Comedian Don Rickles dead at 90 – Mr Potato Head

LEGENDARY insult comic Don Rickles, who earned a whole new generation of fans as Mr Potato Head in Toy Story, has died aged 90.

The 90-year-old icon had been in failing health and recently cancelled a May 6 show at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa.

The cause of death was kidney failure, his publicist said.

The salty-tongued funnyman was a favourite on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Late Show with David Letterman.

But young fans also knew him as Mr. Potato Head on Toy Story.

For more than half a century, Rickles headlined casinos and nightclubs from Las Vegas to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and livened up late-night talk shows.

No one was exempt from Rickles’ insults, not fans or presidents or such fellow celebrities as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Johnny Carson.

Source: Comedian Don Rickles dead at 90 | Perth Now