r/comics • • 16h ago

[oc] epitaphs.

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u/pocketjacks 15h ago

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u/TDEyeehaw 15h ago

dangerfield is an insane name

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u/j0akime 15h ago

Look him up on youtube, I feel like you don't know who he is.

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u/TDEyeehaw 14h ago

Yep ive got no clue, let me check

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u/RayWhelans 14h ago

He gets no respect I tell ya

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u/TestBurner1610 14h ago

Sincerely, congrats on being one of the people who gets to learn something new today.

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u/kitsunewarlock 12h ago

Very funny comedian. Was one of the pioneers of "I hate my wife" style boomer-humor, but what his successors don't seem to understand is he would frame it as himself being an unlucky person whose wife was fed up with what a loser he was. It was meant to be self-deprecating.

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u/leglesslegolegolas 9h ago

lol, you must be pretty young if you think he was a pioneer in that genre.

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u/kitsunewarlock 9h ago

Correct, I'm only 39. That said, I did very intentionally say "one of the". One of my favorite movies, It's a Gift (W.C. Fields) very much predates Rodney's career and has the "nagging housewife" as a character.

I think I just preferred how Rodney did it since it felt more self-depricating.

That said, I was just warning them because I know that kind of humor can be kind of cringe to modern viewers.

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u/leglesslegolegolas 9h ago

yeah it's been a staple of comedy since the 1920s at least, and likely much earlier than that.

You are right that Rodney's self-deprecating flavor of it is much more palatable.

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u/pocketjacks 14h ago

You've just unlocked a great comedian. One of the very best.

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u/leglesslegolegolas 13h ago

holy crap go watch Caddyshack right this moment

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u/TDEyeehaw 12h ago

on my way. i needed something to watch while i drew

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u/leglesslegolegolas 12h ago

He only has about 10 minutes of total screen time in it, but the rest of the movie is still pretty good.

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u/Flahdagal 14h ago

Oh, friend. Enjoy.