Don Burda / Homer in poor health

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Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 8:58 AM
Subject: Burda’s Struggles Continue

Dear Friends in Clowning,
One of our dearest Clown Camp® clown couples is really struggling. Both Don and Dee Burda have been in and out of hospitals during this past month. Regrettably this isn’t something new. And while Don had been moved from a hospital to a rehab/skilled nursing facility in Sunnyvale, on Tuesday night he ended up in the hospital ER with kidney problems. He is still at the hospital, and according to daughter Denise, was doing better yesterday. When he is able to be released from the hospital, he will move back to the rehab facility.

Denise is now living full time with her mother, as Dee herself is struggling mightily. She tries to get to the hospital each day, but herself is having additional new problems herself. Denise suggested that rather than friends sending cards to either Don’s hospital or nursing home facility, it would be best to send them to their home at: 1408 Knowlton Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087. This way Dee will be able to read all of the hoped for cards and letters, as well as take them to Don.

I want to attempt to join you in creating a landslide of cards, letters, etc. to the Burdas. They have meant so much to so many of us, that I know you will want to take part in this overture of love and understanding.

Thanks for joining us in seeing that the Burda’s are not forgotten. Please feel free to pass this information on to any others that Don or Dee have touched.
Best clown wishes,
Rich

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You are here: Skits >Tithe skit

What’s a ‘tithee’? free clown skit

(A skit for 2 or more speaking clowns - two clowns enter, with one or both of them holding a clipboard and pencil - preferably clown-sized)

Clown 1: I’m so excited!
Clown 2: Me too!  I’ve always wanted to do clown ministry at (name of local church)
Clown 1: Yes!  And now, all we have to do is finish out this questionnaire.  Let’s see ... name?
Clown 2: Yes, I have a name.
Clown 1: (writing) Good!  The next thing is, birth date?
Clown 2: I don’t know.
Clown 1: (does a take, reacts to the audience) You don’t know your birthday?
Clown 2: Well, I was pretty young at the time.
Clown 1: (scribbling) Well, we’ll have to come back to that later.  Where were you born?
Clown 2: In the hospital.
Clown 1: Hospital?
Clown 2: I wanted to be near my mother.
Clown 1: (scribbling) Okay. The next question is, do you tithee? (intentionally mispronouncing ‘tithe’)

Clown 2: Tithee?
Clown 1: That’s what it says here, ‘tithee’.
Clown 2: (light goes on—possibly literally, if you have a light-up light bulb prop) Oh, I know!  It’s like that old gospel song, ‘Nearer my God tithee’!
Clown 1: (to the audience) That just doesn’t sound right.
(at this point, either a third clown—probably a whiteface—or ‘normal’ minister walks by, and tries to straighten them out)
Minister: Fellows, that’s not what ‘tithe’ means.
Clown 1: What does it mean, then?
Minister: Well, technically, it means one tenth.
Clown 2: Tenth?
Clown 1: If you’re tense (speaking with a lisp, so that ‘tense’ sounds like ‘tenth’), you should relax!
Clown 2: Right! (the clowns try to demonstrate stretching, etc.—anything ‘clownish’ that would work with your clown character dealing with relaxing)
Minister: No, no, that’s not it, fellows.  Have a seat, and let me explain what God’s ‘tithe’ means.  (at this point, the minister/whiteface would explain to the congregation / kids church/ etc. what the tithe is, and what God expects from us)

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You are here: I Love Lucy >Lucy’s mother writes her a letter

Lucy’s mother, Mrs. McGillicuddy, has written the following letter to Lucy Ricardo—enclosed in a letter she sent to Ethel Mertz, since she couldn’t remember her daughter’s married name!

“Dear Lucy,

How are you and Mickey?  I couldn’t find your address, so I’m sending this letter to Ethel Mertz.  If you don’t get it, please let me know as I have made a copy of it.  The copy is enclosed.

As a matter of fact, if you have read this far, you must have received this letter, so tear up the copy and thank Ethel for me.

After hearing the good news about you going West, I got to thinking how I’ve never been any further west than Youngstown, Ohio, and this seems like a golden opportunity for me to get to California.  I rented my house to a lovely couple, and have bought a whole new wardrobe for the trip.

