October marks the fifth anniversary of the death of comedian extraordinaire Rodney Dangerfield, one of my favorite comics.
He died at the tender age of 82, but his jokes will live on forever.
What follows is a tribute to “Mr. I Don’t Get No Respect.” His most popular jokes.
* “My mother had morning sickness after I was born.”
* “I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio…”
* “My mother never breast fed me. She told me she only liked me as a friend.”
* “One year they wanted to make me a poster boy for birth control.”
* “I remember I way so depressed, I was going to jump out a window on the tenth
floor so they sent a priest up to talk to me.. He said ‘On your mark…’”
* My uncle’s dying wish was to have me sitting on his lap. He was in the electric chair.”
* “I had a lot of pimples , too. One day I fell asleep in a library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.”
* “One time I went to a hotel. I asked the bell hop to handle my bag. He felt up my wife.”
* “Last week my tie caught on fire. A guy tried to put it out with an ax.”
* “ When I was born, I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother.’
* “I met the Surgeon General. He offered me a cigarette…”
There’ll never be another Rodney…
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