me too she reminded me of my late aunt nosey and always carrying her bible

"Listen here sucker" 😊😂👍

@mike rusch Oh, that's right!!😂😂 They were funny too. Especially the white cop who would bumble the Black verbage...

@@joannagipson12 I like how they looked to the black cop to explain what the white cop had said.

I liked Julio with his goat also, and the way Fred was prejudice against Puerto Ricans was unexpected and funny.

Yaaaawn

@@bethhollieday7866 Troll

That's mostly true. Whitman Mayo was not one of Redd Foxx's friends. A writer on the show worked with Mayo & got him the role. Grady was meant to be a one-time character, but we know how that worked out. I wish I had a source, but I remember random facts like Mayo being buried in the same cemetery as my bro & Dad, Forest Lawn on Mallory Rd in College Park, GA.

Why you ole fish I fool.....LOL

Fish eyed fool.

My favorite insult from Fred was, "I'm gonna throw some tracing paper over your head, and draw me a moose face!"

I think that is really cool that Red Fox wouldn't let nbc fire her. In the show they were arch enemies. But, real life they were good friends.

@@racheln8563 It's funny how we all remember things differently. What I recall as my favorite was almost the exact same joke, except mine went: "I could dip 'yo face in some dough, and make gorilla cookies!" Either way, that was a scream.

Patty Heitzman LaWanda Page is Aunt Ester’s name😆😂

He called her lester. She said "its Esther no L Grady said " well come in Noel" the funniest shit ever

G Esther i jus love having you in the yard, makes the junk look so pretty 🤣🤣

Grady: "Oh, hi there, Lester." Aunt Esther: "It's ESTHER, no L." Grady: "Oh, well noel, and merry christmas to you, too."

@@introvert4everfreddy656 ,I know.

Three great theme songs there. "Welcome Back" made it all the way to #1 on the American Top 40 chart.

Yes never knew tight jeans Freddie Prinze had a kid until I Know What You did Last Summer came out

Freddie prinze was my house whole favorite comic, NBC couldn't be beat on Friday night with Sanford and son then Chico and the man. When he shot n killed himself in 77, the house whole was deeply saddened. It was like losing a close family member. We hurted for a long time.

@@natebo7490 it was one of the first suicides I was ever aware of in my life at the time. I had to talk to my parents about why would he do that... Sad.

Elwood P. Dowd 48yrs old. Flash back

I do too❤❤🤩🤩😂😂😂😍😍

@davidgerow. I always like the first few seasons. The last seasons of Sanford and Son were terrible.

I love to see bloopers too. That would awesome

Sho wasn't planned!!!

Yessssss

🤣🤣🤣👍👍

Lamont and Grady LOST IT 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, we had great shows back then. My family and I don't even watch TV nowadays. Between the PC culture and lack of maturity of the writers, sitcoms are just not funny anymore.

@notsosilentmajority1 For me the 1990's was the end of sitcoms and when the 21st century rolled around I just couldn't stomach them. In 1990 I went from 105 hours per week of TV watching (mostly binge watching before that was even a term via the big ugly dish and backhaul feeds) to 2005 of around 10-20 hours per week to 2020 of 0.

@@thebeststooge Yes, it's definitely been a long time since we've had a good selection of tv programs. I guess the internet and the huge assortment of different choices has also changed things. You're right though, it's been a very long time since tv has had more than one or two good weekly shows.

Loved Chico and the Man too, but it came 2 years after S&S

@Borracho X Yes, it did but when I said before it I meant in the time slot as they had Chico on at 8pm ET and S&S on at 8:30pm as they knew S&S had an audience and used it as a lure for Chico.

Yes...also Skillet and Leroy

I think a heavily made up John Amos appeared in one of them. Liked Bubba better than Grady.

Lucky Leroy and Slick Skillet were the best

@@leehope6948 in the episode when Fred tricked Miss Lena "The Horne" into coming to his house 🤣🤣🤣

@@havmercy2349 lol lame lamont.

Especially the episode of the guy saying he was Lamont's real father

@@rebellewis5272 big money grip

@@biggjune2914 Yep that was the name

Yes, it comes on back to back to back on 49.2 here in Dallas.

@@rebellewis5272 jj

HaHa!!!

