#the red Skelton show

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Red Skelton as Clem Kadiddlehopper and Maila Nurmi as Vampira - The Red Skelton Show (1954)

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Vincent Price guest stars --

The Red Skelton Show; Clem vs. The mad scientist (1957)

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“The Red Skelton Show” debuted on NBC 70 years ago today. Here is the host with guest Boris Karloff playing a foreign scientist who hopes to gain defense secrets from Cookie the Sailor (Skelton).

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don knotts trying not to break on the red skelton show! (*≧▽≦)

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The Price May Be Right - Number 28

Welcome to “The Price May Be Right!” I’m counting down My Top 31 Favorite Vincent Price Performances & Appearances! The countdown will cover movies, TV productions, and many more forms of media. Today we focus on my pick for Number 28…which is really a whole group of performances: His Appearances on the Red Skelton Show.

Most people love Vincent for his appearances in spook shows and as dastardly villains. Which is fair, naturally; the man made a niche for himself very well in those sectors, and they DO dominate this list. However, many people forget that a lot of Vincent’s earliest roles were comedy performances, such as in “Service De Luxe” and “Champagne for Caesar.” He was a versatile performance who could be just as silly as he was sinister. A few parts I’ve talked about already have showcased this, and more to come will continue to make it clear that for as many nasty no-good-nicks as he played, Vincent Price was never afraid to have a good laugh, or to let others have them. There are few places better to see Vincent’s talent for comedy on display than on his many, MANY appearances on the Red Skelton Show. Red Skelton – one of America’s all-time greatest clowns and comedians – was actually very good friends with Vincent; exactly how they met and where their friendship really started is unclear, but their working relationship, on its own, lasted almost twenty years. Between 1956 and 1971, Price appeared numerous times on Skelton’s variety show, in skits that ranged from self-parody pieces to out-of-left-field lunacy. Not only that, but Price guest-starred in one of Skelton’s final televised appearances: a holiday special entitled “Freddie the Freeloader’s Christmas Dinner,” where he played a down-on-his luck professor. What’s most fun about Vincent’s appearances on the Red Skelton Show, in my opinion, is that he was somehow one of the few people who could UPSTAGE Skelton. The man was always known for being a ham, and when one put him in front of a live-audience and give him work that largely relies on improvisation, one could safely be said to have opened Pandora’s Box. From singing a duet with Boris Karloff about how much fun it is to play horror movie monsters, to playing an eccentric chef who has stranded himself on a deserted island to try and create his greatest recipe, Vincent somehow stole the show each time. One of my favorite examples was in the sketch “Freddie’s Masterpiece” (sometimes called “The Original DaVinci”), which was one of Price’s earliest appearances on the show. The sketch depicted Vincent as a supercilious and obsessive art collector called Mr. Giblert; a chief example of self-parody as Price was actually a very noted lover of fine art, and especially painting. When he finds out Freddie the Freeloader – Skelton’s hobo clown character – has accidentally discovered a lost DaVinci masterpiece, Gilbert tries a variety of schemes to steal the painting. When all else fails, finally, Gilbert goes berserk, and throws a tantrum like a baby, kicking and screaming and rolling around on the floor yelling: “I’VE NEVER HAD AN ORIGINAL DAVINCI! I MUST HAVE THAT PAINTING! I MUST, I MUST, I MUST…!” In response to this INTENSE outburst, Skelton is left COMPLETELY speechless…and when he finally regains the ability to speak, he looks to his partner (Jackie Coogan) and, gesturing to Vincent says: “You know, I once had an Original SKELTON Show.” God bless both these men; may they continue to make others laugh in that great sketch show in the sky.

Tomorrow, the countdown continues with my pick for Number 27!

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TV Guide -  May 20 - 26, 1963

Richard Bernard “Red” Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)  Entertainer best known for his national radio and television acts between 1937 and 1971, and as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show. Skelton, who has stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in radio and television, also appeared in vaudeville, films, nightclubs, and casinos, all while he pursued an entirely separate career as an artist.

