“Snarky gossip bloggers, take heed. You will never have a better knack for cutting people down than Don Rickles does. You owe much of your success – both pecuniary and otherwise – to the groundwork laid by him. He made Perez Hilton look like a sycophant. Nobody – and I mean nobody – has what it takes to point out a morbidly obese man in the front row and call him out on it in song.
“If you’re going to make someone laugh at the absurd, tell some truth with it; if you’re going to make someone cry, give them a silver lining to look to; and if you’re going to insult someone, as the legendary Don Rickles has for the last 55 years, always end it with a wink and a smile.
“Mark my words: The gossip-monger whose style closest resembles that of Don Rickles’ mastery of tension and release will stay successful the longest.”
- Confucious John Mayer on what it takes to be a successful gossip blogger.
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