Makes me think of a story Norm Macdonald told about meeting Rodney Dangerfield. He said at the end of their conversation Rodney looked at him and said “Remember kid - standup - there will always be standup.” Norm said it was so inspiring to hear Rodney talk about standup so passionately. Some comedians really aren’t about the bright lights of show business. Just the day to day grind of being with people.
2 weeks ago | 51
Ole Dean showed up at every table that had a drink on it though.
2 weeks ago | 58
A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.
2 weeks ago | 35
That's no respect. Rodney's jokes always make me laugh. I give him my respect 🙏 🫡
2 weeks ago | 17
I believe that such a thing is happening now, but it blows my mind that this was happening so very many decades ago.
2 weeks ago | 19
It's wild that people still think that Dean Martin's drunken behaviour was only an act. Funny how that was the only role he could play, and he was so committed to it that he even kept it up off camera.
2 weeks ago | 11
I watch him all the time! And I still laugh just because of the way he talks!
2 weeks ago | 5
They should have gone the extra mile and shipped Rodney duplicate set pieces and let him film remotely.
2 weeks ago | 5
Rodney Dangerfield
“My agent made a deal with The Dean Martin Show for me to appear on twenty-eight shows. I signed on to do some short skits—just me and Dean—and I would write all the material.
Dean only came in once a week to tape his show—no rehearsal. (The set for our bits was always the same—me, Dean, a table, and two chairs.) For our first show together, it took Dean and me just three or four minutes to film our routine and we were done. ‘Okay, great, see ya next week, right?’ Wrong. That was the last time I saw Dean. For the next seven Sundays, I flew from New York to California, went into an empty studio, sat down at that table by myself, and did four skits while talking to an empty chair. Later, the crew filled in shots of the audience laughing, and they filled in Dean Martin, too.
After the taping, it was back to the airport and back to New York. Many times I thought, ‘Is this show business? Doing jokes to nobody, piped-in laughter, no audience?’”
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