Sorry I didn’t tell you I was going with you sooner, but you know how it is when you’re planning a long trip, some little detail is liable to slip your mind. 

Sincerely yours,

Mrs. McGillicuddy”

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You are here: Clowning Tutorial >Warm ups and cool downs at clown performances

One of the basics about clown performances that often bet overlooked is the need for warm up exercises beforehand, and cool down exercises afterward.  Athletes know about the need for both warm up and cool down exercises - and we don’t typically think of ourselves as athletes, but a clown performance can be just as physically demanding.  When clowning, we tend to use muscles that we forgot that we had—and those muscles tend to remind us of that fact afterwards.  In addition, there tends to be a lot of bending, stooping down to the children’s height, etc.—and if our muscles aren’t ready for that, they’ll hurt afterward.

In order to prevent that, we need to do warm up exercises before we clown, and the same muscle-loosening exercises after, in order to cool down.  Basics include standing upright, feet apart, and stretching your arms above your head, bringing them down to shoulder height (making a ‘T’ shape), rolling your neck around, bending at the hips and again rotating your torso around in a circle, bending at the knees, etc.  If you’ve somehow managed to get past Physical Education in high school without learning how to do warm up exercises, you can read all about it at How Stuff Works.

Something that we tend to forget is the need to again loosen those same muscles after a performance - the cool down exercises.  Fail to do that, and your muscles will lock up just like mine did yesterday.  As Ben Franklin is purported to have said, you have to learn from the mistakes of others, since you won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

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You are here: Lucille Ball > I Love Lucy > I Love Lucy season 3 >Ricky Watches the Baby - I Love Lucy

Ricky Watches the Baby - I Love Lucy season 3, episode 80, originally aired January 18, 1954

Ricky Watches the Baby is a very funny, and very good episode of I Love Lucy.  With Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) having the week off from work, Lucy (Lucille Ball) drops several ‘subtle’ hints that he should spend some time with his son, Little Ricky.  Ricky surprises her by agreeing, and when it’s time for Little Ricky to be put to bed, Ricky tucks him in and tells an absolutely hilarious bilingual version of Little Red Riding Hood—the highlight of the episode.  Due to Lucy’s skill as a very skilled clown, people tend to underestimate Desi Arnaz’ comedy skills—but as he proves here, he’s a very gifted comedian and clown in his own right.

The next morning, Lucy is supposed to be able to sleep in, but a wonderful game of ‘gotcha’ occurs, as she goes to check on Little Ricky, only to hear Ricky taking care of him—so she goes back to bed.  But then she thinks about what she just heard, dashes back into the kitchen, only to realize that she only heard part of what Ricky was saying.  Later, however, when overprotective momma Lucy is supposed to go shopping with Ethel (Vivian Vance), she’s reluctant to cut the apron strings and comes back to the apartment, to find Little Ricky wandering in the hall, all alone (having ‘escaped’ when his godfather Fred (William Frawley) came to visit with Ricky and watch the fights on TV).  Lucy and Ethel decide to teach the boys a lesson, with Lucy and Ethel taking Little Ricky to the Mertzes’ apartment, where Lucy calls and asks to talk to Little Ricky—which is when Ricky and Fred realize that the little boy is missing!

Lucy comes in because she wants to kiss Little Ricky goodbye before she ‘leaves’ - as Ricky tries to stall while Fred looks for the missing Little Ricky.  Fred finds him upstairs in his apartment, and sneaks him out while Ethel’s back is turned, and while Ricky and Lucy are engaged in talking Fred sneaks Little Ricky into his crib.  When Lucy finally storms into the nursery, her “Aha!” turns into a “Huh?” and Ricky is puzzled as well (although he doesn’t confess anything to Lucy), and Ethel bursts in (having noticed that Little Ricky is ‘missing’) shouting “Lucy, I can’t find him!” Find who? Ethel, seeing Little Ricky in the crib tries to cover by saying that she can’t find her husband Fred—who’s been hiding behind the door ever since putting the little boy back in his crib, and now pops out with “Here I am!”

