Posted on 02/08/2020 11:28:01 AM PST by foundedonpurpose
June 19, 1992: This is the only in depth sit down interview Red Skelton did in his entire career. This interview won the Iris Award for Best International Show.
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I was trying to explain comedy with class to my children. Then I remembered one of my fathers favorites, I found this.
Blessings!
I have been over to his house in the Palm Springs area. His daughter(s) went to Palm Springs High School and was friends with my girlfriend and that is how I was able to go over there. Red was not there at the time.
He did get a little risque on occasion. He had one skit involving a busty actress and a dress with a plunging neckline.
He said the only thing holding up the dress was the city ordinance.
Nice clip. He mentions meeting Ivanna and Donald Trump around 3 minutes in. Says Donald’s buying up the town, but doesn’t look Japanese to him!
This has been posted here for twenty years
And that’s fine btw
The host is wearing a skirt that is too risqué for me. I get the current culture. A city ordinance would be the only thing to keep many of their clothes on.
Must have been before Mitsubishi realized that it got taken on Rockefeller Center.
He’s another example that you don’t need a lot of schooling to be smart or successful.
One of my heroes. What an awesome sensitive, talented man.
anyone know why he didnt do interviews?
New to me. My father passed 5 years ago. I remembered him talking about Red. Great to be able to pass this onto my kids.
Blessings!
What he wrote every morning is amazing!
Cool!
Bookmark
He was a patriot, too. Here’s his piece about our Pledge of Allegiance (that we all said every morning in elementary school in the 60’s):
I remember our black & white TV (I was the remote control), and Dad busting a gut watching The Red Skelton Show. Never saw him laugh as hard at anything else.
I miss that America. I really do.
thank you...
wow...I forgot what an incredible talent he was.
baby it’s cold outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpDLpz88V-I
“I miss that America. I really do.”
As a father raising 5 kids, you have no idea how much I agree with you and your sentiment.
“He did get a little risque on occasion. He had one skit involving a busty actress and a dress with a plunging neckline.
He said the only thing holding up the dress was the city ordinance.”
I remember that. But that was about as far as he ever went.
I miss the guy.
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