Best of Don Rickles & Tom Snyder's Iconic Chemistry

foreign live and in person tonight here on CBS and thank you for coming over and thank you for attending the party tonight I know you had a wonderful time I saw you there at the uh at the at the bar wouldn't miss it one of the greatest parties in the world Bonnie Hunt myself and Little Richard who was serving the people fantastic party I mean and everybody else was just people in bed suits walking around going hey Tom Snyder and the guy with the others a cracker and that was it it was a wonderful night well I've never asked me again okay I don't need it now I read that on New Year's Eve this year you worked for the first time in 40 years at a place that did not serve alcohol absolutely the Indian casino Mystic Lake okay wonderful people Sioux Indians and I knew they were so because they kept circling the hotel wife and I want them to make love and the whole night was you know and then the guy came with makeup right by the window and I figured it was a gay parade outside but now what was it like working for a crowd that had no you know usually when you perform there are there's alcohol being served yes well there wasn't supposed to be any alcohol but there was a lot of smiles out there we had Avion [Laughter] and I kept saying Yeah Nick yeah yeah and the guy said to me we enjoyed it no we they're not supposed to have alcohol and we didn't have any alcohol wife and I just did Memorial songs I made love to her that night we're married 32 years you know you don't take a shot at the wife when you're married 32 years you just circle the bed and go home and you know I couldn't stay long because I was going to the George custard dinner so uh in Your Arrow Shirt yeah right I'll do the funny stuff time you'll just lay back and let the kid roll anyway in the Arrow Shirt let me write let me write that down Irish guy got off a good one but let me ask you about your own career as a movie actor you were in run silent Run Deep carried Clark Gable and or Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster I carried both of them they're dead now so they can't say anything but I did carry them both Bert Lane I guess you just come up with me and say hi Don are you ready to sing us at go wakeboard go away you did not no I didn't I respected Bert clock was great Clark well Bert was too but clockwise you should see me you know what's up kid I think you're a good actor and I say thank you clock and then you did a lot of Television work too you did you did one for your life with Ben Gazette who I also carried Ben was great he was great in those days he used to you know he's not the trams come at Universal oh yeah the tour yeah you do a scene and Ben was uh he's still with us thank god he's a great actor and Ben used to do like you'd say Charlie are you guilty on the left is Ben gazzara that's Don Rickles talking to Ben gazzara everybody lean out of your wagon and look at Ben gazzara and Ben gazzaro who's a real hot Italian woman Grace you know [Music] look at this I'm working with Kris Kringle you're funny you're genuinely funny funny hey if I'm not would I be honest yes yeah and the wife kept saying I'll have a little more ice she does that she's the one when Frank Sinatra had a bad mood you know and Frank would take a glass and in old days when he gets really steamed I'd say juicy but Frank didn't she said can I have a little more ice I'm sleeping with a value [Laughter] I love you Mr Rickles have a great day I love you too like have a great New Year and Don will be at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe affiliate Weitzman lets me yeah out of the 15 the 16th through the 18th and then to your uh your stomping grounds in Las Vegas the desert in the 23rd through the 25th and so now I know you've had you know training as an actor when you were a young man living back East but here you are with uh Martin Scorsese who is uh if not the one of the directors of our time Robert De Niro Joe Pesci Sharon Stone what's it like working with these people well you know it's tough because every day you got to put phone books on this chair so he can see the actors it's annoying you know every day you know where's my phone books you know and I hate to work with little guys it runs under the camera it's like a mold it pulls on your socks oh that's the director yeah and uh and and dinero dinero was great you know in fact we did the scene it's like the same thing I come from the from the nightclubs as you know right and I've done acting and I've done movies but these guys are real method stuff you know like Clint Eastwood who Clint look at the example like is it a pickup truck with a can of beer and he said am I acting he doesn't know where but uh but dinero they say roll them and he goes and I'm doing this the whole movie what I want to get one of those horns and then I of course I would be out of control I would go the men are in trouble I swear to God I was a lip reader no kidding so he's a fine actor I'm kidding around but the idea is that they really when you work with dinero and of course there's that whole outfit that really is you know they make everything come alive you don't realize you're doing a movie I mean Marty is so great he really is and let me ask you about staying in character I would assume like dinero and Pesci for the whole day even when when they're down while they're while they're resetting that they're in character all the time they don't slip out of character or do they well they do because I slap them in the face no I usually Mario's uh said you know cutting and De Niro would invariably say you know like do you think you should take the gun out now and I said take the gun out otherwise you're going to have a funny hand and then you'll be on the Jerry Lewis Telephone by yourself uh you've worked in Las Vegas for a long long time did you work there when the when organized crime ran in Las Vegas yeah but we didn't know what it was organization you know they we used to hang out in the sand steam room with Frank Sinatra you know and Frank used to be in there and guys would come in and out you know they weren't exactly you know guys with