It’s a very funny episode, with a nice reversal at the end - Ricky Watches the Baby is available on the I Love Lucy season 3 DVD collection.

Funny quotes from Ricky Watches the Baby - I Love Lucy

[after Fred hears for the first time that Ricky has a week off from the club]
Fred Mertz (William Frawley): Ethel, why didn’t you tell me Ricky had a week off?
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): [surprised] What? Lucy, why didn’t you tell me Ricky had a week off?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): [to Ricky] Why didn’t you tell me Ricky had a week off?

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Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): There’s a gentleman who lives in the neighborhood who’s just dying to meet you. He’s heard a lot about you and I think it’s high time you two got together.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Who’s that?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): His name is Ricky Ricardo Junior.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): You mean little Ricky?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Oh, then you have heard of him?

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[Ricky announces that he’ll take care of Little Ricky during his week off]
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): You mean everything?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Yeah. All day--everything.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): That means getting up at 6:00.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): So? That’s not so tough.
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I don’t know if you know this working nights and all, but there’s a 6:00 in the morning, too.

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Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Did you know we were there the whole time?
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): Not the whole time; at first, I thought it was mice, but I never heard mice giggle before.

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You are here: Reviews > Red Skelton reviews >The Great Diamond Robbery | Red Skelton | Cara Williams

The Great Diamond Robbery (1953) starring Red Skelton, Cara Williams

In The Great Diamond Robbery, Red Skelton plays Ambrose C. Park, a jewel cutter who was abandoned on a park bench as an infant (hence his name—Ambrose Central Park).  He is looking for his family, thinking that finding them will fill the void in his life.  He eats his lunch in Central Park every day across from the bench where he was left as an infant, in hopes that his parents will come by—to no avail.  In his work life he is a jewel cutter, working for a rich man who has sunk his entire fortune of $2 million dollars (in 1953, a large fortune) into the purchase of a single gem - the ‘blue goddess’ (similar to the Hope diamond) - which is too expensive to sell, so he plans to have a great jewel cutter cut it in two, so that each half is more easily sold—but despite Ambrose having worked for him for twenty years, he doesn’t trust Ambrose to do the job.

Ambrose celebrates his ‘birthday’ at a diner where where brings along a birthday cake—since he has no friends to celebrate with.  The man behind the counter surprises him, however, with a foreign bottle of wine made from prunes - ‘prune juice’ - and he’s soon a stewed prune, who becomes arrested for being drunk and disorderly.  This leads to his being represented by a shyster lawyer named Mr. Remlick (played by a young James Whitmore), who begins to try and fleece poor Ambrose out of his life savings—in exchange for finding his ‘real’ family.

This leads to a an acquaintance of Remlick’s, Mr. Fargoh, who agrees to play the part of Ambrose’s father, and who coerces his girlfriend and her daughter to play the part of Ambrose’s mother (played very well by Dorothy Stickney) and his sister Maggie (played by Cara Williams).  This is where the plan begins to unravel, however, as “Mom” begins to legitimately care for her “son” Ambrose ("I leave him on a park bench, and he gives me earrings ...").  Also, unknown to the dishonest lawyer, Mr. Fargoh has brought in a much more successful, and more dangerous, criminal into the false family - “Uncle” Tony Medeli, who intends to use Ambrose to steal the diamond.

Along the way, Ambrose tries to rescue his “sister” from her job of dancing at a night club, and asks the family where they go to church?  Leading to a funny scene where the “fish out of water” family goes to church to maintain the appearance of a normal happy family, as well as to a conversation between Ambrose and Maggie, where they each reveal a little bit about themselves to each other—paving the way for the ending romantic conclusion.  After the attempt at having the strait-laced Ambrose steal the diamond fail, “Uncle Tony” and the rest of the family convince him to let them come along for the cutting of the diamond—after tying up “mother” and Maggie, who refuse to go along with hurting “their boy” Ambrose.  The ending is actually both comedic and dramatic, with a finale that’s cute and funny as well—ending up in the hospital delivery room, and “happily ever after.”

A funny movie, that oddly doesn’t have room for any of the unique things that we normally associate with Red Skelton.  Sadly, it’s not currently available on DVD—I was fortunate to see it on Turner Classic Movies.

