Posted on Sunday, January 3rd, 2021 by Ethan Anderton
If you’re looking to kick off 2021 by enriching your mind while also being a little indecent, then a new documentary series from Netflix about the origins of obscenities will be right up your alley.
Nicolas Cage hosts
History of Swear Words, a six-episode series that dives into the history of some of the nastier words in the English language. There’s already a trailer out there painting a broad picture of what this series will entail, but a new
History of Swear Words clip focuses in on a single word and how some of the show’s guest commentators feel about it.
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A month into the pandemic, David Spade got fired.
Like most TV shows filming in March, the comedian’s late-night talk show “Lights Out” came to a sudden halt because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and under lockdown Spade attempted to produce content for Comedy Central from home doing interviews with Adam Sandler and “Tiger King” cast members that would post online.
But on April 3, the trades reported that “Lights Out” had been canceled, less than a year after its premiere.
“Honestly, I was kind of shocked,” said Spade, 56. “They said we were gonna shut down fully and told me around the same time it was in Deadline. We hadn’t cleaned out our offices. We had no idea.”
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From Netflix: An education in expletives: the history lesson you didn’t know you needed. History of Swear Words, hosted by Nicolas Cage, is a loud and proudly profane series that explores the origins, pop culture-usage, science and cultural impact of curse words. Through interviews with experts in etymology, pop culture, historians and entertainers, the six-episode series dives into the origins of “F k”, “Sh t”, “B tch”, “D k”, “Pu y”, and “Damn”.