"There ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young one...I'd rather pay a young man's fare to California than tell an old man the distance."

Moms comic alter-ego was famous for being a cougar. Her jokes about having a proclivity for young men poked fun at convention by flipping the typical script {the objectification of young women}. The act also drew attention to how women were often forced to marry older men for the sake of economic security. Moms' preference for young blood came from having to deal with her own woefully geriatric husbands. "I was married to one old man and he died ~ thank goodness," she joked in an 1969 show. But the next one's even older, so she tells him: "somebody's got to die 'cause I can't put up with this!"

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