American stand-up comedian (1921?2004)
Jack Roy
(born
Jacob Cohen
; November 22, 1921 ? October 5, 2004), better known by the pseudonym
Rodney Dangerfield
, was an American
stand-up comedian
, actor, screenwriter, and producer. He was known for his self-deprecating
one-liner
humor, his
catchphrase
"I don't get no respect!"
[2]
and his
monologues
on that theme.
He began his career working as a stand-up comic at the Fantasy Lounge in New York City. His act grew in popularity as he became a mainstay on
late-night talk shows
throughout the 1960s and 1970s, eventually developing into a headlining act on the
Las Vegas
casino circuit.
He appeared in a few bit parts in films, such as
The Projectionist
, throughout the 1970s, but his breakout film role came in 1980 as a boorish
nouveau riche
golfer in the
ensemble
comedy
Caddyshack
, which was followed by two additional successful films in which he starred: 1983's
Easy Money
and 1986's
Back to School
. Additional film work kept him busy through the rest of his life, mostly in comedies, but with a rare dramatic role in 1994's
Natural Born Killers
as an abusive father. Health troubles curtailed his output through the early 2000s before his death in 2004, following a month in a coma due to complications from heart valve surgery.
[3]
Early life
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Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen
[4]
in the
Village of Babylon, New York
, on November 22, 1921.
[5]
He was the son of
Jewish
parents Dorothy "Dotty" Teitelbaum and the
vaudevillian
performer Phillip Cohen, whose stage name was Phil Roy. His mother was born in
Hungary
.
[6]
Phillip Cohen was rarely home; his son normally saw him only twice a year. Late in life, Cohen begged for, and received, his son's forgiveness.
[7]
Cohen's mother was reportedly emotionally distant for most of his childhood and did not show signs of affection towards her son.
[8]
In an interview with
Howard Stern
on May 25, 2004, Dangerfield told Stern that he had been molested by a man in his neighborhood. The man would pay Rodney a nickel and kiss him for five minutes.
[9]
After Cohen's father abandoned the family, his mother moved him and his sister to
Kew Gardens, Queens
, where Dangerfield attended
Richmond Hill High School
, graduating in 1939. To support himself and his family, he delivered groceries and sold newspapers and ice cream at the beach.
[7]
Career
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Early career
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At the age of 15, he began to write for stand-up comedians while performing at the
Nevele
, a former resort in
Ellenville, New York
.
[10]
Then, at the age of 19 he legally changed his name to Jack Roy.
[11]
[12]
He struggled financially for nine years, at one point performing as a singing waiter until he was fired, before taking a job selling aluminum siding in the mid-1950s to support his wife and family.
[13]
[14]
He later quipped he was so little known that when he gave up show business that "I was the only one who knew I quit."
[15]
In the early 1960s, he started reviving his career as an entertainer. Still working as a salesman by day, he returned to the stage, performing at hotels in the
Catskill Mountains
, but still finding minimal success. He fell into debt, about $20,000 by his own estimate and couldn't get booked. He later joked, "I played one club; it was so far out, my act was reviewed in
Field & Stream
."
[16]
Dangerfield came to realize that what he lacked was an "image", a well-defined on-stage persona that audiences could relate to, one that would distinguish him from other comics. After being shunned by some premier comedy venues, he returned home where he began developing a character for whom nothing goes right.
Roy took the name Rodney Dangerfield from an episode by
Jack Benny
on his radio program in a 1941 broadcast.
[17]
The name was referenced as an actor who Jack had invited to his upcoming Christmas Party, but
Mary Livingstone
had never heard of him. The name surfaces again in the December 15, 1946, episode as a "movie star" on Jack's Christmas Card list.
[18]
The name was also used by
Ricky Nelson
in a 1962 television episode of
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
, as a phony name for a blind date.
[19]
Career surge
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Dangerfield's one-liner style of comedy
- "My fan club broke up. The guy died."
- "Last week my house was on fire. My wife told the kids, 'Be quiet, you'll wake up Daddy.
'
"
- "I was ugly, very ugly. When I was born, the doctor smacked my mother."
[5]
- "I went to the fights last night, and a hockey game broke out."
Dangerfield reached national prominence appearing on
The Ed Sullivan Show
in March 1967.
[20]
He soon began headlining shows in
Las Vegas
and continued making frequent appearances on
The Ed Sullivan Show
.
