I’ve never seen anyone so high-strung!
I’ve never seen anyone so high-strung! A joke from the old Red Skelton radio show
Rod: I’ve never seen anyone so high-strung!
Red Skelton: You should have seen my grandfather.
Rod: I’ve never seen anyone so high-strung!
Red Skelton: You should have seen my grandfather.
Panama Hattie (1942) starring Red Skelton, Ann Sothern, Rags Ragland, Virginia O’Brien Synopsis In Panama Hattie, the brassy but gold-hearted proprietress of a Canal Zone hotel, where she performs, is used to a rough-and-tumble crowd of sailors. …
Red Skelton: Is there anyone here from Texas? Yeah?! You can always tell a Texan, … not much, but you can tell em.
Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford): I don t think it s safe down here. Someone was trying to kill us!
Ellamae Downs (Diana Lewis): It s things like this that ruin our Southern hospitality.
Rod O Connor: Tell me, Red, how’s that new electric blanket working out for you on these cold nights?
Red Skelton: Oh, its fine, it keeps me as warm as toast. Of course, when its time to wake up, it just pops me out of bed!
Rod O’Connor: There were a lot of big stars there?
One of Red Skelton’s favorite characters, the seagulls Heathcliff and Gertrude – Heathcliff wishes that he had a bigger bill and was a stork … but why?
Red Skelton joke: My wife tells me she wants to drive.
She said, ”I can stop this thing on a dime.”
She did. The only problem was the dime was in a little old man’s pocket.