LOS ANGELES -- Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, ...

Rodney Dangerfield used to do this bit about death: "I get no respect. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said: 'There goes the neighborhood.'" That was Rodney. He could make himself the punch line ...

''When you saw Rodney on 'The Tonight Show' sitting on the couch with Johnny Carson, you didn't want it to go to commercial," comic Bernie Mac said in a statement. ''He always left you wanting more ...