Rodney Dangerfield died
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Ross
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I was afraid this was going to happen. It's been much too quiet about his condition since coming out of coma. I will certainly miss him. He was one of the best.
Here, this is only 7 minutes old!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000654019
Dangerfield, who fell into a coma after undergoing heart surgery, died at 1:20 p.m., said publicist Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.
Sasaki said in a statement that Dangerfield suffered a small stroke after the operation and developed infectious and abdominal complications. In the past week he had emerged from the coma, Sasaki said.
"When Rodney emerged, he kissed me, squeezed my hand and smiled for his doctors," Dangerfield's wife, Joan, said in the statement. The comic is also survived by two children from a previous marriage.
Once again this really hits home for me. It sounds like everything that happened to me in the last round. The Staph infection nearly took me. I'm so sad.
R
RonP
Rodney -- A Good Man
Rodney -- A Good Man
Hey Bonnie:
We'll all miss a real good comedian for sure. I hope all is well with you and things in Georgia. It's cooling off here in MO and winters on it's way.
RON P.
Rodney -- A Good Man
Hey Bonnie:
We'll all miss a real good comedian for sure. I hope all is well with you and things in Georgia. It's cooling off here in MO and winters on it's way.
RON P.
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twoboysdad
Damm!
I was (as we all were) really pulling for Rodney. The thought of an 82 year old man making it through this surgery was an inspiration to me on my upcomming surgery.
Does anyone know how much his other health problems were a factor in his death? I remember reading something about a proceedure he had a year ago to hopefully prevent a stroke.
We will miss you Rodney!
I was (as we all were) really pulling for Rodney. The thought of an 82 year old man making it through this surgery was an inspiration to me on my upcomming surgery.
Does anyone know how much his other health problems were a factor in his death? I remember reading something about a proceedure he had a year ago to hopefully prevent a stroke.
We will miss you Rodney!
Ross
Well-known member
I know he had brain surgery to make way for this, but as for anything else, I just don't know. I can say it wasn't the stroke nor the abdominal thing that took him, it was the infection and I'll bet anything it was hospital acquired. Please make sure your wife is with you as much as possible. Someone has to keep those people in check. I got my infection off of an IV line, but my wife caught nurses going from one patient to the next without washing their hands or wearing gloves. She jumped them big time about it too. You really need someone to look out for you when you can't do it yourself.
tlhudson
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HE WILL BE MISSED
My favorite one liner of his: "When I was born I was soooo ugly the doctor slapped my mother".
He does have "Respect"
My favorite one liner of his: "When I was born I was soooo ugly the doctor slapped my mother".
He does have "Respect"
Didn't hear anything about it on the radio en route home and didn't watch TV last night. Just saw it in the paper at work. I had not heard he had gone into a coma.
What a loss -- he had a sense of humor that transcended all age levels, ethnic groups, etc.
What a loss -- he had a sense of humor that transcended all age levels, ethnic groups, etc.
K
KimC
NYT Article & Comment to Ross
NYT Article & Comment to Ross
Ross, remember how old Rodney was. Your fan club is alive and well, cheering you on. In fact, the more I check out other forums, the more I realize how unique VR.com is. You're doing a great job! I really appreciate the speed and ease of our forum's infrastructure.
Rodney Dangerfield, Comic Seeking Respect, Dies at 82
By MEL WATKINS
Published: October 6, 2004
New York Times
Rodney Dangerfield, the paunchy, goggle-eyed comedian whose fidgety delivery and sad-sack catch phrase "I don't get no respect" brought him cult status and eventually wider fame, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 82.
The cause was complications after heart valve replacement surgery in August, said his spokesman, Kevin Sasaki. Mr. Dangerfield's health had been deteriorating in the last 18 months, although he had made a handful of television appearances.
Mr. Dangerfield's big break came in 1967 when, at 44 and relatively unknown, he won a spot on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Introducing a stream of lugubrious one-liners with his loser's prologue - "Nothing goes right for me" - he became a favorite guest on shows whose hosts included Steve Allen, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers, Dean Martin, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin.
With a rumpled suit and one hand perpetually loosening his trademark red necktie, Mr. Dangerfield took the stage as a hapless, self-deprecating Everyman slapped around by life and searching in vain for acceptance. It was a role that he had had some experience with offstage. But for his audiences, it was one laugh after another, from gag lines like these:
"I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He said, 'I don't know. There's lots of places for them to hide.' "
Or: "My fan club broke up. The guy died."
Or: "Last week my house was on fire. My wife told the kids, 'Be quiet, you'll wake up Daddy.' "
Or: "I was ugly, very ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother."
