eat your mothafuckin heart out

— Kanye West

In 1958, on the set of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour — a collection of occasional lavish specials that followed the adventures of the Ricardos and the Mertzes after I Love Lucy — Ball does a comedy bit as a wisecracking clerk. As in real life, the fictional Lucy seemed to have tried every job in the want ads in the hope of eventually becoming famous and successful. Watching her fail spectacularly every week (even as the actress who played her showed off her unparalleled comic skills) made Lucy Ricardo a success %u2014 at becoming one of TV’s most unforgettable characters.

Sophisticated ignorance, I write my curses in cursive. - Kanye West