Trivia about The Great Diamond Robbery starring Red Skelton, Cara Williams, James Whitmore

• This was Skelton’s last film for MGM. He had been under contract with the studio since 1940.

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You are here: News >Professional Clown foils burglary

(Sacramento, CA) A professional clown in full costume foiled two burglars when he pulled his fake pistol during an attempted robbery.

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You are here: News > Red Skelton >Come celebrate Red Skelton’s Birthday on July 18th at Clown Jam!

A note that I saw on groups.yahoo.com in the Caring_clowns group, and wanted to pass on:

Hello!
We have a great convention planned in beautiful Branson, Mo July 16-20. Scheduled are great classes, fun competitions, training for the kids and a great dinner and show for Saturday. Recently added is a fun “Hobo” dinner in honor of Red Skelton on Friday with a special guest speaker. The website is www.ClownJam.com and don’t forget the American Clown Idol contest, see you there!

Tom King & Steve Kissell

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You are here: Reviews > Red Skelton reviews >Ship Ahoy | Red Skelton | Eleanor Powell

Ship Ahoy is the title of a 1942 musical-comedy motion picture produced by MGM. The film stars Eleanor Powell as Tallulah Winters, a dancing star who is hired to perform on an ocean liner. Before she leaves, she is recruited by what she believes is a branch of the American government and asked to smuggle a prototype explosive mine out of the country. In fact, she is unknowingly working for Nazi agents who have stolen the mine. Meanwhile, Merton Kibble (Red Skelton), a writer of pulp fiction adventure stories but suffering from severe writer’s block, is on the same ship and soon he finds himself embroiled in Tallulah’s real-life adventure. Also appearing in the film were Bert Lahr, Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, and Virginia O’Brien This was the first of two films in which Powell and Skelton co-starred. Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell next paired up in 1943’s I Dood It. In that film, they appeared with Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy’s brother.

Courtesy of YouTube, you can see Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell and Bert Lahr in the musical number I’ll Take Tallulah.

Editorial review of Ship Ahoy starring Red Skelton and Eleanor Powell—courtesy of Amazon.com

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved. The enemy agents got the plan from a pulp novel written by Kibble, who is also on the ship and falls for her. But then she overhears his new novel and believes that he is talking about her. So when they leave the boat, she ignores him, but somehow, the bags get switched and he gets the magnetic mine--which she must later retrieve. It is mainly a Tommy Dorsey showcase with Sinatra singing--Powell dancing--and a small plot.

Trivia for Ship Ahoy starring Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Bert Lahr

• The title was changed from I’ll Take Manila to Ship Ahoy because the Philippines had already fallen to the Japanese in the war. The ship destination was changed from Manila to Puerto Rico, and the song “I’ll Take Manila” was changed to “I’ll Take Tallulah”.
• One song I Fell In Love (With the Leader of the Band), by Jule Styne and Herb Magidson, was filmed but not used. The footage was used in The Great Morgan (1946).
• Frank Sinatra makes his film debut as a singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Also look quickly for Broadway star John Raitt as a young sailor.

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You are here: Reviews > Abbott and Costello reviews >Abbott and Costello classic comedy baseball jersey - WHO - 1

A picture is worth a thousand words - 100% cotton preshrunk T-shirt that looks like the baseball jersey from Abbott and Costello’s classic Who’s on First? routine - with the player’s name (WHO) and number (1) on the back of the jersey.

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You are here: Three Stooges > Three Stooges short films >Horses Collars - the Three Stooges

Horses Collars (1935) starring The Three Stooges - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard

Moe, Larry, the cheese!  In this Three Stooges short film, Curly goes wild whenever he sees a mouse, and the only thing that calms him down is Moe or Larry feeding him cheese.  Set in the American Old West, the Three Stooges are inept detectives, hired by a young lady to retrieve an IOU from the movie’s villain, Double Deal Decker (do you get the idea that he cheats at cards)?

