Top Songs
- What's In a Name · 1990
- What's In a Name · 1990
- 20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection: The Best of Rodney Dangerfield · 2005
- What's In a Name · 1990
- No Respect · 1980
- What's In a Name · 1990
- What's In a Name · 1990
- What's In a Name · 1990
- No Respect · 1980
- What's In a Name · 1990
- 20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection: The Best of Rodney Dangerfield · 2005
- What's In a Name · 1990
- What's In a Name · 1990
Essential Albums
- A comedian achieving stardom in his late 50s is rare, yet that’s exactly what happened to the late, great Rodney Dangerfield. No Respect, released in 1980, perfectly captures the frazzled brilliance of a lovable loser who spent decades toiling away in miserable obscurity. From the opening bit—“No respect at all: When I was a baby, I was breast-fed by my father!”—Dangerfield drives home the point that his humiliation is life’s ultimate punch line. It's self-deprecation as an art form, and it’s hilarious.
Albums
- 1990
- 1983
- 1980
About Rodney Dangerfield
Though he began writing jokes in his teens, Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen in 1921) abandoned comedy for years, and didn't return to hit his stride as a performer until he was in his 40s and assumed the Dangerfield name and persona. In 1969 he opened a comedy club, Dangerfield's, in Manhattan that would serve as a venue for many young comics. His self-effacing "I don't get no respect" routine proved enormously successful, leading to a string of hit comedy films. He appeared on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 70 times, and played a role in Oliver Stone's NATURAL BORN KILLERS. He died in 2004 of complications from brain surgery.
- HOMETOWN
- Babylon, NY, United States
- BORN
- November 22, 1921
- GENRE
- Comedy