Claim: Collection reproduces jokes about Democratic politicians by Don Rickles.
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Example: [Collected via e-mail, August 2010]
Supposedly from Don Rickles....all Democrats and ugly jokes
Hello, dummies!
Oh my God, look at you. Anyone else hurt in the accident?
Seriously, Senator Reid has a face of a Saint - A Saint Bernard.
Now I know why they call you the arithmetic man. You add partisanship, subtract pleasure, divide attention, and multiply ignorance.
Reid is so physically unimposing, he makes Pee Wee Herman look like
And Reid's so dumb, he makes Speaker Pelosi look like an intellectual.
Nevada is soooo screwed!
If I were less polite, I'd say Reid makes Kevin Federline look successful.
Speaking of the Speaker... Nancy Pelosi, hubba, hubba!
Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.
Seriously, the Speaker may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. She really is an idiot.
Madame Speaker... want to make twelve bucks the hard way?
Pelosi says she's not partisan, but her constituents call her Madame Pelossilini.
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Origins: Don Rickles is probably both the oldest and the best known practitioner of the entertainment genre known as the "insult comic," and one of the very few to sustain a successful career in that field across several decades. His
go out on stage to do my comedy routines, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm NOT going to offend!"
The above-referenced collection of insult jokes about current politicians (all of them Democrats), many of them poking fun at their targets' physical appearances, are fashioned in the approximation of Rickles' comedic style, which has led many readers who have encountered them out of their original context to mistakenly believe they originated with the famous comedian. However, they don't really fit the Don Rickles
In fact, this collection is the work not of Don Rickles but rather is a satirical political piece (entitled "Don Rickles Roasts
Satire Alert: In real life, the brilliant Don Rickles never does any routine that even remotely touches on politics. Truth be told, I am a huge fan of
Last updated: 28 August 2010