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He had a spectacular presence in every public appearance: eye-popping outfits, hip-shaking bawdiness, sly banter and a wild-eyed unpredictability that was fully under his control.

From New York Times • May 10, 2020

It's this lineage of comedy that Mrs Brown's Boys taps into, one that survives in Christmas pantomimes, with its end-of-the-pier bawdiness, underpinned by a pervading whiff of sentimentality.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2018

In this classic, Ronnie Lane channelled his bawdiness in a very English way in his own writing, which is Berryish musically, too.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2017

Lights were only added in 1988, and even then neighborhood concerns about the bedlam and bawdiness that night games might bring meant that the Cubs still played most days under the hot afternoon sun.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2016

Midler’s bawdiness still seems somehow precocious, Diamond’s rock ’n’ roll still plays as charmingly second-hand, and Streisand and Manilow still bring the house down simply for hitting their notes.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2015