Don Rickles will interview Billy Crystal, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler on new series “Dinner with Don”
AARP announced the formation of an in-house production studio called AARP Studios. Along with the formation of the studio, they also announced the first project, and it’s with a comedy legend, the one and only Don Rickles will host a 10-episode series called Dinner With Don. It sounds exactly what you’d think it is, Don […]
Comedy legend Don Rickles dead at 90
The world might’ve just got a bit more darker today as comedy legend Don Rickles has passed at the age of 90. He died from kidney failure in his Los Angeles home with his wife Barbara by his side. Fly those flags at half mast folks because a true comedy legend has passed on. Yes, […]
Jimmy Kimmel broke down during his tribute to Don Rickles
Last night, Jimmy Kimmel Live aired an emotional tribute to legendary comedian Don Rickles, who passed away at the age of 90. In honor of Rickles, who Kimmel calls “probably the greatest talk show guest of all time,” the show compiled some clips of his past visits, full of very Rickles-y one-liners — like, when Kimmel notes […]
Don Rickles gets some final heckles in his final series “Dinner With Don”
If there were any silver lining to the unfortunate death of bonafide comedy legend that is Don Rickles yesterday, it would be that he had already finished taping Dinner With Don, the 10-episode AARP series that was announced a few weeks back. It was AARP’s first foray into original programming and had Rickles hanging out […]
See the Friendship of Bob Newhart and Don Rickles in New Judd Apatow Documentary
Judd Apatow is taking a closer look at the iconic friendship of Don Rickles and Bob Newhart in a brand-new documentary short. What to expect in the new Judd Apatow directed documentary about Rickles & Newhart’s friendship. In the 20-minute piece – which we imagine was initially intended to be a much larger documentary – Bob […]
The National Comedy Center Announces Don Rickles Archive Preservation
Don Rickles. Courtesy of the National Comedy Center. The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, New York, has acquired the personal archives for comedy legend Don Rickles. The Center announced today that they will be preserving the Rickles collection, which chronicles his six decades in show business, from the 1950’s to the 2000’s. What to know about […]
Let’s binge watch Don Rickles’ final project, “Dinner With Don”
Watching these clips are both hilarious and extremely sad. Hilarious because Don Rickles is a bonafide legend, sad because we all know the comedy legend shuffled off this mortal coil this past April. Late last year, Rickles recorded a series with AARP called Dinner With Don in which he sat down with some of the […]
Bob Newhart tells Conan O’Brien about the first time he met Don Rickles
Bob Newhart stopped by Conan to celebrate the 45th anniversary of The Bob Newhart Show. Over the course of the conversation, host Conan O’Brien asked Bob about the passing of one of his good friends, Don Rickles which prompted Newhart to tell the host about the first time he and his wife met the insult […]