Good ol' sexual, racial comedy

Haha.. crazy. I recognized that ladies voice right away from Sanford and Son. Had no idea she did standup or anything similar.

Damn interesting history as well..

"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Page was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She began her career in show business working small nightclubs, billed as "The Bronze Goddess of Fire," an act which included her eating fire and lighting cigarettes with her fingertips. She performed the cigarette feat on an episode of Sanford and Son, in which Fred held a circus in his front yard.

LaWanda Page and Redd Foxx were very close friends from the time they were pre-teen age. They attended school and grew up together in St. Louis. Later on, they both entered the field of comedy separately and performed stage acts. Page later recorded several live comedy albums for the Laff Records label in the late 1960s and early 1970s under the LaWanda stage name. One release, a gold-selling album called Watch It, Sucker!, was titled after one of her Aunt Esther character's catchphrases to capitalize on her newfound TV fame. During her tenure as a stand-up comic, which lasted all the way to the 1990s, she was often called The Queen of Comedy, or in some mainstream circles, The Black Queen of Comedy. Other than the expletive-free Sane Advice album, released two years after the run of Sanford and Son, most of Page's albums and stand-up material were raunchy in nature."

Nice history, there! Yeah, Lawanda is hilarious. I would have hated to get insulted by her. She seemed quick on her toes and could shame a heckler, with the quickness! I forgot about Red Fox albums. I had a few, when I was younger. Classic. Absolutely!

I?ve always loved Aunt Esther. I should have known she was in stand-up comedy

This is before my time.

I remember buying some of Bill Cosby's first comedy LPs and playing them over and over, although it wasn't overtly racial:



Then a buddy turned me onto Redd Foxx, who raised blue humor to an art form:





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