What Bette Midler Attributes to The Appeal Of Her Low Rent Humor: “Just youthful high spirits. my dear! Lewd can be hysterical if it’s not serious. If it’s serious, it’s not funny. It’s the most frightening, threatening thing in the world. But when it has the overtones of parody, then it’s quite jolly. That’s what I do. I can be gross. But people know it’s like a little girl who’s got her mouth wrapped around a whole lot of words that she doesn’t really know what they mean. Some people wish I were worse.” (The Milwaukee Journal Dec 2, 1979) – Bette Midler
