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To: Yosemitest

I’m sorry to be blunt, but Red Skelton did a lot of risqué material. He was restricted by morality laws of broadcast/film. He was a vaudvillian and was exposed to and used to a lot of uncleanness. When he got older, maybe he realized the error of his way, but that error got him his success.

I speak from a level of knowledge. He is one of the key people I studied when learning standup. Milton Burle, George Burns, and Bobby Slayton were among the others I studied.


241 posted on 08/12/2014 11:22:27 AM PDT by Sensei Ern (FUBO (and Fallujohn Boehner, too))
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To: Sensei Ern

IMHO WC Fields and Groucho Marx were among the finest


243 posted on 08/12/2014 11:27:26 AM PDT by mylife
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To: Sensei Ern

IMHO WC Fields and Groucho Marx were among the finest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1HUfjTrCIM


247 posted on 08/12/2014 11:29:16 AM PDT by mylife
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To: Sensei Ern; All
Good points All...He had his TV show and it's censures

250 posted on 08/12/2014 11:32:22 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8-)
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To: Sensei Ern
He sill did it without vulgarity.
253 posted on 08/12/2014 11:35:01 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: Sensei Ern

I’ve been watching a lot of Vitaphone shorts of Vaudeville performers in the ‘20s, and some of their material would surprise you.

I’m still shocked that Eddie Cantor got away with “Whoopee”.


255 posted on 08/12/2014 11:36:28 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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