Beloved Comedian’s Biographer Reveals the One Role He Refused—and Why It Was a 'Genius' Move originally appeared on Parade. Rodney Dangerfield may have earned respect from audiences, but his film ...

Author Michael Starr joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about his latest biography, Nothing Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield, the first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most ...

Rodney Dangerfield with Chevy Chase, Brian Doyle-Murray and another dude in 'Caddyshack' Writers often agonize in search of the perfect words — and the last line of a comedy is a moment where they ...

Following the popularity of the 1969 novel “The Godfather,” people spoke of the importance of being treated with respect. At the time, as an introduction to some jokes, Rodney Dangerfield had been ...

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 ...

Rodney Dangerfield used to claim that, all his life, he never got any respect at all. Well, I guess you can call us the exception, because the countless one-liners that the stand-up icon conceived are ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: In the mythos and lore about the comedy boom of the 1980s, one tale told of how nobody could follow Sam Kinison at The Comedy Store. But when Kinison got his big break ...

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, ...

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, ...

''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 ...