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...sipping a modest martini, Rodney Dangerfield mused over his tumultuous climb to the pinnacle of comic prowess...
...Dangerfield, I've, uh, always been one of your biggest fans, ever since you winked your first bloodshot eye in the general direction of a network camera. When I found out that you had been named Harvard's 1978 Class Day Speaker, I felt it was my solemn duty to immediately make the pilgrimage down to New York to your prestigious East Side night club so I could catch your act in person and offer my personal congratulations...
...POPPING over the top of the Brooklyn Bridge as Dangerfield finally finished his supplementary performance...
...something I've never had before, and that's Respect. It'll be the largest crowd I've ever played for without an Italian mouse waiting in the wings. This could be my big break. Imagine--a whole new persona. I can see it now: I get Respect! Rodney Dangerfield--the nebbish with the Harvard education! The Boston Globe offered to do a story on me, but they said something about not wanting to put me "In This Corner" because I'm supposed to stay away from sharp objects...
...Dangerfield said he feels he has "been shown some respect already" by being asked to speak at Harvard...