LaWanda Page: Death of a Comedy Queen

Mobituaries with Mo Rocca

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Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Long before her turn as the sermonizing Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son," LaWanda Page was dazzling Black nightclub audiences - first as the flame-swallowing “Bronze Goddess of Fire”. Then, following in the footsteps of her childhood friend and eventual costar Redd Foxx, she became a queen of raunchy, tell-it-like-it-is stand up comedy. (Let’s just say Aunt Esther would not have approved of LaWanda’s act.) In this season 4 finale, Mo reflects on Page’s influential career with entertainment icon Whoopi Goldberg and remembers the adults-only "party record' phenomenon with comedian Alonzo Bodden.

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0:00.0	Now streaming on Paramount Plus.
0:02.2	This is Dr. Frazier Crane.
0:03.7	I'm listening.
0:04.7	He's back again.
0:06.3	Hey dad, I got a question about punctuation.
0:08.0	Ooh!
0:09.0	No, stay on task.
0:10.0	And he's more Frazier than ever.
0:11.9	How do I look?
0:13.0	Rich.
0:14.0	Just what I was going to do.
0:15.0	Oh my God, they traded your baby for wine.
0:17.0	Do you really think we would trade John for white Zinfandel?
0:21.0	Or any wine.
0:24.0	Frazier, new season now streaming on Paramount Plus. Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier.
0:35.0	and Joe Frazier.
0:37.0	For the first time in heavyweight championship history,
0:40.0	we have two undefeated fighters in there.
0:42.0	Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borne Borne. We have two undefeated fighters in there.
0:42.8	Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg
0:45.4	gets broken, sir, once again and leads
0:47.8	four two in the final set.
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