ballet shoes doing it you know the Tango you know guys came in they usually you know said well they always thought they had a sore throat but they were choking on gunpowder and uh I told that joke and I can't find my aunt in the Bronx but uh you you have taken on all comers all your life haven't you you've taken everybody on yeah I the only guy I would cooled it with was the pope because you know we Jews we sell you guys the hats I'm thinking I gotta be nice you know what I mean he wants a pink one and we didn't manufacture we don't have pink only white and black yeah right and sometimes blue or beige don't you know she always keeps doing this and yeah he needs another one all the Catholics are going to come over the house and go with blow guns but anyway Vegas then and now now Las Vegas is run by Big Business by business oh yeah oh yeah Ed Johnson Tommy Thompson all guys little boils on the neck you know what I mean with the tight collars and they go wanna gamble crap crap crap you know I know the guys that went hey you want to have a party we have a party right in other words when you wanted to have a special Affair you just picked up the phone and it was one guy to answer to but was in the it back when you started there when when the guys ran it I'm told it was there was just an atmosphere there like if a guy went there and lost a lot of money they'd make sure you got home okay you know or they buy you they would treat you the drinks and dinner and you know everything was comped I mean your Suite was comped today you know after you lose about 50 60 70 000 the guy says a taxi get this guy it's all kidding really no they but they're not as liberal as they were in those days those days they gave you the Moon I mean the guys were terrific guys I mean I worked for some great men but I I I I tried hard but what the bottom line was that the jokes were getting me a few bucks here and there and I started like everything was relative when I started to make 150 I said wow what a score I'm doing great and when I made 300 a week I said wow you know so everything was right and I was delighted with that and yet I always had that burning desire to be an actor I still love when I get a part that's why I'm so thrilled to be in casino and in Toy Story anything with acting I've always loved but I have to go what pays the rent sure we have a big home in the driveway is about 30 miles I understand and the dogs hunting dogs they keep snapping not not to mention the upkeep for spouse and kids right and right my wife put the jewelry signaling ships not easy Carol in Greer South Carolina hi and welcome to CBS hi happy to the 200 a thousand well thank you very kindly thank you two hundred thousand you I don't know what you're on out there lady but he'll go mildew I want to dance Mr Rickles if he ever went to college to study acting and if so where do I look like like a guy that went to college I had trouble standing in front of the building no dear I never went to college I went to the uh I went to the American Academy of dramatic arts and that was my training and so uh that's all I had to do to as an actor but I never had I wish I had gone to college but it was tough because I I never studied Bell you know and so it was very tough well you do a wonderful job one one way or the other well thank you have you ever seen Don Rickles in person Carol no sir well do yourself a favor if he's in your area or you get to the venues of Las Vegas or Atlantic City uh watch this man work it's a tour de force so thank you where are you from uh Greer South Carolina which is between Greenville and Spartanburg yeah I have an uncle there last time I saw him he was cleaning a tobacco leaf not much around here anymore well you listen to crickets and go to bed early I think the sweetest thing he's done is the routine with Johnny Carson where they had the tub of water yes it was a great routine he annoyed me with that you know I'm only kidding anyway Carol thanks for calling thank you have a Happy Thanksgiving and a happy holiday season thank you sir good luck to you all right bye-bye now all right the other night here they videotaped a program for ABC to Mark the 80th birthday of Frank Sinatra and I trust that you were there can you take us backstage and just tell us about what happened there well there was a lot of great stars and Frank came in and he walked over to me and Spilled his drink on me that relaxes them no that's a joke he didn't do that he could have but he did and everybody was there Tony Bennett was there and he kept coming up to me going Stella let me tell this two years I said fine Tony you know I gave him I gave him a cookie and he went away and Johnny Depp was there a wonderful kid fine actor you know I never met him before he said Mr Rickles that's when you know you're up there when I called us all the callers tonight he's a young young star and he called me Mr Rickles and he was delighted to meet me and I I got very emotional about it but he was a nice kid and uh the first picture in the paper today with Roseanne yeah right and Roseanne was there she's she's a dog and did all these people did you perform yes I did no I was I was a caterer I was there serving I thought I was walking around saying would you like another hors d'oeuvre stop it I I thought maybe how about a sandwich who wants a sandwich I thought maybe just don't get out my nerves Tom what do you think I was there I always get on your nerves no you don't no you know but I thought maybe just the singers sang and that the rest were invited well it was predominantly singing okay they had the comedians that had myself and uh Tom dreeson that had no Crosby and who else did I have and I had a fella I'm probably left out somebody and did Sinatra sing other than joining a group to sing I believe New York at the end he's saying New York New York and then he sat down and oiled his gun and went home I told that to Frank and the guy with him went what are you cute Tony oh he's a good kid he hangs out what were the jokes that made Sinatra like you remember way way back when yeah well I was the first guy he was told by some good people in those days that this kid