# Rodney Dangerfield **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412 "2004-09-22T01:37:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/41 "2004-10-08T14:08:58Z")
“I called up my doctor and told him I’d just taken a whole bottle of sleeping pills. He told me to have a few drinks and get some rest.” Rodney, you’re getting one of “these” from all of us. Rest easy. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/42 "2004-10-08T14:52:59Z")
> [@sqweels](#): > > The other day I had sex with a Chinese chick. An hour later I was horny again. > > I could swear I made up that joke myself, but years later someone told me it was Rodney’s. Perhaps I retained it sub-consciously. Does anyone here remember him saying that? Damn Sqweels, talk about collective consciousness. I thought **I** I had made up that joke years ago. I was so proud of my wit. :::sigh::: It must be like that epsisode of The Partridge Family when uh…danny bonaduce thought he was in the process of writing this great song. He would wake up in the morning and play the melody and David Cassidy said that it was his own song and they fought about it and it turned out that Cassidy was playing it at night while Danny slept and Danny heard it in his dreams and thought he was some somnambulent genius or something. Yep…exactly like that, man. Shoot. Rest in peace Rodney. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/43 "2004-10-08T14:58:10Z")
“Hey, baby. You’re a whole lotta woman. You must have been something before electricity!” “Whoo, the dance of the living dead!” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/44 "2004-10-08T15:02:09Z")
It’s easy to make my wife scream during sex. I just wipe my dick on the curtain. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/45 "2004-10-08T18:52:06Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > [Rodney’s ‘About’ page](http://www.rodney.com/rodney/about/about.asp) features a large obit. It quotes _Teller_! The guy who doesn’t talk! I’d say that’s getting respect… I immediately thought that too. I figured that while it could be considered a very subtle joke from a reporter, that it was so subtle that most wouldn’t bother and that it must be the truth. I did laugh though. Still, Rodney was very cool and very funny. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/46 "2004-10-08T19:29:03Z")
Re Natural Born Killers I thought he was great. IMHO an Oscar worthy perfomance. He just oozed sleaze. Re Teller We’ve discussed this in other threads. Teller does not talk on stage or when performing with Pen Gilette. He does occasionaly speak in interviews (for example promoting a book of cartoons drawn by his father and titled When I’m Dead, All This Will Be Yours). Breaking character to pay tribute to Rodney (I typed Dangerfield first. But that felt funny.) would be a sign of how important the man was to him. “Bring a pitcher of beer every five minutes until some one passes out. Then, bring one every ten.” If ya feel like it, ya can read of my recent encounter with Rodney’s ghost [here.](http://www.livejournal.com/users/doc_cathode/16103.html) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/47 "2004-10-09T02:35:41Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > “I told my doctor I had water on my knee. He gave me a sponge and raised his fee.” > Can you expand on that, Slithy? I never heard that story. I never liked that Roddy McDowell. He had the wee beady eye. Actually, it wasn’t the Screen Actor’s Guild, it was the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. According to CNN: > [@](#): > > In 1995, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences rejected Dangerfield’s application for membership. A letter from Roddy McDowall of the actors branch explained that the comedian had failed to execute “enough of the kinds of roles that allow a performer to demonstrate the mastery of his craft.” > > The ultimate rejection, and Dangerfield played it to the hilt. He had established his own Web site (“I went out and bought an Apple Computer; it had a worm in it”), and his fans used it to express their indignation. The public reaction prompted the academy to reverse itself and offer membership. Dangerfield declined. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2004, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412/48 "2004-10-09T02:37:32Z")
Oops. Left out the [link.](http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/10/05/obit.dangerfield.ap/index.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rodney-dangerfield/265412.md?page=2)