I'm from Russia and I'm ashamed I'd never heard of Moms Mabley before I watched The Marvellous Mrs. Maizel. But after I did I went to listen her original material and she is a goddess! She is so brilliant! Totally love her lines and performance.
Don't be ashamed, most American's under 50 haven't heard of her either. I stumbled on to her about 30-years ago by accident and have been a fan since. Absolute genius and a very interesting back story.
Woopie said that Moms Mabley was making $10,000 a week back in the 60s. That is Ten Thousand Dollars a Week for an african american woman in the nineteen sixties. Bravo Moms Mobley
I was also a child and I remember her so well and she made a lasting impression. I still remember some of her one-liners. She was talking about some old coot and how bad he was and she said, Mom shouldn't be talking bad about people, well, he's dead! Everyone laughed so hard! I never forgot that one!
I love this woman, my mother use to but her records for us when we were young. And every day we all would sit on the front porch and listen to mom's mably..this song of doing it his way has got to be one of the most touching tributes of her life..I am in tears, she found Jesus.
+dorothy montgomery hampton this is from back in the day when a comic could make a person laugh without all the vulgarity..the style of humor made the audience think for themselves, get the punchline and laugh on their own..today, all you gotta do is sit back and try to stay awake!...
older than his birthday!!! I actually saw this as a child, and hadn't remembered until 1:18!!!! OMG love it!!! Thanks Moms. First of her name, mother of punchlines, Queen of the Vaudville and first acts! long may she reign.
PRICELESS, No disrespect, to the talented, ladies of comedy today.......However, in my own humble opinion, the late, Mom' s Mabley was/ is.......The Queen of Comedy !! I remember seeing her on 📺 as a young child.She made me laugh then( yes as a child) and this Priceless Video, as I. just watched , ( now as an adult, made me laugh even more) God Bless , you, for posting this and thank you so much, for taking me down memory lane✨✨" Older than his birthday"😂😂😂😂
I bet she would have been a great addition to "Sanford and Son", as Fred's mom (since, in real life, she had four children around the same age as Redd Foxx).
Interesting idea -- She died in 1975; she could have been on the show. Redd Foxx had a very high esteem for the Black entertainers of his own and earlier generations, and he often got them on (e.g., B.B. King, Billy Eckstine, Lena Horne, Ruth Brown); I wonder why he never tried to get her?
I hardly knew moms Mabley, I chose to write my first essay about mom"s Mabley and I received so much gratitude from my teacher and the people in my classroom. I feel very fortunate to have learned about the people who lived and survived by faith.
Most don't know that Moms was a singer early in her career.. Every Black female comedian in America should get on their knees every morning and THANK MOMS MABLEY!!!!!!!
No she isn't 'actually considered the first official. Are people too lazy to look things up. She was an early stand comedienne, but most definitely not the first,nor official. There were many Jean Carroll, Belle Barth, Betty Walker, Sophie Tucker, Rusty Warren,etc.
@@josie7381 It has nothing to do with when someone started. It has to do with when they became known. And Moms Mabley didn't really get known till the 50s the same as all the others you mentioned. They all got to be somewhat known around the same time. And with all of them, all around the same decade what really got them notoriety was their record albums. That was what really got Mabley more known, same with Rusty Warren, etc. Carroll never got as known as the others as I don't think she made an album (maybe she did???). My main, and only point is when people use superlatives ie. the first official......ever.... I hate that, as there always were many. I used to listen to Moms Mabley, I loved her stuff. I'm not knocking her. I just hate the 'ultimate.....official......ever...greatest....labels, as it's all subjective. Yes even Mabley, as it doesn't have to do with how old she was,or when she started, they all became 'known' around the same time That's what matters
You've missed the point. There were so many vaudevillians, performers, clowns, comedians,etc. in those days, it's impossible to say who was the first female comedian. Or any kind of 'first' performer. If you want to believe that, that's fine. It doesn't make it fact. The bigger problem here is that you've turned it into a racial thing. Sorry that gets old. I know there is racism, but when you turn everything into a racial issue, it loses validity. It becomes paranoia, as in your case. So your thing is I'm trying to re write history specifically because Mabley was Black, and I don't want the first female comedienne to be a Black person/woman?!. Do you realize how paranoid, and ignorant that sounds. Sorry to use the word ignorant, but come on....that's your whole point?!. It's this paranoid conspiracy to re write history because she's Black????! For one, I didn't see others on here say the same thing, they're the ones that said she was the first official. It was just me that made the comment. If you want to turn that into a racial thing, or that I'm being racist by saying what I did, that's your problem. It never entered my mind. There was nothing 'beneath' the obvious reasons for what I said. It was exactly what I said, not just making one person as the 'official' anything. And also, it's impossible to know who was the 'first'. There wasn't exactly official records on stand up comedians on stage, in vaudeville,etc. during those days. How can you prove she was the very first? You can't. I think it's important to identify 'real' racial issues, but when you turn everything , like this into a racial thing, it's like the 'boy who cried wolf',and you start losing credibility. I can't believe you've turned this into a racial thing.
