The Funniest Stand-Up Comics Who Ever Lived

Don Rickles

If you like audience members getting heckled by a comedian, then Don Rickles is the man for you. He found his voice in interacting with the crowds who booed his jokes. These hecklers inadvertently made Rickles' career from nothing. He would belittle people's looks, their spouses, their jobs, their children, and pretty much any other information they offered up to him.

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