For the past three years I have kept in my sock drawer a mini-cassette recording of 20 of the weirdest minutes of my life. It was a phone conversation with Rodney Dangerfield. I promised myself I ...

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 ...