[ static ] until redd foxx came along in 1956, nobody had ever recorded their stand-up act and released it as an album. redd foxx is distinguished because he invented essentially the genre of stand-up comedy record. foxx: everybody in my hometown bought a jackass. [ laughter ] preacher s wife had the biggest ass in town. [ laughter ] i know because i rode her big ass all the time. [ laughter ] sometime i d ride her ass along. her ass was sweating. i d slip right off her big, sweaty ass. [ laughter ] watkins: redd foxx was making very explicitly sexual records, blue records, or off-color records that were sold in african-american communities. everybody that i knew when i was growing up had redd foxx records. he was listened to by african-americans on a massive level, but he was unknown in mainstream society virtually.
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hey, buddy. come here. [ laughter ] hey, buddy, we re christians. we don t like what you said. i said, then forgive me. what we consider offensive or blue evolves with every generation. mankoff: with vaudeville, for the first time, comedy becomes an industry. her poor father, he died of throat trouble. they hung him. vaudeville is created commercially to clean up humor. there s no cursing. there s no blasphemy. why? they want men, women, and children to be able to come there. they want a bigger audience. [ vocalizing ] ha ha! nesteroff: if a vaudevillian did something onstage that was objectionable, they would send a blue envelope backstage with the material they wanted excised from their act. and so that became the whole idea
how you think about food has such a. huge impact on your relationship with it. visit noom.com and start your trial today. ladies and gentlemen, here is a very shocking comedian, the most shocking comedian of our time, a young man who is skyrocketing to fame. lenny bruce! [ applause ] you might be interested in how i became offensive. [ laughter ] maron: at that time, there were laws on the book around obscenity. you couldn t say [bleep] you couldn t say [bleep] you couldn t say [bleep] i mean, could you imagine that? i d like to perhaps give you a four-letter word that starts with an s and ends with a t. [ light laughter ] first time in television. i m not gonna look at you when i say this because this way, i can t get busted, you don t know who said it. the band said it. [ laughter ] starts with an s and ends with a t, and the word is snot.
weide: if he was just playing small joints and wasn t really a household name, nobody would have bothered him. but his popularity started to grow. he became something of a force and something of an influence, so he started to question authority, and he started to step on toes. christ and moses look at the earth, and they say, well, obviously, the book is bombing down there. the gideons are shoving it in motel drawers. so christ and moses fly to new york. they say, what s playing at st. pat s? a good double bill spellman and sheen. [ laughter ] cardinal spellman would be relating love and giving and forgiveness to the people, and christ would be confused cause their route took him through spanish harlem. and he would wonder what 40 puerto ricans were doing living in one room, and this guy had a ring on that was worth 8 grand. [ laughter ] man: what about the accusations that you tramp on other people s religions?