Why Redd Foxx Quit 'Sanford & Son' - Here's Why 

He refused to wear dresses that's why he didn't get his full credit

which book !.. :P

Yep, my book too.☝😔

He's My favorite 😍 2022

One of my favorite shows

White people always bring up race when nobody is even talking about it; but if Black people mention race, White people say: "Why do you have to mention race!?"

Fish eyed fool.

@@sumpthintosay6341 Maybe for him, he Just stating that the show never felt like It was for Black people only. It was so good and funny that everyone enjoyed It. Oh and by the way, We can't stop racism with racism. That's like trying to stop a fire with more fire. Just saying!

Absolutely.

@@sumpthintosay6341 I think a lot of black and white people can be tribal in a lot of ways, but comedy transcends that. I've seen the "I'm 'x ' race, but.." from white and black people. Imo, oeople state their race im this contrxt as way of saving a long winded "I'm not the same race/ culture but that comedy spoke a universal language to me, comedy gold ", especially if a show was aimed at a particular race/sex/age demographic. You also see, for example, "Im 15 but I love 50's music". That's the way I see it anyway.

True

Amen

TV, Film and Music immortalizes a person. It's how the dead keep living.

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@@carletonbatty8003 ?

I agree - a lot of my favorite memories from any sitcom involve Aunt Esther. :)

"Well I never." "I bet you did"

Oh yes. I agree 1000% I love aunt Esther 😂

BB was for kids

Aunt Esther And Fred Used T😂 Crack Me Up When They Used T😂 G😢 At Each 😂ther...Y😂U 😂LD"FISH 👁️👁️👁️ED F😂😂L😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Agreed

If.that was true, they would have given her her own spinoff show. They never considered it.

stop it anyone could have played that role.

@@thomashenebry8269 A spinoff doesn't make a character great. Her delivery and chemistry with Fred was unmatched.

Aunt Esther was my favorite character. Also liked Rollo character.

Omg I bet that show was awesome 🙄what town/base of Germany was u in We we're station in KARLSHRUE 30mins from Heidelberg and Mannheim and I miss it sooo bad😞😏

Tiffany Foy I can’t remember exactly where the show was, possibly Mannheim. Stationed in Heilbronn.

@@judybright1965 oh yeh😀ok thanks

@@tiffanyfoy1039 Stuttgart - Flak K. - Its all gone turned into a residential area... Elizabeth!

Judy Bright small word I stayed at bfv in Mannheim in 2011-2012 before they shut it all down

Should had gotten one EVERY YEAR the show was on...but it was RACISM, pure and simple.......

Love redd. Katt williams. Need I say more?? The Brady bunch sucked.

@@martintanksley3561 What about the Beverly hillbillies it was hated by all the critics they wanted off the air, it was the fans that love it and kept it on the air ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JkrOeOFzsT0.html

@@iggyg1370 Well the critics didn't LIKE Sanford either......and BH stayed on for 9 years (Sanford could had also, but the the handlers on Sanford & son reated Redd like crap).... Like I said before, i' m talking BIAS here.......

@@martintanksley3561 A majority of the population in America is white which I believe helps in keeping a show running, that does not mean Sanford and Son wasn't a great show, but it may of not had the same support.

Depends on the competition at the time.

@@phlushphish793 Blew them all away.

@@travelinben1966 I dunno. Wasn't All in the Family on then?

@@phlushphish793 Yes,but Sanford and Son blew it away imo.

@@travelinben1966 It was very funny; but, All in the Family broke the ground, introducing 1st black family on national air: The Jeffersons. The culture just wasn't ready to nominate blacks for Emmys at the time. Now it's all you see.

Like the crack "I'm going to put your face in some flour and make gorilla cookies "🤣

@@antonjames4867 😂😂😂😂 Aunt Esther was the truth

Ester brought so much humor to the show. It used to be a common FIGURATIVE expression "bashing someone over the head with the bible". But Ester tried to physically bash Fred with her bible more than once! And I don't blame her one bit. He often deserved it.

@@Robert08010 "Fred Sanford! You HEATHEN!"

@@antonjames4867 that was the 70’s you can’t say 💩 like that anymore. Everyone is so sensitive these days.

