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are not familiar with this show. It is about a jewish woman may Midge Measle who tries to build a career as a comedian, starting at the end of the nineteen fifties. There
Various performers who appear is
actors on this show some of them
real world inspirations, but they are fictional characters.
other ones like Lenny Bruce, you are,
fix, analyzed,
representations of a real person in an
pursued from the shows third season. Mrs Maes,
performs Ip Apollo theatre in Harlem and a half
of her on stage is moms. Maybe he was played wonderfully by Wanda Sykes,
if my own age and background were a little difference or maybe, if I had grown up, why,
sing. Reruns of old variety shows. I would have already known who this was, but I didn't.
So I did what I always do. New performer shows up on the marvelous, MRS Maes and I googled. So
Maybe yes was a real person, but I have some doubts.
about being able to do this episode, because her career lasted more than six decades. She was
hugely influential. She inspired
many comedians with other performers who came after her she's, really one of the founders of standard
comedy and the United States, but outside of her
work. A lot of the details of her life are kind of a mystery, and there are some key.
trajectory accounts of a particularly traumatic part of her early life. Heads up that talking about those contradictions. If that's gonna envy
some discussion of rape and other trauma, and I also think if I were part of
adoption triad there's some part of this that I would probably also find particularly troubling mom
maybe was born Loretta Mary Aiken on March nineteenth per
probably one thousand eight. Ninety seven in the
Nineteen hundred census, her age has given his three.
But in the earliest years of her career, when people might have thought she was too young to be out on her own, she go
Her birth here is eighteen. Ninety four,
later in her life. She was not forthcoming about her age at all and to add another layer of confusion. Her grave
our girlish sir date of birth as March Nineteenth Eighteen,
benign Loretta parents were
James and Mary Magdalen Smith, Aiken James. He was
Jim was the son of Jane Aiken Hall and his father with her aunts. Labour Jim was
in eighteen, sixty one and normally that would have meant he was considered. He was enslaved from his birth, but it seems that his father considered him to be free accord
two moms maybe later accounts. His mother made a particular point of telling both him and Loretta that they have
been born free Loretta,
had a great grandmother. Harriet Smith, she described as Cherokee, who was a big part of her early life and a big influence on her
the family lived in, provide North Carolina, which is southwest of Asheville on the edge of what is now Pisca national Forest.
One thousand hundred and eighty a population of under six hundred people. It is
easy to imagine that a black family in a small town in the North Carolina mountains in the early twentieth century was living in severe poverty and a lot of current descriptions of bombs may please imply that her early childhood was one of extreme hardship and that she,
fled boulevard and never looked back
but in interviews later on, her life maybe talked about Western North Carolina with just enormous fond. This study,
Cole recorded and oral history with her in nineteen sixty one, and she did joke that. You had to take it
Oghee from Asheville to get to regard, but she also called it one of the greatest and healthiest places on earth she's.
Give her grandmother in her great grandmother with deep, deep love and respect energy.
that other people gave after her death also described her. Making frequent visits home and me
taking her connection to the North Carolina mountains. She
described her father Jim again as a great man
he was a successful business man who had started out selling gingerbread and cider and worked his
up to owning a store along with a bakery slash cafe Amber.
barber shop that cater to white customers. He also,
I am a great service which carried both passengers and freight alone
carrying the male into and out of town.
Maybe he's oral testimony describes boulevard as not being segregated. It did have segregated schools. Her father was a big
heart of getting a new school for black children established and provide an early? Nineteen o nine and a new
paper article about that effort, noted his involvement and then said quote what Jim undertakes generally goes. I love that quote
Tragically, though Jamaican died when Loretta was about twelve in a dish,
and to everything we just mentioned. He was a volunteer fire fighter. At this point, my
Fire trucks were chemical engines, they carried tanks of bicarbonate of soda and acid, which were
to water on the scene, to produce a stream of fire suppressant
something went wrong while Aiken was responding to a call in nineteen o nine in the tank exploded, while he was tried to it,
I the hose Jim,
was killed instantly and multiple other firefighters were seriously injured. Jimmy
Death was a profound loss for the entire community of Bernard has fewer
was held at the White First Baptist Church, because that was the biggest church in that area and
Coral in the french broad hustler described him, as quote one colored man who left the world better than he found it.
