Things You Should Know
One of my favorite shows as a kid was Sanford & Son. That show taught me how to laugh at ignant shit, like this:
“Sanford and Son was a daring show for its time. Some of the original material is now considered too controversial to air on network television. The episode “Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle,” written by Paul Mooney, largely considered one of the funniest episodes of the series by longtime fans, was edited before being aired on the cable network TV Land. In the unedited version Fred represents Lamont in traffic court as his legal counsel. At the climax of the episode, Fred confronts the white traffic cop who wrote Lamont the ticket. “Hey, look here,” Fred asks the cop, “why don’t you arrest any white people?” When the cop answers, “Well I do,” Fred gestures to the court observers, who are all black, and asks, “Well where are they? Look at all the niggas in here!” Upon uttering this statement, the live studio audience went crazy with laughter and applause. Redd Foxx had to pause for the crowd to settle down before delivering the coup de grace: “There’s enough niggas in here to make a Tarzan movie!” This entire scene was cut from the episode, evidently because the network feared viewers would be offended.”
I remember seeing this episode as a kid and laughing my ass off. It was funny. Redd Foxx is funny. Paul Mooney is even funnier.
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