Word: foxx
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...Foxx's delivery of such gag lines is like a rasp drawn gently across the funnybone. With timing that would take an atomic clock to measure, he teases a laugh like a yo-yo on the end of a string. A figure of grizzled aplomb, he can get up from a spread of ham hocks and pinto beans, then strut through a junky living room as if he were Louis XIV in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...electrician in St. Louis, Foxx ran away to New York when he was 17, determined to break into show business. His first "club" was a street corner, where he played a washtub in a group named the Five Hip Cats...
Somewhere along the way he adopted his stage name, which was inspired by Baseball Great Jimmie Foxx and the red fox in children's stories. His real name was Sanford, which Yorkin and Lear borrowed for the show...
Dirty Jokes. Eventually, Foxx worked up to the Chitlin' Circuit, the trade name for the black clubs and music halls around the country...
...want a white woman. If I want a white woman, may the Lord strike me down with polio." Then his body goes out of joint, and he hobbles offstage. The records and a few "clean" appearances on TV eventually caught the eye of Las Vegas managers, and Foxx became a regular at the Hilton International...