{"id":119136,"date":"2017-04-06T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119136"},"modified":"2017-04-06T16:19:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:19:02","slug":"mr-warmth-don-rickles-passes-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119136","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mr. Warmth,&#8221; Don Rickles passes, 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119147\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rickleswalkoffame-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rickleswalkoffame-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rickleswalkoffame-96x175.jpg 96w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Rickleswalkoffame.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>(Yahoo!)\u00a0 Legendary comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/celebrity\/don-rickles-legendary-insult-comic-dies-90-180015513.html\">Don Rickles died Thursday morning<\/a> at his home in Los Angeles from kidney failure. He was 90. Revered as the king of the insult comics, \u201cMr. Warmth,\u201d as he was sarcastically nicknamed, was beloved by Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"_oneup\">He headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. N.J., and appeared often on late-night TV talk shows, in addition to having his own T.V. shows.\u00a0 He also voiced the Mr. Potato Head character in \u201cToy Story\u201d animated features.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, he won an Emmy for best individual performance in a variety show for the Landis film &#8220;Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project.&#8221; At the ceremony, he joked: &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in this business for 55 years and the biggest award I got was an ashtray from the Friars in New York.&#8221; The Friars gave him a nice statuette in 2013 when they presented him a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Yahoo!)\u00a0 Legendary comedian Don Rickles died Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles from kidney failure. He was 90. Revered as the king of the insult comics, \u201cMr. Warmth,\u201d as he was sarcastically nicknamed, was beloved by Hollywood. He headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119136"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119160,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119136\/revisions\/119160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}