NEW YORK - Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old. Even then, he ...

NEW YORK — With 1,096 essays for "60 Minutes" under his belt, Andy Rooney will deliver his 1,097th on Sunday's broadcast. And it will be his last as a regular ...

Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on “60 Minutes,” delivered every week from 1978 until last month, made him a household name, died ...

Rooney described his decision to illustrate on 60 Minutes those winners of the competition that he considered “homely.” “I set out to pick a bunch of homely Miss Americas,” he said.

His recurring segment on 60 Minutes, “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney,” which aired from 1978 to 2011, is a disturbing, if charming, vision of editorial freedom.

Back to 60 Minutes. Shortly after making those less-than-enlightened comments about homosexuals, Rooney was quoted in The Advocate, a gay magazine, as also believing that ”blacks have watered ...

“A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” aired for 33 years, longer than I’ve been alive. One month after his final televised essay, Rooney died at 92, having written professionally for over 70 years.

Andy Rooney delivered his first 60 Minutes commentary on July 2, 1978, railing against the media tradition of tallying highway deaths during holiday weekends.

Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on "60 Minutes," delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household ...

Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature “60 Minutes” commentaries about life’s large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old.

NEW YORK — Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature “60 Minutes” commentaries about life’s large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old. Even ...