LOS ANGELES -- Rodney Dangerfield, the bug-eyed comic whose self-deprecating one-liners brought him stardom in clubs, television and movies and made his lament "I don't get no respect" a catchphrase, ...

''When you saw Rodney on 'The Tonight Show' sitting on the couch with Johnny Carson, you didn't want it to go to commercial," comic Bernie Mac said in a statement. ''He always left you wanting more ...

Rodney Dangerfield used to do this bit about death: "I get no respect. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said: 'There goes the neighborhood.'" That was Rodney. He could make himself the punch line ...