The Brevard NEWS wrote quote the death of James P. Aiken is a distinct loss to our town. He was the most
widely known colored man in Western North Carolina. He was successful and enterprising business
man who store on main street as well patronized
He was a member of the Baptist Church and several benevolent societies
was a member of the fire department where William embraced Junior was chief and was all
is among the first to respond to the call of the fire Bell and one of the hardest workers at every fire in the history of the town. He was
in every way a responsible, negro, honest, energetic in
serious and reliable. He had a wide influence among the colored race and this mountain section. Besides having
any friends among the white people, all of whom will be shocked to learn of his sudden death.
lastly, racism is threaded through both of these quotes, with the idea that Jim Aiken was exceptional. Considering his race
but they do also speak to how prominent he was within the community law.
His mother Mary was the executor of her late husbands estate. She also
took over the store, while we grandmother helps to take care of her and her siblings, they did have
big family. She was one of at least nine children
Mary eventually got married again to a man named George Pardon and from
point: her name appeared in advertisements for the store as Mary Aiken part. It appears that
at the store going until nineteen, twelve or nineteen thirteen, at which point she sold the bill
to pardon, and the couple moved away from Brevoort first to washing
Do you see and then to Cleveland Ohio
of more recent articles about moms mainly see that her mother was killed just a couple of years after her father after being hit
Track, while crossing the street. On Christmas day
That's all very sensational, but it does not seem to be correct. Mary and Georgia are listed in the nineteen forty census as living in Cleveland with Georgia.
Your patient at the time listed as waiter who it is
possible that Mary was killed after being hit by a truck Tracy was not able to confirm her cause of death.
but if she was that happened in nineteen, forty, six, nineteen, forty seven and not when Loretta was still a young girl. However,
in addition to her father's death, Loretta Life took a traumatic turn when she was still quite young. Multiple,
some say that she was raped by two different men before she turned fourteen and that both
I'm she became pregnant and arranged adoption
for her children
someone arranged those adoptions for her. Other accounts, though say that it will.
Really rearrangement of a formal adoption that Loretta had left her children in the care of two women who later
moved away and disappeared, and she didn't get to see her children again until they were adults, yet
their accounts, say that Loretta Father or stepfather either for
her to marry a much older man or pressure
to do so, and that is why she left home as a team, but there's no
documentation of a marriage, although there is some reporting in our news about a court case in nineteen thirteen that was state.
Since Bunyan Mills
this, was a seduction under promise of marriage case in which the prosecuting witness was named
ache in this case,
is introduced in August, but dismissed in September. When it was found.
that there had been no formal marriage contract anarchy.
A with studs turkle moms mainly also talked about working as a wet nurse in Asheville at the age of just fourteen and having to deploy,
her own child of milk, so that she would have enough to feed the baby that she was nursing. This recording is true,
heartbreaking with maybe talking about telling her baby daughter who she calls Lucretia, not to cry, because she
stronger than Baby Lois who she was being paid to care for so lowest needed more to eat. Maybe he's here,
about loving lowest like her own baby and how much it
her not to know what happened to her after her employment had ended. This interview, straw,
says the lowest started to feel like
her own child, but at least to me it doesn't seem to imply that she had also lost contact with her daughter, Lucretia, mainly all
talked and multiple interviews about being pregnant and having her baby with her at the start of her career
but with moms, mainly died in nineteen. Seventy five
Obituaries in memorials listed for children among her survivors, but
of them, are named as Lucretia or
old enough to have been born when Mama was fourteen
Yvonne, the eldest daughter is described as fifty eight at the time of her mothers death. That means that her mother would have been about eighteen when she was born
Yvonne's younger siblings were listed as Christine, Bonding and Charles was
sources, noting that Charles was her brothers child who she adopted
so some accounts conclude that IRAN and Christine were the children who were reunited with mainly as adults and others concluded. Those words to different people gather. Also,
bunch of family trees that lists com,
Steams middle name, as we Syria, which is
The same is Lucretia but as close enough, but have made people wonder like was. Was this the same baby? Was she caught
The baby by a middle name and like the spelling, has gotten
bold somewhere. If so that means the years are also garbled. There's a bunch that's unclear, but what ever the exact circumcised
answers? Are, though, young Loretta, Mary Aiken, left home at the encouragement.
