BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004

Subject: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:21 AM

Well, he may not have been exactly funny but I have enjoyed a few things he was in...anyways the obit can be found here:

Rodney Dangerfield

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 04:40 AM

Liked him in "Caddyshack" RIP Mr. D.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 08:46 AM

I never liked him but I'm still sorry he's dead, he was an icon. We need more of those, Kirk, many more.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Amos
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 09:42 AM

Finally, he may get some respect.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Gern
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 10:06 AM

Nobody made me laugh more than Rodney. My favorite Joke: "My old man said if you don't stop doing that, you'll go blind. I said, "Dad, I'm over here."

Subject: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield
From: kendall
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:23 PM

He was 82, and he got a lot more respect than he realized. I loved his one liners and will miss him very much.

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Multiple threads combined. --JoeClone

Subject: RE: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield
From: MMario
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:30 PM

I never particularly liked a lot of his material - but his timing was incredible!

Subject: RE: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield
From: open mike
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:38 PM

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1491984/10062004/story.jhtml
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/ap20041006_332.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/10/06/MNG6294F1Q1.DTL
http://www.suntimes.com/output/entertainment/cst-nws-xdanger06.html
http://www.rodney.com/rodney/home/home.asp

Apparently he had been in a coma since heart surgery in august.

Subject: BS: No respect!
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 12:52 PM

One of my favorite performers, Rodney Dangerfield, passed away yesterday.

Sometime within the past 15-20 minutes, someone created a thread "Obit: Rodney Dangerfield," and posted it in the upper/main/music section. By the time I spotted it, there were 3 messages. When I selected the thread title to read through it, I got this message:

THREAD DELETED

The man is dead, and STILL gets disrespected! How appropriate...

(You know, he was a bottle-fed baby; his mother liked him as a friend.)

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PoppaGator, the thread was technically 'deleted' because the posts were transferred into the earlier Obit thread. --JoeClone

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Jeri
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:16 PM

I remember once going out to a late meal after a session. We waited for the food, and two long-time friends did Rodney Dangerfield gags until it came, and for a while afer, if I remember correctly.

I DO think he was funny. I always thought the 'I don't get any respect' thing was boring by itself, but it was a charicature of his comedy. Back in the days when HBO was new, I remember I watched his un-censored routine, and I laughed very, very hard.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: kendall
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:28 PM

He made me laugh and that aint easy. I still use one of his best, "When I was a kid, my father took me aside and left me there."

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: freightdawg
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 01:44 PM

Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Uncle Miltie,...

One by one all the comedians are dying. In their place all we get is talking garbage cans that haven't learned a new joke since being potty trained.

Dangerfield's schtick was to get us to laugh at ourselves, even though we thought we were laughing at him. Who, at some point in their life, has not had one of those "Rodney Dangerfield" moments when we feel like we are the only one at a wedding dressed like we were going to a clam bake.

I just read his obit in the paper. He was one hard working person to make his comedy connect.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: PoppaGator
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 02:31 PM

Rodney was in some pretty low-brow movies in recent years. He was much funnier doing his stand-up routine than he was in those films. Even as censored for broadcast TV, his set was pretty outrageous; on uncensored pay-cable HBO, he was even better.

He was also noted for helping young up-and-coming comics in his dual role as club-owner ("Dangerfield's" in NYC) and performer. Since I have a 25-year-old son trying to make his mark on the New York comedy scene, I am especially aware of this aspect of Rodney's history.

Sorry, JoeClone(s), that I jumped to conclusions. I quickly realized what had happened (consolidation of multiple threads down here in "BS") very shortly after posting my rant.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Bill Hahn//\\
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 06:55 PM

I read his obit in the Times today---laughed out loud at some of the quotes.

"I was so ugly when I was born the doctor slapped my mother"
   
How the disrespect shtick came to be was fascinating--having to do with The Godfather film.

Now---how one ( a club owner) can come up with a name like Rodney Dangerfield for Jacob Cohen is beyond me---such an unusual name.


One of the last of the one line stand ups---like Henny Youngman---and funny as hell.   
Never a fan of the films---but surely one of his routines---sadly missed. Another era gone and the one line "shock" comics are in ascendance.

Bill Hahn

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:44 PM

I tell ya, he was okay then but this week he's dead, ya know?



Yep, still no respect.   ;)



R.I.P. R.D.

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: Bobert
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:49 PM

Oh, Lord....

No, I mean it! Oh, Lord....

He's gonna resent not leavin' Rodney down fir another 10 oe 20 years. I swear He will... Heaven ain't guite ready fir Rodney...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: fat B****rd
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 03:28 AM

Didn't he voiceover Mr. Burn's long lost son in The Simpsons ?

Subject: RE: BS: Obit: Rodney Dangerfield, 5 Oct 2004
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 02:15 AM

He did an animated film called Rover Dangerfield, where he's a dog that gets abandoned in the countryside. My kids and I liked it alot.