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Don Rickles
Clockwise, from top left: Carrie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, Leonard Cohen and Zsa Zsa Gabor. (Getty Images/via JTA)
September 18, 2017, 1:20 pm
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By Gabe Friedman
In this June 7, 2012 file photo, comedian Don Rickles attends the AFI Life Achievement Award Honoring Shirley MacLaine at Sony Studios in Culver City, Calif. Rickles died, Thursday, April 6, 2017, of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home. He was 90. (Chris Pizzello /Invision/AP, File)
April 7, 2017, 7:07 pm
Don Rickles: The man was sweet, but oh that on-stage bite
Everyone ate it up, because he practiced an equal-opportunity brand of humor that targeted people by race, religion, appearance and anything else he could find to mock
By Lynn Elber
Don Rickles is honored for best individual performance in a variety or music program for "Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project," at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, Sept. 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
April 6, 2017, 9:27 pm
Legendary Jewish comedian Don Rickles dies at 90
For more than half a century, the grandmaster of insult comedy headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, becoming one of the most beloved people in show business
By Lynn Elber
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