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[ 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 re...

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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 ob...

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...

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 ...