"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear" Need help finding who said it

Gene wilder

Close but not it I don't think.

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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear

Maybe I'm crazy but I remember someone reciting this poem

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There was a Bath Soap called Fuzzy Wuzzy in the 60s.

Fuzzy Wuzzy Bath Soap

See No Evil Hear No Evil was the name of the movie featuring Gene Wilder and Richard Prior. Genes character was deaf and Priors character was blind. Genes character could read lips. There was a scene where an officer was interrogating them about a murder and the officer asked Genes character "was there or wasn't there a woman present" where to Genes character replies "Really!? Fuzzy Wuzzy was a woman!"

It's not Gene Wilder

First time I heard it was by Cher on the Sonny & Cher variety show. That was probably in the early to mid '70s.

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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he

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That was the version Cher recited as well.

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in See No Evil, Hear No Evil

For what it's worth...

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Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear, Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair, Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he? This is a poem of historic value. It is a poem that was created back in the nineteenth century during the historic battles between the British and the Sudanese Mahdi. It was a derogatory term used for a black person, especially used towards one with fuzzy hair. It was also used towards indigenous dark coloured skinned and curly haired population that the military and settlers did not understand and just met. It was used in a derogatory way, even when the settlers and military did not see it at the time because the settlers and military were white. The poem was unsophisticated and there for was voiced by an unsophisticated British soldier. Though these days, it is not expressed that way, and is now a nursery rhyme. Battles between the British and the Sudanese Mahdi are historic and have been recorded. In the end the Fuzzy was a Hadendoa soldier for the Sudanese people. A warrior in their tribe that gave the British soldiers a very hard time in the wars they shared between the different cultures. The Sudan warriors, and people, were the non-fuzzy bears mentioned in the poem.

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