Humour: Kidney Failure and Paul Shefrin

humour: He was 90, according to Toronto Star. The cause was kidney failure, said his publicist, Paul Shefrin. Reuters By The Washington Post Thu., April 6, 2017 Don Rickles, the irrepressible master of the comic insult whose humour was a fast-paced, high-volume litany of mockery in which members of his audience were the usually willing victims of his verbal assaults, died April 6 at his home Los Angeles. When Mr. If he wasn't the first insult comic, he was by far the most successful and most widely imitated, becoming a fixture on television and in nightclubs for decades. Rickles developed his standup act in the 1950s, his humour was considered shocking, with a raw, abrasive, deeply personal edge. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.