Don Rickles – The Comic's Comic

SiriusXM will broadcast weeklong tribute to Don Rickles: Happy Holidays, Dummy

by Sean L. McCarthyDecember 20, 2017

The legendary Don Rickles, who died earlier this year at the age of 90, will get feted each day next week in a special weeklong …

On Conan, Bob Newhart remembers meeting Don Rickles, and the joke thief who changed Newhart’s career

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 8, 2017

On Monday night’s Conan, Bob Newhart reminisced about his dearly departed friend, Don Rickles — they and their wives were fast friends for five decades. …

AARP Studios had completed “Dinner with Don” series before Don Rickles died

by Sean L. McCarthyApril 7, 2017

Don Rickles had completed his 10-episode webseries, Dinner with Don, for AARP Studios before he died on Thursday at the age of 90. The series …

R.I.P. Don Rickles (1926-2017)

by Sean L. McCarthyApril 6, 2017April 6, 20171

Don Rickles, the legendary comedian and actor who could roast President Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and just about everyone else, has died. Rickles was 90. …

Don Rickles to star in AARP Studios series, “Dinner with Don”

by Sean L. McCarthyMarch 20, 2017March 20, 20171

Jerry Seinfeld may drive comedians in cars to get coffee, but Don Rickles — who has appeared on Seinfeld’s Crackle-now-Netflix series — will skip the …

Humor in Hindsight revisits Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

by Sean L. McCarthyDecember 27, 2016

HBO aired a documentary on Don Rickles, directed by John Landis, only a few weeks into the official start of The Comic’s Comic. So I …

Who would make it onto the Mount Rushmore of Comedy?

by Sean L. McCarthySeptember 8, 2014September 8, 20147

This May, in celebrating Don Rickles on his 88th birthday, Jerry Seinfeld said of his elder hero: “”On the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy, there are …