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Showbiz Imagery and Forgotten History
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1932 - Moral guardians forced Paramount to ban the use of the words: alley cat, bag, bat, broad, chippies, cocotte, courtesan, dame, lousy, punk, nuts, screwy, eunich, fanny, filthy, floozy, guts, harlot, hellcat, hellion, hellish, mistress, moll, nertz, nude, nursery, pansy, rump, scut, sex, sexual, slut, trade, trollop, virtuous, and wench. 
Also cut were the phrases Farmer’s Daughter, Hot Mama, How in Hell, On the Make, In Your Hat, and You Know What You Can Do With It.
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Slut shaming Dorothy Kilgallen 
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You Must Be Joking (1965)
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The Vicious Arguments of Wayne and Shuster
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Canadian comedy team Wayne and Shuster
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TVARK
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Throbbing Cox's
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1960.
A television sitcom created by Marty Feldman.
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Scottish actor Bill Fraser was a mainstay of British television comedy
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Granada Presents
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British comedian Bernie Winters
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British Comedy Classic
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Comedy team Wayne and Shuster
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“CUM”
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In 1980 they built a Sesame Street Theme Park just outside of Philadelphia (for some reason).
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May 4, 1958.
Wayne and Shuster's triumphant debut on The Ed Sullivan Show.
This was the first of a record-breaking 67 appearances on the program.
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