is different and he's he's your kind of thing and your kind of style yeah and Frank was great and when he'd bring a bunch of people the first time he ever saw me was in Florida I believe the best of my recollection Walter Winchell in those days was was very big and Winchell heard that sinach was coming to see me in a place called Murray Franklin's and Frank came with all these guys and I walked down I said hey Frank be yourself stand up and hit somebody and and and they all went like this the guys with him and Frank went you know they all had little strings on there you know what you know and they all laughed and that was the beginning of a great friendship well they tell me that I looked like potato head and I I got a little shook up because potato head's falling apart right in front of the people that's that's your part Potato Head on so I get up in the middle of the night so what happened to my arm yeah you know so uh but uh say hi to Mr Potato you remember that one don't you yeah can I go on time for sure you would know this is all the questions no actually Tom the the idea is the character Potato Head really is associated with me because it's like a supposedly a grumpy kind of guy and sarcastic which I play all the time so that's pretty much the story okay Carol there you go thanks for diving us up yeah yeah can I ask Don one more thing sure hey Don cheeseheads would love to be insulted by your humor the cheeseheads I would kind of when do you have your next Furniture show oh next Wednesday because I'll bring the wax and stuff maybe I could work the furniture shop I'll someday get to Wisconsin it would be nice because I know there would be big ticket sales you're oh that's very sweet comedian everybody loves you up here thank you Dawn let's have lunch oh gee by all means come on up and see me give me a break lady yeah God bless you we'll work it out we'll see ya what about you and royalty didn't you once give a performance like for Princess Margaret yes I did yes I did I I don't know if I told this story before I did in England I was uh at the show and I got up on the stage and I did all the jokes about the queen and the boom and Princess Margaret was there and Bob Hope Bob Hope brought us over there I was there with Newark Newhart said don't don't say don't don't say too much about about the queen don't don't don't don't don't don't you know I don't know he gets stuck well he's rather tightly wound wouldn't you think well yeah I would say yeah um I figured a year or so he he will be in a home no question about it the man I mean so anyway so we were sitting together and Bob said boom gee it seems to because I did good I really did I made fun of everybody and all the royalty was there and Sean Connery at that time and Telly Savalas rest his soul and a lot a lot of stars and Roger Moore and they were all you know and the place was packed and I made fun I had the queen get all the money and I did all these jokes when it was all over guy comes over sister man would like to see it and Bob Hope went oh gee with a new heart went uh I'll get the bags back and get ready to go to the airport it's over you know I said well I don't know maybe she wants it no no it don't look good anyway I got up and I went with my wife and we went over and I had the secret sir their secret service Scotland Yard and we sat down everybody thought I was going to get chewed out for making fun of the Princess Margaret and I sat down I said princess it's ma'am I said your majesty she said don't call me Your Majesty call me ma'am she said would you like a drink I said yeah and you know I didn't know that she liked gin and she went and I went hey this is a hell of a princess boom you know and the two of us were going to England by the way I said no no I know why they didn't lose the war they sat with the Churchill down in the basement going to the messerschmitts above all so uh she was pretty good with the gym yeah yeah oh she she whacked it down nice yeah in fact her leg kept going boom so I don't know so so what did she have to say about it when she said you know she said first of all she said are you a Jew I said how do you like this royalty is anti-Semitic so uh so they said no no Dawn that's just her way because she has a dossier about you I said oh oh good I said yes ma'am I am she said you know she said I know all about you she said awfully quick I said Thank You Ma'am she said you know your mother lives in Miami at that time my mother your mother lives in Miami in a condominium I said yes she does and she's 80 years old she said yes she said what a coincidence my mom is 80 years old and she lives right down the street oh she's talking about that at the palace right but the queen I said yeah okay right down the street she said and you know something else your mom I understand has emphysema I said yes she said my mom does too I said that's so interesting so both moms have emphysema yeah she said so there's no difference I said yes ma'am there is she said what's that your mom has a flag on the roof true story that's wonderful now when you go back to to to New Heart and the rest did you tell them what transpired there or do you just keep this all oh yeah but that time he had about 12 Gins so he didn't care your mom has a flag listen All America is your friend Pell Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for coming over tonight and you're indeed a gentleman Tom and thanks so much and I'll try to get you in for the casino I'll try to get you camped stick it in your ear good night Happy Thanksgiving too and a career that has stand over 50 years Don Rickles has earned a reputation as one of our top funny men he'll be appearing at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City at the end of May and he's on the boards at Carnegie Hall in New York on the 12th of June which I know is going to be a big night congratulations John and happy 70th birthday and thanks for joining us tonight thank you well that's about it no that's not about it and it's not 50 years give me a break it's 40. I'm not the business 15. listen kids Jolson was in the business 50 years and he's not around 70 years old that's a