Warbler said:
Nanner Split said:
Warbler said:
the Marx Brothers
the marx brothers were definitely dirty whenever they could get away with itcompared to today's comedians, they were squeaky clean.
They pushed the offensiveness boundaries as far as they could, same as today, only the boundaries where less broad. Groucho lines like...
When talking about a woman of 'lose-morals', in Horsefeathers he says "A 'College Widow' stood for something in my day... in fact, she stood for plenty!" (Raises eyebrows and grins).
When secretly seducing a woman in his hotel room afterhours in 'A Day at the Races', the woman says "I've never been so insulted in my life." and Groucho replies "Well... it's early yet."
and on Groucho's TV show he was interviewing a woman who had 19 kids. When asked why, she replied, "I love my husband" and Groucho responded, "I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in awhile."
He was as offensive as he could get away with.
Another example of a similar thing would be this scene from 1946's 'The Big Sleep'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF_chuSy9G4
...they don't use the actual word but they are obviously talking about f*cking, the studio knew it, the actors knew it and the audience knew it.