Editing Rodney Dangerfield (section)

==Later years and death==
[[File:RodneyDangerfieldGravestoneJuly2007.jpg|thumb|right|Dangerfield's headstone at [[Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary]]]]
On November 22, 2001 (his 80th birthday), Dangerfield suffered a [[Transient ischemic attack|mild stroke]] while doing stand-up on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno|The Tonight Show]]''. While Dangerfield was performing, host [[Jay Leno]] noticed something was wrong with Dangerfield's movements and asked his producer to call the paramedics.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://people.com/health/jay-leno-on-high-cholesterol-risks/ | work=People (magazine) | title=Jay Leno Speaks Out About His Battle With High Cholesterol | date=March 12, 2019}}</ref> During Dangerfield's hospital stay, the staff was reportedly upset that he smoked [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] in his room.<ref name=Brownfield>{{cite news|title=Comic genius Dangerfield still cutting jokes to thwart boredom|first=Paul |last=Brownfield |agency=Los Angeles Times|work=Journal - Gazette|location=Ft. Wayne, Indiana|date=December 21, 2002|page=3.D}}</ref> Dangerfield returned to the ''Tonight Show'' a year later, performing on his 81st birthday.<ref name=Brownfield/>

On April 8, 2003, Dangerfield underwent [[brain surgery]] to improve blood flow in preparation for [[heart valve]]-replacement surgery on a later date.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eonline.com/news/44934/dangerfield-undergoes-brain-surgery|title=Dangerfield Undergoes Brain Surgery|date=April 8, 2003|website=E! Online|access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref> The heart surgery took place on August 24, 2004.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/rodney-dangerfield-to-have-heart-surgery|title=Rodney Dangerfield to Have Heart Surgery|date=March 25, 2015|website=Associated Press|access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref> Upon entering the [[Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center|University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center]], he uttered another characteristic one-liner when asked how long he would be hospitalized: "If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07SShhi-hHcC&pg=PT501|title= Funniest Thing You Never Said 2|editor=Rosemarie Jarski|publisher=Ebury Press|year=2010|page=501|isbn= 978-0091924515}}</ref>

<!--In September 2004, it was revealed that Dangerfield had been in a [[coma]] for several weeks. Afterward, he began breathing on his own and showing signs of awareness when visited by friends. However, he died on October 5, 2004 at the [[UCLA Medical Center]], a month and a half short of his 83rd birthday, from complications of the surgery he had undergone in August.-->Dangerfield died on October 5, 2004. He is interred in the [[Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary|Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery]] in [[Los Angeles]]. On the day of Dangerfield's death, the randomly selected Joke of the Day on his website happened to be "I tell ya I get no respect from anyone. I bought a cemetery plot. The guy said, 'There goes the neighborhood!'" This led his wife, Joan Dangerfield, to choose "There goes the neighborhood" as the epitaph on his headstone, which has become so well known that it has been used as a ''New York Times'' crossword puzzle clue.<ref>Joan Dangerfield in{{cite news|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/king-comedy-15-rodney-dangerfields-658907/9-random-access-jokes|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|title=The King of Comedy: 15 of Rodney Dangerfield's Never-Before-Seen Photos|first=Seth|last=Abramovitch|date=November 21, 2013|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201118001841/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/king-comedy-15-rodney-dangerfields-658907/10-rodneys-epitaph|url-status=live|quote=Because of the joke of the day incident, I decided to put the punch line on his tombstone.|access-date=August 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.rd.com/list/funniest-tombstones-that-really-exist | work= [[Reader's Digest]] | title=19 Funniest Tombstones That Really Exist | date=July 29, 2020}}</ref>

Dangerfield's widow held an event in which the word "respect" had been emblazoned in the sky, while each guest was given a live [[monarch butterfly]] for a butterfly-release ceremony led by [[Farrah Fawcett]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rodney.com/rodney/about/about.asp|archive-date=September 28, 2007|title=Rodney's Bio|website=Rodney.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928051453/http://www.rodney.com/rodney/about/about.asp|access-date=April 16, 2020}}</ref>