― k3rry (dymaxia), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
RIP Rodney.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Cat Steve, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
He filmed Back to School here in Madison.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link
regardless, im sad.
― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:02 (nineteen years ago) link
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Yeah, I know I'm ugly...I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
My wife was afraid of the dark...then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light. My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice - I don't know if I'm coming or going.
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap....He was in the electric chair.
If it weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself.
― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― juiceboxxx (juiceboxxx), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Core of Sphagnum (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I made a face at the tv.
From IMDB: Was the first entertainer to own a Website (www.rodney.com) which was launched in February 1995.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 04:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, I know, his brand of conceptual humor goes over a lot of heads.
2. Does this mean Rover Dangerfield gone too?
3. When I was in middle school I was a very depressed and lonely kid. I was convinced the only way to make friends was to be funny, so I of course obsessed over comedy. I would go to Borders and buy every book in the humor section. It didn't matter if it was a comedian I liked or didn't like, I'd buy their book. I bought every comedy album I could. I had a million George Carlin albums. I had a monty python box set. I would only go to the comedy section when I rented movies. Airplane was my favorite movie of all time. I bought every comic's standup routine on tape. I ordered several volumes of Def Comedy Jam on tape. I believe I've seen every episode of SNL from the first season till about 94. Every episode of Kids in the Hall and In Living Color as well. Did a huge in depth report on the Marx brothers. Needless to say I watched hours and hours of Rodney Dangerfield. I could really relate to him; which isn't something many kids say about 50 year old men.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 07:32 (nineteen years ago) link
R.I.P Rodney
― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Nah, you're all right.
It is a shame, if not rather expected. I have to say that he was never really my 'kind' of humourist, but prolonged exposure by my boyfriend has made me very fond of the man. So sad sad news (not as sad as Russ M, though, whose RIP thread I think I missed, so boo to that as well)
― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link
RIP RODNEY
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 10:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― pfeffernuesse (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 13:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Professor Challenger (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
anyway RIP
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― still bevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
I was genuinely bummed when I heard about this last night. RIP, Rodney. (Thank god he's been cloned!)
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
As an adult, Dangerfield made up with his father, but the part that really got me was his father's funeral. Dangerfield was the only person there and while his father was being lowered into the ground one of the workers asked for his autograph.
― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 7 October 2004 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― a banana (alanbanana), Thursday, 7 October 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 August 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Same here!
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 August 2006 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Then one guy with an amazingly loud voice shouts out, "Hey Rodney, when does the show start?"
There was an awkward pause for about five seconds, and for a moment it seemed the heckler got the better of him. Then, with absolutely perfect timing he deadpans, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" It absolutely brought the house down.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 25 August 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 25 August 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
he was killer
― =[[ (eman), Friday, 25 August 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link
He took the name Rodney Dangerfield, a pseudonym which had been used by Ricky Nelson on the TV program The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
In 2004, Rodney's autobiography, It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs (ISBN 0066211077) was published. The book's original title was My Love Affair With Marijuana, a reference to the drug he smoked daily for sixty years.
In keeping with his "No Respect" persona, his headstone reads simply, "Rodney Dangerfield - There goes the neighborhood."
― =[[ (eman), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Same here II. Did he die on a big news day or something?
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 26 August 2006 00:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 26 August 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
# Caddyshack (1980)# Easy Money (1983) (also writer)# Back to School (1986) (also writer)
# Rover Dangerfield (1991) (voice) (also writer and producer)# Ladybugs (1992)# Meet Wally Sparks (1997) (also writer and producer)
What happened to Rodney between 1986 and 1991 that he fell off so hard. What was he up to?
― fantastic mr. forks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
""I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugsI say, 'no.'"— Rodney Dangerfield
― velko, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Was he in Vegas then? I think he had his own steady show for a while.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 November 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
he was already 65 when he made Back To School, I would say he probably kicked back and enjoyed his money and fame but it seems like he did a lot of TV work and standup after that. I mean his schtick isn't necessarily well suited to movies and he kinda got lucky that he managed to make a couple good big ones.
― it's a crazy college where you come from (some dude), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
injured himself doing the triple lindy iirc.
― Pedro Paramore (jim), Sunday, 29 November 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw Rodney in Bloomingdales about 20 years ago, in summer, in khaki shorts, carrying a window fan he'd just purchased (i presume for his comedy club, about 4 blocks away).
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
also his standup >>>>>>>>>>>>>> dumbass '80s movies
― Feingold/Kaptur 2012 (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 November 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
wally sparks does have the classic line, when the squirrel runs up his pants, "get your OWN nuts!!!!!"