[21]
He also became a regular on
The Dean Martin Show
and appeared on
The Tonight Show
more than 70 times.
[22]
In 1969, Dangerfield teamed up with longtime friend Anthony Bevacqua to build the
Dangerfield's
comedy club in New York City, a venue where he could perform on a regular basis without having to constantly travel. The club remained in continuous operation until October 14, 2020. Dangerfield's was the venue for several
HBO
comedy specials starring such stand-up comics as
Jerry Seinfeld
,
Jim Carrey
,
Tim Allen
,
Roseanne Barr
,
Robert Townsend
,
Jeff Foxworthy
,
Sam Kinison
,
Bill Hicks
,
Rita Rudner
,
Andrew Dice Clay
,
Louie Anderson
,
Dom Irrera
, and
Bob Saget
.
[
citation needed
]
In 1978, Dangerfield was invited to be the keynote speaker at
Harvard University
's Class Day, an annual ceremony for seniors the day before commencement.
[23]
His 1980 comedy album
No Respect
won a
Grammy Award
.
[24]
One of his TV specials featured a musical number, "Rappin' Rodney", which appeared on his 1983 follow-up album,
Rappin' Rodney
. In December 1983, the "Rappin' Rodney" single became one of the first Hot 100 rap records, and the associated video was an early
MTV
hit.
[25]
The video featured cameo appearances by
Don Novello
as a
last rites
priest munching on Rodney's
last meal
of fast food in a styrofoam container and
Pat Benatar
as a masked executioner pulling a
hangman's knot
. The two appear in a dream sequence wherein Dangerfield is condemned to die and does not get any respect, even in Heaven, as the gates close without his being permitted to enter.
Career peak
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Though his acting career had begun much earlier in obscure movies like
The Projectionist
(1971),
[10]
Dangerfield's career took off during the early 1980s, when he began acting in hit comedy movies.
One of Dangerfield's more memorable performances was in the 1980 golf comedy
Caddyshack
, in which he played an obnoxious
nouveau riche
property developer who was a guest at a golf club, where he clashed with the uptight Judge Elihu Smails (played by
Ted Knight
). His role was initially smaller, but because he and fellow cast members
Chevy Chase
and
Bill Murray
proved adept at improvisation, their roles were greatly expanded during filming, much to the chagrin of some of their castmates.
[26]
Initial reviews of
Caddyshack
praised Dangerfield's standout performance among the wild cast.
[27]
His appearance in
Caddyshack
led to starring roles in
Easy Money
and
Back to School
, for which he also served as co-writer. Unlike his stand-up persona, his comedy film characters were portrayed as successful, confident and generally popular despite being characteristically loud, brash, and detested by the wealthy elite.
Throughout the 1980s, Dangerfield also appeared in a series of commercials for
Miller Lite
beer, including one in which various celebrities who had appeared in the ads were holding a bowling match. With the score tied, after a bearded
Ben Davidson
told Rodney, "All we need is one pin, Rodney", Dangerfield's ball went down the lane and bounced perpendicularly off the head pin, landing in the gutter without knocking down any of the pins. He also appeared in the endings of
Billy Joel
's music video of "
Tell Her About It
" and
Lionel Richie
's video of "
Dancing on the Ceiling
".
[28]
In 1990, Dangerfield was involved in
Where's Rodney?
, an unsold TV pilot for
NBC
. The show starred
Jared Rushton
as a teenager, also named Rodney, who could summon Dangerfield whenever he needed guidance about his life.
[29]
[30]
In a change of pace from the comedy persona that made him famous, he played an
abusive
father in
Natural Born Killers
in a scene for which he wrote or rewrote all of his own lines.
[31]
Dangerfield was rejected for membership in the
Motion Picture Academy
in 1995 by the head of the academy's Actors Section,
Roddy McDowall
. After fan protests, the academy reconsidered, but Dangerfield then refused to accept membership.
[32]
In March 1995, Dangerfield was the first celebrity to personally own a website and create content for it.
[33]
He interacted with fans who visited his site via an "E-mail me" link, often surprising people with a reply.
[34]
By 1996, Dangerfield's website proved to be such a hit that he made
Websight
magazine's list of the "100 Most Influential People on the Web".
