Watching on a black and white television set with a 2" speaker. We didn't have a color set until 1972. Variety shows like Jackie Gleason, Ed Sullivan, Carol Burnett, Sid, Dean Martin, Red Skelton, Johnny Cash. My Dad would laugh so loud just like my grandfather would and like my brother does now.

RIP to your pop, man. Thank you for sharing. What a golden age it was indeed.

It never goes away because that my friend, was pure talent!!!

Same with me! Lost me Dad years ago. Miss Jackie and Rodney. They where the best with a few others. How about this story. Now I am best friends with Brain. Rodney's son. He also is extremely talented. Just keeps a low profile. Great people!

Rodney and Jackie two different styles of humor, but they were great!

He was amazing . I've found Gary Delaney to be my favourite new comedian for one liners..

oh legendary i see!!!

Hearing this, I'm just thinking how much he couldn't get away with now in today's PC society!

His pacing is just perfect.

yeah glad to see brendan fraser's dad in his prime

Are the kids BACK TO SCHOOL yet?

Oh Yeah!

Correct!

Is a l legend always will be timeless jokes .

Facts 💯

The best!!!!, Period!!!!! Amen!!!!!!

Tom Vardin cocaine is one hell of a drug.

J Hood Yup !🤣😂👍

J Hood Robin Williams felt the same way😕

@@Area-5l As someone who has witnessed someone on cocaine, I can tell you for a fact that he would be nowhere near high functioning enough to walk up on stage. It would be incredibly easy to tell

@@darkstalkerkaathe4582 But Rodney enjoyed a Joint. But for sure, he ain't Stoned here.

LOVE LOVE LOVE ... Lucky you to see him ... He earned all the applause and more!

I went to high school with his daughter and my Dad used to see him at Jim Mcmullens in Nyc at the bar..He is sooo missed

Let's not get Stupid or Blasphemous! No one goes to Heaven unless they Repent (Acknowledges they are an Unrighteous Sinner Headed for Hell Fire 🔥 and Sincerely Receives the Biblical Lord Jesus Christ as Personal Saviour!!!

@beachie670 The Only ones in Heaven are Bible Believing Born Again Christians who have Repented and Received the Biblical Lord Jesus Christ as Personal Saviour! Let's NOT Make Up Fairy Tales! Obviously you have Never Actually Read the Holy Bible even 1 Time!!’

I saw him in 1982 @ the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pa. He had us rolling.

Lollol

Amen

There was another comedian BEFORE Rodney, Check out Henny Youngman. Then you will see how Rodney's persona was developed. I must confess that I just LOVE these Borsch Belt Comics.

Why the word goat in your comment? Does not make sense.

@@janetbransdon3742 Translation: Greatest Of All Time. Goat

This man has no respect, no respect

I hate the fact that today most dress worse than garbage. Bums back in the 70s dressed better!

You couldn’t be on any of these shows without a suit this wasn’t like a stylistic choice of Rodney’s, find any comic who was on late night without a suit at this era

@@QuantumEffectResidue people still wear suits to late night shows all the time, like MOST of them

Everybody dresses like crap now and feels it lol

...and then some!

Absolutely

Steven...absolutely!....Jackie Gleeson is a riot! (Ba dum bump)

Red Skeleton is on my list,too.

dumb

He repeated them so often

That's why he was one of the best and I certainly miss him.

Can't believe how he never cracks himself up.

Same here

Mitch hedberg

that was henny youngmen

much

Hey whitey where's ya hat

billy t james, so what makes you the right person for the job mr puhuta? oh my sister n law used to work in a clothes department store , but the position is for a diesel fitter??? yeh thats what she used to say to the kids mothers here look diesel fitter

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to too." -Mitch Hedberg

@@wiskyvet 🤣🤣

52

@@jimmyolsen5897, math wiz.

@@martinbrodie8507 watch out for the monkey pox

Your math gets no respect.

@@memonk11 I tell you I’m all right now but last week I was in rough shape

I like his "I had a hooker tell me 'not on the first date' "

I agree, his best joke ever. I saw him at Westbury, Long Island in 1983. My face still hurts

Rodney Dangerfield stepped into a taxi and says, take me to where the loose women are, driver said get in, drives then says, okay we're here, Dangerfield says, hey that's my house 🏠😅🤣😁🤣

@@thegreatchain7112 That is funny,lol

I like the joke about the car that ran only on gasoline lol 😆

Lmao

Hilarious

I like the joke in which he mentions his tough neighborhood in NYC where a guy pulled a knife on him but wasn't very professional since there was butter on the knife.

@@alexchristopher221 Yes!!

He said his wife's cooking was so bad the flies got together and repaired the screen door.

Eyehate Phukingoogel. So true we have clowns now no one is funny

Uh...Ya...There're DEAD!

Eyehate Phukingoogel Seinfeld?

