Redd Foxx
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John Elroy Sanford (9 December 1922 – 11 October 1991) most widely known under his stage name Redd Foxx, was an American comedian famous for his risqué comedic routines, and his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son.
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[edit] Quotes
- Love. Hygiene. That's the important thing. Hygiene. The toughest thing in the world: [you] have to turn to your mate one night and say: "You gotta wash your ass!" Shit. Knowing how difficult it is, I said it for you : You Gotta Wash Your Ass.
- Stage performance (1980), promoting his comedy album, You Gotta Wash Your Ass (1976).
- My first wife, I'll never forget her — and I've tried.
- We were poor. If I wasn't a boy, I wouldn't have had nothing to play with.
- As quoted in More Sex Talk : A New Collection of Ribald, Raunchy, and Provocative Quotations (2002) by James Wolfe, p. 114; similar lines were also used in the comedic routines of Rodney Dangerfield.
- Music played a large role in the survival of the black people in America — that and a sense of humor that just couldn't be enslaved.
- The Redd Foxx Encyclopedia of Black Humor (1977) (co-written with Norma Miller)
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- When you see the hand writing on the wall, you're in the toilet.
- What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches.
- I feel sorry for people who don’t drink or do drugs. Because someday they’re going to be in a hospital bed, dying, and they won’t know why.
- Variant: Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
[edit] As Fred G. Sanford
- You big dummy!
- Lamont, when I die, it's not gonna be "Sanford and Son" no more; it's gonna be Nobody and Son.
- This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!
- My Elizabeth was as pure as the driven snow; and I am the only driver she ever had!
- The name's Sanford. That's S-A-N-F-O-R-D, period.
- I'm callin' you ugly, I could stick yo face in some dough and make some gorilla cookies.
- How about I give you five across yo' lips?
- Esther, you wouldn't want a drink, because you are a drink — a ZOMBIE!
- I'm going to get my bud-nipper and start nipping some bud!
- I tell you what I could use, new color TV.
- I'm gonna put five of these where you sneeze.
- Esther, warn me before you come in so I have a chance to cover all of the mirrors!
[edit] Quotes about Foxx
- Foxx was really the king of comedy and timing. He had one of the fastest comedic minds on the planet.
- Dick Gregory, as quoted in "Famed Comedian Redd Foxx is Celebrated in New Book, The Life and Times of Redd Fox", in Jet Vol. 96, No. 7 (19 July 1999), p. 40
- Redd Foxx had grown-up jokes. ... You ain't never heard no Redd Foxx stand-up. Hell, you still watchin' Sanford & Son reruns.
- Omar Tyree, in Capital City (2008), p. 201
