I didn't make it up

The other day I was watching "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour," thats a really zaney show they used to do in the 1970s and afterwards I was singing this song from it that just got stuck in my head. It went like this, "His name was bad, bad Leroy Brown, the baddest man in the whole damn town, badder than old King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog." Anyhoo, someone heard me and asked if I'd made it up. I said I hadn't and it was on TV. They didn't believe me and said, "You're the writer, you should know the word "badder isn't in the English Language." So I said, "Yes I do know isn't, so I wouldn't make that song up, would I?"