We're watching it right now you cluck

Yeah, we got no talent hacks like Amy Schumer going around stealing jokes and the sheep think she's great. Unreal.

@Hello Thomas how are you doing

@@lydialas8756 Good ... How are you? 🟪

I like the one that goes in the other direction. I asked my wife if there was someone else. She looked at me and said "there must be"

@@Marshallgill ahahaha

How about the one ,he asked his wife why she never yells his name during sex,she says for what your never around when I have sex.

My wife met me at the front door in a negligee. Unfortunately she was coming home.

mine is "that I lived in a neighborhood so tough I was held up by a guy with a bitten off shot gun."

I feel so sorry for young people, they've never seen talent!

Yep. Champagne comedy here.

2020 here ... Jan 24... Rodney was the funniest comic in the last 50 years

In a few years no one is going to get the joke about negatives in the family album

Mort Sahl

Priceless not timeless

a big girl huh, mt rushmore mt everrest mt wife , lol you know how mt everest got its name? the climbers would almost be at the sumit but before they got there they said lets everrest

Not exactly.

"And my wife, shes no cook either. In my house we pray after the meal".

LMAO!

Aw,maybe it was a kitchenette,the kitchen is next to ta bathroom,!

I just BURST out laughing at that last joke!

*ugly not lonely

And all clean. Real talent.

Rodney was the best

he didnt stop moving he couldnt relax for one second thats like me even when im as still as i can be somthings moving even if its just my toes , if i stop moving so does my thinking, i dont get no respect i was at the doctors the other day i had to fill out some forms then the lady at the desk gave me a dirty look i said what? she said where it says sex you wrote yes please ,

Pure NY.

Is the constant touching of his tie part of his routine? I mean he unnecessarily keeps touching it to make like he is repositioning it. Every clip of his has these touches.

@@waryaawariiri1812 - yes, the voice, cadence, fidgeting and tie arranging is all part of the shtick.

Censored

J H, you should watch his performance in Natural Born Killers.

@yafargo thanks we needed a downer after that .:-)

The whole time on national television. "That's not a tiger cub, that's a fucking kitten!" - Rodney Dangerfield

I thought this was on NBC, you can not swear during Prime Time. His act was extremely blue. He had books that he released of only dirty jokes.

A guy enters a liquor store and asks for bananas. The owner replies: “you’re bananas”!

Put that in his epitaph ...had the mortician in stitches hahah

Joseph Hickman his actual epitaph reads: “there goes the neighborhood” lol

What a fucking legend, is that real?

@@kylefields3951 Well, it sounds more like something Rodney would say (vs. what some reporter at UCLA Medical Center might make up....)

Some dude said that he was The Great one

Sad to think there will never be another. ❤

Bwahahaha!

🤣🤣

😆

Prove it pal!

I loved that movie. Saw it in 86 when I was in college.

Take it easy honey, i didnt see a thing. Your perfect

Call me sometime when you have no class

Its a dead mans party, who could ask for more🎶🎵🎷🎷

The real introduction of Sam Kinison to the rest of the world .

Lol cops delivering beer at the party.

Or how bad the joke.

When I’m feeling down I watch Rodney he picks me right up

Andrew Dice lasted alittle while...Rodney Dangerfield stood the test of time...

R.I.P. Reginald van Gleason III.

James Whidden it has buddy it has been

Not politics

Correct!

Oh that's a good one!

Well,Mae West, probably!

Kanye West or Adam West ??

I will never forget it ~ LOL I still laugh my ass off every time I think of the backhanded compliments he gave Judge Smails' wife when he cut in to dance with her ~ LMAO NOBODY could have delivered lines like that. NOBODY !

The best. Rumor has it that Rodney based his flamboyant character as a homage to his friend and fellow entertainer here, Jackie Gleason, whose antics on the course were well known at Inverrary Country Club in Miami.

"Here kid, get my bags (gives him money) , park my car (gives more money) and for god's sake put on some weight(even more money)". However IMO one of the best lines in the whole movie is at dinner "Tell the chef this is low grade dog food, this steak still has marks from where the jockey was whipping it". LMFAO to this day

Don't forget about 'the Lovable Lush" Foster Brooks...he could make Dean Martin loose it on TV EVERYTIME!!! And then there was Harvey Corman & Tim Conway!!! Absolute classic master comedians!!!

@@randymiller3949 my dad loved Foster Brook's "drunk routine"

The Ol' Redhead was truly one of the Greats & My Father's all-time favorite funnyman/entertainer. My favorite American was & still is John Wayne, but Red did a wonderful skit about the Pledge of Allegiance that's as good/great as any American themed piece Big John ever did. If you've never seen it give it a quick Google, I highly recommend it 🙏 💪🇺🇲👍

Skeleton Was One Of The Best

Yup and I'd add Don Rickles to that group.

Saw it in the theater.