― T.M.I. Friday's (s1ocki), Monday, 30 November 2009 06:39 (fourteen years ago) link
he was in Vegas by the late 90s/had his own comedy club. he did a bunch of shitty direct-to-video movies towards the end too.
his standup stuff/TV appearances are amazing
― Gimme That Christian Side-hug, that Christian Side-hug (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
easily my favorite standup ever, after Pryor
― Gimme That Christian Side-hug, that Christian Side-hug (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 November 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
His HBO specials in the late 80s were more formative of my identity than pretty much anything save my parents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaxfWgn2KY
R.I. fuckin P. you two
― Euler, Monday, 30 November 2009 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Some great Rodney stories from way back when he was Jack Roy: http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/09/an-interview-with-stanley-dean-part-one.html
"I have a guy who is a tremendous comedy talent. I think your office would do well to come and see him. I would like to arrange a meeting for you to meet him." He said, "Okay. How about two o'clock on Wednesday?" "Fine." That's what we did. I went there with Rodney and I said, "When we walk into the office - I want you to walk over to him, shake his hand and say, 'Pleasure to meet you,' and walk to the back of the office. I'll sit with him at his desk. Say hello and nothing else. Nothing else." Because this guy, Jack Roy, could destroy himself in a hurry.You know? So, that's what happened. Nat Kalcheim said to me, "Where can we see him work?" I said, "A place in the Village." I was gonna get him a place where everybody used to work - Dick Cavett, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers - so I took him down there. It was run by a woman. A little club that seated twenty-five people at the most. I walked in there with Rodney. I said, "Sit down." I went up to her and I said, "You see that guy sitting over there? He is a very - funny - comedian. Would you let him do a few minutes? If you see him work you'll want him for a few weeks."She said, "Stanley. He does not look like a comedian." I said, "You can't go by his looks! Take my word for it. You won't be sorry." "Okay. Five minutes. That's all." I went over to him. "Here's what you're going to do. You're gonna go up. Do five minutes. And get the hell off. That is all. Okay? That's it." He does... and they went nuts. When you saw him in this tiny little room - he looked like a giant. If you're a good performer in a small area - it's always better than a vast area. You have a better connection - you with them and they with you. It's always better. She loved him. She said to me, "I want him here for a couple weeks. I only pay forty dollars."He said, "Don't worry, I'll drink it." He went to work there and the room suited him to a tee. He was an animal. To see him up close - it had a great effect and the jokes were sensational. Next week on a Wednesday I brought people from the Morris office down. Nat Kalcheim and six guys came down. They watched him and they turned to me and said, "He is very funny... but what do we do with him?" I said, "What do you mean what to do with him!? Take him to Ed Sullivan and have him perform during the Sunday run-through!"When you did the Sullivan show they had a run-through on Sunday afternoon that started around ten in the morning. When I first did it I said, "Jesus, how many people are going to be on this show?" But as it turned out, what they would do is... they have half a dozen performers that were already booked [for the live show at night], but they also had several performers that were not booked. They would do the show in the afternoon so they could have a look at them. So I said, "If you put him on Sullivan - if he's a big hit in the afternoon... no one is taking any chances.If he isn't a hit, he doesn't do the show. But if he is a hit... I tell you... he will be, I can sense it, I can see it, I can feel it. He is going to be a successful comedian and there is no telling to what extent. His material... without question... he is one of the top ten comedians I have ever heard. Material, jokes, delivery, freshness." As far as the person goes... well, there wasn't much to talk about. But as a performer! You could sense it.
You know? So, that's what happened. Nat Kalcheim said to me, "Where can we see him work?" I said, "A place in the Village." I was gonna get him a place where everybody used to work - Dick Cavett, Woody Allen, Joan Rivers - so I took him down there. It was run by a woman. A little club that seated twenty-five people at the most. I walked in there with Rodney. I said, "Sit down." I went up to her and I said, "You see that guy sitting over there? He is a very - funny - comedian. Would you let him do a few minutes? If you see him work you'll want him for a few weeks."
She said, "Stanley. He does not look like a comedian." I said, "You can't go by his looks! Take my word for it. You won't be sorry." "Okay. Five minutes. That's all." I went over to him. "Here's what you're going to do. You're gonna go up. Do five minutes. And get the hell off. That is all. Okay? That's it." He does... and they went nuts. When you saw him in this tiny little room - he looked like a giant. If you're a good performer in a small area - it's always better than a vast area. You have a better connection - you with them and they with you. It's always better. She loved him. She said to me, "I want him here for a couple weeks. I only pay forty dollars."