@ Mike S apparently he also had a taste for girl to.

@@creeksidehashman5365 ..I read sly stone went to his club,to surprise him with some blow.And red wolfed down the whole vial.Which prompted sly to say "Whoa hose nose!!""

They said half of them were high backstage durning most of the time. Not sure how true it is.

@@athorpe630 It's reasonable to assume that it's true, I would imagine.

I agree..i don't think no other actress could have played that role of Aunt Esther either

Can you imagine her and Fred arguing on Harlem nights like him and Della Reese

Yeah, in one of the episodes (I think it was one of the one's in Hawaii, Fred used the "N" word. I replayed it over and over to make sure that's what I heard.

And the gay remarks. Lol

The updated versions of the show block out the N word. We are just too thin skinned these days.

Yeah it’s ridiculous how we have become so petty over everything. I’m so tired of the races thing, it’s sticking it’s like grow up people. People wasn’t this petty in the 50’s OM GOODNESS! In the south I know because that’s where I’m from.

Yup! The internet wasn't invented yet to tell us all what to think and believe, especially about comedy. I'm glad Dave Chappell doesn't let the Political Correctness Police stop him!

Thanks Christopher! Glad you liked it, incredible hitting 72k!

@@ricknineg love the show and love your video

@@ricknineg coffin s for sail it was big winner 🤣

Yoe beady eyed bear hugger!

That's, you beadie eyed bean eating bear hugger. 10 Q.

Paul mooney with Richard Pryor

Wow!!!

Omg

I’m glad you like the variety, I will always come back to my tried and true sitcoms but I’ll mix it up every once in a while

Hey Rick, do facts about the show, the prisoner, thank you, your fan from Jacksonville Fla.

NWA sampled her on "She Swallowed It."

I will definitely look that up because she was funny as hell

Yep...but then so was Redd Foxx

He was a dirty comic.

Not on this show

Too bad he didn't mention that, that's a great fun fact of the show

This has been proven to be false several times by "Donna's " actual family.

No. You're WRONG. Lawanda Page and Lynn Hamilton were indeed REAL LIFE SISTERS.

@@bignah139 Here's her obit from the NY Times: As you can see there is no mention of a surviving sister. LaWanda Page, the acid-tongued comedienne who, as the cantankerous Aunt Esther, traded barbs with Redd Foxx on the 1970's sitcom "Sanford and Son," died on Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 81. The cause was complications of diabetes, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Page was a veteran of the black circuit of theaters and nightclubs. She began as a dancer, added a fire-swallowing bit (billed as the "Bronze Goddess of Fire") and moved gradually into skit and stand-up comedy on the so-called Midwestern "chitlin circuit." Most of those clubs, she later said, were dumps, the kind of places "where if you ain't home by 9 o'clock you can be declared legally dead." Her big break came when she was tapped for a supporting role in the second season of Norman Lear's "Sanford and Son," which starred Foxx, a friend from comedy club days, as Fred Sanford, an eccentric and irascible junk dealer in the Watts section of Los Angeles. As the ungainly, wisecracking, Bible-toting sister of Sanford's late wife, Elizabeth, she quickly became one of the show's most popular characters. Her character, Aunt Esther, took her share of zingers from Foxx and other cast members - Sanford's friend Grady once quipped, "Nice having her around, she makes the junk look so pretty." But Aunt Esther usually responded with equally stinging rejoinders. "Watch it, sucker!" her favorite catch phrase, was followed by a spate of sharp-tongued invective. The exchanges between her and Sanford were among the weekly highlights. "Sanford and Son," ran from 1972 to 1977 on NBC and remained one of television's top rated shows, inspiring several spinoffs in which she also appeared. Ms. Page was born in Cleveland on Oct. 19, 1920, and began her dancing career at age 15. After years on the club circuit with comedians like Foxx and Richard Pryor, Ms. Page moved to Los Angeles in the 1960's and joined the comedy group Skillet, Leroy & Co. She soon developed and honed her trademark feisty comic approach - more shrill but still reminiscent of Moms Mabley's homespun wit. ("Honey, that old man couldn't keep no kinda job. That's the only man I know that ever went to the unemployment office and lost his place in line.") She is survived by a daughter, Clara Johnson, of Los Angeles. Throughout the 1970's and 80's, Ms. Page played cameo roles in a few feature films and made guest appearances on talk shows and sitcoms. Offstage, she was an advocate for equal opportunities and better pay for black performers. __________________

They ARE NOT SISTERS! There's a different LYNN HAMILTON that's Esters sister... They just share the same name

I heard he did red fox's funeral

YES. Still Is I Think. Hope He Is doing well 🙏.

