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 ...

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 ...

He stands alone on a bare stage with only a spotlight as his companion, a disheveled, overweight, bug-eyed, dour-faced clown with a furrowed brow who constantly fidgets with the knot on his trademark ...

If there’s one thing people know about Rodney Dangerfield, it’s that he never received any admiration, regard or esteem. Dangerfield’s signature catchphrase about getting “no respect” from anyone was, ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – For six weeks in the fall of 1982, Staten Island got no respect. That’s because bug-eyed, necktie-tugging stand-up comic Rodney Dangerfield was filming scenes from his new movie, ...

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 ...