Biographie

Famous one-liners

Self-deprecating humor

Wore white shirt and red tie on stage

Catchphrases: "I don't get no respect!" "What a crowd!"

Nervously dabbing his forehead and neck with a handkerchief

The epitaph on his tombstone reads "There goes the neighborhood".

Was the first entertainer to own a website (www.rodney.com), which was launched in February 1995.

In his 20-4 autobiography "It Ain't Easy Bein' Me", he revealed that he was paid $35,000 to star in Le golf en folie ! (1980), but in doing so he had to give up more than $100,000 in bookings in Las Vegas in order to make the movie.

Despite being known for playing belligerent losers, he was by all accounts a sensitive and intelligent man and resented being confused with his comedic persona.

His trademark white shirt and red tie are on permanent display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.

I don't get no respect, no respect at all!

It's lonely on the top when there's no one on the bottom.

My wife was afraid of the dark, saw me naked, now she's afraid of the light!

I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.

I'm very lucky. Years ago they had images, like W.C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Groucho Marx. But today, I think I'm the only one around with an image. And that image is something everyone identified with. They all feel life treated 'em wrong and they got no respect.