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I'm that nineteen sixty one oral history with studs turkle moms mainly talked about her families. Deep religious faith,
when her grandmother. Sometimes this is also just as it was her great grandmother will blow
I encourage her to leave regard. She told her to quote. Put God in front and go ahead
and this became a motto for moms babies, life, the time
wine for that life is tricky to piece together, though, because there are plenty of things like advertisements for her performances, but otherwise a lot of time. There's not a lot of Congress. Documentation sometimes maybe he's
views contradict each other or they come
the documentation that does exist so that things like census records. Typically,
I am not suggesting that she was intentionally deceptive with any of this.
She gave a lot of these interviews in the last couple of decades of her life,
and I know I don't remember exactly when things happened in my childhood verses. Other events so who knows
It does seem that, after her mother move to Cleveland moms, mainly still known at that time is Loretta again went there
to join her. She was pregnant
at that time as the result of a rape, and she had planned to go from Cleveland to Detroit, determining that pregnancy but-
something told her not to whom she told
studs turkle that when she was fifteen trying to work out a way to support herself and her child, she prayed for guidance.
And heard a voice. That said quote: go
stage in clean,
when Loretta live with a pastor and his family and the house next door,
was a boarding house that was home to a lot of performers, one of them
Bonnie Bell drew helped her get a start in show business, maybe he's dead.
or Bonnie who was born in nineteen. Twenty was named body after Bonnie Bell drew Loretta.
Again, I got a job with the theatre owners, booking Association, which was a vaudeville circuit for black performers. It was a step
wished to the nineteen twenties with then
primarily in the southern and midwestern states. Its perform.
I gave it nicknames like tough on black actors.
Schedules were very gruelling. The pay was low
maybe later said that anyone who got to the end of the circuit had a solid foundation in all kinds of fundamentals, including singing
dancing and comedy. This was in part because
Every performer had to learn every part in case somebody got sick or injured or just drop
out of the show
Performers who got their start on this circuit included Gertrude Ma Rainy, Josephine Baker Am Sammy Davis Jr when he was still a child,
Her later life moms mainly told a story about being sick, while working this circuit and
older fellow performer, named Leroy came into her room to check on her police
raided the hotel after an unrelated altercation and searched all of the rooms
and when Leroy was found in the room of the teenage Loretta. Again they were forced to get married. But
two maybe there was no marriage, license no formal paperwork associated with this marriage, and we Roy was more like a father figure to her than a spouse. Look,
I was travelling through deeply segregated parts of the: U S, many of which were also well known for racist violence. She was
only about fourteen dollars a week which was not enough to support herself in her child. So
mother was sending money to help with food and lodging, but then-
Their pair of black performers took notice of her and helped her move into higher, paying gigs,
Those were Jody and Susie Edwards a k, a butter beans and Susie, who were a song and dance. Do oh there,
act was very comedic with a lot of double on tundra, thereby
snowed song was. I want a hot dog for my role
you can find recording the internet if you want
obviously, if you ve never heard any of moms. Maybe you ve comedy doth pause this and go to Youtube
funny extremely funny at me.