In 1969, Skelton performed a self-written monologue about the Pledge of Allegiance. In the speech, he commented on the meaning of each phrase of the pledge. He credited one of his Vincennes grammar school teachers, Mr. Laswell, with the original speech. The teacher had grown tired of hearing his students monotonously recite the pledge each morning; he then demonstrated to them how it should be recited, along with comments about the meaning behind each phrase. CBS received 200,000 requests for copies; the company subsequently released the monologue as a single on Columbia Records. A year later, he performed the monologue for President Richard Nixon at the first “Evening at the White House”, a series of entertainment events honoring the recently inaugurated president.  (Wikipedia)

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It's a shame that Boris and Ted had to clash in the same poll. Before Boris, Ted Cassidy was my first favourite actor and Lurch was my comfort character. In fact, without the Addams Family, I doubt I ever would've got into Frankenstein and Boris Karloff.

Here’s some propaganda for both, but mainly Boris:

Ted Cassidy Vs. Boris Karloff

Propaganda

Ted Cassidy - (The Addams Family) - No text propaganda

Boris Karloff - (Thriller, The Veil, Colonel March of Scotland Yard) - Boris Karloff may be mostly remembered for his horror movies, but he also had a substantial television career! Lots of people know him today from his Thriller series, in which introduced each episode as himself, but also acted in three episodes. In the 1950s, he introduced and acted in "The Veil", a series that never aired, but can be watched on YouTube today. He also starred as the titular character in "colonel March of Scotland Yard" and guest starred on several TV shows throughout the 1950s and 60s, such as "The Name of the Game", "I Spy", famously in drag in "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E" and many others. He was even awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television! Boris Karloff is my all-time favourite actor, he was magnificent and so versatile, and by all accounts was a lovely person to work with and know in real life.

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Additional propaganda below the cut

Ted Cassidy:

Boris Karloff:

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𝔅𝔢𝔩𝔞 𝔏𝔲𝔤𝔬𝔰𝔦 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔐𝔞𝔦𝔩𝔞 𝔑𝔲𝔯𝔪𝔦 (𝔙𝔞𝔪𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔞)

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Chanin Hale as 'Nurse' wearing an extremely short white skirt on The Red Skelton Hour

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Spooky couples are a lot of fun.

@peterlorrefanpage Ah! It's interesting to see unlike the 'lorre skin over a frye character' type of peter parody, this one has a basis in a character Peter did play, even if it was already a parody

If this honeymooners spoof was in the 50s it lines up well for it to have inspired a type of peter parody that started in the late 50s-early 60s

Yknow people talk about how weird it is that Peter Lorre parodies have become synonymous with igor/fritz and Renfield, but people never talk much about how it was a thing for a while to have Peter Lorre parodies as patriarchs of weird, spooky families with taller, girlboss wives for some reason(not that I'm complaining, I like that trend of Peter parody more tbh)

Sure, People know that Gomez is partially inspired by Peter Lorre, but there's also the Gruesomes from The Flintstones and the Evil Scientist family

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Vincent Price guest stars on The Red Skelton Hour; Climb Upon My Knee, Dummy Boy (1967)

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“The Red Skelton Show” debuted on NBC on September 30, 1951. The show moved to CBS where is ran for 16 years before returning ro NBC for its final year.

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When you have both Jerry and Red together and yet the biggest star is the deep v of man forrest

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WATCH: Peter Lorre in The Phantom of the Ballet (Red Skelton Show, 1955)

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Ohhhhhhh, was I glad to find this episode!

Our dear Peter Lorre appears on the Red Skelton Show (as he has before), this time on Nov 29, 1955. In this comedy spoof of crime shows, Lorre is a serial killer known as "The Phantom of the Ballet".

This was a bit hard to wrangle and the formatting was whack, so I did a hatchet job on getting out the Peter Lorre parts. Sorry if it makes the story a little odd!

Part 1 of 3, and the way Peter comes in the door is goals:

Part 2 of 3 (and don't miss Red's line at the beginning when the ballerina wants him to zip her up: "I'm kind of shy, you know. I even wear mittens when I milk my cows!")

Part 3 of 3 (and Red's ballet act is divine):

If you have Amazon Prime, you can watch the whole thing for free online. Go here and then scroll down to Episode 7, Phantom of the Ballet.

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I've been in a bit of slump today (the inevitable one-day depression right after I get my period) so here’s a drawing of Old Lorre being a cheeky serial killer in the Red Skelton Show