No respect lyrics rodney dangerfield biography

Many labels were hung on Rodney Dangerfield during his long, frenetic heyday as the funniest joke teller in America. His was “the comedy of angst,” or “the comedy of anxiety,” or “the comedy of the loser.” What it really was was the comedy of funny. It was the comedy of laughter. His act wasn’t conceptual or observational or stream-of-consciousness; it was a bunch of jokes.

The jokes tended to be self-deprecating and selfpitying and what they said at heart was “We’re all in this together.” But we’re not all in it together anymore. Rodney Dangerfield died at 82 Tuesday in New York after a long series of illnesses and operations.

“I don’t get no respect” was, of course, his signature line, but to the end he had the respect, and the gratitude, of everybody who ever laughed so hard they cried.

In the ‘70s and ‘80s, Dangerfield’s appearances on “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson” were major television events, whether in college dorms or, who knows, retirement villages. Carson

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