Continuing with our Rodney Dangerfield postings from yesterday and the day before, here’s Rodney on a 1981 special called ‘The Stars Salute The President’. His delivery is at top speed and one wonders how much Reagan was able to take in. He certainly gets Rodney’s last line, which has to
Yesterday I posted one of Rodney Dangerfield’s greatest appearances on Johnny Carson. Today we’re seeing him on The Mike Douglas Show in 1969. This is one of his earliest TV appearances (it’s shortly after his breakthrough opening for Dionne Warwick at The Sands) so it’s important to view it through
Every move, every twitch, every eye-pop of Rodney Dangerfield’s is a brilliant piece of method acting. Add to that the non-stop jokes and you have one of the truly ‘performative’ comics; he’s a man named Jacob Cohen (his real name) who, under the pseudonym ‘Jack Roy’ (his first stage name)