Custom Clothes: Don Rickles (Guest Host)

Sunday 19 August 2012

Don Rickles (Guest Host)

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American stand-up comedian andactor. A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic.Rickles was born in the New York City borough of Queens to Max Rickles, who had emigrated in 1902 with his parents Joseph and Frances Rickles (Rikhters) from Kaunas,Lithuania (then in the Russian Empire), and Etta (Feldman) Rickles, born in New York to immigrant parents from the Austrian Empire.His family was Jewish and spokeYiddish at home. Rickles grew up in the Jackson Heights area.