The key to many of Rodney Dangerfield’s best one-liners is a punchline that exaggerates the situation of the set-up as a complete 180 of the more realistic outcome.

DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; of complications following heart surgery; in Los Angeles. After ...

Rodney Dangerfield Dead at Age 82. By ABC News. October 8, 2004, 9:20 AM. Oct. 5, 2004 — -- ... Dangerfield often played different versions of the same character, and audiences loved it.

Rodney Dangerfield, right, films scene for film "Easy Money" outside the L&M Tavern in Concord on Nov. 3, 1982. (Tony Carannante/Staten Island Advance) Tony Carannante./Staten Island Advance.