John Witherspoon Tells Story of How Frank Sinatra Helped Redd Foxx with Tax Problems | Joe Rogan

Realized too, because before, when you think about like real giant famous comedians before prior, this is like a tiny handful of them. Nobody like him. So he was just one of one. I remember Red Fox used to come through there and he'd go, I want to get me a double, a kibase, and a coke, and I ain't paying for none of this shit. Red was so funny boy, my man, Red. I bought a, I was at a gas station stop one day, you know, in the little stores and they had cassette tapes of Richard Pryor performing live at Red Fox's club. Red Fox had a club. They just had a recorder and he's just fucking around. You can tell he's ranting and raving. He's just high, just laughing and talking shit on stage. Like it's not prepared material, half of it. It was amazing. What a character, Red Fox, that boy. He wouldn't pay his taxes. So the government came in one night when he, all the people in the room, just took everything, everything, which his house took everything. He took a ring off his finger. He took his shoes. They took it and left them a chicken raw to cook in the oven. And so he, they shut him down. It's the place he had. I think it was on La Cienica somewhere. It was in LA. Yeah. So he crying. He called Sammy Davis. He called Sammy called Frank Sinatra. And he took everything that I own. I worked so hard to be who I am. I didn't do them. I just, I don't want taxes. They ain't that bad. They took everything. So Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. and some other other friends went to his club and worked two or three weeks every night. Two shows, sold them out to get enough money to pay, get his taxes and get his club back. He was so happy to everybody. He said, Oh my God, I want to thank you for doing with this for me. Oh, please just take my, take my, my, my hug. Let me just hug you hugging everybody. So they all went on in separate ways. Red Fox still didn't pay his fucking taxes. No. They come again with lean on his ass. You son of a bitch. They want to come Frank Sinatra and they were not coming back now. See, so when pay taxes again, he ain't paying no taxes. Was this before or after Sanford and son? It was before and I don't think he paid after Sanford. He believed in paying no taxes. My money. I paid my taxes.