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Originally Posted by Yong Fang
I was looking around YouTube last night and watched some talk shows with Don Rickles (Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno, Howard Stern etc.). Rickles is absolutely hilarious. Seems that most of the time he just ad libs and is just amazing in his humor.
But he just did not make it headlining his own TV show. He had The Don Rickles Show and CPO Sharkey and neither show made it, at least not past season two, which makes me wonder why that is.
I think Rickles would have been fantastic in a Sanford and Son like show. Can you imagine Rickles and Redd Foxx together trading barbs and insults? That would have been incredible.
Maybe Rickles just could not fit in with scripted television, but Robin Williams was given pretty much full reign on Mork and Mindy to do what he wanted. I don't know. But they tried in the 1970's to put Rickles in a TV vehicle and it just did not click with audiences, why?
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he had a Sanford and son like show called daddy dearest co starring with Richard lewis that show was a flop too my fave series of his was cpo sharkey