If you are not aware of this spectacularly unfortunately named man, Dick Sargent was one of the staple cast of classic witchcraft TV sitcom Bewitched. Sargent decided to take his stage name from an illustrator of the Saturday Evening Post, and he probably did so believing that the choice of a strong, powerful sounding surname would help people remember him just that little bit better. Plus, whilst I'll get on to the hilarity of his name in a moment, we must also remember that the name "Dick" was usually an upstanding and respectable name when Sargent was born in the thirties, and would have probably - not necessarily - received a lot less widespread sniggering as it would now. But then of course you have the name that Sargent left behind. The man was born Richard Cox. He went by Dick Cox. Just let that sink in a little and you'll realise that that means the man's parents willfully and most likely knowingly named their child a respectable yet innuendo-ridden name, whilst having a flat-out immature and hilarious surname. The story gets even better when it's revealed that Sargent would eventually confirm his homosexuality in the years before his death, and though he admirably fought for gay rights, the childish jokes write themselves.
