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Democrat senator on what the U.S. government should do about big business.

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Democrat senator on what the U.S. government should do about big business.

Proving that ‘everything old is new again’, this is a joke from the Red Skelton movie, ‘The Fuller Brush Man‘ where Red is using radios to call for help, while gangsters are trying to break in on him … and starts interrupting commercial radio broadcasts, with some very funny results.

Clawed by a bear

Clawed by a bear

Clawed by a bear –  From the Red Skelton radio show … apparently, Red hated paying his taxes just like the rest of us!

Rod O’Connor: It looks like you had trouble doing your income tax.

Cauliflower McPugg, Red Skelton's punch drunk boxer who's always hearing the bells and the birds

Sweet Chariot Skelton

Sweet Chariot Skelton –  From the Red Skelton radio show, Red tells the story of how he used to be a boxer …

Rod O’Connor: You were a fighter?

Red Skelton: Sure, they called me “Sweet Chariot” Skelton. €

We was playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant -  A joke from the classic radio program, The Red Skelton Show, starring Red's famous Mean Little Kid (famous for the "I dood it!" line)We was playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant -  A joke from the classic radio program, The Red Skelton Show, starring Red's famous Mean Little Kid (famous for the "I dood it!" line)

We was playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant

We was playing Pin the Tail on the Elephant –  A joke from the classic radio program, The Red Skelton Show, starring Red’s famous Mean Little Kid (famous for the “I dood it!” line) Mean… 

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

The estimate tax

Red Skelton on The estimate tax –  If only we *could* get away with this from our friendly IRS agent … Red Skelton: I had to fill out the estimate tax, but I didn’t sign… 

Gertrude and Heathcliff see an airplane – Red Skelton joke about his two favorite seagulls, Heathcliff and Gertrude

Gertrude and Heathcliff see an airplane

Gertrude and Heathcliff see an airplane –  Red Skelton joke about his two favorite seagulls,  Heathcliff  and Gertrude

Red Skelton:   Heathcliff and Gertrude are flying along when all of the sudden an airplane goes whizzing by .

She needs a monkey to get into Heaven

She needs a monkey to get into Heaven

She needs a monkey to get into Heaven –  Courtesy  of Brian Hoffman, Red Skelton impersonator Red Skelton  joke: I had a dream that my wife was at the Pearly Gates. St Peter told her…