The above points while doing research. I stopped what I was doing and watched the moms, mainly anyway
Loretta moved from the theatre Owners Booking Association, where most of the venue were white owned to the Chitlins circuit, which was kind of its successor. Those theatres were primarily black, owned and operated and said
time. During this period she started performing under the name of Jackie, mainly may,
Billy herself told multiple stories about whether this name came from one
the jack mainly had been a boyfriend, and that quote, he took a lot off me in the least I could do. Is take his name another
Was it. The Jackie part was her own invention, but mainly was the last name of a young man she had been engaged to, but that didn't work
because he was a canadian and neither of them wanted to move to the others country, regardless
her motivation for changing. Her name seems to have been that her oldest brother thought her stage career was disgracing. The family, not
of her family shared that opinion, though she had a younger brother, Eddie Pardon who helped right some of our material. She was,
build as Jackie, mainly by nineteen twenty five, and she had established Jackie as an onstage character. She was
or twenties, but she imagined this character is in her sixties, patterned after her grandmother, Jane Ass, Jane
maybe she would sing dance and tell jokes and stories. Shiva
We made her way to New York where she was featured at colonies in Harlem after it open and nineteen twenty three like the cotton
club, where maybe also went on to perform commies in featured black performers for an all white audience ass,
reputation grew Mabley, kept getting better and more lucrative bookings. She also claimed that she discover
Pearl Bailey. During these years she said it of nineteen. Seventy four interview quote: I taught Pearl Bailey everything. She knows she was a blue singer and I said girl you're funny. You should
a comedian well made
these stage. Career initially included a mix of singing dancing in comedy overtime. She was focused more and more on stand up before. That term was even coined in her
age persona of Jackie. Maybe she help establish the conventions of stand up comedy as an art form. She would
builders, Jackie mainly for several years before other performers, and gave her the name of moms
her own words quote, even though I was young, they would always bring their problems to me to settle. She was a mothering presence. She was someone that other performers could turn to for support and who would
people get money for ranch or a ticket home when they need it.
mainly blurred a lot of lines with her gender and sexuality, both on and off stage in her on stage persona. She wore a baggy house, dress, sagging, socks, slippers or
eat up how shoes and the floppy hat off
these clothes aggressively did not go together. She had stooped
posture on the stage and, as she got older and started wearing dentures
would perform with her teeth out. This bridge
No wasn't exactly androgynous. The character was a woman who went by moms, but it was blurry enough that various people wrote into newspaper question and answer columns over the course of her career to ask if
moms Mabley was a man or a woman. As far as Europe,
France and her demeanour went moms mainly stage. Persona could come off as almost sexless, but at the same time her comedy could be
very with she did not swear, not
was sexually graphic in a way that if somebody said that really risque like today, you would imagine
something quite different. There was a lot of double entendu, though, and one of moms running themes was about her attract
a young man and the useless
the old man unless,
old man was bringing her a message from a young man I'll stay
people who performed with mainly have talked him.
her openly having relationships with other women
in some photos she shown as elegantly attired in a dress and pearls and in others she's in handsome suits that are more androgynous or almost aggressively masculine in the town
thirteen documentary, Whoopi Goldberg presents moms, mainly dancer
and Comedian Norma Miller, said quote. We know
called mom's a homosexual. That word.
were fit her. We never called her gay. We called
MR moms move carried out,
to her comedy and to the venues where she performed as well.
For example, in April of nineteen. Thirty, four: the: U Banging club opened on the former sight of colonies in one of its frequent,
line acts was Gladys Bentley, who was an openly lesbian performer who wore men's attire and with sometimes backed up by drag queens. You bank
became known for both performers, an clientele who we would probably describe as elderly Bt Q today and one of its performers.
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a lot of mobs, maybe he's comedy career, was really unique. For the time
women working in comedy or on the stage at all, were as part of a do. Oh with a man, but mainly was a solo act
In nineteen thirty nine she became the first woman's a headline at the APOLLO theatre as a solo comedian for decades she was
Really, the only black woman doing solo stand up and again this started before
term, was even coins.
She was also appearing on Broadway in the nineteen thirties at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. At this point, there were several brow:
we productions with all black casts, but they often had white directors and producers,
we're tailored for a white audience
but the shows mainly appeared inward developed and directed by black people, or they were otherwise focused on the black experience,
in general, be shows, did not run for long bear, often described as not appealing to white audiences and critics and
team thirty one she within fast and furious a colored review in thirty seven themes at the New Yorker Theatre. In a dish,
and being part of the casts mainly worked with
author and anthropologist is Zora Hurseton to develop some of the sketches and Hurseton appeared in the show as well.
