🦖 Born in the 70s, Raised on Pure Chaos… And Why I Stay Quiet in 2025 😂🔇
�My childhood, teens, and twenties were soaked in comedy, cartoons, movies, and music that operated on one rule: There are no rules.
�Sam Kinison screaming like a Pentecostal preacher who swapped the Bible for bourbon.
�Dice Clay packing Madison Square Garden with rhymes that would get you auto-banned today.
�And that was just the stand-up.
If you’re Gen Z or young millennial reading this and thinking “wait, that was allowed?”… yeah, bro.
It wasn’t just allowed, it was prime-time cable.
�If you’re my age, you already know.
🔥 20 Comedy Titans Who Wired My Brain (plus the fact that still drops jaws)
• Sam Kinison (1953-1992) → Ex-Pentecostal preacher turned howling divorce exorcist ⛪😵
• Andrew Dice Clay (1957-) → Sold out two nights at MSG with material that needed an NC-17 warning 🏟️
• Bill Hicks (1961-1994) → Chain-smoking philosopher who called marketing the devil’s work 💀
• Gilbert Gottfried (1955-2022) → Disney parrot voice by day, filthiest live act on earth by night 🦜
• Bob Saget (1956-2022) → Full House dad → stand-up so dirty it melted VCRs 🏠→🔥
• Richard Pryor (1940-2005) → Literally set himself on fire and came back funnier 🔥
• George Carlin (1937-2008) → Arrested for words that are PG-13 now 🖕
• Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) → Started comedy at 46 after selling siding. Absolute king 🪜
• Redd Foxx (1922-1991) → Faked heart attacks so often nobody believed the real one ❤️🩹
• Bobby Slayton (1955-) → The Pitbull of Comedy, still biting 🐶
• Robert Schimmel (1950-2010) → Beat cancer, then told cancer jokes that made rooms cry laughing ⚡️
• Denis Leary (1957-) → Wrote “Asshole,” then played a hero firefighter 🚒
• Greg Giraldo (1965-2010) → Harvard Law grad → professional celebrity destroyer 🔥
• Jackie Martling (1948-) → 15 years as Howard Stern’s head writer – joke machine 📻
• Rudy Ray Moore (1927-2008) → Self-funded Dolemite, invented the hustle game 💎
• John Valby (1944-) → Cornell-educated “Dr. Dirty” piano man from hell 🎹
• Dave Attell (1965-) → Drunk-walking cities at 4 a.m. for material 🌙🍺
• Roseanne Barr (1952-) → Domestic Goddess who weaponized working-class rage 💥
• Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) → Arrested for words, died broke, made the rest possible ✊
• Don Rickles (1926-2017) → Roasted Sinatra to his face and became his best friend 🍸
🎞️ And 20 “Childhood” Things That Would Get Memory-Holed Today
(Stuff we watched at 10 a.m. on Saturday while eating cereal that was 90% sugar)
1 Fritz the Cat – first X-rated animated feature
2 Heavy Metal (1981) – animated sex & gore set to rock
3 Ren & Stimpy – bodily fluids in extreme close-up
4 Beavis & Butt-Head laughing at stuff they didn’t understand
5 Original unedited Looney Tunes (yes, the ones in the vault now)
6 Itchy & Scratchy segments on The Simpsons
7 Æon Flux on MTV – leather, death, weird vibes
8 Robocop Saturday-morning cartoon (same violence, new toys)
9 Rambo: The Force of Freedom cartoon
10 Toxic Crusaders – mutants beating people with mops
11 The Maxx – trauma and abuse themes on MTV
12 Rock & Rule – demonic Mick Jagger cartoon
13 Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards – Nazis and topless fairies
14 Transformers – robots dying screaming every episode
15 Thundercats summoning “ancient spirits of evil” before noon
16 Liquid Television – random screaming and Spawn
17 Tom & Jerry attempted murder marathon
18 GI Joe explosions followed by “Knowing is half the battle”
19 Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (banned Warner short)
20 MTV’s late-night animation blocks that definitely weren’t for kids
That was the air we breathed.
So yeah… this is why I triple-check every single post in 2025
My default setting is still 1994.
�I type something → inner Kinison starts preaching → I delete the whole thing.
�Every meme, comment, text, story, joke… same process.
Born in the 70s, raised on zero filters, now living in a world that runs on them.
�It’s adjustable, but damn, it’s exhausting.
Any other 70s/80s/90s kids feeling like refugees?
�Younger crowd – go watch the old specials on YouTube while they’re still up.
You’ll understand us a little better. ⏰✨
Raise your hand if your sense of humor is on the endangered-species list 😂🙋♂️
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