milestone huh congratulations on that we're going to have Services no we're not going to have services but you know I like you a great deal and I know you had a wonderful party and all your friends were there and I think it's terrific yeah well you were on the list but it was touching God the name came up and I went forget it you know it doesn't pick it up any anyway it's great to be 70. hey it's how you feel exactly you know what I mean and I feel damn old I swear to God no you don't bring it up in the morning you say the leg's not moving but I feel great I feel great you know what's interesting I turn 160 the weekend that you turned 70. I don't feel 60 and I'm sure you don't feel 70. I think I'm about 25 years old I mean I feel terrific and I still have but you don't look good I know I don't I don't have your jeans you got to lay down you got to get a check but like you have great enthusiasm for your work you still get a charger today I don't you know I don't get a kick out of running up and down the stage and we're using them spinning up hanging out in the wings going why why does the family keep asking me for checks you know the wife just sits there with the jewelry signaling ships anyway so I gotta I gotta be nice and I mean it's not easy Tom when he got a Jewish Family they're always there and I'm not ready for the money you know what I mean when you were coming up where could you go to work there was no Comedy Store Comedy Central MTV none of that stuff I used to work in the you know places like the melody Club when the girl came out with the little pasties and did night train and the soup used to dance the guy serving the soup usually you know and all the guys sat in the front and the boss knows they sat with his robe right in front of the bathroom right in the front with the robe open and I try to concentrate on my work I thought it was a hunt or something I kept seeing a sparrow looking around what wasn't easy you know when you got a guy right in the front going on this kid's a funny guy [Laughter] every time you're here once you get going you're like a steam engine you just go faster and faster and faster because I want it to end well it will oh well I know you'd say that and and you told me the last time in school you were a shy guy you weren't you were not an extroverted kid no I was failing every subject in the world you know what but I was the glass clown you know president of school the president of the of the high school found out I was failing every subject grabbed his chest and told me to take a cab lucky World War II came because I'd still be in high school as soon as they said would you like to join up I was overseas already and I kept saying to the Japanese I have nothing against you I do comedy I do jokes and the guy keeps saying keep far another guys with funny teeth I said you don't understand I'm not I love I buy all that don't do that but they didn't listen were you funny as a kid oh sure it's a riot and where did you get your stuff like when we were in school the funny kids which would watch Milton burrow the night before or they'd watch Comedy on television Jackie Gleason and they would come in and do those routines in lunch Hall where did you get funny stuff well I think for my folks my father was a wisecracker and he was a good guy and he left my my mother didn't have my kind of sense of humor you know she was sort of a Jew Patton she just sat in the kitchen with a helmet going get in here and my father sat in his underwear in the living room going it's a nice family but no I'm kidding my father was a classy guy but uh we we uh you know I I inherited that I just I was always that way I used to make fun of my grandmother make fun of people bump people are sick I made fun of death I made fun of everything I make fun of this show because it is a funny show you know well not we're not the funniest show in town now but oh you took a guess but we are the biggest jokes yeah it's a good joke and the high school plays that you did that was was that your entree to performing before no no way before that way before that when I was a kid I used to you know I used to run I was the kind of guy and you know with I was the one that always went to the the synagogue dances the church dances and not too many Church dances but I went to the synagogue dances a lot I didn't go to the churches because they're all playing bingo you know yeah but whenever I went I I was always the guy that got everybody laughing but never got the girl you know I was always driving the car and they were in the backseat having a luau get on them and I never got a shot at it you know what I mean so I was always the funny guy that never got the girl but I used to go to the dance and they'd send me they'd we'd all go in and to get attention and this took and I was basically a shy guy I get up on a table or a chair and go can I stand up sure can I get up on a chair I swear to God get up on a chair and everybody's dancing while I'm dancing I go hugging everybody I'm leaving the people people stand he said how's the matter with him that was my way of getting attention and then I struck out again I always wound up with a waitress with a tooth that whistled we we went to to the CYO dancers and it was the same thing there were shy guys and extroverted guys but growing up Catholic we always wondered about stuff about being Catholic why couldn't you have meat on Friday or why did you have to not have water before you went to community did you wonder about things that Jewish kids had to do because of religion ever no I paid no attention I phoned God but we I never had that problem we we were very you you woke up with a nun you know every morning we didn't have that Rabbi just sat there and said how's the family he said hey rabbit there's a couple of hundred don't bother me fantastic that's the way I was raised take your time this is your show don't go to Pieces after after you got hot in the clubs in Sinatra saw you and became a fan and Dean Martin and Sammy Davis yet the producers for television said Rickles is too hot for television and Along Came an appearance on the Johnny Carson show in the 90s Johnny Carson