What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

Don Rickles, the irrepressible master of the comic insult whose humor was a fast-paced, high-volume litany of mockery in which members of his audience were the (usually) willing victims of his verbal ...

On his previous Melody Fair visit in the early 1970s, I had interviewed Don Rickles. He'd given me an hour of his precious time in his trailer, just before he went on. I asked some questions he wasn't ...