His popularity grew steadily, and in 1969 he opened his own comedy club in New York. With its namesake owner as a regular headliner, Dangerfield's, at First Avenue and 61st Street, soon became one of the city's hottest comedy showcases.
In 1972, after seeing the Francis Ford Coppola movie "The Godfather," he came up with a new angle that would reshape his routine. "All I heard was the word 'respect,' " he recalled. " 'You've got to give me respect,' or 'Respect him.' I thought to myself: It sounds like a funny image - a guy who gets no respect. Maybe I'll write a joke, and I'll try it."
The shift in his act was subtle, but it struck a chord in fans that far exceeded his expectations. His image as the ultimate loser was established, and, during the next few decades, through his comedy recordings and work in nightclubs, films and television, he emerged as one of this country's best-known comedians.
Mr. Dangerfield's first comedy album, "No Respect," won a Grammy Award in 1981. In 1984 his song "Rappin' Rodney," one of his most popular recordings, included these lyrics: "I'm gettin' old, it's hard to face. During sex I lose my place. Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I have 'em both the same way - very rare."
He starred in more than a half-dozen HBO comedy specials and appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show" more than 70 times. In movie roles he sometimes found himself cast against type. He was a nouveau-riche boor who tries to buy a country club in "Caddyshack" (1980) and a wealthy businessman who matriculates at his son's college in "Back to School" (1986). In a rare dramatic appearance, he played a belligerent, abusive father in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994).
Rodney Dangerfield - his real name was Jacob Cohen, but a nightclub owner suggested Rodney Dangerfield - was born in Babylon, N.Y., on Long Island, in 1921. The early departure of his father, a vaudeville comedian, and his upbringing by a mother whom he described as overbearing contributed to a troubled childhood and fits of depression that he later said had required regular visits to psychiatrists throughout his life.
In his late teens, Mr. Dangerfield took his jokes to the stage. He started as a singing waiter and comic under the name Jack Roy in a Brooklyn nightclub and later bounced around dingy joints in places like Staten Island, the Bronx, and Bayonne, N.J., and worked Catskills resorts as a standup. Tales of his hard-knock experiences with club owners and unappreciative audiences became legend among comics.
After a particularly humiliating experience at a Catskills hotel in the early 1950's, he quit show business. "To give you an idea of how well I was doing at the time I quit," he recalled later, "I was the only one who knew I quit."
The hiatus lasted for more than a dozen years, during which Mr. Dangerfield began businesses as a paint salesman and a house painter, and lived with his first wife, Joyce Indig, a singer, and their family in Englewood, N.J. The couple divorced in 1961.
Mr. Dangerfield is survived by his children, Brian and Melanie, from his first marriage, and by his second wife, Joan Child, whom he married in 1993.
Still, he remained a rarity among comedians in the late 20th century - he remained a one-liner comic of the old school whose best work was done before a live audience. "There are few comedians who have built an entire career around standup - Rodney Dangerfield comes to mind first," said George Carlin, whose own comedy is often built around complex, socially relevant issues. "And everyone who has been successful at it does it by creating a unique identity."
NYT Article & Comment to Ross
Ross, remember how old Rodney was. Your fan club is alive and well, cheering you on. In fact, the more I check out other forums, the more I realize how unique VR.com is. You're doing a great job! I really appreciate the speed and ease of our forum's infrastructure.
Rodney Dangerfield, Comic Seeking Respect, Dies at 82
By MEL WATKINS
Published: October 6, 2004
New York Times
Rodney Dangerfield, the paunchy, goggle-eyed comedian whose fidgety delivery and sad-sack catch phrase "I don't get no respect" brought him cult status and eventually wider fame, died yesterday in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 82.
The cause was complications after heart valve replacement surgery in August, said his spokesman, Kevin Sasaki. Mr. Dangerfield's health had been deteriorating in the last 18 months, although he had made a handful of television appearances.
Mr. Dangerfield's big break came in 1967 when, at 44 and relatively unknown, he won a spot on "The Ed Sullivan Show." Introducing a stream of lugubrious one-liners with his loser's prologue - "Nothing goes right for me" - he became a favorite guest on shows whose hosts included Steve Allen, Joey Bishop, Joan Rivers, Dean Martin, Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin.
With a rumpled suit and one hand perpetually loosening his trademark red necktie, Mr. Dangerfield took the stage as a hapless, self-deprecating Everyman slapped around by life and searching in vain for acceptance. It was a role that he had had some experience with offstage. But for his audiences, it was one laugh after another, from gag lines like these:
"I was an ugly child. I got lost on the beach. I asked a cop if he could find my parents. He said, 'I don't know. There's lots of places for them to hide.' "
Or: "My fan club broke up. The guy died."