did it he really did and followed by Dean Martin register so Dean later put me on the variety and but Johnny was the first guy in New York said we've got to take a chance with this guy they said take a chance he said no no he's funny I want to but why was there that feeling do you think that that if they took Rickles they were taking a chance well because in those days it was outrageous you know today I could work the Vatican compared to what's going on you know nothing personal I know a sense if you wanted well I'm not sensitive at all forgive me if you have a ring I'd kiss him I have something else well we'll see how this goes anyway this is great you and I are laughing and the people out there in America are going what the hell are they doing uh Debbie in Fort Wayne Indiana hi hi Tom hi Don hi well I was just wondering has anyone in your audience or elsewhere ever been able to out tackle you well the the show is not a contest I mean you don't come to see Don rails go okay Joe get it right you know it's not it's not like that you know what I mean but I don't do that I come out and do my performance and if they Echo I have friends with me who hurt you what his name is Rocco bonjourno the other guy is Aldo gonano Debbie did you have any other questions for Don oh not much else but I just wondered if he's ever been at a loss for words yes once when my father said he was cutting off the money and I had a massive massive massive hi I want to ask you in this age of political crackness do you feel any pressure to turn down your racial humor no no I I do what I do and it's as I said if you last 35 years and more as I have I got to be doing it right otherwise I wouldn't be on Tom Snyder's show I'd be Dickering with somebody big but uh you know in the meantime I'm on this so uh no it's done well for me and I don't even think about Politically Incorrect or correct or what have you I just do my thing and hopefully people like yourself will continue to laugh well I love I love you too dear I'll give you a call okay okay thanks all right good night Christina Radio City was great it was with Frank Sinatra although Frank was on too long I told them that and now I got an ant in the Bronx that I don't I can't find so uh I tell those things to Frank and he's cute he twists my leg and now it's funny you know I call up Jerry Lewis and it's better anyway so uh jump in if you think of anything so I I would dream of it though years ago and I wondered what Red's doing these days red he hasn't been called that since he's a kid was that your son yeah right his my son Larry is a very I'm very happy for him he's a writer now and he's writing scripts and uh hopefully he'll he'll get real lucky with a with a good one he's written some good stuff and uh he's got an agent and he's doing very well and I'm very proud of him well good for well thanks so much and one of them read when he was a kid as he had red red hair I hate that don't be dumb when you hear the Bell go to history I can't believe that why did they call him red I don't cheese because she had blue hair Suzanne I'm glad you called that crew was throwing up on the camera I'll tell red you asked for him dear okay thanks bye-bye you know who was great making bad material look good was Johnny the best yeah remember Johnny well his takes up remember I spoke to him the other night he wanted to borrow so off the air 20 minutes and the man's borrowing the red anyway I could see the casino stay up this late to watch this seat you know he knows you're not going anywhere so uh I used to I used to I used to do that I used to kid around and he was he was the best he'd set you up you know like you do you're great at that time you really are this is straight right you gotta have a guy leads you into things you just can't sit here in a chair and ha ha ha you know like a robot and Johnny was great he knew when to lay back and he knew when to destroy it and that was his gift in life to destroy me may you never have silence in the seats or a Restless audience thanks for being a pal and knock him dead at Carnegie and at the Taj Mahal back in Atlantic City at the end of this month thanks so much and by the way I'll I'm also going to be at the Tropicana in August so if we can go with the calendar that far in advance it's great this crowd can that's right they can't think that far hey Tom may I just say sure I leave you you are a decent human being and a wonderful guy that because over the years you've treated me first car and I appreciate it after all this abuse I'm now you're waiting for a bomb to go I'll tell you that it already I don't like you I've never liked you this show stinks and get off okay do you feel better now Don Rickles is always a very busy man starting tomorrow you'll hear Don's voice in the new animated film Called Quest for Camelot on June 5th he appears in a brand new motion picture called Dirty Work and he'll be headlining hares Reno May 21st through May 24th and it's always a pleasure to welcome down to CBS and thanks for coming over especially tonight because this is strictly between you and me you can say anything you want tonight and nobody will nobody will know I don't think that you really don't I think I'm important and you're certainly employees I am I mean the world doesn't get off Jerry Seinfeld is wonderful the show is wonderful but I know a few people that say I don't want to watch that yeah I mean and those that watch us will fall in love with us because you and I are totally Dynamite adorable adorable hello America I mean don't worry about it I wanna I wanna call you Grandpa Donnie you're going to be a grandpa aren't you yeah I do and all I wear when my daughter told me I said if the kid gets one spot on the pants I walk that is my biggest worry that the kid's going to go dad Grandpa you know I've had a granddaughter for eight years now and you're in for the greatest treat of your life they tell me that oh it's meanwhile I took eight Valium and I'm laying down when did you get the news well she called and uh I I had a hint about it but we didn't know for sure it all happened she uh she uh she she told her mother but most most of the mother of