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Roasts Don Rickles

Bob Newhart Roasts Don Rickles — a classic television roast performance.

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Bob Newhart Roasts Don Rickles

Bob Newhart brings his famously low-key, deadpan delivery to a roast of Don Rickles, the loudest insult comic in the business. The contrast is the joke: the quiet, stammering everyman calmly taking apart his longtime real-life friend, who spent a career attacking everyone else at full volume.