And she was in MAX Rednecks blackberries of nineteen. Thirty two, as Sepia musical review
this ram at Liberty, theatre, Western Broadway on forty second street and then ran for twenty five performances
then there was swing in the dream in nineteen, thirty nine
which I am just desperately curious about. This was a swing musical adaptation of a midsummer night's dream with a cast that included
butterfly, Mcqueen and Louis Armstrong. It ran for thirteen,
performances,
views if it were not great- and I cannot imagine why the sounds incredible to me- I mean I can't imagine why that answer wise racism, but them still ray it's. The sounds incredible to me:
most of the script has been lost, which is one of the reasons I have just desperately curious about it will,
on the time machine list, one
It will make.
Maybe handsome small film rules during the same years like her broadway roles. These were in films they were made by and for black people a became known as race films
One of these was Emperor Jones, which came up. Nineteen thirty, three starring musician, actor and activist Paul
in her film workin
and you'd into the nineteen forties, including playing her comedic persona in killer Diller, which came out of nineteen. Forty seven in
the forty eight she played a boarding house matron in boarding house blues in which
the boarding houses residents, who are all performers put on a show to save moms and her boarding house from bankruptcy. The thing
She became the most known for during these years with our comedy onstage.
Longer and longer contracts that the APOLLO ultimately appearing there. More than any other entertainer and earning as much as ten thousand dollars a week, she constantly changed up her act so that we can t
you to appeal to returning members of the audience and soon she was nicknamed the funniest woman in the world
as the civil rights movement of all. In the nineteen fifties and sixtys, maybe he's comedy started to include more and more social, satire and commentary
about racism, sexism and politics there
continued as white audiences became more aware of her, with the evolution of comedy albums may
We recorded her first album funniest woman alive before alive audience in Chicago in nineteen sixty, and it was real,
used by chess records. It was a hit
and she went on to record ninety more comedy albums during her career, many
It made the billboard two hundred her night
sixty one moms, mainly at the? U N, hit number sixteen on the billboard, charts
the highest ranking comedy album by a woman and that record stood for the next decade of me,
We became more well known to white audiences. She used her disarming stage persona to make social and political commentary that probably would have been impossible without it. Her sets included fixed
conversations with world leaders where she set them straight on various wrongs. She made peace,
did observations about the realities of racism and segregation for
rainbow on her one thousand nine hundred and sixty three album. I got something to tell you she said quote: you know the first thing I would do if I was president, I would give a certain southern governor, a job as ambassador to the Congo and let him go crazy. Looking for a men's restroom with white on it, throughout
nineteen sixty. She also did benefit performances to raise money for causes like southern students, freedom Fund, which provided aid.
students who had been arrested for their civil rights activism. She did it
the APOLLO theatre to raise money for the March on Washington and she sold photographs during some of her shows to raise money for the Selma to Montgomery March,
She was also a member of the UN, W C p, and she attended the White House Conference on civil rights in nineteen. Sixty six, that in
I heard her album moms, mainly at the White House. She also
if multiple performances prisons, Oliver New York, including sing, sing and Rikers Island, may
please television baby was also connected to all of this. In nineteen sixty three,
harry. Bela fancy produced a time for laughter, a look at negro, humor and America. Bela fancy described this as an
to both demonstrate black people's humanity for the white world and to inspire joy and laughter within the black community. That was the first time. Moms mainly was on tv.
Maybe headlong talked about seeing her audiences as her children and when she started doing television she said quote the only
difference I found when I started doing tv was that, instead of looking at the audiences, my children, I
did the world is my children
She appeared on multiple televised comedy programmes and variety shows, including the Smothers brothers comedy our the Carol. Burnett show the Ed Sullivan Show and the FLIP Wilson show
these television appearances introduced her to a larger white audience than her albums had, and that
into bookings. Venues like the Kennedy Center, but at that point,
she'd been performing and famous among black audiences for
fifty years and ninety
Sixty nine moms, maybe is cover of Abraham, Martin and John, which has the song about the assassinations of Abraham, Lincoln Martin Luther King Jr, John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy hit number thirty. Five on the billboard charts she performed this song, ass moms,
it was a completely serious and audibly grief stricken performance
nineteen seventeen may believe comedy included her opposition to U S: involvement in the Vietnam WAR and in an
teen. Seventy to interview she said quote: I shed meant
A tier over those boys I wanted to go over there, but the government said I was too old, but it
I'd gone over. There I'd have said: come on children, let's go home all
though in nineteen seventy two, she supported past podcast subjects, surely Chisholm's election campaign and appeared at a stars.
