He achieved the ‘breakthrough’ of getting the F Word on Broadway.
Two obviously high-class old ladies are strolling down a city street when they run across a grizzled, ragged old derelict drunk lying in the gutter, covered with garbage, sewer water running all over him. “Hmmmph,” sniffs one of the old ladies haughtily. “Cleanliness is next to godliness. William Shakespeare!”
The drunk opens one yellowed, rheumy old eye, stares at her balefully, and replies, “—— you. Tennessee Williams.”