Cluster F-Bomb/Theatre

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Examples of Cluster F-Bombs in Theatre include:

  • Jerry Springer The Opera
  • Most of David Mamet's plays are guaranteed to used the words "asshole," "jagoff," "faggot," "cunt," "shit," and, of course, "fuck" at least once.
    • Indeed, Mamet uses this trope so frequently and gratuitously that Roger Ebert's Little Movie Glossary named it "Mamet Dammit."
  • Bottom Live, took profanity to every major British theatre:

Richie: Eddie, we are not saying "fuck" this year... oh, FUCK!
Eddie: Can we say "Cunt"?
Richie: Very much not...
Eddie: Right! CUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNT!

  • Niel Simon seems to have an arbitrary love of curse words. He uses them liberally, and, to give one example, in his play "Rumors" he actually used the variation "Fuck-a-diddly doo!"
  • The musical The Book of Mormon is full of them, as can be expected from a musical by the creators of South Park.
  • Don't expect to come out of a Martin McDonagh play without an earful of this. Although it'll usually be the Irish slang varient "feck."
  • The musical Title of Show has one of these:

Blank Paper/Hunter: Fuck, your ass is crazy, motherfucker! But I fucking like you, and you may just be fucking crazy enough to fucking fuckity fuck fuck succeed, fuckin' fuckin' motherfucker!

    • It is then lampshaded:

Jeff: Wow, what's with all the foul language? Is that appropriate or even necessary?


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