@@josie7381 There was a post,and thread some time ago, when Phyllis Diller died, saying she was the 'first' woman who opened doors for other female comediennes. I corrected them ,that there were many before her, and I listed Mableys, along with some of the others I mentioned. So I guess I was trying to rewrite history, so that it wasn't a white woman who was the first. The point is there was no first. Do you realize how many 'unknowns' there were, but they existed, both male and female performers, comedians,etc. I'd work on your paranoia. There is real racism out there, which is terrible. Address the real racism.
@@josie7381 You never mentioned white people/black people???? What do you call saying how people are trying to rewrite history whenever it's a person of color?????? What's that supposed to imply? Nice try twisting /changing what you said, but you said it. It's right there, can't get around it. You turned something that had zero to do with race, into a racial thing, by saying people are trying to rewrite history whenever it's a person of color. What part of that sentence am I assuming? Are you going to lie now,and say you didn't say that?
Mom's old man said, "When I die, I gonna come back and scratch yo eyes out." Mom's said, " When he dies, I gonna have him buried face down. The more he scratches, the farther way he gets."😂😂😂😂
I remember Moms Mabley very well -- saw her in all the variety shows of the era & the game shows that would have celebrities on. As a kid, I always thought she was so wild and crazy. So different from any other comic act.
i was at my high school prom, got back into my mother's car with my date, and heard the news say that she had passed away. i listened to her growing up as a child, and she was absolutely halarious!
..."Being married to an old man is like pushing a Cadillac uphill...with a rope!" OMG....that is classic! They sure don't make 'em like her anymore....
get over the cuss words bullshit. Grow up. And you're not seeing her use cuss words in clips like this as they were tv shows. Her onstage acts could be extremely foul.
I really enjoyed her comedy!!! I remember her from the 60's to the 80's!!! She reminded me of my parent's joke's we had lot's of laugh's in our home!!! Praise the lord & God bless!!!😊🙏🏾
Moms was one celebrity I clearly remember from my boyhood. I saw her dozens of times and she was so unique you couldn't forget her and hopefully the world never will.
Thank you for posting this. She was terrific and brought a smile and laughter to everyone who saw her perform on TV and in person regardless of their color, status or political affiliation. If we’re ever feeling down and out we have to think of her.
Because she cursed on the old "Chitlin Circuit" that most Black performers play on before the mid to late 1950's due to segregation. Plus her early albums were all party albums. The same for most early Black comics like Redd Foxx, N ipsy Russell, Dolemite, etc.
I am so glad to see this video of Mom's Mabley!! I remember watching her on the Ed Sullivan show when I was a kid.. Bless her heart, she made my parents laugh and I laughed too! She was the best stand up comedian back in the days gone by!!
LOVED this! Thanks 4 posting! My 2 cents worth of trivia about "Moms": Born Loretta Mary Aiken on March 19, 1894 in Transylvania County, North Carolina, she was one of 16 children. At 11, her father, a volunteer fireman, was killed when a fire engine exploded, leaving her mother to support the family. Befroe she was 15, her mother had been killed by a truck while coming home from church on Christmas Day, she'd been raped twice and given two children up for adoption, and she'd run away to Cleveland, OH to join a traveling vaudeville show. At 27, she came out as a lesbian -- what was THAT like in 1931?? -- and in later years, she was a handsome, stylish and well-dressed woman OFFstage who'd gladly slap on a housedress and spit out her false teeth to become "Moms." Totally trivial question: hear the woman in the audience with the very loud, high-pitched laugh? Check out the YT clip of Moms titled "Everybody's Crazy" and it sounds like the same woman was in THAT (non-Sullivan Show) audience as well. Was it a friend, family member, "significant other" ... or maybe just a devoted fan?
She must be one of the most successful African-American women of the 20th century -- she worked steadily as an entertainer from the 1920s on, earned $10,000 a week at her peak and, in 1962, even played Carnegie Hall! But perhaps just as amazing is that though Mabley was generally known as an X-rated comic (or, in show-biz speak, one who "worked blue"), a sour-faced prude like Ed Sullivan liked her so much he booked her on his show several times.
wow!! i loved her awesome testimony at the end! i don't remember this comedian, but now i am going to watch more videos. she's a beautiful lady and God i wish more people these days would humble themselves and realize that they have nothing without God, and He is the reason for all blessings. Do it HIS way!! Thanks, Moms, you are correct in praising Him!
@@martinwoyzeck2634 - You call others nasty names over what you say is not even there? That's rich. You're quite the prideful, arrogant one, aren't you? Sorry to rock your world, but there very much so IS a God, and in a VERY short time, Jesus Christ is coming in the clouds for those of us who are His and who love Him. You may think you're wise, but Jesus Christ is going to show you otherwise.. 'A *FOOL" says in his heart, there is no God".
"Moms" Mabley used to appear on Johnny Carson from time to time and I recall her sitting in "the chair" telling a joke that nearly put Johnny backwards out of his chair. She was a riot, and her story is quite interesting. She blazed a trail for many. Much respect for her.