Surely fundraiser
In nineteen, seventy four moms mainly made her last tv appearance as presented at the Grammy Awards with Chris Christophersen. At the time
I'm christophersen, was thirty eight and the two of them play that moms attraction. The young men made
asked him the name of the song he wrote and after he replied, help me make it through the night.
surveying quote:
you can make it for half an hour. It will be all right with me
banter went on for a full five minutes before announcing the award that went to Gladys night in the pimps and maybe
her teeth out in the middle of it. It's amazing
see this on Youtube. Also, oh good. Also
Nineteen. Seventy four mainly had her first led in a feature film. This was
called amazing grace, and she played grace Teasdale Grimes about a woman who goes up against a corrupt politician and its posters. Red quote, whose comments
put an end to dirty tricks, crooked politicians and Lyon. Mayors who America's
most glamorous sexiest female superstar moms. Mainly it's about time
maybe had a heart attack during the production for this foam
returned to the said after having a pacemaker, implanted and she used,
publicity for the film to promote voting, but this was her
asked appearance on screen,
died on May twenty third nineteen. Seventy five in white Plains New York at the age of about seventy eight,
she was survived by four children: five grandchildren,
two sisters and three brothers, including her brother Eddie Parton, who had helped right some
material. She had spent her
last year's living with her daughter Bonnie at least five.
It. People attended her funeral and the Marquis at the APOLLO theater was changed to read. Harlem mourns moms, mainly comedian
Dick Gregory gave a eulogy in which he said that if she had been white, she'd have been known fifty years before today
mom's mainly is known as one of the founders of American stand up comedy ally
of later comedians have cited. Her is an inspiration, including Eddie Murphy, richer, prior Wanda Sykes are sending a hall and would be Goldberg who, as we said, made a documentary
about moms and twenty thirteen originally called. I got something to tell you before it was picked up by HBO
In the nineteen abies queries, Taylor worked with playwright, our children to write a play called moms,
debuted at the Astor place, theater and nineteen, eighty seven, the character,
of Grannie Club in Eddie Murphy. The many professor is also a tribute to her fan and mobs
please own words. Her influence was more
racism that all of that quote theirs.
A comedian in show business that hasn't stole material from moms, not white or black, as fast as they steal m. God gives me some more love her
Genius and as I said I and multiple times to stops what I was doing and what at the summit, I watched
maybe on Youtube. I also watched Wanda Sykes Appearance Ass, her on marvelous.
This may I watch that three or four additional, more talk him spot for several years.
I think a lot
her comedy definitely hold up
have not listened every to every single album she has ever done. So I don't think I can make a blanket statement that every moms, mainly joke, has where
the years. Well, that's a lot of it is still the hilarious
I have Worcester mail, it's from Christina, factually and Instagram message. Christine said. I just had to send this to you
setting you just that. An episode on the history of unicorns that I dont remember this being mentioned have a great day. Several folks have sent us this video.
and the video just went up yesterday. I think, as and when we are recording this.
And it is a video call- did unicorns exist and it is time
king about the extinct animal, alas
Pyraeum Siberia come. I also called the siberian unicorn. What one of the things that the
video talks about is that it was
leave to have gone extinct at least a hundred thousand years ago. But there's radio carbon dating that suggest it was
like thirty nine thousand years ago, so this animal would have existed alongside prehistoric humans. Maybe
since the origin of unicorn myths. Here's the thing that this
ago have like the most horse like illustration of this animal. Most of them. It looks much much more.
like a rhinoceros with an almost buffalo like hump?
very rhinoceros ie and also they were twice as big as redraw. Services are its
not impossible that people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where the where these lived had some,
and of oral traditional relating to them. But there's a
clearer progression from the indian Sub continent through Greece and Rome into Europe, which is what we we traced on. That
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