Título: Redd Foxx
Seção: Portrayals of Foxx in popular media
Background: Redd Foxx was born John Elroy Sanford on December 9, 1922, in St. Louis, Missouri and raised on Chicago's South Side. His father, Fred Sanford, an electrician and auto mechanic from Hickman, Kentucky, left his family when Foxx was four years old. He was raised by his half-Seminole Indian mother, Mary Hughes from Ellisville, Mississippi, his grandmother and his minister. Foxx attended DuSable High School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood with future Chicago mayor Harold Washington.

Conteúdo: In 1990, in the first-ever episode of In Living Color, in reference to Foxx's financial troubles, Foxx was portrayed by Damon Wayans, who is making a public service announcement to encourage people to pay their taxes. In the film Why Do Fools Fall in Love, Foxx is portrayed by Aries Spears. He is shown performing a stand-up comedy routine. In the animated television series Family Guy parody of Star Wars episode "Blue Harvest", Redd Foxx appears very briefly as an X-wing pilot. When his ship is shot down, he cries "I'm coming Elizabeth!" before dying. In addition to this, he has been parodied on Family Guy by Francis Griffin acting as Foxx's Sanford and Son character.  Foxx was meant to be featured in the MTV show Celebrity Deathmatch, advertised as taking on Jamie Foxx in the episode "When Animals Attack". Instead of Redd Foxx though, Jamie Foxx fought Ray Charles. In the Boondocks episode "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy" he is portrayed as Lord Rufus Crabmiser, one of Stinkmeaner's old friends coming to kill the Freeman family. Childhood friend and Sanford & Son co-star Lawanda Page is also portrayed in the same episode as Lady Esmeralda Gripenasty.  Redd Foxx appears as a minor character in the 2009 James Ellroy novel Blood's a Rover. He gives a bawdy eulogy at the wake of Scotty Bennett, a murdered rogue LAPD detective including the line "Scotty Bennett was fucking a porcupine. I gots to tell you motherfuckers that it was a female porcupine, so I don't see nothing perverted

user: Who has portrayed Foxx in the media?

assistant: Damon Wayans,

user: Who else?

assistant: Aries Spears.

user: Who did the most famous impression?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What is the most interesting part of the article?

assistant: Redd Foxx appears as a minor character in the 2009 James Ellroy novel Blood's a Rover.

user: What happens to him in the novel?

assistant: He gives a bawdy eulogy at the wake of Scotty Bennett,

user: Did he say anything funny at the eulogy?

assistant: "Scotty Bennett was fucking a porcupine. I gots to tell you motherfuckers that it was a female porcupine, so I don't see nothing perverted in it."

user: Was he portrayed in anything else like that?

assistant: the animated television series Family Guy parody of Star Wars episode "Blue Harvest",

user: What did they have him do on that show?

assistant: Redd Foxx appears very briefly as an X-wing pilot.

user: Were there any other funny portrayals?

assistant: Boondocks episode "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy"

user: What did they have him doing on Boondocks?

assistant: he is portrayed as Lord Rufus Crabmiser, one of Stinkmeaner's old friends coming to kill the Freeman family.