A friend of mine lent me an old 8 Track tape years ago of LaWanda Page's "Mutha' Is Half A Word" a looooong time ago and I have been laughing my ass off ever since. I made a copy onto cassette back then and recently I burned the cassette onto CD.

LaWanda Page played Aunt Esther on "Sanford and Son" and if you think you are going to hear good, clean, family humor....well dammitt, you can forget it. She may have played the bible carrying aunt on "Sanford and Son" but she talks cash shit on her comedy albums.

She has also been sampled numerous times over the years by rap groups like The 2 Live Crew and The Dogs.

Has anyone else heard any of her albums? If you haven't, I highly recommend them.






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Man, I gotta get these albums. Ive always heard how great her records are.

i have one of her comedy CDs - it's a riot...though in some places, the way the audience carries on through her show, they're almost funnier than she is in some places!

Somebody give that sucka a spoon!

Vainandy, you're waaaay too late, chile

But betta late than neva I guess,,,,good start

She's def the female version of Redd Foxx

A funny ass show that was, what year was that from man?

Sounds good....you old heathen! Amazon has the two mentioned as well as one called "Watch It Sucker". Which one is most highly recommended? I really don't own many comedy albums. In fact, I think I only have one from Jackie Martling and while it was funny, I can't imagine listening to it again.
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MUTHA IS ONLY HALF A WORD is one of the funniest comedy albums I ever heard.

VinnyM27 said:

"watch it sucker" is the one i have, and it's a scream. i need to hear some of the other ones.

I love the audience participation. She started telling a joke about a woman getting on a bus "with great big titties honey, hanging down like watermelons". One lady in the audience said "That was me!" and LaWanda said "Yeah, that was you". The audience really makes the album funny.

I don't know what year it was. As I said, I made a copy of an 8 Track I borrowed from a friend years ago. He said he bought it from a dirty book store in a major city. I'm thinking it was made in the early 1970s.

My favorite joke on there is the one about the white woman in the crazy house with the black nurse. You know the one.
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As I was telling paisleypark4, I copied "Mutha Is Half A Word" from the original 8 Track. I've noticed LaWanda Page CDs on Tower Records and Amazon sites and the track listing for "Watch It Sucka" and some of her other CDs contains some of the tracks that are on are mine. Also, their "Mutha Is Half A Word" is not near as long as my copy of the 8 Track. It looks like they got about two or three albums and spread them out onto about 5 CDs.

I don't know. I think she got ole Redd beat with her raunchiness.

A friend of mine saw her live one time and she told a man in the audience "What the fuck are you looking at motha fucka? You know you want some of this pussy!" Then she pulled her panties off from underneath her dress and threw them in his face and told him to sniff them.

And she was also on Skillet & Leroy's comedy albums.....
I think that's where she got her start.....
Does anyone remember Skillet & Leroy?????
And are they still alive?????
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vainandy said:

vainandy said:

Whew, just about split my side laughing at that one. I gotta get these comedy CDs, they sound like a lot of fun to listen to.

I love the opening for 'Mutha Is Half A Word' when she talks about the whores her man is fucking with....she gave this advice to the women about what to do when their man came home after being with the whores...

"Yo man be out all night with them whores, buying them mink stoles, furs, every damn thang....you sitting at home with a raggety ass robe on...not a seaquin or a bead on the god damn thang....

...you gott do like the whores baby! when he comes home you get him in the bed and FUCK HIM GOOD.....be like 'OH DADDY...GIVE IT TO ME....UUUUUGGGGHHHHH!!!!!

you do that and yo man will stay true to you!'



Timeless.....!
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Yeah, she moans about three times through the album. I like it when she goes to doctor and he takes her temperature through her rectum. He stuck it in her rectum and pretty soon it got good to her and she started hollering:

"Oh...Oh doctor! Oh daddy...please. Doctor, just a little bit over to the left. Right there, right there, right there. Hold it! Hold it! HOLD IT! You motha fucka! OOOOOHHHHH SHIT! Sock it to me doctor!"

Then she said "Wait a minute doctor, hell, that ain't my rectum!" The doctor said "No and that ain't my thermometer either!" Then her husband walked in and said "That son of a bitch better have numbers on it when you pull it out!"

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LaWanda and Redd and skillet and leroy all used to work the circuit together if memory serves me they were childhood friends in st.Louis, La Wanda in her younger days was a stripper

funkpill said:

Just remember them mostly from Sanford & Son.

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What about the funeral skit when the body pops up in the coffin??

The minister yells something like 'OH MUTHA FUCKA dont let me have to kill yo BLACK ASS AGAIN!!!!!'

Or the parrot that snitched on the cheating wife and she poked a hole in his head and threw him in the toilet...when she sat down on it....the parrot goes..

"GOT DAMN! I may have this lttle hole in my head but it aint nuthin like that big hole in yo ass!




I'll have to listen to it tonight!

Is this the same Skillet & Leroy that was on the episode of "Sanford and Son" where Fred was throwing a party and Fast Fannie was coming over later with her whores and the guys ended up dancing and wearing themselves out before the girls got there?

If that's them, I bet Esther is talking plenty of shit on that record!

Both of those were good, especially the parot! The wife was cheating on her husband and when he would come home, the damned parot would holler "The bitch been fuckin'! The bitch been fuckin!"

And the white woman in the crazy house climbing up the walls screaming "I want a LONG BLACK DICK!!" The black nurse said "You was crazy as hell when they brought you here. But you're in your RIGHT DAMNED MIND NOW!!"
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I saw that on the E Channel's Redd Foxx "True Hollywood Story" and just about fell out laughing. I can just imagine her stripping. Who knows, she might have been sexy back in her younger days. Even if she wasn't, she wouldn't care. I remember when she told Arsenio Hall "I get paid to be ugly. What's your excuse?".

vainandy said:

Yep.....
I always wondered what happen to them.....

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TheRealFiness said:

Yep...That's right.....

Slappy white was a funny cat too nah'


but ya gotta give it up for this Queen heah


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