He was born Jacob Cohen on Nov. 22, 1921, in Babylon, N.Y. He began writing jokes as a teenager. Under the stage name Jack Roy, he went on the road with his stand-up act, even doing a stint as a ...

LOS ANGELES -- Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, ...

He stands alone on a bare stage with only a spotlight as his companion, a disheveled, overweight, bug-eyed, dour-faced clown with a furrowed brow who constantly fidgets with the knot on his trademark ...