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Why So Many Comedians Have the Same NSFW Rodney Dangerfield Story
The comedy legend’s reputation for letting it all hang out has been confirmed by a number of his friends and co-workers over the years
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Gary Gershoff/Contributor/Getty Images 3 Stand-Up Comedy Legends Who Were Destroying Hecklers Before It Was Trendy
Before crowd-work clips became clickbait, old-school stand-ups were shutting down audience members on albums, specials, and dusty DVD extras
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The tombstone of Spike Milligan (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) 6 Dead Comedians With Appropriately Amusing Epitaphs
Who said headstone inscriptions had to be serious?
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Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo (Photo by Oscar Abolafia/TPLP/Getty Images) 4 Comedy Stars Who Put Out Goofy Rap Songs
There’s probably a good reason these were one-off attempts
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Rodney Dangerfield (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/IMAGES/Getty Images) Rodney Dangerfield Once Wrote a Steamy Romance Novel (And Narrated It Himself)
The X-rated story was originally conceived as a movie
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Jay Leno (Photo: Wendy Perl/NBCU Photo Bank) Why Jay Leno Says There’s ‘Nothing Greater’ Than a Comedian’s Funeral
Comics have a funny way of looking at death
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JIm Carrey, Rodney Dangerfield and Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show' (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images) What Jay Leno and Jim Carrey Said to Rodney Dangerfield on His Deathbed
The two comedians joked around with their ailing hero shortly before he died
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Rodney Dangerfield (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/IMAGES/Getty Images) How 10 Famous Comedians Got Their Goofy Stage Names
An examination of some of the stranger pseudonyms in comedy history
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Rodney Dangerfield (Photo by Allan Tannenbaum/IMAGES/Getty Images) Rodney Dangerfield Once Saved Sam Kinison From the Mob
Dangerfield’s ‘no respect’ bit clearly didn’t reflect reality
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Rodney Dangerfield with Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show' in November 2001 (Photo by: Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images) Did Rodney Dangerfield Have a Heart Attack on ‘The Tonight Show’?
The ‘Caddyshack’ star looked a little worse for wear during his 80th birthday celebration
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Sam Kinison doing his trademark scream (Photo by Darlene Hammond/Getty Images) The Classic Comedy That Sam Kinison Was Cut Out Of
We apparently missed out on a scream or two
