Nothin' Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield

The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn't always a laughing matter.

Rodney Dangerfield's fidgety delivery, self-deprecating humor, and catchphrase "I don't get no respect" made him a comedy icon in nightclubs, on television, and in movies. But Rodney's long road to stardom was as rocky as his real life. Born Jacob Cohen in 1921 to a coldhearted mother and absentee father, anxiety-prone Jacob fo...