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Death Watch '04: Rodney Dangerfield

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By Paul Shrug, Section News
Posted on Tue Oct 5th, 2004 at 06:29:22 PM PDT
Warmest greetings! More death!

Rodney Dangerfield, the Borscht Belt comedian whose most famous tag line was [TOO-SUBTLE JOKE]"Well, excuuuuuuuuuuse me!"[/TOO-SUBTLE JOKE],gets no respect, even from us, upon his death today at 82 years of age.

Heh heh. Love ya Rodney.

Rodney Dangerfield was the prototypical nightclub comic of the '60s and '70s. Picking up where Henny Youngman left off, Dangerfield was a rapid-fire pun artist, most of whose jokes consisted of no more than 25 or 30 words, and all of which got big laughs. Mr. Dangerfield's basic narrative approach was that he received "no respect" from spouses, families, professionals, authority figures, or the general astral hum of the universe.

Here are some of Mr. Dangerfield's internal observations that were most reflective of his pith and poignancy:

"I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back!"

"Last week I saw my psychiatrist. I told him, 'Doc, I keep thinking I'm a dog.' He told me to get off his couch."

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."

"One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida."

"I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great uncle fought for the west!"

"One year they wanted to make me poster boy... for birth control."

"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."

"My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday."

"My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time an egg."

"During sex my wife always wants to talk to me. Just the other night she called me from a hotel."

"I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah...I told him once, 'Doctor, every morning when I get up and look in the mirror I feel like throwing up. What's wrong with me?' He said, 'I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect.'"

"My psychiatrist told me I'm going crazy. I told him, 'If you don't mind, I'd like a second opinion.' He said, 'All right. You're ugly too!'"

You can almost taste the rimshots.

Dangerfield was the best thing about the movie Caddyshack, a film whose intense cult status among men my age still, to this day, mystifies me. I enjoyed Dangerfield in Back to School, which also featured Sam Kinison.

Possible revisions to this DW later.

Your Hall Monitor of Death says, I knew a girl so ugly, the last time I saw a mouth like hers it had a hook on the end of it! (rimshot)

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Death Watch '04: Rodney Dangerfield | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
Paul!! Shame on You!! (none / 0) (#1)
by King Dinosaur (KingD@Hailtotheking.com) on Wed Oct 6th, 2004 at 02:27:39 PM PDT
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"Well, excuuuuuuuuuse meeeeeee!" was Steve Martin's line!! I know you know that - I'll chalk up this horrible mistake to your impending fatherhood....

But, seriously folks - now we'll never get "Ladybugs II".

Damn.


"It ain't no broken." - Scott Taylor



"No Respect" (none / 0) (#2)
by monkeyhole (yeehaw@buckowens.net) on Wed Oct 6th, 2004 at 03:40:05 PM PDT
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The whole "i can't get no respect" was his over used line.

I watched Caddy Shack last night. Brilliant film.

I guess i didn't realize he was in Natural Born Killers. Besides Caddy Shack, Back to School and being the voice on some cartoons, i couldn't think of many movies he was in (besides the formentioned LadyBugs, which i would have forgotton about, had KD not mentioned the much awaited sequeal).

He is one of those guys who has been old as long as I remember. He looks like he has one foot in the grave in Caddy Shack from 1980.

Take care Rodney.


"She used to be pretty, but now she's just pretty fucked up" - Supersuckers

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"Excuuuuse me" (none / 0) (#6)
by Paul Shrug (paulshrug@YourSadCareerAsASpammer.gmail.com) on Thu Oct 7th, 2004 at 09:19:11 PM PDT
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Was a joke.

See... Rodney gets "no respect"? So... so I'd get his tag line wrong?

It seemed funny when I wrote it.

--Shrug
Now Doing Weddings And Irony
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Duh. (none / 0) (#7)
by King Dinosaur (KingD@Hailtotheking.com) on Fri Oct 8th, 2004 at 02:14:56 PM PDT
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Well, now it's funny!


"It ain't no broken." - Scott Taylor
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Tragedy + Time = Comedy! (none / 0) (#8)
by Paul Shrug (paulshrug@YourSadCareerAsASpammer.gmail.com) on Mon Oct 11th, 2004 at 10:00:48 AM PDT
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n/t

--Shrug
Now Doing Weddings And Irony
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I saw him. (none / 0) (#3)
by ZomBfied (poundofflesh@hotmail.com) on Wed Oct 6th, 2004 at 10:14:02 PM PDT
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Not perform, just saw him about 4 years ago at the MGM Grand. He was wheeling around in one of those mechanical rascal thingys wearing boxer shorts and an open bathrobe.

He had one hand on the joystick beeping us to get the hell out of the way, and in the other hand he had a drink of some sort.

His head was kinda tilted sideways and he looked just aweful --I thought he was going to die right there, or he was already dead and being wheelied around by remote control as another Vegas attraction.

It reminded me of Captain Pike from the original Star Trek, beeping once for "yes" and twice for "no." It was kind of disturbing. I'm surprised he made it this long.

Such is the danger of my quest, that in fighting evil I will be corrupted by it.
On that day my soul will submit to the savagery of war.

-ROM



My Proctologist... (none / 0) (#4)
by Danger Kitty (dangerkitty@trouble.com) on Wed Oct 6th, 2004 at 11:17:36 PM PDT
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...sticks his finger in my mouth!

Seriously though...they played some of his clips on Howard this morning and I cried. God bless ya' Rodney. I admire a guy who couldn't get a break 'till he was in his 40s but kept plugging on anyhow. There's your respect.


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Viagra? (none / 0) (#5)
by ZomBfied (poundofflesh@hotmail.com) on Wed Oct 6th, 2004 at 11:55:25 PM PDT
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Oh, man. I gotta take viagra just to keep from peeing in my shoes.

Such is the danger of my quest, that in fighting evil I will be corrupted by it.
On that day my soul will submit to the savagery of war.

-ROM



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