Three reasons to love Lucille Ball
1. She was funny. - THINK ABOUT IT!
Her humor was clean.
The whole family could watch it together or separately.
She was clown and the whole world loves a clown.
She enabled us to laugh at ourselves.
2. She was lovable.
For example, there was the night when Lucille Ball gave birth to Little Ricky on the "I Love Lucy" The show was the top rated show on TV for a decade. More people watched that occurrence"Lucy" than watched President Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. So much news and politics is "heavy." We need a counterbalance, something funny that make us all feel part of the human family. Lucy was one of those breaks. For a reference here you might want to read - Why Americans Hate Politics - By Keith Boykin.
3. She was strong
Lucille Ball was best identified for her job as the silly housewife in the I Love Lucy tv show. Little recognize her as the tough secure women she was when she was off stage. In the "I Love Lucy" show she was this classic charade of a goofy housewife that didn't do anything right, but she wasn't. Although she actually was married to Desi Arnaz, and some of the problems were aired in minor part on the screen, she wasn't the klutz she played. This was her expected, typical woman's role on a TV show back in the 50's.
