Rickles' ethnic off humor style treated everyone equally. No one else could get way such racist humor while at the same time garner the respect that he did from the racial minorities the he targeted. No race, creed or minority was off limits.

Earlier this week Russell Peters apologized in the media for some bigoted comments he made about women at the Juno awards.  Rickles would not have apologized. In fact women were flattered for being the victims of his bigotry.