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    Comic Rodney Dangerfield dies in L.A. at age 82

    By Steve Gorman

    LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - Rodney Dangerfield, the goggle-eyed comic famed for his self-deprecating one-liners and signature phrase "I can't get no respect," died Tuesday at age 82, his spokesman said.

    Dangerfield, who became a pop culture sensation in middle age with a string of broad film comedies starting with "Caddyshack" in 1980, died at the UCLA Medical Center, where he had undergone heart valve replacement surgery on Aug. 25, spokesman Kevin Sasaki said.

    Dangerfield, whose initial forays into show business ended in failure, restarted his career as a comedian in his 40s. He went on to become a national sensation in his own right and helped launch the careers of such comics as Jim Carrey and Jerry Seinfeld.

    Dangerfield suffered a stroke following the surgery in August and "developed infectious and abdominal complications from which he did not recover," Sasaki said.

    During the past week, the entertainer emerged from a coma he had slipped into sometime after the operation, according to his wife, Joan. "When Rodney emerged, he kissed me, squeezed my hand, and smiled for the doctors," Joan Dangerfield said in a statement.

    A native of New York's Long Island, Dangerfield had endured a series of health problems in recent years. Last spring, he underwent brain surgery.

    A month later, Dangerfield greeted reporters at the hospital dressed in a sports shirt and Bermuda shorts and declared, "My brain is OK. I feel like a new man." Later, responding to a medical question, he answered, "Ask me about things I'm familiar with, like drugs or prostitution."

    TWO STARTS AT SHOWBIZ

    Born Jacob Cohen in Babylon, New York, in 1921, Dangerfield began writing jokes as a teenager, struggling as a comic and singing waiter in the "Borscht Belt" resorts of the Catskill Mountains under the name of Jack Roy in the 1940s.

    Leaving show business to earn a living as a house painter and aluminum siding salesman, he returned to the comedy circuit about a decade later, this time as Rodney Dangerfield.

    He eventually opened a New York nightclub and became a nationally recognized act with comedy albums and numerous TV appearances. Along the way he is credited with helping give a start to an impressive array of once-obscure talents who went on to become stars, among them Carrey, Seinfeld, Roseanne and the late Sam Kinison.

    Moving easily from nightclubs to TV to commercials to film, Dangerfield remained popular well past the peak of his career in the 1980s, forever tugging at his tie and drawing laughs with his catch phrase "I can't get no respect."

    Dangerfield made his film debut in the 1971 low-budget comedy "The Projectionist," playing the dual supporting roles of a tyrannical cinema manager and a serial villain, The Bat.

    But his big-screen breakout came in a string of rowdy comedies in the 1980s -- "Caddyshack," "Easy Money" and "Back to School." His movie appearances generally have mirrored his stand-up comedy persona, with Dangerfield playing boisterous, casually ribald characters with a rapid-fire patter of one-liners.

    Later film roles included the coach of a girl's soccer team in "Ladybugs" (1992), an abusive father in Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994), a tabloid TV show reporter in "Meet Wally Sparks" (1997) and a wannabe opera star in "The 4th Tenor" (2002).

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    Rest in peace !
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    That's really sad to hear :'(


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    RIP Rodney!

    :'(

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    R.I.P. Rod, maybe NOW you can get your respect.
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    Rodney approaches the Pearly Gates. The gatekeeper looks up from the Book of Admissions.

    Gatekeeper: "Name?"

    Rodney, "Ronald Reagan."

    Gatekeeper, "Real name?"

    Rodney, "Ok, ok. Last or first?"

    Gatekeeper, "Birth name."

    Rodney, "Jacob Cohen."

    Gatekeeper checks the book. "Sorry, not listed. You need to go to the other place. I'm really sorry."

    Rodney, "Yeah, that's what I thought and so I went there first. The red little man with the horns said the same thing you did. Man, even in death I get no respect."

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    I hate to hear this he was one of my favorites I used to have all of his no respect jokes on tape.

    I bet he's saying right now "I get no respect. I had to walk up the entire stairs to heaven because the elevator broke!"
    Rest in peace Rodney!
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    Damn Rodney was my second favorite comedian, that sucks.

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    He always had my respect.

    Before people are sad that he died, they should think about the life he led. That man had, and provided, lots of fun. Don't be sad that he died, it happens to the best of us (and worst), be HAPPY that the man lived!

    Here's what i have to say about him...

    "Cheers Rodney. You ROCK. If there's anything after this life, i hope it's a blast."

    Don't be SAD because an eighty year old man passes away, they tend to do that! Be sad because twenty year olds are sucking their lives down a crack pipe.

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    here's to you Rodney... Glad you were around awhile.

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    R.I.P. Rodney.
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