Johnny Carson featured Rodney Dangerfield more than 70 times on the dominant Tonight Show. Rodney always delivered his best for Johnny, who adroitly set up each topic for Rodney once he was on the couch. This brilliant combination of talent is showcased above in January 1971. A year earlier, Rodney Dangerfield appeared on one of the final episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show where he was still fine tuning his bits. Rodney appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 where he had to keep his jokes a little more sanitized for a more modest audience. Rodney always saved his best for The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson. Legend!
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Ten years after Michael Jackson’s death, the King of Pop’s legacy has withered
How did the world's most famous entertainer get from here... to here? The sweet face of young Michael Jackson soared to worldwide fame first with his brothers in the Jackson 5. Then Michael's star bolted into unprecedented superstardom with his solo work, especially Thriller. Some family dysfunction became public knowledge once Michael split from the group. The patriarch Joseph Jackson was a fierce disciplinarian and thought to be exploitative of his sons. A rift developed between Jermaine and Michael as both tried to widen their solo identities. Jermaine has a few small hits on the radio. Michael Jackson made billionaire status, spent most of it with reckless abandon, accused Sony Music's chairman of stealing his money, and then dragged his ragged self back into
Snowflakes BEWARE: Rickles’ rude, insensitive, racist remarks are posted here! Run to your SAFE SPACE!
Humorlessness took a giant step forward this week. Acerbic comedian and actor Don Rickles passed at age 90. Today's sanctimonious, better-than-you snowflakes are dancing a jig on his grave. Well...only the descendants of those for whom jig dancing is a native tradition. Otherwise that would be racially-tinged cultural appropriation. Today's sensitive snowflakes are quick to point out on social media that anyone who makes jokes is a bully. Any voiced or written subject that does not pertain to one's own personal lineage, gender, transitioning gender, age, race, or family of origin is unacceptable. As soon as any other human person finds it offensive then the creator must publicly apologize. (see: Michael Keaton incorrectly references "Hidden
Rodney Dangerfield wouldn’t make it in the Wide World of Wanda
From Johnny Carson's NBC Tonight Show (1983) WARNING! There are no f-words because Rodney actually wrote jokes. DOUBLE WARNING! Rodney mentions that an (imaginary) girlfriend was fat and ugly. Today he would lose all of his sponsors, television appearances, and be vilified by SJW for being a misogynistic, white privilege, paternalistic villain. After weeping through a televised apology with a scolding Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie, Rodney would be summarily whipped by the women of The View. Only after donating $100,000 to the Women & Pudgy Americans Restoration Council, Rodney would slowly reappear in feminist films as a stooge to be chastised by pure-hearted hipsters and MSNBC hosts. American comedy, circa 2015...lots of curse words and pontificating about evil white