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He influenced everyone from Joan Rivers to Louis C.K.
Don Rickles, the legendary comedian who helped make the art of the insult a full-fledged genre, died Thursday at the age of 90. Rickles' cause of death was kidney failure, according to The Hollywood Reporter; he died in his Los Angeles home.
"Mr. Warmth," as he was ironically called, built his persona on hurling quick-witted insults -- a shtick he developed in comedy clubs over the years before meeting Frank Sinatra, who helped propelled his career forward. Not long after his first Las Vegas in 1959, he became a fixture on TV shows, including The Tonight Show, where he was a frequent guest of Johnny Carson, as well as classics such as The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Twilight Zone, I Dream of Jeannie and many more.
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