Douglas J."Hey, Hockey Puck! Rickles Is A Best-Seller" Associated Press - (at CBS Interactive Inc.) NEW YORK, July 3, 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.69.139.138 (talk) 06:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

According to these he met Sinatra at State Brothers, a Hollywood club:  

But maybe the story just got messed up somewhere along the line. I'm inclined to go with whatever he put in his memoir. MrBlondNYC 22:39, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I just saw him in concert and he told the "hit somebody" story and said it happened in Miami. I was at a Florida show, so he may have "massaged" the facts, but virtually every story he told about the old days revolved around shows in Miami. Xot (talk) 21:46, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

So which is it dummies?
Buffalo or Queens? Lycurgus (talk) 15:36, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

goody rickels
Why is there no mention of rickles apearance in the comic superman's pal jimmy olsen that was written and illustrated by jack kirby especially since ironically the story was very diffrent from the one originally concieved and told to rickles who ok'ed the apearance but later regretted it and featured an odd character who looked exactly like rickles call goody rickels if i remember correcty. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.28.54.211 (talk) 01:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

I've added mention of it.As a non US er it was the first time I had ever heard of him. ++++ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rrose Selavy (talk • contribs) 17:00, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Back in the late 60's I saw a Jerry Lewis comic that included an appearance by Don Rickles and what seemed to be a regular character called "Happy Rickles" who looked identical. This is as much as I can remember. The character may have been carried over to the Jimmy Olsen comics, which I remember being kind of an odd mess compared with the straightforward storylines of the regular superhero comics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Carl Ponder (talk • contribs) 18:08, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

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Noting RfC on military careers
There is currently a discussion and an RfC on Mel Brooks's article about his so-called "military career," noted by an infobox module. Since the military service for both of Brooks and Rickles was for a few years before their actual careers began, inserting a module in the standard infobox, as in this article, seems both misleading and erroneous. --Light show (talk) 16:39, 5 September 2016 (UTC)

Death
There is one source posted, this might be true. I have heard nothing about his death. - Mlpearc  ( open channel ) 18:21, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * He's dead. I have just finished adjusting all verb forms to reflect that. Kelisi (talk) 18:34, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2017
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Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2017
The Early Life first sentence might be better stated as:

Rickles was born Donald Jay Rickles in the New York City borough of Queens on May 8, 1926,[1] to Max Rickles (1897–1953), who emigrated in 1903 with his parents Joseph and Frances Rickles (Richters) from Kaunas, Lithuania[2] (then in the Russian Empire and known in Jewish society as "Kovno"), Nathandetroit (talk) 20:03, 6 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Stickee (talk) 01:42, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

Don Rickles Shows
According to imdb.com the 1968-69 series ran 17 episodes and the 1974 series 7 episodes, not the number shown in the article. AMCKen (talk) 05:11, 7 April 2017 (UTC)

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Reverted Edits
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No mention of the flesh-eating disease that he had
No mention of the flesh-eating disease that he had, that required 6 weeks in hospital and 8 operations including skin grafts??? https://nypost.com/2021/07/22/offer-made-on-don-rickles-longtime-home-after-only-a-week/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betathetapi545 (talk • contribs) 10:59, 23 July 2021 (UTC)

Racist, funny jokes
Shouldn't Don be called out for his fragrant jabs at racist stereotypes? He routinely mocked audience members for their racial appearance and race, and then abused them with derogatory if comical statements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2W2XPJ4xUs — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dosware (talk • contribs) 18:24, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
 * , do you have any reliable sources that talk about this? YouTube videos are not particularly useful to us. See WP:YOUTUBE and WP:RSPYT. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:57, 7 February 2022 (UTC)