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Blue Room | History of Taboo
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America has long struggled to balance a commitment to free speech with the vocal concerns of citizen’s groups and government officials worried about a decline of Western values. No group has been affected by this debate more than comedians, from the early censorship of Groucho Marx’s films Monkey Business and She Done Him Wrong in the early 1930s, to the MPAA’s challenges to Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, to Lucille Ball being barred from using the word “pregnant” on television in the 1950s. With the cultural revolution of the 1970s came a new wave of government and network pushback, culminating in the more recent censorship struggles of artists like Bill Hicks, Howard Stern, Bill Maher, and Stephen Colbert.
This video includes exclusive interviews with Jim Gaffigan, Leonard Maltin, Dave Foley, Wendy Liebman, Larry Charles, Cindy Chupack, Larry David, Peter Tolan, Larry Wilmore, and Mike Myers.
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