The Disc Jockey – The Red Skelton Show season 1 – Red as an all-night disc jockey, with lots of prop comedy! Pantomime of people at a cocktail lounge as well.
The Disc Jockey – The Red Skelton Show season 1, originally aired February 17, 1952
Monologue
- I did the silliest thing this week. I went swimming in the ocean. Even though it’s cold, I went right in! Right in. Never did find out who pushed me …
- One of my writers said, “He’s so sunburned a lobster came right up to him and said, ‘Sam! Where you been?'”
During his opening monologue, Red performs a pantomime of different bus riders.
Unusual Tide commercial
Red gives a verbal Tide commercial, then comments on how the network commercials take only 3 minutes (at the time) of the 30 minute programs. And how some people flip the dial during the commercial, which effectively cheats the sponsor. Followed by “the longest commercial in TV history”.
David Rose and his Orchestra appear on stage playing Rose’s own composition “Holiday For Strings.”
Skelton Scrapbook – The Cocktail Lounge
Red displays different customers in a tavern, such as
- A Willy Lump-Lump type, as a man who doesn’t want anyone to know he drinks
- a braggart Texan who doesn’t want one of those “sissy” drinks.
- a man trying to chisel a drink. “Hurry, before the fight starts!”
- and a pantomime of a lonely woman at the end of the bar, trying to put on makeup
Disc Jockey
Red plays all night disc jockey Sleepy Sam. A very funny bit, heavy on the prop comedy.
Cast of characters
- Red Skelton (Whistling in the Dark; Bathing Beauty) … Self – Host / Sleepy Sam
- David Rose and His Orchestra … Themselves
- Lucille Knoch (Executive Suite) … Self – Commercials
- Bob LeMond … Self – Announcer (voice)xx
- Pat McGeehan … Self – Announcer
- Shirley Mitchell (I Love Lucy season 3) … Bit Role
- Gil Perkins (I Died a Thousand Times) … Bartender-Cocktail Lounge Skit