Two guys at the funny farm
Two guys at the funny farm – an old joke, told by Red Skelton on The Ed Sullivan Show
Photo gallery for Ship Ahoy
Photo gallery for Ship Ahoy – a very enjoyable musical comedy with Red Skelton, Bert Lahr, Eleanor Powell, Virginia O’Brien
The Show-Off [romantic comedy]
The Show-Off (1946) starring Red Skelton, Marilyn Maxwell
Synopsis of The Show-Off
Amy Fisher falls in love with Aubrey Piper, a loudmouth and braggart who pretends to be more than the lowly clerk he is. Then she marries him, over her family’s objections. Aubrey can’t seem to stop insulting others or interfering with their lives. He accidentally sets her inventor brother Joe’s laboratory on fire, wrecks a car, driving it without a license, gets kicked off a radio show for offending the sponsor and blows Joe’s deal with a paint company.
Everything’s Funny but Love
Everything’s Funny but Love, by John R. Franchey
Originally published in Radio and Television Mirror, June 1942
Their romance was touched with amiable lunacy, and the groom borrowed the license-money from the bride — but Edna knew that Red Skelton was the man for her
If it weren’t for his wife, Edna …
If it weren’t for his wife, Edna, he would be a bum – says Red Skelton Originally published August 17, 1941, in The Telegraph-Herald – by Fredrick C. Othman, UP Hollywood Correspondent The girl we want…
Panama Hattie
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’s eye exam
Red Skelton‘s eye exam – From Red’s opening monologue on “The Red Skelton Show” (January 25, 1971) – Red talks about a visit to his eye doctor.
This doctor starts examining my eyes, now you’ve got to hear some of the conversation that went on. I said, “The eye’s making me dizzy.”
He said, “Well, let’s not blame it on the eye.”
Flight Command
Flight Command (1940) starring Rod Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Hussey, Red Skelton
I originally watched Flight Command because it was one of Red Skelton‘s earliest movie roles — which is technically true; Red’s in the film as part of the Hellcats squadron, acting as the class clown, but he’s definitely a secondary character. Flight Command is primarily about a brash young pilot, Alan Drake (played by Robert Taylor) who’s recruited straight out of college to join the premier squad of Navy Hellcats.
Red Skelton photo gallery
A photo gallery of Red Skelton as himself as well as some of his most famous characters, such as Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper, etc.
Half a Hero (1953)
Synopsis of Half a Hero, starring Red Skelton, Jean Hagen
Red Skelton stars as Ben Dobson, a freelance writer who no sooner starts working full-time as a rewrite man at a magazine than his wife (Jean Hagen) decides that they should have their first child. Afterward, she pushes him into moving from New York City to the suburbs. Here he is nickel and dimed to the verge of bankruptcy. Until his boss gives him his first chance at writing his own article for this national magazine. An article talking about the “slums of tomorrow” — the suburbs