ALAN KING: INSIDE THE COMEDY MIND: DON RICKLES (TV)
Summary
One in this series of talk shows in which host Alan King chats with professionals about the art of comedy. In this edition, King's guest is comedian/actor Don Rickles, who discusses the following topics, among others: the similarities between his and King's upbringing and how their friendship has lasted through the years; how Rickles began doing comedy and what he thinks comedy is really all about; his twenty-five-year marriage and how it has lasted through all the jokes; the acting classes he participated in and the fame that all of his classmates went on to achieve; the relationship he has with Bob Newhart and how they have gotten along so well. As the interview is ending, King reads a quotation from Orson Welles about Rickles. Includes clips from "The Kraft Music Hall - 1968." Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: Comedy Central
- DATE: November 30, 1989
- RUNNING TIME: 0:23:45
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:29695
- GENRE: Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Biography; Comedy; Marriage
- SERIES RUN: Comedy Central - TV series, 1990-1993
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Alan King … Executive Producer, Host, Interviewer
- Kiki Kazanas Steele … Supervising Producer
- Tom Werts … Producer, Director
- Uptown Horns, The … Theme Music by
- Don Rickles … Guest
- Anne Bancroft
- Johnny Carson
- Tony Curtis
- Clint Eastwood
- Bob Hope
- Kelly, Grace (See also: Grace, Princess of Monaco)
- Bob Newhart
- Carol O'Connor
- Robards, Jason (See also: Robards, Jason, Jr.)
- Telly Savalas
- Frank Sinatra
- Donald Sutherland
- Orson Welles