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In a country that has championed the idea of inclusiveness, the outsider has been a source of constant amusement. Featured: Harold Lloyd, Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Andy Kaufman, Robin Williams, Cheech & Chong, Woody Allen and Steve Martin.
While America, a country of immigrants, has always championed the
idea of inclusiveness, the outsider has been a source of constant
amusement. Perhaps best epitomized today by characters in such
blockbuster Judd Apatow comedies as The 40 Year-Old Virgin
, Knocked Up and Superbad , this episode also
looks back at the bespectacled wannabe (Harold Lloyd) and the vain
coward (Bob Hope) as the outsiders of their day. Along with
pioneering women in comedy like Phyllis Diller and truly zany
characters who seem to have arrived from another planet (Jonathan
Winters, Andy Kaufman and Robin Williams), the great social
upheaval of the 60s and 70s introduced counter-culture favorites
Cheech & Chong, as well as superstar nerds like Woody Allen and
jerks like Steve Martin - who ultimately became so popular that the
idea of the outsider had to be re-cast.