This is a monologue by Red Skelton on The Ed Sullivan Show for September 29, 1968. Mr. Skelton broke just about every rule of comedy starting with the one about how a comedian should never laugh at his own jokes…and he was clearly outta his ever-lovin' mind. But there was something so delightful about the man that I love watching him.
In the sixties, I went to one taping of his CBS show and a year or so later, I got into one of his infamous "dirty hour" sessions at CBS. These were supposed to be full dress rehearsals for the show he'd tape a day or two later but by and large, it was just Red telling dirty jokes for an hour.
I further got to hear Red tell dirty jokes when I visited a store in Westwood called Bel-Air Camera. I wrote all about these encounters in this article. The encounters with Red in the camera shop were in 1969 and 1970 so he was about the same age he is in this video…
