{"id":8351,"date":"2017-04-06T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2017-04-09T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T19:29:56","slug":"don-rickles-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/06\/don-rickles-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Rickles Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/don-rickles-dead-legendary-comic-was-90-720153\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article__headline\">Don Rickles, Legendary Comic With a Gift for the Insult, Dies at 90<\/h1>\n<p>by <span class=\"js-authors-list\"><span class=\"author\">Mike Barnes <\/span>, <span class=\"author\">Duane Byrge<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vFJgDtDupJg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__deck\">&#8220;Mr. Warmth&#8221; forged a career when he turned the tables on his hecklers, going on to make fun of everyone he encountered \u2014 even Frank Sinatra.<\/h2>\n<p>Don Rickles, the rapid-fire insult machine who for six decades earned quite a living making fun of people of all creeds and colors and everyone from poor slobs to Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary comic died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles of kidney failure, publicist Paul Shefrin announced.<\/p>\n<p>Sarcastically nicknamed \u201cMr. Warmth,\u201d Rickles had mock disdain for stars, major public figures and all those who paid to see him, tweaking TV audiences and Las Vegas showroom crowds with his acerbic brand of takedown comedy. A good guy and devoted husband away from the stage, Rickles the performer heartlessly laid into everyone he encountered \u2014 and they loved it.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/don-rickles-dead-legendary-comic-was-90-720153\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter Don Rickles, Legendary Comic With a Gift for the Insult, Dies at 90 by Mike Barnes , Duane Byrge &#8220;Mr. Warmth&#8221; forged a career when he turned the tables on his hecklers, going on to make fun of everyone he encountered \u2014 even Frank Sinatra. Don Rickles, the rapid-fire insult machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}