{"id":1627,"date":"2023-05-08T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2023-05-08T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T08:46:02","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-don-rickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/05\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-don-rickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Don Rickles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">May 8, 1926 \u2013 April 6, 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;Mr. Warmth,&#8221; Donald Jay Rickles, was one of the most respected talents in entertainment and widely regarded as being one of the best insult comics of all time. In addition to becoming a mainstay of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts specials, Mr. Rickles made numerous guest appearances on many well known television series such as; The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Gilligan&#8217;s Island, Get Smart, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show and I Dream of Jeannie. Many of us may remember his roles in such films as John Landis&#8217; horror crime comedy Innocent Blood, or Martin Scorsese&#8217;s crime epic Casino; while younger fans will surely remember his recurring role as Mr. Potato Head in Pixar&#8217;s Toy Story films. But it was Mr. Rickles&#8217; role as the carnival barker, Crane, in the 1963 film directed by Roger Corman \u2013 X: THE MAN WITH X-RAY EYES that secures his status among the esteemed CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1628\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Don Rickles \u2022 May 8, 1926 \u2013 April 6, 2017\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 8, 1926 \u2013 April 6, 2017 &#8220;Mr. Warmth,&#8221; Donald Jay Rickles, was one of the most respected talents in entertainment and widely regarded as being one of the best insult comics of all time. In addition to becoming a mainstay of The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts specials, Mr. Rickles made numerous guest appearances on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,15,7,496,5,6,495,32],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-comedian","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-donrickles","tag-happybirthday"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Don-Rickles_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}