course and my wife said don't thank but Mindy is and I thought Mindy had a twitch well she did yeah well her husband had you know he made a move One Night in Bangkok anyway so now uh it came back to me I don't know exactly how it happened but I knew and it's funny I didn't react the way I thought I'd react you know a lot of people come up to me they go hey Don you're going to be a grandpa and you know Tom and I and I love my daughter she's a wonderful kid but I wasn't like I was like yeah great in other words I it hasn't really sunk in right still the kids in the room with a spoon going you know and the farina's on the pants when that little kid boy or girl smiles at you the first time you will melt like butter in a frying pan oh they are so dead and the great money I got to come up here yeah but the great thing about the grand plan good you got it huh yeah yeah we always check before people come on yeah and the great thing about a grandchild is when you absolutely can't stand the kid anymore with the butter on the pants or whatever you say to her mother your daughter get her out of here should take her home and you and Barbara have a nice day now all said and done it and I got late married late in life and I was 38 you know hunting searching you know I felt like I was on Safari you know and I kept wandering around with you know little girl and finally I met my wonderful wife so I was 38 years old so now to be a grandfather at this stage of life you know it's it's a bonus it's a grateful it really is you know we were in New York doing the show a couple of weeks ago and I all of us have favorites there all of us who went back have favorite places to go to eat and to drink and whatever what were your favorites when you lived and worked in New York which I think you know Tom because you're around those days Danny's Hideaway that was the place where Danny took care of all the actors all actors I mean you come he used to come to the Copa when I worked in the Copacabana and he used to bring a table for every actor your opening night all 20 30 people and sit right in the front and you say good evening ah terrific and Danny's Hideaway always comp the check and I wasn't looking for that but in those days he was the most gracious host and Danny's Hideaway was the was was New York that was fun it was New York uh late night you know supper that's the absolutely and you and Barbara were married in New York were you not no we're married in Brooklyn and it was my my manager at the time was a fellow called Joe scandori Mr Saul and he we had this wedding in Brooklyn and we had all Italians on one side and all the Jews on the other many times come up with uh bags of money and the Jews came up with a tie and so uh it was a wonderful Arrangement and I couldn't say anything because I didn't want to start my car and have a problem yeah so and in those days they all came to the wedding and went oh we should look they all talked like they were horse yeah I don't know why you know gunpowder was slipping over the lips but I pretended everything was normal yeah but I had all those kind of guys you mentioned the name and I know this man uh when he worked with you Joe scandori he rest his soul he'd always say you know Donna be happy to come on oh you have that high-pitched voice he was such a cute guy he's an Italian puppet how did you find him huh how did you find Joe sandor your manager I was doing a bank robbery no I found it he saw me a long time ago at a place called The Elegant now my manager is Elliot Weissman who was a good friend of Joe's and when I do that all the time how are you sweetheart and he falls on the floor and that's what Joe talked as you did you know Joe is known for that yeah he was a quite a man but uh Ellie Weissman now is my manager and we're very happy and uh I missed Joe was great sense of humor yeah he was a funny funny guy now when you played the Copa who was in the house what kind of a crowd would come in there when you played the Copa vacuum you hear Joey Gallo yeah oh yeah yeah fold it down huh my mother rested so she was great Joey Gallo one night said come on sit with us and we sat down at the table and there were guns around you know those days gone and I said to my mind to my mother I said these guys got guns she said they're wonderful people these are the people that are going to make you a star a stop stop did you do it yeah my wife does that they all do that oh Jewish women do that they're tasting chopped liver while they're talking so ah dress up huh anyway guys sitting there with a moose shirt and a dead deer on his lap anyway so uh uh these guys were great and those guys it was I don't want to use the word mob you know like you saw that movie the other night you know that yeah the one on about daddy and all but hey a lot of in my day those men were terrific to me they I don't mean Gotti in a sense but the whole atmosphere those are the guys ran the clubs and they were such gentlemen they really were gentertainers and Sinatra will be the first one to set it yeah and poor Frank in those days you know they used to pick on him because he would be this guy with that guy like but those are the fellas that were in the nightclubs they ran the club yeah exactly right and Jules popped arrested so he was the best nightclub owner you remember sure and he used to sit there and go hey and I pretended like I understood him oh and I went home at night and said throw it you wanna owl and she went she went we didn't need that time I did it very funny but we didn't need it just do you do best interview me and shout out okay okay wait now I'm gonna I'm gonna be in heat tonight she's gonna later and go find your own dinosaur ah he's hot tonight Don Rick you're worried about Seinfeld hey he's got six billion dollars he's sitting in New York chasing that that young girl and that's it yeah exactly don't worry about it we're here and we're hot right Don Rickles will be at Harrah's in Reno on May the 21st and by the way yes touring all summer with Joan Rivers during all summer with the one the only she's the greatest showman right now she opened for you is that we don't have that open for we we share