Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project is a documentary about stand up comedian Don Rickles. The film consists of performance clips from throughout Rickles' career interspersed with recent interviews with him. A show at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas from 2006 is featured most prominently. The film also features some of Rickles' notable television and movie appearances, including his many appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. There a... more

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project is a documentary about stand up comedian Don Rickles. The film consists of performance clips from throughout Rickles' career interspersed with recent interviews with him. A show at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas from 2006 is featured most prominently. The film also features some of Rickles' notable television and movie appearances, including his many appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. There are also interviews from several stand up performers and celebrities who have encountered Rickles over the years. The film was generally well liked by critics who wrote about it. Much of the praise was directed at Rickles himself for being such an engaging personality. One critic compared Rickles and his sense of humor favorably to the racist comments of Michael Richards and the anti-Semitic statements of Mel Gibson writing: "While Rickles seems to mock ethnicity, body type, weight, age and all the other stuff that we're not supposed to make... less