Rodney Dangerfield Revealed The Sad Truth About His Family During A Raw interview With Howard Stern

Highlights

• Howard Stern is known for his candor and ability to get guests to open up about personal matters.
• Rodney Dangerfield discussed his troubled childhood and strained relationships with his parents on The Howard Stern Show.
• Dangerfield revealed that he has difficulties maintaining a relationship with his own children due to their attitudes.

Since Howard Stern is arguably the most famous radio host in history, he has become rich and he has famous friends. However, Stern's career has also gotten him in trouble because he is so candid about his opinions. In fact, Stern is so forthright that his comments have led to violence in the past.

Since Stern is such an open host, he often gets guests to say things they ordinarily would never admit publicly. One perfect example of that is the fact that Stern got Rodney Dangerfield to be very forthright about his family.

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During Rodney Dangerfield's lengthy standup comedy career, he made millions of people laugh. As anyone familiar with Dangerfield will already know, Dangerfield often made people laugh by making fun of himself and his family. However, Dangerfield once spoke about his family during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show and what he said was no laughing matter.

Around a year before Rodney Dangerfield passed away, he made an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. While the comedian tried to throw in jokes throughout the resulting interview, it is astonishing how serious the conversation was from the start.

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At the time of his appearance, Dangerfield had relatively recently gotten out of the hospital following brain surgery. After Stern brought that up, they began talking about Dangerfield's memoir, which had been released around that time. The second Dangerfield mentioned his book, Stern summed up how the reality of the comedian's life made him feel.

"I read the book. Sad life."

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After making that comment, Stern bluntly asked Dangerfield if he agreed he'd had a sad life. Instead of answering that question directly, Dangerfield reflected on his difficult childhood, much to Robin Quivers' astonishment.

"I think back in my life, when I had to, we went around my old neighborhood where I was brought up as a kid. You know? It's, uh, I didn't have it easy. No. It was like a, roaming the streets at four years old alone on Jamaica Avenue, was over there. 'Oh, what a busy street. Wow.'"

From there, Dangerfield revealed a terrible thing that happened to him because he was left alone at such a young age. As Dangerfield explained to Stern and his audience, an adult male who lived in his area took advantage of the comedian when he was a child.

As their conversation progressed, Stern brought up the subject of Dangerfield's parents. Stern did this by initially calling out Dangerfield's mother in no uncertain terms. "First of all, your mother, horrible woman."

If you told most people they had a horrible mother, they would become defensive. In Dangerfield's case, however, he didn't seem to take any offense, even if he didn't describe his mom quite as harshly as Stern did.

"She was very, very selfish... I mean, she wasn't nice to me, at all, you know? Not a hug or kiss my entire youth. Not one. I didn't say it for some reason. If I'm eight years old, 'Hey Mom, why don't you ever hug me? I just never got around. She didn't beat me, no.

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In response to Dangerfield's comments about his mother, Stern asked the comedian if the lack of love left him angry. "Was there a bitterness inside? Why did everybody else get the love of a mother and I didn't?"

According to Dangerfield, he didn't let the circumstances of his childhood define him or make him angry. Instead, he opted to be generous to the people he cared about and thankful that he turned out okay, and he enjoyed a great deal of success.

After Dangerfield explained his mentality, Quivers asked about his father. Before Dangerfield could respond, Stern gave his take on the man. "Dad was a horror scene, wasn't he?" When Dangerfield tried to say his father was okay, Stern took exception to that and asked when Dangerfield's dad left him.

According to what Dangerfield told Stern, his father "was never there". When Stern asked Dangerfield how his father was okay if he abandoned his child, Dangerfield tried to explain his perspective. According to Dangerfield, he blamed his mother for his father's absence.

"Because he married my mother, he knocked her up to be honorable. You understand me? And he ended up screwed because she was not nice at all... Not only that, but he was a nicer person generally... I get along with him okay. You know? Even though he saw me... He saw me two hours a year. He saw me twice a year, for an hour each time."

In response to the situation, Stern and Quivers asked why his father never took him away from his mother if she was so bad. After Dangerfield explained that he didn't fit into his father's lifestyle, he spoke about his mother again. This time around, Dangerfield explained that his mother resented him because of what her son represented to her.

'I represent all men to her. I once said to her, I once said to my mother. You know? 'Do you think you'd ever get married again ma?' She said, 'What me? Cook and clean for a man?' She hates everybody."

Rodney Dangerfield Had A Difficult Relationship With His Kids

After Rodney Dangerfield spoke about his troubled childhood on The Howard Stern Show, Howard Stern asked the comedian an obvious question. "Are you able to have a relationship with your kids?"

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After Dangerfield initially said he could have a relationship with his children, Stern asked a follow-up question. "Is that difficult for you?" What Dangerfield said to that question took everyone by surprise.

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Dangerfield answered Stern's question by saying, "Because of their attitude, it's difficult for me." Obviously shocked by Dangerfield's answer, Quivers asked the comedian for clarification. "Because of the kids' attitude?"

After taking a few seconds to consider how to respond, Dangerfield restated that his children's attitudes were the problem. Ultimately, Dangerfield tried to explain what he meant when Quivers asked him, "So your kids are giving you a tough time?"

"Well, kids, they don't mean to. They're just what they are."

Beyond that, Dangerfield explained that he didn't want to tell any stories about his kids. However, when Stern asked Dangerfield if his kids wanted more money, he laughed and didn't respond, which gave the impression that was the problem.

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