We can see it now: Don Rickles calling the cardinals "hockey pucks," making fun of the Swiss Guard.

"As far as clean goes, I could play the Vatican," comedy's king of insults boasts in this Sunday's issue of Parade magazine.The 67-year-old comic knows most comedians today are raunchier than he. And that's not the only thing that has changed since he started out.

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"There are all these improv clubs and comedy TV stations today," he said. "In the '60s we worked the joints. And that's just what they were. Joints. Comics were the low end of the business." Rickles has appeared this fall in the Fox sitcom "Daddy Dearest."

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