5 Rowan & Martin _ Rickles.m4v

This is true class and comedy combined. Don Rickles picked on everyone. My favorite part is when Nipsey had his say. " Up Yours Don!" Imagine the laughter afterwards back stage. This era of comedians were politically incorrect to the max by today's standards. They could laugh at themselves and others. All races would burn each other hysterically.

Never imagined someone quoting Don Rickles and making me laugh as much as I just did, Thanks Rowan & Martin, you did 1-derfully and had Mr Rickles in stitches !!!

Always liked Rowan and Martin. R.I.P.

Rowan & Martin, two of the greatest funny guys, watch the timing - fantastic!! Sadly, most of these funny men are no longer with us - never to be replaced.

This was the funniest roast that was aired, Rowan and Martin were funny reading Rickles insults

Classic 🌈 Nipsey Russell 🤣 was great too ! This was a funny bit ! I’m 57 now and remember well 🦋

Back when people could take a joke and weren't so sensitive. Great times missing them dearly.

I used to watch Laugh-in every Monday.

Great timing and talent.

Foster Brooks is hysterical as always.

I miss seeing grown men have fun with hilarious wit! Those days are gone.

Overall, the roast for Don Rickles was just about the best.

These two were the funniest comedy team of all time. I watched their show, Laugh-In, in first run way back when and it was hilarious.

That was a bloody hysterical routine.  they were really great when they were "on."

The talent level is unbelievable from this era..I'm just a very small part of this..Robert at 67.

Thomas Richard Martin (January 30, 1922 – May 24, 2008), known professionally as Dick Martin, was an American comedian and director. He was known for his role as the co-host of the sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973.

Rowan and Martin, who were hilarious comedians, remind us here that Don Rickles' comedy is not so much in the lines, but in his masterful delivery and timing of those lines. Many of the world's greatest comics have acknowledged Rickles' particular skills in these areas. But the lines are still important, even if the delivery and timing of them are (deliberately) missing in the Rowan and Martin renditions of them, to make their own comic point. When Rickles earlier in his career tried to apply his sense of timing to telling regular jokes or doing impressions of famous people, he wasn't very successful. It was his discovery that had a real talent for dealing with hecklers and making terrific comedic comebacks by "attacking" them back. From there, he built his entire act around "killing" members of the audience, but in a comedic way.

Add Charlie Callas to the list just priceless!!!!!!!!

Rowan and Martin. They deserve any comedy award they ever received. (btw, in those days this was very progressive and liberating humor. Seriously)

Groucho Marks once said of Dan Rowan - the greatest Straight man of all time - here, here.