LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Services honoring Frank Sinatra will begin Tuesday in Los Angeles, as the entertainment world pays its last respects to the kid from Hoboken who became an American icon. A private ...

Before Comedy Central's celebrity roasts, before American Idol's Simon Cowell, before Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, one man abused people on TV and in clubs like no other. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

Rickles took his first step toward national fame in 1957 when Frank Sinatra wandered into the small Hollywood nightclub where Rickles was performing. The still-unknown Rickles eyed Sinatra and said, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - There's a secret to the success of 81-year-old insult comedian and beloved American institution Don Rickles -- he cannot tell a joke. Sign up here. He's a comedian famed for ...