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Betty White

Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Betty White

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Betty White is saying that humor involving crude or risqué content needs to be genuinely amusing to justify its use. Simply making a joke dirty without it being funny is not acceptable.

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