And Now For Something That Cuts Through The PC

I love Aunt Esther!!!

Rofl

She looka like a man.

Four seconds in, and I was laughing. Thanks, OP. I needed the laughs.

Gonna go watch the rest, now.

She was hilarious

LaWanda Page was brilliant as Aunt Esther.

I always loved when she threatened to hit Fred with her purse!

That fucking cracks me up.

Those were the good old days when people could be totally un-PC and un-woke, and not be cancelled.

Same for Archie Bunker.

It made for hilarious and cutting television.

People nowdays pretend that nobody speaks this way, when in reality EVERYONE speaks this way.

My favorite was when Fred always called her UGLY.

That would be unheard of nowdays, but it is comedy GOLD.

Gorilla cookies!

Rofl R8.

Just reading your words made me laugh out loud.

Did they really say that to each other?? BWahahahaha.

The last season, Nancy Kulp recurred, and Fred's insults were twice as cutting. She'd drop her jaw in shock yet just stand there and take it.

I loved straight laced Nancy Kulp’s character as the neighborhood beat cop’s mom who moved in next door to Fred and Lamont.

Aunt Esther is my role model.

Aunt Esther was a showgirl in her youth.

There was a fun SAS episode where Fred was competing for the affections of Donna. His rival was played by the great Roscoe Lee Browne. At one point Browne jumped up and started doing karate movies to show off his physical prowess; Fred, seeing him jump around and make noises, says in an incredulous voice "This N-word's crazy!" It was hilarious. The line was so funny that Richard Pryor used it for the title of one of his comedy albums: "This N-word's Crazy."

Before Aunt Esther, there was Aunt Ethel, played by the far more gentle Beah Richards, Oscar nominee for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". She played Minnie Belle Ward years later on "Designing Women" in the classic New Year's episode, being escorted to heaven by Dolly Parton.

Hysterical.

I was surprised how often they used the N word for TV.

I mean, Foxx was as blue as could be in his routines.

Those were the days.

[quote] I was surprised how often they used the N word for TV.

If it wasn't a problem then, I don't understand why it's a problem now.

We're all fucking adults. We can handle it.

These dumbass networks act as though these words aren't said every day of the week, on every street corner in black neighborhoods.

It's like how a husband and wife had to sleep in separate beds on television in the 50's.

Just ridiculous.

I can't believe she said it on a hit primetime show in the '70s, but there she is at 2:40 on the OP video:

Aunt Esther: "What'd you say, nigger?!"

A few years after Redd Foxx died Lawanda and a few of the other cast members were interviewed on some show (can't remember which one it was) and she had little good to say about Demond Wilson. He didn't show up at Foxx's funeral and Page was still incensed over it.

Those old-time show-biz Negroes are a hoot.

Beah Richards also played Dr. Peter Benton's mother on ER.

I never knew that Aunt Esther was played by a drag queen.

I guess my young self wasn't aware of these things.

Aunt Esther lives...

She got that peanut butter pussy, brown, smooth, and easy to spread.

When TV was funny!

Thanks, OP. I loved Sanford & Son and you know I loved me some Aunt Esther!

I mean....was that supposed to be funny R23? Just curious.

Fun Fact: LaWanda Page did the spoken intro on RuPaul's 1993 song "Supermodel (You Better Work)". And Page speaks again at around the 2:15 mark. Unfortunately, she did not appear in the music video.

R27, LaWanda Page did appear in RuPaul's video for "Back to my Roots"

Only to people who have a sense of humor, R26.

By the way, it's very kind of you to come to Reid's defense, I can promise you (if you're a gay man or a lesbian) she wouldn't do the same for you.

Kisses!

Lawanda almost lost that job in the beginning. She had problems learning her lines and working with the television format as she'd worked primarily in night clubs doing a very raunchy act, and they were prepared to fire her and recast, but Foxx stepped in (they were close friends since early childhood in St. Louis) and was able to teach her some tricks of the trade to help her with her lines. He went so far as to threaten to quit the show if they fired her.

Here's some of Lawanda's raunchy act.

Yeah R29 as soon as you post something that's funny...I'll get one. Deal?

Stealth Markle thread

[quote] I was surprised how often they used the N word for TV.

I can't remember the exact episode of "The Jeffersons", but as usual, George did something to piss Louise off and in that particular segment she gave him a disgusted look and said, "N----r, please".

I've been binge-watching this show due to this thread, and Redd Foxx was hysterical as Fred Sanford.

Larry King had stated that Demond Wilson was his most unpleasant interview due to Wilson’s arrogance.

When I was a kid, my brother and I would often use that “I’m going to stick your face in dough and make gorilla cookies” insult on each other.

I loved when Aunt Esther called Fred an old fish-eyed fool.

Bernie Mac used the N word on his show back in the early 2000s. He made the comment to the wife that they were not really rich, they were n----r rich.