A friend's facebook post:
For those of you who don't know me (which is most of my friends), one of my jobs used to be writing and performing on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson." I did it for six years. Rickles was a frequent guest and I loved him and always had since I was a kid. Every time he was on Late Late, I would make it my business to always swing by his dressing room in the hopes that he would insult me. But he never did. He would insult people to the left of me and to the right of me and once he even insulted a ****ing wall socket near me (for realz - he said "What's that little ******** doing peeking out of the wall?") but in six years this man I loved and honored never obliged me the honor of a Rickles insult.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, I'm glad he's ****ing dead.