I love in back to school when he went into the sorority house in search of his son and pulled the shower curtain back on a naked girl. He whips it shut and yells, "I didn't see a thing!" He then opens it again and says with his pop eyed expression, "You're perfect!" It could have been offensive but with Rodney it's just funny.

Karen Session When Rodney Dangerfield was in Madison filming back to school he worked out at the health club by the laundry and I was there one night and I said to the guy in the locker room next to me is that who I think it is and he goes what go over and say something to them so I said hey Rodney how you’re doing and he turned around totally naked looked at me and said hey how are you how’s it going there how are you how you doing I went upstairs to turn in my key and towel and the lady at the desk said you know Rodney Dangerfield was here and I said yeah I just saw a Rodney Dangerfield like you’re never going to see Rodney Dangerfield

I have that DVD.

In the movie, the dorm he lives was my actual dorm at UW-Madison! Slichter Hall!

Sin City Gun Guy - possibly his best joke.

Anderson .Paak - Trippy anyone?

Haha lol

Look at p***

Hahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

I lived in these years. Nothing compares to it.

I miss these two more than I miss my own father.

Well this was 1970 😜

"I didn't know that toast had bones"

The flies in my neighborhood took up a collection to replace our screen door !

Her cooking was so terrible the Cockroaches take Alka Seltzer!

Her oven has two settings: Smoking and non-smoking!

And the cockroaches hang themselves ....

@Hello Elliot how are you doing

Just checking in, you still with us buddy??

LMAO😂

HEY OH!!! lmfao

I remember these shows to when I was a kid ... it took him a long time to get the kind of recognition he deserved .

😂

Most of these greats where in Vaudeville or their mentors were in Vaudeville. Has nothing to do with pay TV. Dangerfield was a genius. RIP.

Your right about that. Pay per view killed boxing as well back in Tyson's day

Ali had pay per view fights. Then that following weekend Wide World of Sports would show the fight. So we at least got to see the fight.

@@ilovetomorrow i did not know that. A little before my time

@@matthewlewis9996, it was before cable. You'd buy tickets and go to an Arena to watch it on a movie screen.

I once met him in deleware at a yard sale

Nerdimus Maximus Yeah no one else heard him say that. Glad you let us know what he said

Hahahahaha - Rodney was comedy gold XD

@@draggin-up9911 I've actually heard Dangerfield say that bit. Why are you being so hateful?

Hahahahaha

"Another girl was admiring my face." "So I asked why are you staring at me? Girl: "Forgive me for staring, but I'm studying astronomy, and your face resembles the surface of the moon."

My favorite too.

😂🤣😆

funny lol

LMFAO 😂😂😂😂😂

🤣🤣

Rodney is just hilarious to look at. I saw him on a talk show and he said that people always make fun of the way he dresses. Someone from the audience shouted, "Your socks don't match!"

people missed me thats why im still alive

lol

Hahahahaha!!!

What's great about Rodney's jokes is he cuts out every unnecessary word. Look how short that joke is. "The time I was kidnapped..." That's all he needs for a setup. We get the picture.

Jean Paul Getty took that literally

This reminded a true story of my father and older brother that happened in 1992. Civil war was raging in Mogadishu, Somalia. My older brother and another young man stayed at home to take care of our father. Our father refused to leave. He was 80-years-old then and said he would like to die in our home than flee. He was very stubborn. So my mother asked our older brother to remain with him. Another relative also stayed. One day, a clan militia arrived, who knew my father and his staying. They insisted he was staying because of the protection of material things he hid inside our home. There was none and did not believe when they were told. They told our father they will take our brother and the other relative if he does not bring out the valuables. My father kept telling them there were none. So, they said it is the final warning that they will take them. My father started playing psychological game with them. He told them, "Don't even bother bringing back their shoes." My brother was surprised and thought the old man has lost it. They took them and brought to their little headquarters. They had a little arguments among themselves of what to do with them. Some of the militia believed my father was telling the truth. While they were arguing, the other clan militia attacked and they went to the front line. My brother and the relative escaped. They stayed in an abandoned house until the fight was done, which always happened in sunset. No body fights in the dark. They moved house by house in the night, careful and avoiding both militias because the other one would shoot on sight anyone that came from the other side. My father was relieved after their return. He sent my brother to us the very next day because he knew the wrath of my mother had something happened to our brother.

Awesome.

thats not rust thats from the rats washing their toe nails

I had to Laugh. I live in the 90' & C.P W. I have to wait for it to get hot in these Pre War buildings !!LOL

How sweet it is!

John Gullo loved seeing that sign when I used to travel back and forth to New York

Met him at work one night in 1976, at Aunt Fannie's Cabin restaurant, in Atlanta, Ga.

I don't drink any more either... or less!

Brutal.

This joke was prophetic

i had a friend tell me his wife was was a better lay than mine i told him i know😂

Is this a joke🤔? Sounds true to me.