I am a white boy who loves all people. I don't give a damn about color, but if you are funny you are funny. I started watching Sanford and Son when I was 9 years old with my father. it was the first pilot episode and he thought we should watch it. I was hooked and watched it every Friday night at 8 pm like clockwork. It became my favorite show for many years, including re-runs I would watch for many years. I even had my parents buy me Redd Foxx comedy records to listen to. My favorite comedian later became Richard Pryor. Bought his records, saw all his movies, and thought that his joining up with Gene Wilder was the greatest thing since Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. I know that Redd Foxx would be pleased to know that white people did embrace his contribution to the comedy entertainment industry, as I still to this day feel that there were never funnier times than tuning in to Fred G. Sandford doing his imitation of the 4 Ink Spots and going at it with Aunt Esther or his son Lamont.

@@kevineslinger6723 good times man. That was comedy at its greatest. True comedy died with them.

@@_NEW3RA_ Redd Foxx paved the way for other great comedic actors like Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Chris Tucker and other greats I have loved watching over the years. Black comedy is the best and without it, it would be like having to eat dry toast without butter or Jelly......

@@kevineslinger6723 Thank God, 4 u man! So many hatoratorz still preSINt, n our world.

Thank goodness I bought the entire series from Amazon on DVD.

@WATCH DEM FOOLS... DID YOU KNOW THAT REDD FOXX REAL NAME IS JOHN SANFORD?

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Sanford & son is still my favorite show of all time & Redd Foxx is my favorite person off all time!

Brought season 1 and 2 a few days ago and want the other 3...he's the GOAT!!!

God bless

I can't actually say that it was funnier than some of the "I Love Lucy" classic episodes but it was definitely the funniest show of the 1970s by far!! ( ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)

I like Andy Griffith 4 laffz 2, BUTT..... YUPPERZ!!!! Sanford & Son & I Love Lucy, were Mos Def funny! I'm sure, canned laughter, wouldn't have been necessary, on any of these 3 showz!

It was certainly more edgy that anything else before or since.

Support so close but this one is top funniest show to me too. Had more laughing tears and I still keep coming back. Dave Chappelle and In Living Color close second and third and Def Comedy Jam gets honorable mention.

I heard that too. I believe it

He got a lot of his friends jobs on Sanford and son

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I believe that, you can tell he had a good heart!

@@kman215 Very true..Chitlin Circuit comedians..Great guy for doing that shit!

Right

As always the first thing you all realize is the money and not the Humanity of someone.. Let me know why Trump became president.. First thing people say is he's a billionaire.. No. He was a con, and Redd Fox died broke.. But his money is the last thing people will be thinking about.. It's was what he was hoping people would never forget.. *his legacy*

Hollywood is gangster.

They Should Have Paid More He Deserved It #RedFox #SIHHP😭😇😘💙👏🏾👏🏾

Yee-up! Why should he play about his $$? esp. since what one brings should at the least, match his returns ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯ Redd: You ain't Pimpin' Me!! ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

remember, cosby crushed magnum, p.i.!!!

@@svanablak I'll still watch Magnum

What's special about that? TV shows do that all the time.

@@svanablak Wow that's sad

Yep.....Sanford and Son was the eventual death nail for the Brady Bunch.

Uber facts!!!!

@ReturnoftheBrotha that's completely understandable

@@TheAlkebulanTrust There's the E! True Hollywood Story of Redd Foxx that tells the story ofJohn Sanford's (Redd Foxx) life and issues with the hit show. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cXJqN7LBLMI.html

Plus he used to hang around with Elvis they're escapades on coke are a tv series by themselves.

Watch unsung Hollywood redd foxx its really good! It even includes Lamont (Demond Wilson)

@ReturnoftheBrotha bruh u sound like a mad hater because he became mainstream. Kevin Hart is funny yo. Not the best comedian but he's definitely funny.

ReturnoftheBrotha 😂

Aizen Zae I’m sorry for your sense of humor😪

@ReturnoftheBrotha Richard is king. In fact, so many comedians rip his style off in one way or another, he was way ahead of his time with the Black/White comedy duos, and is deserving of being at the top. Not too high at all.

@ReturnoftheBrotha Your comment proves you know nothing about Richard Pryor at all. Pryor is the one who told the Blacks in his audience how going to Africa changed his life and made him learn to not to call anyone or identify himself as the N-word. Unlike, these rappers of today. He was the original comedian to cross over and garner the kind of power, wealth, and fame that helped OPEN the doors to your transvestite loving Eddie Murphy who can't even do stand up anymore due to stage fright. Eddie also regrets all the offensive lame jokes about gays back in the day. Now, I like Eddie and his accomplishments, but even he admits that he OWES his entire career to Richard Pryor. Which is why he casted him Harlem Nights. So let's face it, you're dead wrong and sound pathetic in your reasoning for dis-liking him or not giving him his credit. I mean, if you don't like his brand, fine. But you haven't got a leg to stand on when trying to come up for reasons why you don't like him nor when it comes to comparing him to those that came after. All in all, you're in the minority with your ill informed opinions.