He said, "Don't worry, I'll drink it." He went to work there and the room suited him to a tee. He was an animal. To see him up close - it had a great effect and the jokes were sensational. Next week on a Wednesday I brought people from the Morris office down. Nat Kalcheim and six guys came down. They watched him and they turned to me and said, "He is very funny... but what do we do with him?" I said, "What do you mean what to do with him!? Take him to Ed Sullivan and have him perform during the Sunday run-through!"
When you did the Sullivan show they had a run-through on Sunday afternoon that started around ten in the morning. When I first did it I said, "Jesus, how many people are going to be on this show?" But as it turned out, what they would do is... they have half a dozen performers that were already booked [for the live show at night], but they also had several performers that were not booked. They would do the show in the afternoon so they could have a look at them. So I said, "If you put him on Sullivan - if he's a big hit in the afternoon... no one is taking any chances.
If he isn't a hit, he doesn't do the show. But if he is a hit... I tell you... he will be, I can sense it, I can see it, I can feel it. He is going to be a successful comedian and there is no telling to what extent. His material... without question... he is one of the top ten comedians I have ever heard. Material, jokes, delivery, freshness." As far as the person goes... well, there wasn't much to talk about. But as a performer! You could sense it.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
Those promo shots!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Uv_XTbtvrzA/UDxUTm_XHJI/AAAAAAAAMuI/pb3LSkInf9I/s400/Picture+55.png
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.e-profession.com/images/rodney_dangerfield_lose.jpg
^^^underrated
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
More great reading about the old days : http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2011/10/the-schleppers.html
― Loo Reading (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^^awes piece thx for the link!
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
The Simpsons episode with Rodney is so great. I remember the writers remarking on how hard it was to write those one-liners.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
Nesteroff's own blog and long pieces for WFMU are utterly U&K. Maron's WTF with him is worth seeing out.
Would pay money to see well-done Jack Roy/Rodney biopic
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
Rodney/Roy pops up in Albert Goldman's Lenny Bruce biography a few times
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Thursday, 20 September 2012 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to No Respect (1980) right now.
"I only get girls cause of who I am...a rapist!"
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
Full set from Westbury Music Fair, N.Y. 1983
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 25 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
oooh!
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 January 2013 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPv2toi5og
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 January 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
Just bought a used vinyl copy of No Respect. Had no idea it came out on Casablanca!
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
An oral history of "Back to School". Includes this amazing tidbit (so to speak):
Basil: Rodney came to a showcase at the Comedy Store I was on along with Louie Anderson, Bob Saget, Yakov Smirnoff and others. He liked my act and casted me in his first HBO special, the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special in 1984. We first met in the Green Room at Dangerfield’s, Rodney’s comedy club in New York City. His testicles were hanging out of his robe. Anyone who spent any private time with Rodney saw them. He was only comfortable in a bathrobe, but he never tied it shut all the way and never wore underwear. So the boys kinda hung out to catch some air. They were exceptionally low-hanging, like a grandfather clock.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
hall of tmi
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
a grandfather's cock
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:23 (six years ago) link
Joan keeps a bottle of Rodney’s sweat in her refrigerator
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:42 (six years ago) link
Maybe it's ball sweat.
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 September 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
I suspect a lot of younger ppl fail to investigate his stand up, thinking he's just the "no respect guy". Their loss
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 16:54 (six years ago) link
We all remember him for his rapping.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 September 2017 18:24 (six years ago) link
Did y'all know about Where's Rodney, the failed NBC pilot where Rodney advises a 14-year-old, Play It Again, Sam-style, on his growing pains?
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:48 (six years ago) link
I vaguely remember seeing it at the time. The TV at my house was almost always tuned to NBC back then, and at the time the network was found of burning off unsold pilots they had access to as filler programming.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Rabin not kidding about how terrible it is (there’s a link to it on Daily Motion in the article) but a few things amused me: the WTFness of the scene with the banana, how much the main actor resembles a pipsqueak version of Bill Maher, and the surrealism of the premise—which, yes, I know is ripped off from Woody Allen, but the idea of Rodney actually being pulled, forcibly (by what? magic?), out of his real life to just appear and help this kid out treats it far more like something that is *actually happening* rather than Woody being visited by Bogie’s ghost in what we can easily read as a fantasy of the Woody character.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Friday, 26 January 2018 03:46 (six years ago) link
His Centennial was two days ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QzY6KbCUQ
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
Attempted a rewatch of Easy Money the other day, but didn't get very far. Just a junky, lazy, and all around cynical piece of work. Mean, too: big shock that P.J. O'Rourke was one of four (!) credited writers. Say what you will about Back to School and, hell, Ladybugs--at least they obviously conceived and executed as proper star vehicles. Easy Money looks like no one involved gave a shit.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 18:58 (one year ago) link