The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Show is an American television comedy/variety show that ran from 1951 to 1971. To a generation of viewers, it was a weekly… Read More »The Red Skelton Show
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The Red Skelton Show is an American television comedy/variety show that ran from 1951 to 1971. To a generation of viewers, it was a weekly… Read More »The Red Skelton Show
Gambling You know, I know one fellow down in Vegas who did pretty well this year. He came to town in a $10,000 Cadillac, and… Read More »Red Skelton jokes on Las Vegas
George Appleby is the ultimate henpecked husband. In addition to holding down (at least) one full-time job, he does the cooking, cleaning, sewing, etc. around the house. None of which is to the satisfaction of his bossy wife, Clara.
Read More »George Appleby, the henpecked husband [Red Skelton Show]Mrs. Skelton Quits as Wife, Stays on as Red’s Agent Comedian Says He’ll Keep Mouth Shut Now When He Hears of Her Divorce Move Originally… Read More »Wife Divorcing Husband
From Red Skelton’s Avalon Time radio show, where Red reads the newspaper & uses it to tell newspaper headline jokes
Read More »Red Skelton – Newspaper headline jokesPeople remember Red Skelton for his decades-long television series, as well as his long film career. But his rise to national prominence actually began on the radio. His first radio appearance was on Rudy Vallée’s The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour in 1937. Red joked with fellow comic Joe Cook about their respective home towns. The two were invited back two weeks later, and Red appeared again in November.
Read More »Avalon Time – Red Skelton’s first radio showRed Skelton tells the running away from home joke as part of his opening monologue in Smokeless Sunday on the Red Skelton Show. Supposedly, his little boy Richie is telling his sister Valentina, (in his Mead Widdle Kid voice):
Read More »Running Away from Home [joke]Deadeye was one of Red Skelton‘s characters that made the transition from his radio show to television. He was often Sheriff Deadeye, depending on the script. But, more often than not, he’d just gotten out of jail himself.
Read More »Sheriff Deadeye – Red Skelton’s cowboy character(Editor’s note: originally published in The Ogden Standard-Examiner, October 27, 1940)
By Paul Harrison
NEA Service Staff
HOLLYWOOD – the busiest strip of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Comedian Red Skelton. It won him a job weeks ago and he has already finished his role as a fellow aviator with Bob Taylor in “Flight Command“. But that initial test keeps reeling along.
A funny joke told by Red Skelton about staring at girls on the Ed Sullivan show in 1968 – enjoy! “Pardon while I comb my… Read More »Red Skelton staring at girls