Frank Sinatra Describes a Hilarious Prank Don Rickles Played On Him

Lolol brilliant lol

trolling frank sinatra...

Haha...that sounds like what Don Rickles would do

Sinatra is the best! And rickles is really something lol.

i miss johnnyand those days

No one can fill Carson's shoes. Did you know he had twice as many viewers as Leno? I have stopped recording the tonight show after many years. Leno was tolerable but Fallon is worthless as far as I am concerned. Supposedly he appeals to a younger audience ( I am 75) but I am not so sure he will make it. 

We could all learn to be more respectful

You gotta love Don.  Doesn't matter who it is, even the biggest entertainer of a generation, Don is sticking it to them.  Well played sir.

great story

Don is a Legend

Don is a Legend

I just saw an old episode of Johnny on Jack Benny. I just saw that he played drums & was a great singer. I learn more about him & love him more each day.....

RIP Don Rickles...One of the funniest men who has ever lived. A legend.

Two great men hopefully breaking each other's balls again.

That's not funny.

RIP Mr. Rickles.

only thing better than can impress someone more than frank sinatra saying hi to you, is for you to brush him off! Genius!!!!

Always makes me laugh

Rickles got away with things nobody else dared pull on Sinatra, and Sinatra loved to laugh so much that he let Don do his thing. When Don would be finished at a Roast or similar, the sincerity with which he then honored the guest was humble and heartfelt. The hysterically funny but cut-to-the-bone style that he and Berle and King and that group used was never mean-spirited even though it sounded so antagonistic. There was a genuine camraderie between Rickles and Sinatra that seems gone from entertainment now. Growing up in the 1970s, it seemed to me that this was just what entertainment was. I wish it had never stopped.

Love this story....Lol....what a prank. Don Rickles was so funny.

who pimped who bby?

Those guys were the best ,irreplaceable!

If you could have put that scene on film...it would be a classic.

I've heard this story a couple of times now, but that was first time I heard Frank tell it, it's a wonderful story, and you can tell Frank loves to tell it, the world was much different back then, stories were important and they were told over and over again, because they were good stories, short and sweet, with a wicked twist of unexpected humour... gold jerry gold

Frank had great comedic timing.

😂😂

Johnny Carson

23/10/25
23/01/05

Frank Sinatra

12/12/15
14/05/98

Success is a must until its a bust

Those were the days….

What I love is how Frank and Don's mothers - who they both adored introduced them to each other - their mom's were friends -- and it was Etta Rickles who asked Dolly Sinatra "can you please have your son Frank come and see my son's act" - and Dolly called Frank and told him to go see Don performing at Murray Franklin's a small club in Miami Beach - Don was still a struggling and not very well known comic at that time. Frank who by then was a superstar went and loved Don's act - that began a life long friendship, and at Frank's funeral Don Rickles was one of the pall bearers. It all began with their Mom's introducing them. God bless them all and may they all RIP - Frank, Don, Dolly and Etta

It is hands down the funniest story ever. Who else could do that to Frank Sinatra. And you know Sinatra had to stand there and laugh because he was getting hammered by rickles and there was nothing he could do about it. That's the kind of humor that really sticks if you have a good sense and Sinatra did with rickles.

SINATRA AND DON RICKLES ARE LIVING LEGENDS!!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 fell off my seat !!!

i can't understand what he said when the audience reacted

Bill Hader brought some of us here 😁

3 legends all gone
This Era
This talent
This god given gifts are unfortunately not given to today's artists ....no fault of theys
It just a different time nowadays

Expresso. 🤣

Hilarious. Rickles was the best

The difference is Rickles could joke at being mean whereas Sinatra could be a bully and reveled in it.
For a specific story I suggest Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast with Griffin Dunne. He tells a Sinatra story that negatively affected his family personally.

Francis Albert Sinatra (Hoboken, Nueva Jersey, 12 de diciembre de 1915-Los Ángeles, California, 14 de mayo de 1998), conocido popularmente como Frank Sinatra, fue un cantante y actor estadounidense. Dejó, a través de sus discos y actuaciones en directo, un legado canónico en lo que respecta a la interpretación vocal masculina de la música. Sus grabaciones alcanzaron las listas musicales 209 veces. Es uno de los 33 artistas que ostenta tres estrellas en el Paseo de la Fama de Hollywood.

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (Queens, Nueva York; 8 de mayo de 1926-Beverly Hills, California; 6 de abril de 2017)​ fue un actor y humorista estadounidense. Invitado habitual del programa Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, que le proporcionó una gran publicidad, Rickles interpretó a lo largo de su vida diversos papeles cómicos y dramáticos (tanto en series de televisión como en películas).


90 AÑOS.

They used this joke in 30 ROck

Dons a genius. It’s one thing to say you know a celebrity, it’s another thing entirely to be able to tell them to piss off

2025 - still come back here when I need to be cheered up, such a great bit.

I know everyone says, of their own generation, “there’s no one like this anymore.” These guys are before my generation, and I can honestly say that no one of my time, or since, has been such larger than life characters!

kkkkkkkk fantastic