American society has become increasingly tolerant of off-color humor since that time. Comedian and actor Redd Foxx was well known in nightclubs in the 1960s and 1970s for his raunchy stand-up act, but toned it down for the television shows Sanford and Son and The Redd Foxx Comedy Hour, stating in the first monologue of the latter show that the only similarity between the show and his nightclub act was that "I'm smoking". Comedian Lenny Bruce was tried, convicted, and jailed for obscenity after a stand up performance that included off-color humor in New York City in 1964. ![]() Jonathan Swift, an Irish satirist in the 17th century, used scatological humor in some of his pieces, including his famous essay A Modest Proposal and his rather crude poem " The Lady's Dressing Room", in which the speaker comments on the goings-on in a 17th-century woman's room, including her business in her chamber pot.ĭirty jokes were once considered subversive and underground, and rarely heard in public. Almost every one of his plays contains suggestive jokes and innuendo. William Shakespeare, the 16th-century playwright and poet, is well known for his ribald humor. His work parodied some of the great tragedians of his time, especially Euripides, using τὸ φορτικόν/ ἡ κωμῳδία φορτική (variously translated as " low comedy", "vulgar farce", "disgusting, obscene farces") that received great popularity among his contemporaries. Off-color jokes were used in Ancient Greek comedy, including the humor of Aristophanes.
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