# Prodigious Profaniy Practitioners
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 22, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428 "2011-06-22T14:33:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/1 "2011-06-22T14:33:07Z")
Samuel L Jackson has been, at least since Pulp Fiction, one of the foremost fonts of four-letter filth. If you listen really closely, you can hear ‘Muthafucka’ as Mace Windu is betrayed by Anakin Skywalker. Of course there is also the Snakes on a Plane quote\* and his being chosen to narrate the audiobook of Go the Fuck to Sleep.
Samuel’s immediate predecessor was probably the late, great Richard Pryor. His comedic cussing capabilities set the stage for a generation of Black comedy. Pryor begat Eddie Murphy who begat Chris Rock and so forth.
These are two of the all time greats verbalizers of vulgarities. So I ask that you post your thoughts about your favorite exclaimer of expletives; orator of obscenities; utterer of ugly, uh, utterances.
\*Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/2 "2011-06-22T14:36:02Z")
Bob Saget. His stand-up routine is incredibly blue, and of course he made the film The Aristocrats.
Danny Tanner he ain’t.
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### Author:  [@cdsilv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdsilv)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/3 "2011-06-22T15:24:43Z")
I believe that if they were allowed to, Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam could outdo any marine drill sargeant.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/4 "2011-06-22T15:27:16Z")
I am amazed at what Jon Stewart gets away with through a combination of bleep-outs and the cover of comedy. Every now and then he makes a reference to “skull-f@#$ing” or something similarly beyond the pale and I just cringe since my just-teen kid gets his politics from that show.
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### Author:  [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/5 "2011-06-22T15:29:05Z")
Bill Hicks.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/6 "2011-06-22T17:00:31Z")
[Peggy the Foul-Mouthed Chambermaid](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_eDBITOvyk)
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### Author:  [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/7 "2011-06-22T17:06:22Z")
The lates Redd Foxx and Bernie Mac
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/8 "2011-06-22T17:08:11Z")
Ian McShane in Deadwood as Al Swearengen. James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano. Not that they were the only profane characters in their respective TV shows, but they certainly stood head and shoulders above the rest.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/9 "2011-06-22T17:13:14Z")
Trey Parker and Matt Stone via _South Park_.
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/10 "2011-06-22T17:26:13Z")
R. Lee Ermey’s entire _Full Metal Jacket_ performance.
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### Author:  [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/11 "2011-06-22T17:34:39Z")
Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi) from [The Thick of It](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thick_of_It) and [In the Loop](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226774/quotes). Youtube example [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTHiReUNo4).
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/12 "2011-06-22T17:58:19Z")
Sam Kinnison.
Almost the entire cast of _The Big Lebowski_.
And you gotta love Wiki, that it has an entire page on this: [List of films that most frequently use the word fuck - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_that_most_frequently_use_the_word_%22fuck%22)
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### Author:  [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prodigious-profaniy-practitioners/586428/13 "2011-06-22T18:48:14Z")
> [@ministryman](#):
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> The lates Redd Foxx and Bernie Mac
Redd Foxx for sure!
I remember a fuss in the mid-1970’s, when he appeared at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand show. The Fair had hired him based largely on his TV appearances, and discovered that his in-person show had a lot more profanity & risqué jokes. Enough that it bothered some of this Minnesota audience, which included a lot kids.
The Fair Board & Federation officers had an emergency session to decide what they could do about this. In the end, they just asked him to ‘tone it down’ a bit. That didn’t really work; Redd was so used to talking this way that he didn’t even notice that he was using profane language. But it turned out OK; rural Minnesota Lutherans stayed until the end of his show, then told everyone how shocked & upset they were. And tickets sold out.