One of the big recurring gags on Sanford and Son throughout its five-year run in the 1970s was Redd Foxx’s character, Fred G. Sanford, pretending he was having a heart attack. During a stressful situation, Fred would clutch his chest, usually yell for his wife, and sometimes even collapse while performing. It was such a […] The post Redd Foxx Died the Same Way His ‘Sanford and Son’ Character Always Joked He Would appeared first on VICE .