When I was a small child (seems like years ago)...I remember my parents having record albums by guys like Redd Foxx....etc.
Plus as I grew older (seems like years ago)...I remember talking with my Grandparents about Vaudeville...and just how racy they were. Seems a LOT of cussing went on there too....not to mention the sexual stuff.
....and if you look at Early American History (one of my favorite things to do) you will find cussing and cursing and all sorts of vulgarity.
"South Park"....is nothing new.Just a continuation....
redrock
p.s. Hope you have a Great New Year.
Didn't they have burlesque dancers between acts, too?
Vulgarity entered our mainstream culture in the 60s. That's part of the definition of "The Sixties" -- it's what is meant by using the term as a definition for a cultural revolution. You won't be able to cite any mainstream films (as opposed to back-alley cult movies) before mid to late sixties that included obscentity or even vulgarity in significant way. You simply are denying a commonly understood fact - what the 60s revolution was all about. South Park is a child of that revolution.
Correct-o-mundo; good point!
Vulgar/bawdy/low-brow humor has been around for eons. It just seems more prevalant today with 24/7 broadcast cable, Internet, etc.
I thinks that due to the availability of it and the high potential of exposure to young kids is the cause of consternation among some of our, er, more 'enlightened' friends.
The people that think crude humor is new don't know their Shakespeare very well.
I can think of fat jokes, fart jokes, drunken impotency jokes, and that's just Hamlet.
Then there were the puns in the works of Shakespear, the Bawd of Avon.