Was she ever in an serious movies? I'd love to see if she ever got the chance to really act.

@@Robert08010 i dunno check out IMDB

@@rolandofgilead43 Yeah obviously. I was asking for a recommendation.

@@Robert08010 he he okay, looking at her IMB page maybe "talking dirty after dark (1991) i haven't seen that one though so i dunno, most of the stuff she did film wise are either comedy's in bit parts that say Maid or a bit part i think? in some horror films. but that's just a guess as i haven't seen anything she's been in film wise in a long time. as for tv shows by the looks of it the vast majority look like comedy's i think? so i have no idea

@@Robert08010 I believe she was in Friday, 1 of the 2 old woman at the door

he was Ned the wino on good times first

May He Rest Easy.

Rip woodrow!😥

Rest in power Woody

Old skool Woody was STILL alive 4real??? I thought that guy was Dead years ago,I'm sad 2 hear that,just seen HIM on good times 😢

Well I say screw NBC and the Emmys because Sanford and Son is still airing on various channels to this day

@@meafrenchie7143 yes I should be boycotting NBC for having Elder Bill Cosby being locked up in prison over a racist white lie NBC is the real reason why Elder Bill Cosby is in prison today. Because He was planning to purchase the network than all of a sudden these racist bulls-t allegations came out against Our Elder Bill Cosby of raping and drugging women & knows full well that they're racist feminist lies!

X. N 0

And he will never be forgotten in my opinion! When u think of jokes that’s one of the first guys who comes to mind.

@@arncoo63 nope

Loved it too... sad the character Woodrow passed yesterday, I think Lamont is the last one left. 😞

Neither will I. SANFORD AND SON, GOOD TIMES, and THE JEFFERSONS but especially the first two are important touchstones to let future generations know Black sitcoms didn’t start with THE COSBY SHOW with Black people living an upper middle class life in Bel-Air

@@HarveyDent322 we related because that's how we was living like Good times or Sanford and son 😂😂💯💯

One ☝️ of best comedy show

Awards shmwards. We don't need a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, either.

Yes great show I still watch it today I think Redd Foxx should have got an award.

That's because white people were in charge. They didn't rewarded him for his contribution and his 🎖 honoring work. Because intimidation, envy and jealousy. white people do what they always do with Black People success...Cut you from their pie. They felt like they made him. You dumbie, God created Foxx and the gift that is given to Redd Foxx makes him.

So True, 👍

Yep Now TV is just heavily scripted reality shows.

This show is not PC enough now days... Love the classic shows that could tell a joke

Man I hear you I loved it also Chico and the Man

Me too!

@@barryharkins9390 was just talking about Chico and The Man the other day ✌🏼🤟🏼

Yeah they appealed to all races, funny is color blind

You betcha!

Kinda hard since money like that was unavailable.

@Bret Pardon thanks, I didn't know that.

@kev truth if Elvis gives you a ring as a gift the government doesn't get to take it.

You need to pay attention Eddie Murphy did not pay his taxes Eddie Murphy paid for his funeral that's what red fox is mad about when he said black people won't come together and help each other. Nobody helped him with his taxes he died owing the government. You black woman need to stop thinking with emotions and go find out the truth

@Shane Barber. beautifully said ❤

Diane Ladybug Hudson ....Frank Sinatra paid Redd Foxx's taxes at some point as well.....

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I remember the Jimmy Walker Dy No Mite tees that many people were wearing in the 70's ...along with the journey jerseys and pop star jerseys back then. Flare jeans and stacked heels .

Loved him arguing with aunt esther that was great !

Damn! I had a chance to get one of those and took a pass....

I wouldn't even say 'like' stage acting. It was stage acting, with a live audience and everything.

My favorite shows, those, and I was born in '72.

Remember when some of the best comedy shows would start with “...was filmed before a live studio audience.”?

On Tv one... I do as well

I do too on channel TVONE

I been on tv one all day back to back episodes 💙

I agree, which is why it killed BB.

