Entries from LAist tagged with 'rodneydangerfield'
March 6, 2008
Bob Saget will perform at 4th & B in San Diego on March 7, The Grove of Anaheim on March 8 and The Joint at The Hard Rock in Vegas on March 21 as part of his national theater tour and we're lucky to have another chance at him. Bob Saget is known to most people for all the wrong reasons.The cookie-cutter personas of "Full House"'s Danny Tanner and the "America's Funniest Home Videos" host......
Continue Reading "The LAist Bob Saget Interview - Saget to Appear in Anaheim, March 8th"June 14, 2007
Howard Stern's former head writer, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling, famous for paying Rodney Dangerfield in jokes, and infamous for giving Artie Lange all the fame that will probably kill him, has not only returned to the airwaves via Sirius, but is returning in the flesh this weekend when he brings his raunchy jokes to the Canyon on Saturday. LAist was lucky enough to score an email interview with one of our all-time favorite......
Continue Reading "Jackie Martling coming to The Canyon on Saturday"December 17, 2006
Veteran shoegazers the black watch harken back the guitar heavy likes of Swervedriver and Ride. Frontman John Andrew Fredrick, who received his PH.D. in English at UCSB during the rise of college rock, has been known to teach occasionally at Santa Monica College. He was nice enough to put together a list of random coolnesses of 2006. If you still haven't gotten anything for that hard-to-buy-for hipster on your shopping list, you might want to......
Continue Reading "Top 10 Random for 2006 by John Andrew Fredrick"October 13, 2004
Hollywood Walk of Fame star plaques are good for something other than a promo opportunity for a recipient's latest project. The shiny nameplates also serve as impromptu memorials for grieving fans or loci to show support for a beloved icon (as in the vigil for Michael Jackson pictured to the left). Stephen Saban at the WOW Report blogs that fans have deposited tokens of condolences on the stars of Rodney Dangerfield and Christopher Reeve.......
Continue Reading "Stars of Solace"October 5, 2004
Rodney Dangerfield died at UCLA today after falling into a coma subsequent to undergoing heart surgery. CNN reports, "Dangerfield suffered a small stroke after the operation and developed infectious and abdominal complications. But in the past week he had emerged from the coma, the [Dangerfield's] publicist said. "Best known for milking a public persona as the chronic underdog, Dangerfield was a late-bloomer who returned to comedy in his forties, after a 20 year break.......
Continue Reading "Saying Good Bye to Rodney Dangerfield"