Editing Red Buttons (section)

=="Never Got a Dinner"==
Beginning in the 1970s Red Buttons enjoyed a new popularity with his "Never Got a Dinner" routine, a standard of the [[Friars Club of Beverly Hills|Friars Club]] and ''[[The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast]]'' for many years. "Never got a dinner!" became a [[catchphrase]], and formed the basis for elaborately eccentric lists of famous people (and their wives and mothers) who had not been honored with celebrity dinner roasts: "Why are we here honoring this man? Why is he getting a dinner? I can think of many famous people who never got a dinner. Mrs. [[Ponce De Leon]], who said to her husband Ponce, 'You're going to Miami without me again this year?'... ''never got a dinner!''"

Another of his catchphrases was "I did not come here to be made sport of," which was later taken up by radio talk-show host [[Howie Carr]].

He made numerous appearances at [[Chabad]] telethons, where he was often brought on and off stage to the tune of "[[Hava Nagila]]". (He once told an interviewer, "I'm a Jew who is doing comedy, not a 'Jewish comic'."<ref>{{cite news|date=December 11, 1998|title=Stage-screen giant Red Buttons pressing all the rights ones at 80|url=https://www.jweekly.com/1998/12/11/stage-screen-giant-red-buttons-pressing-all-the-rights-ones-at-80/|access-date=July 12, 2021|website=[[J. The Jewish News of Northern California]]}}</ref>) Buttons received a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for television, located at 1651 Vine Street. He was number 71 on [[Comedy Central]]'s list of the ''100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time''.