@@Rabashus_Channel Redd Foxx. And I think You're right. Heard that also.

Kooler M Yeah I recollect hearing that on Trinity broadcasting station years ago

He WAS. He’s no longer involved in the church though.

For some reason many of the whites I went to school with loved this show.

He was the perfect straight man, very professional!

@@homoerectus744 of course. Sanford and Son is loved by everyone of any race. It was literally the 2nd most watched television show in the country after All in the family. One of the few mainstream black shows with true crossover appeal.

@@TugIronChief well, he held it together most of the time....Dummy😀

Yep!!! And Fred put his arm/hand over his eyes so he couldn't see her face. He eventually pucks up his bat & knocks Esther's face off the tv set!!!😂😂😂😂

She had a small part in "Friday" she was a Bible thumper that whole movie was funny

Her gallbladder was the size of a Persian melon. Lol

No, actually she was Hazel. Remember Fred calling her Witch Hazel at Lamont's failed marriage...

@@leehope6948 lol, I cant remember that, but I'll take your word! Still funny tho!

Sanford, Hogan's Heroes, Barney Miller, The Jeffersons, All in the family, Night Court, The Honeymooners, The Odd Couple, The Andy Griffith Show, Amen, Married with Children etc. All such classics whose quality we probably won't ever see again.

OK In return the Steptoe and Son theme tune was called Old Ned and was made by Ron Grainer who made songs from Doctor Who to The Prisoner.

@@OlagGan Thank you for the information. I didn't know that.

Yes,by Quincy Jones!😄

@@southernoregoncatmom6519 I know that. I was telling Rick about the title of the song.

@@mrfloxin -Sorry, I replied before fully watching the video!😁🙀

They were both Pullman porters.

Yes ln deed

And I appreciate you!

He appeared in a short lived sitcom In the 80s called "the new odd couple"!..he played Oscar. He was funny!!

Kenneth Iman Sad... becoming an Evangelist is another form of addiction, a psychological addiction.

@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 whatever

Dude Was Also Supposed to be Roy Radins Backup For His Meeting With Lainie Jacobs in Cali lol...Demond Lost The Limo, Radon Got Whacked & Robert Evans Was Also Involved!.. Cotton Club Murders i Believe?

​@@jenniferwhitewolf3784 What is really sad is that your soul will burn in hell forever all because you refuse to acknowledge our lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST is all powerful.

Uh.. George Jefferson?

@@kendallrivers1119 hi kendall.i really nevet really watched the Jeffersons,so I wouldn't know.but I can see Sherman pulling that one out of the bag.😊

George Jefferson used the n word on Lou Gosset Jr. when he was getting fresh with Louise and George thought he was getting fresh with his mom. I think he used it in another episode too.

Aunt Esther said it on an episode on the man that thought Lamont was his son.

John Amos also used the N-word on a episode of Good Times!

She guest starred in various shows but would have loved to see her in her own series.

I remember the live news coverage of the IRS removing Redd's possessions from his home for delinquent taxes. That was sad too

@@crucialtymes7305 Eddie Murphy helpedhim

Wes McGee I typed it in as you said and I could not find it

Sad he died broke! Eddie Murphy payed for his funeral!

Yes sir!

Wow, didn't know that 👍

No, this is NOT true. LaWanda’s actual sister ironically had the same name as the actress who played a Donna (Lynn Hamilton).

Christopher Ramon-Reid I stand corrected. Thanks

I heard that to but not true.

They actually went to Jr high together and had been best friends forever.

Sure was. She was played by Beah Richards.

Beah Richards was a great actress !

For one episode, there was Aunt Hazel, from the time Lamont was supposed to wed, but the girl rejected him on the day of the affair. She was portrayed by Lillian Randolph.