Red 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):
Smokeless Sunday begins with Red Skelton playing checkers with a dog … and losing.
Next is Red’s opening monologue, that leads into Cauliflower McPugg with his million dollar idea. Which involves a human fly climbing 100 feet on a ladder and jumping into a small cup of water. When the fly loses his nerve, Cauliflower takes his place … and regrets it.
In Loco Boy Makes Good, Clem Kadiddlehopper has to fill in for the American Olympic team — for matchstick piling. Accompanied by his cousin Goody (Bobby Rydell).
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.
(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.
UNSEEN FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, SEE NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED EPISODES FROM ONE OF TV’S MOST LEGENDARY AND LONGEST-RUNNING VARIETY SHOWS: THE RED SKELTON HOUR—IN COLOR
In short, The Red Skelton Hour in Color Collection is … a collection of 4 other collections:
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[Editor’s note: this is Red Skelton‘s entry for the Lou Jacobs Memorial Book, created for the funeral mass of legendary clown Lou Jacobs] Dear Jean, Dolly, and Lou Ann, How sad the news that came…