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    • Red Skelton: The Mask Behind the Mask
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  • DVD collection
    • AMC – The Red Skelton Show – 14 episodes of Red Skelton’s TV series
    • Christmas with Red Skelton – DVD
    • Red Skelton: America’s Favorite Funnyman
    • Red Skelton King of Laughter
    • Red Skelton Christmas DVD | Freddie the Freeloader
    • Red Skelton’s Christmas Dinner
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    • Red Skelton’s Funny Faces III
    • Red Skelton – The Lost Episodes
    • Red Skelton – Unreleased
    • Red Skelton Whistling Collection
  • Poetry
    • Algy and the Bear
    • Red Skelton’s poem, The Circus
    • Frogs – a comedy poem by Red Skelton
    • Red Skelton’s Farewell
    • Go Ask Father [poem]
    • If I Were the King of the Birdies [song lyrics]
    • There’s Nothing Worse than Loneliness at Christmastime
  • Movies
    • Bathing Beauty – starring Esther Williams and Red Skelton
    • The Clown
    • Dr. Kildare’s Wedding Day
    • DuBarry Was A Lady movie
    • Excuse My Dust
    • Flight Command
    • The Fuller Brush Man
    • The Great Diamond Robbery
    • Half a Hero (1953)
    • I Dood It
    • Lovely to Look At, starring Red Skelton, Howard Keel
    • Merton of the Movies
    • Neptune’s Daughter, starring Ricardo Montalban, Esther Williams, Red Skelton
    • Panama Hattie
    • Ship Ahoy [Eleanor Powell, Red Skelton]
    • The Show-Off
    • A Southern Yankee
    • Texas Carnival [Red Skelton]
    • Thousands Cheer
    • Three Little Words movie
    • Watch the Birdie
    • Whistling in Brooklyn
    • Whistling in the Dark, starring Red Skelton
    • Whistling in Dixie
    • The Yellow Cab Man
    • Ziegfeld Follies
  • TV
    • Red Skelton’s characters
      • Cauliflower McPugg – Red Skelton’ punch-drunk boxer
      • Clem Kadiddlehopper, Red Skelton’s country bumpkin
      • Deadeye – Red Skelton’s cowboy character
      • Freddie the Freeloader – Red Skelton’s famous Hobo clown
      • George Appleby, the henpecked husband [Red Skelton Show]
      • San Fernando Red [Red Skelton’s con artist character]
    • The Red Skelton Show
      • The Red Skelton Show season 1
      • The Red Skelton Show season 2 episode guide
      • The Red Skelton Show season 3
      • The Red Skelton Show season 4
      • The Red Skelton Show season 5
      • The Red Skelton Show season 8
      • The Red Skelton Show season 9 episode guide
      • The Red Skelton Show season 10
      • The Red Skelton Show season 11 [episode guide]
      • The Red Skelton Hour season 12
      • The Red Skelton Hour season 13
      • The Red Skelton Show season 15
      • The Red Skelton Hour season 16 1966-1967
      • The Red Skelton Hour season 17 [episode guide]
      • The Red Skelton Hour Season 18 [episode guide]
      • The Red Skelton Hour season 19 [episode guide]
    • Red Skelton The Farewell Specials
      • Red Skelton’s More Funny Faces [HBO Special]
      • Red Skelton’s Funny Faces III
      • Red Skelton’s Christmas Dinner
      • A Royal Command Performance
    • Walt Disney’s America on Parade
  • Jokes
    • Gertrude and Heathcliff jokes
    • Hospitals and doctors jokes
    • Las Vegas jokes
    • New Years jokes by Red Skelton
    • Newspaper headline jokes
    • Old age jokes by Red Skelton
    • Southern hospitality jokes from Red Skelton
    • Stick Out Your Tongue joke [Red Skelton Show]
    • Texas jokes by Red Skelton
    • Thanksgiving jokes by Red Skelton
    • Valentine’s Day Jokes

Jokes

Jokes by Red Skelton on a variety of subjects.  He was known as “America’s Clown Prince” for a reason, and was fond of funny stories as well as outright puns!  Enjoy!

Private Red Skelton in the U.S. Army during World War II

Army Jokes by Red Skelton

November 17, 2021 tfraymond 0

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 […]

Gertrude and Heathcliffe's animal friends. Jokes from Red Skelton's opening monologue on The Red Skelton Show

Gertrude and Heathcliffe’s animal friends

July 7, 2021 tfraymond 0

Gertrude and Heathcliffe’s animal friends. Jokes from Red Skelton’s opening monologue on The Red Skelton Show

Red Skelton as a weather man in the Mountain Washin' episode of The Red Skelton Show

Weather jokes by Red Skelton

June 30, 2021 tfraymond 0

Weather jokes by Red Skelton, from his opening monologue on The Red Skelton Show

Christmas jokes by Red Skelton - dealing with how people behave at Christmas, Santa Claus, and Christmas gifts

Christmas jokes by Red Skelton

March 31, 2021 tfraymond 0

Christmas jokes by Red Skelton – dealing with how people behave at Christmas, Santa Claus, and Christmas gifts

Red Skelton on The estimate tax -  If only we *could* get away with this from our friendly IRS agent ...

IRS jokes [Red Skelton]

March 10, 2021 tfraymond 0

IRS jokes by Red Skelton, from his television series Then there was a lady, said to her little boy, “Why are you saying such naughty […]

London jokes by Red Skelton

London jokes by Red Skelton

March 3, 2021 tfraymond 0

When Red Skelton was performing for the Royal Family in England in A Royal Command Performance, he made a few good-natured jokes about the United […]

New Years jokes by Red Skelton

New Years jokes by Red Skelton

December 30, 2020 tfraymond 0

A variety of New Years jokes, as told by Red on The Red Skelton Hour.

Thanksgiving jokes by Red Skelton

Thanksgiving jokes by Red Skelton

November 28, 2020 tfraymond 0

Thanksgiving jokes by Red Skelton – during his opening monologue on The Red Skelton Hour, jokes about Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving dinner, cooking it, and eating it. […]

Stick Out Your Tongue

Stick Out Your Tongue joke [Red Skelton Show]

November 18, 2020 tfraymond 0

Stick Out Your Tongue – a funny series of jokes between Red Skelton and Reginald Denny, on the Red Skelton Show season 4. Reggie is […]

Red Skelton told the story of his young son Richard, supposedly meeting a grizzly bear while on vacation. From The Red Skelton Show episode, Willie Comes Home.

Grizzly bear joke [Red Skelton Show]

November 4, 2020 tfraymond 0

Red Skelton told the story of his young son Richard, supposedly meeting a grizzly bear while on vacation. From The Red Skelton Show episode, Willie […]

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