Christmas is a funny, sweet, and fast-paced episode of The Red Skelton Show. It’s Christmas-themed, with appearances by Red, Clem Kadidddlehopper, and Freddie the Freeloader. It’s frankly hard to believe they squeezed this much comedy in only 30 minutes! Enjoy!
Christmas 1952
In Guess Who’s Dinner is Coming to Freddie? Freddie the Freeloader tries to con a meal out of a movie director. But almost gets the man fired!
Guess Who’s Dinner is Coming to Freddie?
A Fool and His Money is Enough Reason to Get Married – George Gobel appears in a San Fernando Red sketch, portraying a too-short millionaire who falls in love with a too-tall damsel, Jan Davis.
A Fool and His Money is Enough Reason to Get Married
In It Happened One Nut – Clem Kaddiddlehopper attends hog-calling school, run by the lovely Polly Bergen. With a lot of slapstick!
It Happened One Nut
Mother Knows Pest – Junior the Mean Little Kid’s mother is looking for her newest husband on an ocean cruise. And Junior wants to “help”!
Mother Knows Best AKA Mother Knows Pest
Army jokes I could have been an officer in the Army, but they never came around the guard house to see the good work I was doing. I’ll never forget, I used to say, “Why… Army Jokes by Red Skelton
In The Land of Bilk and Money, Sheriff Deadeye has to deal with a crusader who comes to clean up his town! And, milk it dry in the process! Wait a minute, that’s Deadeye’s job!
The Land of Bilk and Money
In Much Ado About Nagging, George Appleby gets a job as waiter at the “Nut House”, where he meets comedian Laugh-A-Minute Louie. Louie needs to get some marriage insult jokes, so George invites him home. But his wife Clara frustrates him by refusing to insult George! At first …
Much Ado About Nagging
In Chiseler on the Roof, San Fernando Red is running a sham marriage agency. Until a rich young woman wants to marry an older man, and is willing to pay $1,000 dollars!
Chiseler on the Roof
In How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying, Freddie the Freeloader gets recruited by an old school chum to star in a TV commercial for mattresses. What could go wrong?
How to Succeed in Loafing Without Really Trying