Word: dangerfields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stand-up hasn't even been dented yet. I was so tremendously inspired by Lenny Bruce and Jonathan Winters. That combination, to me--and a little bit of Rodney Dangerfield--that combination is the consummate...
...Dangerfield's is a name that pops up a lot in Klein's conversation. The pair worked together during the fledgling days of the Improvisation club in New York. "Rodney helped me a lot," Klein says, affectionately. Another familiar name from the Improv days is Richard Pryor; despite their considerably different backgrounds, Klein says the two shared a similar comedic sensibility and perspective on life...
...print classics like Mind over Matter and Child of the Fifties and, upcoming, an all music and song collection for Casablanca (to be followed by more comedy discs). He is oft-seen on television: HBO shows, Johnny Carson, and two NBC specials this fall, with guests Rodney Dangerfield, Jane Curtin, Judd Hirsch and the Charlie Daniels Band. And he is not unknown in movies either: The Landlord, Hooper and the in-progress animated film The Last Unicorn. Klein's also got some of his own film projects and scripts on the burner...
...husband, a horny, gray-haired fool, paws her constantly and, on their wedding night, cajoles her into making love on the bathroom floor. At the exact moment of his premature ejaculation, he has a heart attack and dies on top of Judy. It's like visualizing a bad Rodney Dangerfield joke and recognizing its ugly failure...
...also put together a new act and got a taste for a new life. Says Dangerfield: "I asked the club owner not to put my name in the paper, to make up another name. When he came up with Rodney Dangerfield I thought he was crazy, but I was depressed enough to go along with it. I figured, if you're gonna change your name you might as well change it." By 1967, he crashed the Sullivan Show, and by 1969 he had enough mileage behind him to settle down and open a club, from which he has been...