An understatement. Late night comedy these days is garbage.

Can't replace people

You mean Bernadette and Ed, right?

@@manofiske3318 yeh!!!! true love conquers all, i think?????

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I agree. Rodney probably isn't the greatest comedian ever, but he was unique, irreplaceable and if there was a Hall of Fame for comedians he'd be one of my top ten and first to be honored. My HOF starting Top Five Legendary Comics: 1. Richard Pryor 2. Milton Berle 3. Bob Hope 4. Red Buttons 5. Don Rickles My second group of five would be: 6. Rodney Dangerfield 7. Lucille Ball 8. Foster Brooks 9. Charlie Callas 10. Will Rodgers

@@PlanetEarth3141rodney is #1

@@PlanetEarth3141 Any comedian list without George Carlin cannot be taken seriously.

@@fougee1 That's an opinion. You also contradict yourself because if you were right you'd have no need to respond to me. Lastly, I didn't give a list, but mentioned one person. Go away troll.

@@fougee1 Let's not forget Joan Rivers & Robin Williams.

I do it all the time,usually at night when the family is sleeping.

What do you mean, 'from a video' ? You were 'laugh(ing) out loud'; a response provoked by Dangerfield's _act_ which in this case just so happened to be captured on videotape but it was the man(routine, jokes, interplay with others etc.) that 'made [you] laugh' _not_ *the means* by which the material was transmitted to you.

@@manofiske3318 I mean not "live" M0R0N

Wasn’t that Henny Youngman (king of the one-liners)?

@@manofiske3318 I think that what he means is that people tend to laugh out loud much more seeing an act live, as opposed to seeing it on video. And what made Rodney so special is that even watching a video, he would laugh out loud.

Absolutely. He actually got funnier with age. I was splitting my gut with laughter with this appearance by Rodney.

I watched Carson's show all the time. My parents and I stayed up late to do so. After the show ended, then it was bed time. And in the age of TV Guide we never missed the show double true if Rodney was on. Rodney preempted everything.

I think I've seen everything Rodney has done , except in person . This was hilarious and one of his best segments and I wish Johnny would have let him continue until he was done , as we know Rodney will let you know. He certainly was skirting the edge on the sexual innuendos and I have seen guests doing same with the result being their segment over.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. This appearance by Rodney with Carson was truly one for the ages.

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I know a great attorney that got one of his clients charges of rape reduced to tailgating. Carson fell on the floor with that one.

These two were great to watch not only because Rodney was hilarious but because Johnny was a great straight man. Having grown up with duos like Laurel and Hardy and Abbott and Costello, he knew how crucial that role was and knew how to punctuate and by how much. Just one or two words (“You Bert ha!”) was often enough.

​@@maimzini Johnny knew the opening monologue and his time with Ed to start the show was his time, when the guests were on it was their time.

Jimmie Fallon sucks as a host he is pathetic. Can't even watch his bull. Sad as sh*t.

On that note I’m going out to buy a pack of cigarettes and then go to the bar

@@jimmyolsen5897 I'm a workaholic myself. You mention work, and I get drunk!

At 71, that one's not nearly as funny as when I first heard it.

Not true, actually but he helped a lot of dudes get going in the biz by buying jokes they'd write for him. Of course, he came up with plenty of his own...don't go nuts, just a fact.

Alan Zweibel, for one.

Jersey boy

One guy is not going to come up with that many good jokes. He did wrote lot of his jokes - something that Bob Hope never did in his career.

He paid fifty bucks a joke.

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And they will never be topped. Two one of a kind pros.

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He is amazing guy

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... what a GREAT comment

It's amazing how Rodney caught on with 'the younger set' after his relatively brief appearance in Caddyshack.

@@dhpbear2 I was in that younger set, 12 when Caddyshack came out. I saw it on HBO. Great movie, I think he's the funniest guy ever!

@@dhpbear2 He is timeless.

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Hollywood has gone to pot. They have no class

Funniest part of that movie is when he's telling the bartender how he dresses up his nephew as a girl and plays with him, LoL!

Agreed

@@smallbusinessmarketinginst7080 Maybe THE best!

Best joke--a total surprise.

When he first heard about Viagra, he asked around if people had heard about it, which they had, then he tried a joke at a club, and booked himself on the Tonight Show the next day before it could be stolen. "My doctor put me on a Viagra and prune juice diet. Now I come and go at the same time."

He was setting Johnny up big time.

what did he say? I couldn't make it out through his crying act... "every day. every night... I gotta...?"

Andrea Martin did an incredible Bernadette Peters on Celebrity Farm film blow up

Yeah. She was in the movie 'The Jerk' with Steve Martin.

Thanks, I was wondering.

I wondered about that. Since a lot of Rodney's jokes were about being alone/finding a woman, and none of the usual " my wife " jokes, I wondered if he was divorced or his wife died. Will have to check Wiki.

@@howardkerr8174 Nah, just part of the act , he had a younger woman by his side right up 'til the end. She played her role(took care of his more base "needs" etc.) to the hilt and was rewarded handsomely for her "devotion" to the cause.