I almost agree with you. The Jeffersons are right up there with Sandford and son. Hard choice between the two for me as the greatest,

I would go with Sanford and Son

Sanford and son. Always have me in tears laughing 😂

I would include All in the Family as well..There would be no Jeffersons without AITF...

Oh hell yeah Archie Bunker was comedy gold. I would also like to put M*A*S*H in there as well.

Damn Skippy It Was 🙂

Agreed

He seems so ordinary. Just an average guy. Kind of reminds me of my neighbor down the street.

I just purchased sanford and son dvd set, t❤ sanford and son 📺tv show

Top 5 Comedian dead or alive

I agree! I have never seen him out of character so this was a pleasant surprise!

he sounds .......idk i guess very sophisticated ? not what i expected

Well he was also much younger than Fred was they had to make him look older

It’s funny, I came in expecting him to speak like the show or his standups. He was very refined.

Can't leave out Richard Pryor though, even though Redd Foxx came before him.

@@bholaoates1542 That’s the only reason I did, really - because these three largely came before him. Also, whereas the comedy of Bruce, Carlin, and Foxx was generally social in nature, Pryor’s was generally personal. That is to say - again, while a generalization - that while Carlin, Bruce, and Foxx made fun of *us* - society - Pryor made fun of himself.

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I add to Lenny Bruce as well.

He had a sexy voice.

@@gwadkarukera n face n body😍😍

I always thought Fred was older than he was. It turns out Redd was actually 40 but his character was 60.

@@SARISS80 good fun fact

@@SARISS80 You mean Redd was 50 years old born in 1922.

Wow. But. Hey. I hear ya. I loved the show.

That's epic

Shows how talented he was

When did you arrive here? Did you ever notice that John Sanford is mixed with Naive American?

i hope someone upload some of those videos id like to see it

I wish I could meet them both ♥️

right there with you😁love Sanford and Son👍🏾

I'm the same age as you. I remember watching this as a child.

Also The Jeffersons and Married with Children are on that list too.

Sanford and Son, All in the Family Cheers the Jeffersons and Married with Children, My Mount Rushmore of television shows.

I heard he was very giving too. If you needed money he would lend it to you. True story.

@@951oct yes a good heart ge never let his career go to his head humble man lots humanity

Yeah he was giving he just hated taxes which I think we could ALL agree on lol.

Is that the one where Lamont was trying to have a party at his house when Grady was subbing for Fred? "Put your hands up or I'll shoot." lol

Indeed.

Lamont was 26 playing a 35 year old

@@rollolawson2556 And Grady was in his mid forties (born in 1930), playing a man around Fred's age.

@@bholaoates1542 and Lamont real name is Grady Demond Wilson.

@@rollolawson2556 Yep.

Add Sherman Hemsley, the rest of the cast of the Jefferson and they'd have a hit

@@summerislander4672 And then there’s Maude

We kind of did the man that played Lamont was on an episode of all in the family. In fact that role was what landed him the part on sanford and son

Fred Sanford meets Archie Bunker yes please!!! That would have been great!

A crossover would had been very difficult, because Sanford & Son was on NBC, and All In the Family was on CBS.

Whole lotta leg action!😃

Many people may not know that Bobbie was 47 in this interview.

@@EarlMcDowellJr Being this interview was recorded in 1973, then Foxx was in his early 50's (50 or 51 years old) as he was born in December of 1922.

@@EarlMcDowellJr She could pass for 27 here.

Was afraid to jump on that, but Bobbie, like Redd Foxx here, just oozed sexiness. Her leggings and dress are very sexy, classy and fit her personality.

How could Redd concentrate with her sitting there next to him dressed like that!!!! ...and this was 1973...hard to believe...

You have to remember, Demond had just come back from Vietnam a few years prior, I think he was suffereing from PTSD.

And Grady was only in his 40s

He said he would sleep in the day usually you look tired all the time. I'm sure eating bad food in the night didn't help

G stands for the greatest.

Fredd Foxx the Goat

😊😊😊😊

❤Archie bunker vs george Jefferson was a legendary tv battle & ^George Jefferson brother

It woulda been hella funny to have Fred Sanford and Archie Bunker together, but what could possibly have been a realistic context for that to happen??? At least the Jeffersons lived right night door to the Bunkers, so that made sense, but Fred lived in L.A. and Archie in New York. I guess maybe Norman Lear coulda made up some reason for Fred and Lamont to travel to New York and run into Archie and Edith at the airport, at the grocery store, or maybe sharing a cab or something, or the bunkers could’ve been on a trip to California to visit Gloria and Mike and little Joey after they moved away, and run into Fred somewhere. Or maybe they somehow run into each other in St. Louis, Las Vegas or Hawaii, all places where Fred went at some point. It all would seem pretty unlikely, though...like what would be the odds of Fred and Archie just happening to run into each other somewhere?

@@jeremycrandall2899 george& his brother Jefferson on all in the family episode it was more racial vs Archie bunker ,, Fred sanford was more physical, fighting, , Archie bunker talking g about color people & jokes I will admit I do not how fred sanford would react to that, Fred sanford like to fight, Archie bunker was not a fighter i,, Archie bunker vs george Jefferson brother was a great episode

@@lloydkline6946 yeah, like Demond Wilson said in an interview with the same woman, Fred Sanford really wasn’t a bigot like Archie bunker was. Maybe Fred and Archie could’ve gotten stuck in a doorway somewhere, like Archie and Meathead always used to do. That could’ve been some physical comedy. Or maybe Archie coulda said something racial to Fred, and Fred coulda responded by holding up a fist as if to punch him and saying “How’d you like one of THESE across your LIPS???!!!” That woulda been a perfect mixture of Archie being racial and Fred being physical.😄

Bobbie is still very much with us just FYI.

@@bobbiewygantarchive My apologies I read an article that stated otherwise.

He looked older

You look like Pee Wee Herman

@@ThankGodImBlack370 lol , but nah serious. Look at young George Formeman. Idk man. Lol.

That is the exact same thing I was just thinking. He looks so old on the show, I never saw him outside of that, really. He played the character of Fred Sanford so well that I thought he really WAS that old.

@@faithtvonline he was in his late 40s or early 50s he was born in 1922 so he is 53 here.