[35]
Dangerfield appeared in "
Burns, Baby Burns
", an episode of the animated television series
The Simpsons
in which he played
Mr. Burns
's son Larry Burns, a character who is essentially a parody of Dangerfield's onstage persona. He also appeared as himself in an episode of
Home Improvement
.
Dangerfield appears in the 2000
Adam Sandler
film
Little Nicky
, playing
Lucifer
, the father of
Satan
(
Harvey Keitel
) and grandfather of Nicky (Sandler).
Dangerfield was recognized by the
Smithsonian Institution
, which has displayed one of his trademark white shirts and red ties. When he handed the shirt to the museum's curator, Rodney joked, "I have a feeling you're going to use this to clean
Lindbergh
's plane."
[36]
Dangerfield played an important role in comedian
Jim Carrey
's rise to stardom. In the 1980s, after watching Carrey perform at the
Comedy Store
in Los Angeles, Rodney signed Carrey to open for Dangerfield's Las Vegas show. The two toured together for about two more years.
[37]
When Dangerfield celebrated his 80th birthday on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
in November 2001, Carrey made a surprise appearance to thank Dangerfield for his years of support.
Personal life
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Dangerfield was married twice to Joyce Indig, a singer. They married on October 3, 1951, divorced in 1961, remarried in 1963, and divorced again in 1970, although Rodney lived largely separated from his family.
[38]
Together, the couple had two children: son Brian Roy (born 1960) and daughter Melanie Roy-Friedman, born after her parents remarried. From 1993 until his death, Dangerfield was married to Joan Child, whom he met in 1983 at a flower shop she owned in
Santa Monica, California
.
[39]
[40]
At the time of a
People
magazine article on Dangerfield in 1980, he was sharing an apartment on
Manhattan
's
Upper East Side
with a housekeeper, his poodle Keno, and his closest friend of 30 years, Joe Ancis, whom Dangerfield called "the funniest man in the world";
[41]
Ancis was also a friend of and major influence on
Lenny Bruce
.
[42]
Ancis, who
Roseanne Barr
described as "too psychologically damaged to be able to live in a germ-infested world on his own", lived with Dangerfield until Ancis's death in 2001.
[40]
[43]
[44]
Dangerfield resented being confused with his on-stage persona. Although his wife Joan described him as "classy, gentlemanly, sensitive and intelligent,"
[45]
he was often treated like the loser he played and documented this in his 2004 autobiography,
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
. In this work, he also discussed being a
marijuana
smoker; the book's original title was
My Love Affair with Marijuana
.
[46]
Although
Jewish
, Dangerfield referred to himself as an
atheist
during an interview with
Howard Stern
on May 25, 2004, about four months before his death. Dangerfield added during the interview that he was a "logical" atheist, adding: "We're gorillas - does a gorilla come back?" In the same interview, he lamented that he "suffered greatly for being a perfectionist"; he also said "My mother never hugged me, kissed me, nothing, okay? Other kids would go to sleep listening to a
fairy tale
. I went to sleep with a fight downstairs, listening to a guy yelling 'Enough! Enough!'"
[47]
Later years and death
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On November 22, 2001 (his 80th birthday), Dangerfield suffered a mild stroke while doing stand-up on
The Tonight Show
. While Dangerfield was performing, host
Jay Leno
noticed something was wrong with Dangerfield's movements and asked his producer to call the paramedics.
[48]
During Dangerfield's hospital stay, the staff were reportedly upset that he smoked marijuana in his room.
[49]
Dangerfield returned to the
Tonight Show
a year later, performing on his 81st birthday.
[49]
On April 8, 2003, Dangerfield underwent
brain surgery
to improve blood flow in preparation for
heart valve
-replacement surgery on a later date.
[50]
The heart surgery took place on August 24, 2004.
[51]
Upon entering the
University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center
, he uttered another characteristic one-liner when asked how long he would be hospitalized: "If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half."
[52]
Dangerfield died on October 5, 2004. He was interred in the
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
in
Los Angeles
. On the day of Dangerfield's death, the randomly selected Joke of the Day on his website happened to be "I tell ya I get no respect from anyone. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said, 'There goes the neighborhood!'" This led his wife, Joan Dangerfield, to choose "There goes the neighborhood" as the epitaph on his headstone, which has become so well known that it has been used as a
New York Times
crossword puzzle clue.
