RIP, Don Rickles: Hollywood Pays Tribute to 90-Year-Old Legend ~ amazing movies

'Cool Comedy - Hot Cuisine' To Benefit The Scleroderma Research Foundation - Inside They say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but Don Rickles was the ultimate insult comic, and he might be insulted by too many compliments. So be it. Hollywood adored the comedian, who was on "The Tonight Show" more than 100 times through Johnny Carson's reign. Rickles died at home today (April 6) from kidney failure, his publicist announced. He would've turned 91 next month.

Stars -- especially fellow comedians -- spent the afternoon honoring Rickles on social media:

90 years with Don Rickles weren't enough. One of the sweetest and most lovely people I had the pleasure of knowing. We miss you already
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) April 6, 2017

Rickles is gone. He was the best, you hockey pucks. RIP
— marc maron (@marcmaron) April 6, 2017

Somewhere in the great beyond there's a desk with Johnny Carson behind it and Don Rickles in a chair off to the side. RIP. http://pic.twitter.com/n9PM4wQHM3
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 6, 2017

Don Rickles has passed away.
A giant loss.
— Billy Crystal (@BillyCrystal) April 6, 2017

Greatest Of All Time https://t.co/b7q4wmpFX0
— Jeff Ross (@realjeffreyross) April 6, 2017

One person I always wanted to meet and shake hands with.
RIP Don Rickles
— Eric Stonestreet (@ericstonestreet) April 6, 2017

Quite simply one of the funniest ever.
RIP Don Rickles 90 https://t.co/xiZf1U1g6J
— Dane Cook (@DaneCook) April 6, 2017

One of the funniest, ballsiest comics of all time. RIP Don Rickles. http://pic.twitter.com/wF9rPQjjVz
— Jim Norton (@JimNorton) April 6, 2017

Don Rickles, such sharp hilarious wit in an era when an insult comic didn't need to be vulgar to be funny. You will be missed -B #donrickles http://pic.twitter.com/448JH7bGSP
— Barbara Eden (@Barbara_Eden) April 6, 2017

My favorite Ricklism: why don't you put your head between your hands and clap. R.I.P. Don Rickles, you outlived them all ya hockey puck.
— Leo Laporte (@leolaporte) April 6, 2017

Don Rickles is the only man I would have ever wanted to call me a fat tub of lard.

Rest In Peace.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 6, 2017

WATCH: In honor of the late great Don Rickles here he is on @jimmykimmel talking about Donald Trump and Lil' Wayne. http://pic.twitter.com/mD05eqD94l
— ProTrump AntiKushner (@CrimsonMariner) April 6, 2017

One of the saddest things about Don Rickles passing away is not getting to hear Don Rickles do a joke about it.
— Will Presti (@WillPresti) April 6, 2017

And here's Jamie Dornan recently talking about his friendship with the comedy legend:

[via THR, EW]

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