(AP) He’s known for his comedic insults, but Don Rickles will be complimented when he receives a special honor at the second annual Comedy Awards this month. The 85-year-old has been chosen to receive ...

LOS ANGELES – Don Rickles, the big-mouthed, bald-headed “Mr. Warmth” whose verbal assaults endeared him to audiences and peers and made him the acknowledged grandmaster of insult comedy, died Thursday ...

RICKLES: You're the governor, and if I got a cousin getting the chair, you better make that phone call. RICKLES: You were a politician. Black, white, Jew, gentile - we're all working for one cause - ...

Before Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, before American Idol's Simon Cowell, before Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, one man abused people on TV and in clubs like no other. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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