Jon Favreau

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

American Actor

Catherine Hardwicke

Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn't come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they're totally cutting loose.

American Director

Sue Hubbell

You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.

American Author

Sara Cox

On telly, if it's not the right kind of show, I revert back to my 'Girlie Show' persona, become this daft, bawdy caricature of myself and I'm not actually like that, I'm actually quite - not clever, but smart with my words.

English Entertainer

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.

American Actress

James Fox

Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.

English Actor

Harry S Truman

If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

American President

I like bawdy humor. I love bawdy humor, but not dirty humor.

H. L. Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

American Writer

Be cautious where you use 'bawdy' as it might be inappropriate in formal or professional settings.

Context Sensitivity

'Bawdy' can make people uncomfortable; use it around friends who appreciate this humor type.

Potential Offense

Different cultures have varying tolerance levels; understand the audience before using 'bawdy'.

Cultural Variance

 by hanging her rear end out the window for him to kiss. When this appears not to work, her scholar decides to try farting in the same position, but this time, the clerk is waiting with a red-hot poker. This might all sound like a bawdy joke, but it’s part of one of the most esteemed works of English literature ever