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Don Rickles: Now there is a name that evokes emotion!!! This man has the sharpest (biting, harsh) humor I have ever heard!!! He was big in show business when I was quite young and the attached video shows him "roasting" Jerry Lewis. No one is real life could get away with talking like Don and although most of the video is vitriolic in nature, yet at the very end, he goes beyond the "comedy" and says what he really feels. I am reminded of this passage from the book of proverbs...
Proverbs 27
21 The crucible is for silver,
and the furnace for gold;
but man is refined by his praise.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
and the furnace for gold;
but man is refined by his praise.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain,
yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.
Jerry Lewis is a great man; his telethons have helped untold millions of suffering children. Does he deserve this "praise"? For that matter, does Don Rickles deserve to be on the same stage as him? Good question! All I know is that a person should say what they mean or nothing at all. Perhaps the last few seconds of the video are the only thing worth watching... you be the judge!