To be fair Brady bunch was kid friendly family show and Sanford and son was for the grownups

@@vespasianflaviustheemperor7901 most correct

Me and dad in a junkyard.Thats why I loved it..it was my life.

@@geraldfriend256 my daughter was once married to a fellow wit a marine salvage yard. Interesting place.

Yeh except he didn't pay his taxes & lost his house in Vegas. The executives were right. He couldn't handle his overnight success.

😆🤣😂

😂😂😂😂😂 Omg

Ya think? LONG over-due.

Exactly, that's how you buy the block!

Well he didn't pay his taxes, spent alot of money too

A Latino pastor in the Bronx got an 80/20 brand new building built with his church members and the storefront is a neighborhood supermarket paying big time rent You think anyone of us not a member of his church gonna get an apartment there? Group economics. Pretty much every building in NYC either owned by a family or a small group of people

I’m ready 💰💰💰💲💲💲💲

Yet ppl talk about what the industry does yet these individuals like Dave Chappelle never leave...the truth is most will allow themselves to be used cuz these producers knew many black people want to get out of their circumstances so they present money and that love for money makes them a victim

bi ctfuuu no bi mj0

You jokin'

The industry will screw over anybody when they can

Right, As Well As Good Times Father.

Red is Ledgend Rest Peace.

What?

You are absolutely right..ty ❤🖤😊

True

Tony, you're so correct. Fred Sanford was homophobic and he was not big on Puerto Ricans nor white people.....which is racist. The difference is, Redd made it so hilarious. Only Redd Foxx could play such a roll and make it funny. Not only that, but We were still in the midst of the civil rights movement when the show began airing, which made it even edgier. Again tho, Redd played the role so well and made something so ridiculous(racism & bigotry) the joke that it is. Redd was a comedic genius.

Fred Sanford, Archie Bunker, and George Jefferson were racist characters in some way, but the actors put such a hilarious spin on these roles it was virtually impossible not to laugh. That could never be done now.

Facts

52 here and I agree 100%

I also agree 100% Sanford and Son was probably the best, show on TV and still today I watch it .

No one cares

Well said, Prima.

indeed🥺

Sanford and Son was a great American show. Redd Foxx was an American comedy legend.😊

Still to this Day.... Classic

Me too, i have the full collection set of S&S and of Good Times on dvd!! 😁💖

I'll never 4get Red Foxx! I bring him up, from time 2 time, azz well. Let newbiez, learn about him!

Harlem Nights was an excellent movie... Very Funny...The whole cast was exceptional.

Now I have to watch that movie, thanks.

Your welcome @@alvaroakatico9188

Same!

I don’t remember him. Do you know what the name of the episode was that your Uncle was in?

@@Survivor58 Season 6 Episode 9. He plays the character Carol Rhodes.

That's cool to be connected to this piece of history like that.

I care. I will look up this episode. This is my favorite show...

John Irizarry 😊

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Amen! They don’t matter and never did haha! Like the Grand Ole Opry Awards! Do people really think Garth Brooks was the entertainer of the year of 2019 bc they awarded it to him? That’s the equivalent, the place who rejected Waylon and Willie! Haha! They preferred Porter Wagner btw and yes I’m that old. I preferred the Outlaws too, as they called them ;)

Have you seen good times?! Just as good

@@SamanthaMac912 faxx I was born in '03 and I love all the old black sitcoms

Mamsduke only show she watch 100

I don’t remember The Sanford Arms, but I watched the spin offs and they really weren’t any good. I don’t think any of them lasted longer than 1 season.

Yep, still. You nailed it. Best ever.

When BB.. thought he.sleep with Fred wife but he slept with Aunt ester. That was my favorite.

The episode “Lamont goes African” Lamont tells fred his new non-slave name is Kalunda and tries to get him to stop calling him lamont: Lamont: My name is Kalunda, Ka..lun..da!! Say it! Fred: Calendar!

@@TrueTrife 🤣🤣🤣

Richard Pryor was initially slated to be in Blazing Saddles.

Favorite lines. Fred told Ester she was so ugly,he could stick her face in some dough,and make gorilla cookies.😂 Fred told Ester she was so ugly as a child, strangers offered her suckers to get under the car.😂😂😂. Favorite episode? Fred stages a robbery after he broke Lamont’s trinkets. When Lamont finds out he stages a robbery for Fred’s piggy bank.🤣🤣🤣.Till this day I crack up laughing.

He made me feel like a bonafide dummy 🤗