Remember Don Rickles? He use to insult everybody, all the time.
One time years ago he was on a show with Frank Sinatra. Maybe it was a Roast, I'm not sure. Don looks at Frank and says, let me make you feel at home....and he pretends he's a gangster shooting a machine gun (a jab at Frank's Italian heritage/mafia)I remember my family kind of laughing but I know they were thinking wow, that's out there.
Granted the two of them were good friends but at the time it seemed kind of bold. As a matter of fact, would Rickles get away with it today???
At first I didn't like Rickles humor at all. Took some years for him to grow on me.
TIS