Talk:Don Rickles
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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.
Rickles told Snyder that at one point in time he started to look around at the buildings with an upturned head, somber expression and started to use phrases such as, "Good architecture" (with a very germanic accent).
Newhart started begging him, "Please, please don't do this."
Rickles then started to walk goose-step style. He explained to Newhart, "I've got crick in my leg." At this point, Newhart was extraordinarily embarrassed.
Then an old man attacked them with an umbrella.
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.
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[edit] 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)
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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
