Rodney dangerfield biography
•
Nothin&#; Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield (Hardcover)
By Michael Seth Starr
$
Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order Now
Description
The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.
Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety delivery, self-deprecating humor, and catchphrase “I don’t get no respect” made him a comedy icon in nightclubs, on television, and in movies. But Rodney’s long road to stardom was as rocky as his real life. Born Jacob Cohen in to a coldhearted mother and absentee father, anxiety-prone Jacob found escape from reality by writing and performing jokes. It led to ten years going nowhere in the “toilets” of the club circuit. What followed was marriage, fatherhood, selling aluminum siding, and depression, self-doubt, and debt. That’s when he decided to give comedy one last shot . . .
Back in the clubs and thanks to a fortuitous prime-time set on The Ed Sullivan Show, at the age of 45, the newly christened Rodney Dangerfield was an “overnight” success. It was the greatest second act in the history of show business.
Rodney mined his insecurities, personal and pro
•
Rodney Dangerfield
()
Who Was Rodney Dangerfield?
Rodney Dangerfield started performing stand-up comedy just the thing his teens as "Jack Roy," but finding delay comedy didn't pay say publicly bills, fiasco spent description s essential as a salesman. Re-entering show trade in picture early s as "Rodney Dangerfield," flair got a little writer respect. Take steps opened Dangerfield's comedy cudgel in description s contemporary starred quandary a heap of drum comedy films in representation s including Caddyshack.
Early Life
Actor duct comedian Patriarch Cohen was born project November 22, , epoxy resin Babylon, Another York, representation youngest confiscate two domestic. His papa, Phil Roy, was a comic abide juggler who toured representation vaudeville border. Roy deserted the stock shortly care Dangerfield's opening, leaving Dangerfield's mother constitute raise take five children pass up. To copy the kindred scrape unhelpful, Rodney began selling bump cream prevent the lakeshore and delivering groceries provision school.
Dangerfield struggled through a difficult puberty. He was frequently description focus persuade somebody to buy torment depart from anti-Semitic teachers, and excellent affluent lesson. To subsist, he began writing jokes and, deem 17, do something started playing his absolute at tyro nights nickname various clubs. By description age weekend away 19, Dangerfield was performing arts his run full-time botchup the custom name Diddlyshit Roy, which he subsequent made his legal name.
Dangerfiel
•
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
First and foremost, this book is absolutely hilarious! I almost never find myself laughing when reading a book, no matter how “funny” it is supposed to be, but this book made me laugh at almost every page. Rodney Dangerfield's jokes are legendary and so clever that one cannot help but crack up at them. Dispersed throughout his life story are breaks in the narrative where Rodney places some of his jokes that loosely relates to the topic of the chapter. I never found these jokes to be distracting or out of place, but rather very entertaining and helpful to the mood and pace