You know, I'm gonna give you a history lesson.

We got some dumb-ass motherfuckers floating around this country.

Stop laughing.

And when I do, start fucking.

Also, y'all did some nasty-ass jokes on my ass, too.

Funny jokes and unfunny jokes come out of the same birth.

You fucking guys are unbelievable.

Why are you laughing?

Evening, everyone.

Welcome to another episode of Why Are You Laughing, a history of comedy podcast.

And today, I am pleased to introduce to you, Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth, one of my all-time

favorites, and one of the great talk show guests of all time, one of the great

roasters of all time. Jerry Seinfeld has him on his Mount Rushmore of comedy. So truly

one of the greats. We've gone a long time without doing an episode about him. We did the

Rickles on Carson episode like a year and a half ago, but we haven't talked nearly enough about Don Rickles for a-Carsen episode like a year and a half ago.

But we haven't talked nearly enough about Don Rickles

for a guy that was so influential in comedy.

And he's another one of these guys that is

sort of the godfather of a genre.

There's a few guys I guess you could point to

that come from the Rickles ilk.

But he's definitely, I mean, if you talk about to, um, that come from the Rickles ilk, but he's definitely, uh, I mean,

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