Thinking about Flip Wilson and Redd Foxx

And how their routines would be banned these days.

Their audiences would be ROFL and LMAO and saying of Mr. Wilson or Mr. Foxx, “That is one funny MF.”

Why did Queen Isabella send Christopher Columbus west, across the Atlantic Ocean?

ISABELLA (slaps her right hip): Chris goan fiinne Ray Charles.

Mr. Foxx had one of the funniest scenes ever on television when his character Fred G. Sanford refused to pay a traffic ticket and instead, represented himself in a trial. The judge was black, as was the courtroom audience. The po-leece was white.

FRED (questioning po-leece): How come you don’t arrest white people?

POLICE: I do.

FRED: Where they at? (Gestures at court audience.) Look at all these niggers in here. There’s enough niggers in here, make a Tar-zan movie.

Neither of those scenes would be allowed on television these days. And if by some accident those scenes got on the air, the interweb would be characterized as “outraged.” TV people would be fired. Democrats would announce a Congressional investigation.

Ah, progress.