[53]
[54]
Dangerfield's widow held an event in which the word "respect" had been emblazoned in the sky, while each guest was given a live
monarch butterfly
for a butterfly-release ceremony led by
Farrah Fawcett
.
[55]
Legacy
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UCLA
's Division of
Neurosurgery
named a suite of operating rooms after him and gave him the "Rodney Respect Award", which his widow presented to
Jay Leno
on October 20, 2005. It was presented on behalf of the
David Geffen School of Medicine
/Division of Neurosurgery at UCLA at their 2005 Visionary Ball.
[56]
Other recipients of the "Rodney Respect Award" include
Tim Allen
(2007),
[57]
Jim Carrey
(2009),
Louie Anderson
(2010),
[58]
Bob Saget
(2011),
Chelsea Handler
(2012),
[59]
Chuck Lorre
(2013),
[60]
Kelsey Grammer
(2014),
[61]
Brad Garrett
(2015),
[62]
Jon Lovitz
(2016),
[63]
Jamie Masada
(2019),
[64]
Jimmy Fallon
(2021),
[65]
and
Whitney Cummings
(2022).
[66]
In memoriam,
Saturday Night Live
ran a short sketch of Dangerfield (played by
Darrell Hammond
) at the gates of heaven.
Saint Peter
mentions that he heard Dangerfield got no respect in life, which prompts Dangerfield to spew an entire string of his famous one-liners. After he's done, he asks why Saint Peter was so interested. Saint Peter replies, "I just wanted to hear those jokes one more time" and waves him into heaven, prompting Dangerfield to joyfully declare: "Finally! A little respect!"
[67]
On September 10, 2006,
Comedy Central
's
Legends: Rodney Dangerfield
commemorated his life and legacy. Featured comedians included
Adam Sandler
,
Chris Rock
,
Jay Leno
,
Ray Romano
,
Roseanne Barr
,
Jerry Seinfeld
,
Bob Saget
,
Jerry Stiller
,
Kevin Kline
, and
Jeff Foxworthy
.
[68]
In 2007, a Rodney Dangerfield tattoo was among the most popular celebrity tattoos in the United States.
[69]
On
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
, May 29, 2009, Leno credited Dangerfield with popularizing the style of joke he had long been using. The format of the joke is that the comedian tells a sidekick how bad something is, and the sidekick?in this case, guitar player
Kevin Eubanks
?sets up the joke by asking just how bad that something is.
[70]
The official Rodney Dangerfield website was nominated for a
Webby Award
after it was relaunched by his widow, Joan Dangerfield, on what would have been his 92nd birthday, November 22, 2013.
[71]
Since then, Dangerfield has been honored with two additional Webby Award nominations and one win.
[72]
[73]
In 2014, Dangerfield was awarded an honorary doctorate posthumously from
Manhattanville College
, officially deeming him Dr. Dangerfield.
[74]
Beginning on June 12, 2017, Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy hosted the first class of The Rodney Dangerfield Institute of Comedy. The class is a stand-up comedy class which is taught by comedienne Joanie Willgues, aka Joanie Coyote.
[75]
[76]
In August 2017, a plaque honoring Dangerfield was installed in Kew Gardens, his old Queens neighborhood.
[77]
In 2019, an inscription was made to the "Wall of Life" at
Hebrew University
's
Mt. Scopus
Campus that reads "Joan and Rodney Dangerfield."
[78]
Filmography
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Film
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Television
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Discography
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Albums
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Title
|
Year
|
The Loser
/
What's In A Name
(reissue)
|
1966 / 1977
|
I Don't Get No Respect
|
1970
|
No Respect
|
1980
|
Rappin' Rodney
|
1983
|
La Contessa
|
1995
|
Romeo Rodney
|
2005
|
Greatest Bits
|
2008
|
Compilation albums
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Title
|
Year
|
Notes
|
20th Century Masters ? The Millennium Collection: The Best of Rodney Dangerfield
|
2005
|
|
Bibliography
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- I Couldn't Stand My Wife's Cooking, So I Opened a Restaurant
(Jonathan David Publishers, 1972)
ISBN
0-8246-0144-0
- I Don't Get No Respect
(PSS Adult, 1973)
ISBN
0-8431-0193-8
- No Respect
(Perennial, 1995)
ISBN
0-06-095117-6
- It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
(HarperEntertainment, 2004)
ISBN
0-06-621107-7
Awards and nominations
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