Music Review

Fugg It!!! The Very Best of Redd Foxx (1998)

EW's GRADE
B

Details Lead Performance: Redd Foxx; Genre: Comedy

Drawn from Foxx's '50s and '60s nightclub gigs, these 98 rapid-fire gags are remarkable for two reasons: The material on Fugg It!!! The Very Best of Redd Foxx — ranging from gibes at the KKK to sexual double entendres — sounds dated only occasionally. And even decades before Sanford & Son, Foxx had mastered the quintessential crusty old man delivery. The recordings' wildly varying sound quality serves mainly to enhance the dirtiness of the jokes. B

Originally posted May 29, 1998 Published in issue #434 May 29, 1998 Order article reprints

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