the the building and so forth some nights I open some nights she opens and some we we alternate you know and and she's great because she's got a wonderful life she's got a lot of jewelry tons of money and there's no problem I just keep running after a car saying drop something on the highway just grab a few bucks she's a wonderful girl uh with Don Rickles here's our friend Mindy in Levittown Pennsylvania hi Mindy and welcome to CBS Late Night hi hi Mindy hi Don hi Mindy I got my daughter's name but she has your name Mindy um well how old is she 75. why are you from immigration what is the matter no she said was older um I actually um I wanted to ask you uh how did you have a good time on your honeymoon why did you hear something I mean yeah well they did and then I rolled over a couple of times but I had a good time my wife when I made love to her on the wedding night she was we always make up different things even when you're married a long time you just can't make love one two three the other night she was a barge in the Mississippi and I was the captain hit on a dock [Music] um uh do you remember can you hear me snap out of it huh no okay go ahead do you remember Lou Krause from the Latin Casino yes I do yeah the orchestra leader right right when he passed away in 85 I know that I called your wife I was the one that had the call and tell me well it was a great moment for me he was a great man he was Lou was the best this is the old Latin Casino in Cherry Hill New York that's right right Dave dushoff Dave Duchamp we stabbed a little hand curled up yeah he had played in a big band before that and I know that but I'm about Ralph Edwards no it's just that you were very nice back then when that happened tonight all these years like wanted to be able to say thank you wow that's very sweet yeah thank you Mindy thanks for calling and thanks for watching oh you you're welcome and this has really been a minute now your dream came true I know are you you and John river is going to be appearing in Atlantic City or anything not Atlantic City she don't like the water oh okay well anywhere like within well we'll be around the country you'll find us look for the sign okay all right good night Mindy and thanks for calling and Happy Mother's Day Mindy thank you mother that doesn't make it oh yes you are bye-bye it's such a thing she'll take up the whole show talk to me here about a guy that I've heard stories about Lee Marvin you know well I've heard from a fellow who does publicity here in town Lee was a great actor and Lee had a problem with booze he always did but this is common knowledge but he was a marvelous guy when he was straight you know it's like Jacqueline Hyde you know yeah so we're sitting in Danny's side I don't know who told you about that we were sitting in Danny I'll tell you who after that I'll tell you it's a public publicist here in town named Jim Mahoney who used to work with uh with uh with Lee Marvin Jim I know well yeah he's still running after Frank's Car Sinatra's car Wait Wait a prank anyway uh James sits around he's very Irish misses his mouth when he drinks anyway so uh he is spilled more than we've yeah that's right and he's got about 25 kids all right when he's sober he died bombs instead of wife anyway so uh Lima we're in Danny's Hideaway one night and it's after the Copa show third show on those days you did three shows that's about 2 30 in the morning and my wife God bless it is an absolute value I mean she is she's a controlled woman she is terrific and we're sitting in the restroom and behind me at another table is Lee Marvin the place is called Danny has the doors closed and I'm saying to Danny I said I don't have the salad I'm gonna have him feel impossible and we're reading and Barbara says listen behind you slim off and don't turn around because I think he's feeling good don't say nothing and I go so what what is it what does that mean s and I hear behind me yeah and I said what what is he doing oh yes well he was a Marine walked around with a band that in his pants anyway so he was doing yeah and I was sitting there going I said just relax sweetheart I'm in charge there's no problem she said he looks a little treacherous this could be a problem with that he comes over to the table and as you and I are leaning over and he sits down and I know Leo long time he sits down he goes um [Laughter] what is wrong with you I said this man was out of control she said what are we going to do she said don't worry I said I have a butter knife under the table lift off a bit he gets crazy I got him covered with that she said are you really relaxed now this is after five minutes of conversation I said yes she said well I don't know how to tell you this are you enjoying your spinach I said absolutely she said well you've been eating his cigarettes put him into the spinach and I'm gone [Laughter] I ate seven pounds of tobacco that's a true story we have all seen you with Johnny Carson over the years but talk to me here about the time when you and Carson uh were both playing I believe Harris and Sarah the Sahara in Las Vegas and he was playing one room and you were playing the other at that time did you ever bump into him when you yeah not not on television you know he used to sit down at the end of the bar on my last show at three in the morning and my joke is you know I make fun of people there's a there's a black gentleman sitting there and that black gentleman Bubba and Carson would get up from the barn go where where where's the black gentleman show me where the black gentleman is I was making it up there was no black gentleman and I'd say the Italian guy where so many Italian Guys and he would do that because he liked to you know in those days hit the ginger ale pretty good yeah Johnny enjoyed a cocktail now really anyway I know once my house wasn't there anyway but he he was he was a wonderful artist as we all know oh sure and he loved to have fun he really did we used to hang out and I was very flattered because he used to come and see me and um like five in the morning we had shows in those days five in the morning and he would come and sit at the end of the bar you know