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A Red Skeleton in Your Closet - Ghost stories gay and grim selected by the master of comedy Red Skelton (1965)

A Red Skelton in Your Closet

A Red Skeleton in Your Closet – Ghost stories gay and grim selected by the master of comedy Red Skelton (1965) In short, A Red Skelton in Your Closet is a collection of ghost stories.… 

Love Thy Neighbor, aka. Sadie Murphy's Trailer Park - The Red Skelton Show season 4

Love Thy Neighbor [Red Skelton Show]

Love Thy NeighborThe Red Skelton Show, with Mary McCarty – season 4, originally aired January 25, 1955

In Love Thy Neighbor, Red Skelton is urged by his butler to get a hobby. This leads him to buying a build-it-yourself RV kit from Sadie Murphy, keeping it at her trailer park … and her trying to marry him!

Red Skelton doing the Russian roulette skit on The Red Skelton Show

Russian Roulette [Red Skelton show]

Russian roulette is a classic sketch by Red Skelton. From the Red Skelton Show – as part of Red’s opening monologue, he acts out a cowboy scene, He ends up playing both parts of cowboy and villain. To see which of them will leave, they play Russian Roulette! It’s a hilariously funny sketch, as Red keeps switching between white and black hats as the hero/villain. Enjoy!

Monsanto Night Presents Walt Disney's America on Parade (1976) - Mickey Mouse, Red Skelton, and Donald Duck pose with a birthday cake for the U.S.A. - celebrating the bicentennial

Walt Disney’s America on Parade

Monsanto Night Presents Walt Disney’s America on Parade (1976) with Red Skelton, Freddie the Freeloader, and Deadeye In short, Monsanto Night Presents Walt Disney’s America on Parade is a television special. It was a celebration of… 

Lucille Knoch and Red Skelton in the Cafe Paree skit on The Red Skelton Show

Cafe Paree [The Red Skelton Show]

Cafe PareeThe Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired November 11, 1951

Red Skelton, Clem Kadiddlehopper, and Cauliflower McPugg sing. As do musical guests The Sportsmen. And then, Red tries to track down a spy at the Cafe Paree — which turns into a Tide commercial.

Honeymooners spoof, with Peter Lorre as Ralph Kramden, Red Skelton as Ed Norton, Vampira as Malice Norton, and Muriel Landers as Truxie

The Honeymooners Spoof [Red Skelton Show]

The Honeymooners Spoof, with Peter Lorre and Vampira – The Red Skelton Show, season 4, originally aired January 18, 1955

Peter Lorre wants Red Skelton to help him create … a comedy show! This results in a unique, funny Honeymooners spoof with Peter Lorre.  Peter Lorre acts like an Addams Family-version of Ralph Kramden. Red Skelton plays an interesting version of Art Carney‘s character, Ed Norton.  Favorite line: “Ralph’s” wife (Vampira) asks him how his day was. Peter Lorre (who drives a hearse) replies, “Traffic was so bad, my passenger got out and walked!”