Rusty Warren, Brash Comic in a Strait-Laced Time, Dies at 91
In the 1950s and ’60s, Ms. Warren made sex the central subject of her nightclub routines, and of popular comedy albums like “Knockers Up!”
In nightclubs and on records, Rusty Warren entertained audiences with a lusty, bawdy brand of humor. “I like helping inhibited females enjoy themselves,” she once said.Credit.Jubilee Records
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Rusty Warren started out in the early 1950s performing harmless fare in bars and clubs in the Boston area and the Catskills.
“Mostly I’d play the piano and I sang a little,” she said. “But every so often I would get a heckler, and I’d talk back to him, and people would start to laugh. And of course I liked that laughter much better than I did some of that applause, so I started to talk more, and to sing and to play less.”
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