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 ...

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, ...

Rodney Dangerfield used to do this bit about death: "I get no respect. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said: 'There goes the neighborhood.'" That was Rodney. He could make himself the punch line ...