Or: "Last week my house was on fire. My wife told the kids, 'Be quiet, you'll wake up Daddy.' "
Or: "I was ugly, very ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother."
His popularity grew steadily, and in 1969 he opened his own comedy club in New York. With its namesake owner as a regular headliner, Dangerfield's, at First Avenue and 61st Street, soon became one of the city's hottest comedy showcases.
In 1972, after seeing the Francis Ford Coppola movie "The Godfather," he came up with a new angle that would reshape his routine. "All I heard was the word 'respect,' " he recalled. " 'You've got to give me respect,' or 'Respect him.' I thought to myself: It sounds like a funny image - a guy who gets no respect. Maybe I'll write a joke, and I'll try it."
The shift in his act was subtle, but it struck a chord in fans that far exceeded his expectations. His image as the ultimate loser was established, and, during the next few decades, through his comedy recordings and work in nightclubs, films and television, he emerged as one of this country's best-known comedians.
Mr. Dangerfield's first comedy album, "No Respect," won a Grammy Award in 1981. In 1984 his song "Rappin' Rodney," one of his most popular recordings, included these lyrics: "I'm gettin' old, it's hard to face. During sex I lose my place. Steak and sex, my favorite pair. I have 'em both the same way - very rare."
He starred in more than a half-dozen HBO comedy specials and appeared on NBC's "Tonight Show" more than 70 times. In movie roles he sometimes found himself cast against type. He was a nouveau-riche boor who tries to buy a country club in "Caddyshack" (1980) and a wealthy businessman who matriculates at his son's college in "Back to School" (1986). In a rare dramatic appearance, he played a belligerent, abusive father in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994).
Rodney Dangerfield - his real name was Jacob Cohen, but a nightclub owner suggested Rodney Dangerfield - was born in Babylon, N.Y., on Long Island, in 1921. The early departure of his father, a vaudeville comedian, and his upbringing by a mother whom he described as overbearing contributed to a troubled childhood and fits of depression that he later said had required regular visits to psychiatrists throughout his life.
In his late teens, Mr. Dangerfield took his jokes to the stage. He started as a singing waiter and comic under the name Jack Roy in a Brooklyn nightclub and later bounced around dingy joints in places like Staten Island, the Bronx, and Bayonne, N.J., and worked Catskills resorts as a standup. Tales of his hard-knock experiences with club owners and unappreciative audiences became legend among comics.
After a particularly humiliating experience at a Catskills hotel in the early 1950's, he quit show business. "To give you an idea of how well I was doing at the time I quit," he recalled later, "I was the only one who knew I quit."
The hiatus lasted for more than a dozen years, during which Mr. Dangerfield began businesses as a paint salesman and a house painter, and lived with his first wife, Joyce Indig, a singer, and their family in Englewood, N.J. The couple divorced in 1961.
Mr. Dangerfield is survived by his children, Brian and Melanie, from his first marriage, and by his second wife, Joan Child, whom he married in 1993.
Still, he remained a rarity among comedians in the late 20th century - he remained a one-liner comic of the old school whose best work was done before a live audience. "There are few comedians who have built an entire career around standup - Rodney Dangerfield comes to mind first," said George Carlin, whose own comedy is often built around complex, socially relevant issues. "And everyone who has been successful at it does it by creating a unique identity."
I've been away for a while, but had to come in to pay my respects to the man who "got no respect". The Dallas Morning News said that his stand-up routine included 380+ 1-liners. That's impressive. Every 1-liner brings a chuckle or at least a smile. He will be greatly missed!
Tom:
Good to hear from you ... we've missed you!!
Good to hear from you ... we've missed you!!
M
Marge
It's too bad about Rodney Dangerfield. I'm sad for him & for his family.
I don't know exactly what happened, or why. The fact he was in his 80's has been mentioned but I don't think the unfortunate outcome is necessarily related to his age -- of course surgery (ANY surgery) is more problematic as you age but I know one old fella who had AVR at 82 and is now in his mid 80's and going strong so I hope nobody in the older population is too downcast by the lack of success in Dangerfield's case.
I don't know exactly what happened, or why. The fact he was in his 80's has been mentioned but I don't think the unfortunate outcome is necessarily related to his age -- of course surgery (ANY surgery) is more problematic as you age but I know one old fella who had AVR at 82 and is now in his mid 80's and going strong so I hope nobody in the older population is too downcast by the lack of success in Dangerfield's case.
Ross
Well-known member
I fire up my clip from Back to School with Sam Kinison as Professor Turgison and Rodney as the older student in the class. It's a keeper for sure now.Bryan B said:I miss him already!
I have most of his one-liners downloaded on my computer, and whenever I'm feeling blue I just start reading them and it makes me laugh every time.
