Today would have marked the 92nd birthday of stand-up comedy icon Redd Foxx, who managed to be a mainstream sensation on network television after rising to fame with a series of comedy albums that were too blue for the small screen. He could play clubs at night, indulging in the filthiest of jokes, and still warm his way into America's hearts by hanging out with the whitest of whitebread, as he does below in this 1977 clip from "The Donnie and Marie Show."
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