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16 Aug 2017 Conversations with Tyler Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
“I think he’s much funnier. Someone who just passed away, I was watching him on YouTube recently, Don Rickles.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 16 Aug 2017
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…Yeah, I think Abbott is funnier. I think he’s much funnier. Someone who just passed away, I was watching him on YouTube recently, Don Rickles. Don Rickles was a funny man. One of the things I liked about him, I’d say, he was a little out of control. I know that was contrived, but I think, at least early in his career, it was pretty real. You see some of the older performances, he says things sometimes on the old Tonight Shows that everybody’s just dying, and then you realize none of them really knows exactly why that was so funny. It was just that he said something that nobody would have thought to say.…
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