Mr Warmth The Don Rickles...

Mr Warmth The Don Rickles Project

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project is a John Landis directed documentary about the life and work of Don Rickles. As the director traces Rickles career, celebrities interject with their experiences working with or being skewered by him. The program was nominated for an Emmy Award.

Fast Facts

First aired: December 2, 2008
Network: HBO
Director: John Landis

Celebrity Appearances

Review

"While Rickles seems to mock ethnicity, body type, weight, age and all the other stuff that we're not supposed to make fun of, he's actually defusing all of those things. And once they're deflated by humor, they lose, at least for a moment, their potency."—The San Francisco Gate²