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Red Skelton jokes on weddings

Red Skelton jokes on weddings

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President Johnson’s daughter’s wedding Married life for the President’s daughter Gertrude and Heathcliffe Wedding ceremony Wedding in France [In France, Red was walking by a wedding. He explains to the audience that “Je ne sais… Red Skelton jokes on weddings

Red Skelton with wife Georgia, son Richard, daughter Valentina

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother – originally published in the Pittsburgh Press-Gazette, May 12, 1958

Writer tells how comedian and wife spent grief-filled hours after death

(Associated Press Hollywood Writer James Bacon is a long-time friend of Red and Georgia Skelton. He was with them Saturday night in their Bel-Air home when they returned from UCLA Medical Center, less than one hour after their son, Richard, lost his valiant fight with leukemiaemia.)

Red Skelton’s Son Dies Thinking of Mother
Red Skelton, as Willy Lump Lump, in the topsy turvy room in The Red Skelton Scrapbook 66

Willy Lump Lump – Red Skelton’s inebriate character

One of Red Skelton‘s “core” characters is Willy Lump Lump. Willy’s perpetually drunk, much to the chagrin of his suffering wife. How he started drinking varies, depending on the episode. Once, his wife said that it began with rum-filled chocolates that they received as a wedding gift. In another story, it goes back to when she was dating Willy. And she got him liquored up, so that he would propose to her!

Willy Lump Lump – Red Skelton’s inebriate character