As Gary Cooper was alleged to say in his final days, "I figured they would have licked this death thing by now." Unfortunately not. After undergoing heart surgery in August and suffering a stroke, Dangerfield had been in a coma about a week, regaining consciousness about a few days ago.
Apart from being a brilliant stand-up comedian, he left behind several cinematic comedy classics (though his application to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was cruelly rejected in 1995), most notably Caddyshack (1980). The Mercury News collected a few of Rodney's most famous one-liners in an attempt to cheer us up.
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