and really give me the Jazz but he was fun he was always fun of all the people you've been on the air with you know as a guest would he be your favorite host did he treat you the best well In fairness to to David who I adore let him in and Jay of course Jordan Larry King all the all the talk guys and of course you you know no you know the two things I like best about Larry King his face [Laughter] I said that to a black guy once he said that's a sailboat anyway uh anyway uh now don't send me letters no that's a joke that's for God's sake anybody with any brains knows that I know so I I uh I must say that the uh the thing about Carson he had a you know there was only one Carson of course but Johnny had a because I was on with him he always left it open so he always left the space so that you could be funny always left that space yeah and it always made you look good he was never out to tap you it's not going to make you look good as David who I adore the Letterman you know and and but they're different apples and oranges of course it's a different world now yeah or with Don Rickles we'll be in a quest for uh Camelot uh as a as a voice then Dirty Work opens on the 5th of June in the meantime uh Don and Joan Rivers will be at uh Harrah's and Reno on May the 25th no Joan Rivers won't be mean Joan Rivers will not be but she'll be touring with me around the country I'll be at Harrah's By My Side by yourself right sitting in the room with peanuts trying to hit the maid you certainly have a varied schedule don't you oh yeah I want to sit here every night and talk to the lamps like you do you know but you hey that's why you you're going to think oh by the way good luck I understand you're leaving for about six years good luck I just want to be the first to say bye-bye back with Don and you on the toll free as time permits after this brief timeout you're on the air hello hi Tom hi Mr Rickles how are you tonight hi to you um I understand you've visited the White House several times um what is your favorite memory about that well I think the White House itself was with the George and Barbara Bush the president was wonderful to me I was there with Ronald Reagan and I had that pleasure and uh and then I did the inaugural with Sinatra for Ronald Reagan which was wonderful but the White House itself I was they invited me to be for for the Israeli Embassy to come to a dinner but unfortunately we couldn't make it at that time so I wound up with the uh with the Tunisia delegation and they all came with sheets and rifles a dumbbell I wore my armband so uh it was kind of hectic but uh that was an exciting time and I leaned over to Mrs Bush and said I think I could get knocked off don't be ridiculous I said well there's one guy's staring at me anyway so it's fun though it's a great treat to be at the White House and all the guys next to me kept going as they were laying there on the floor they threw sand on the floor so they'd relax he liked it a lot too oh I'm sure he did we've actually met really Rickles tonight yes I have a family yeah see what my name was you're on stage one night oh really you said that my parents must have wanted to make me feel miserable rest of my life and give me a weird name it was very funny yeah thank you and I enjoyed you very much and Tom we're going to miss you a whole lot thanks Taylor thank you all right bye-bye now be in touch what about when you work with Donald Sutherland was it Kelly's hero Kelly which has become a culture yeah Eastwood was in that picture yeah who I carried and uh Telly Savalas he was oh he was a special guy love to play games he always had the cape and he's always with the broads yeah that's your Telly that's what he's saying and Clint was great you know Clint's idea of a tip was a picture of himself yeah he said do you want do you want it good luck Clint or just but he was made and I said I want to live the way when I went there I never forget it we went over to Yugoslavia my wife and I and my my daughter Mindy who now is going to have the babies babies little little tiny thing and we went over and he said they said what do you want though I said well MGM I said I like to live the way Clint Eastwood lives he's the star of the movie did I know Clint Eastwood to him Heaven is a pickup truck and a dog you know what I'm saying I know what a hunting rifle and you know yeah we lived in a in a shack I had I had a move I said what is this Clinton said isn't this great look at look what I got and he had like a like a closet but the dead Beaver on the wall you know to him that's Heaven you know you you told you told me earlier and we all know you got married late in life 38 39 years old yeah uh did you uh put the covers over my head a lot alone at night well no I was going to say you know Letterman used a line the other night with Warren Beatty that baby gave a whole new meaning to the word single how were you single were you active with the ladies did you no I you know they all felt sorry for me I was certainly wasn't a lover look at me I was never a lover I understand but there's such a thing there's such a thing as Mercy you know I didn't need that we were doing fine until you opened up that Irish mouth with the mercy thing and that's a kick you're going to pay for that too but I gotta tell you I know I was I was the kind of guy even as a young man when I was a young man women were afraid of me I mean girls even had to write out of high school and then on to it when I was a serviceman when I was in the Navy as a young sailor they were all afraid because I was always doing the jokes they said we make love with this guy he's gonna you know uh he did it you know and I really just for my insecurities that's what kept me going to be the class clown so to speak even in the American Academy even in movies or wherever I work I always think there's there's a good time to throw in a few laughs I mean you know and so that's what I did so women used to step back my best to your family sir thank you very much I hope that your grandchild is a joy to you and I hope to see you [Music] let's see

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Published: Sun Aug 27 2023