When the Three Stooges try to steal Decker’s wallet (where they think the IOU is hidden), they are soon caught, and are being hung for their crime, where Curly sees a mouse, leading to a scene where Curly is wildly attacking everyone in sight, crying out “Moe! Larry! the cheese!” while Moe and Larry and dangling from their nooses—thankfully, they get down in time to prevent being hung, and even feed Curly his cheese.

Later on, the Three Stooges try to break into Decker’s safe, again leading to a very funny fight scene with Decker and Curly sharing a coat while Curly beats up all of Decker’s men, Decker, and Moe and Larry as well!  All ends well, as Moe and Larry feed Curly some Limburger cheese - and Curly’s foul breath knocks them all out.

Highlights of the film include the ‘tin roof’ joke when the Three Stooges order a drink at Decker’s bar, shooting a coin in the air and receiving change, and the ‘accordion’ music playing when they’re caught with Decker’s wallet.  A very funny western Three Stooges short film, which I hope you enjoy as much as I did.

Horses Collars is available on The Three Stooges Collection Volume 1 DVD.

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You are here: Bozo >Larry Harmon biography

Biography of Larry Harmon (January 2, 1925 – July 3, 2008) better known as Bozo the Clown

Born as Lawrence Weiss, he was better known to the world as Larry Harmon, the man who purchased the licensing rights to Bozo the Clown from Capitol Records, and turned Bozo into an international sensation.

Larry Harmon was born in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 2, 1925 as Lawrence Weiss, and was raised in Cleveland. After Larry Harmon served in the Army during World War II, he moved to Los Angeles where he attended the University of Southern California, where he majored in theater and was drum major in the Trojan marching band.  While Larry Harmon was attending USC, he started acting in radio and movies and, in the early 1950s, he starred in the Commander Comet TV series.  He later auditioned for the role of Bozo the Clown, and was one of many hired for various promotions for Capitol Records.

Together with a group of investors, Larry Harmon bought the licensing rights to the Bozo character from Bozo’s creator Alan W. Livingston and Capitol Records. Larry Harmon marketed the Bozo property very aggressively, and by the late 1960s, Harmon had licensed local Bozo TV shows in nearly every major U.S. market, and across the world in places as far away as Thailand, Greece and Brazil.  In addition Larry Harmon marketed virtually everything imaginable related to Bozo the Clown, from lunch boxes to bedsheets to the classic Bozo Bop Bag.  He also created the company that produced the Bozo the Clown cartoons shown on the various Bozo the Clown shows, and supplied the voice for Bozo as well.  He also produced other cartoons, such as Popeye and the Laurel and Hardy cartoons.  Years later, he was executive producer on The All New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy in ‘For Love or Mummy’.

On New Years day 1996, Larry Harmon dressed as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena CA, to a deafening reaction from a thrilled crowd.

In 2004, Larry Harmon and Bozo the Clown were in the news when the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee announced it was revoking its’ Lifetime of Laughter Award given to Larry Harmon in 1990 for being Bozo’s creator, and posthumously inducted Pinto Colvig as the original Bozo the Clown.

Kathryn O’Dell, the International Clown Hall of Fame’s executive director, stated that they had been duped into believing that Larry Harmon created Bozo the Clown, and did not discover the truth until Buck Wolf, an ABCNews.com columnist, reported that Larry Harmon was wrongly laying claim to having created the character.

On July 3, 2008 Larry Harmon died in his home of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California.  Larry Harmon is survived by his wife Susan, his son, Jeff, his daughters, Lori Harmon, Marci Breth Carabet, Ellen Kosberg and Leslie Breth; and four grandchildren.

Larry Harmon quotes

• Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us.  Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life. People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with.
• We didn’t have satellite, syndication and networking like today.  So, I created my own network of local clowns and productions, a cross-country operation that kept me on the road for 50 weeks a year for decades.
• Isn’t it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done—they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn’t do anything for the last 52 years. (referring to having his induction into the Clown Hall of Fame rescinded)
• What I created for the world was me and my image: what I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like, what the costume looked like.

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You are here: Reviews > Red Skelton reviews >Red Skelton - America’s Favorite Funnyman

Red Skelton - America’s Favorite Funnyman is a DVD collection of 10 episodes of The Red Skelton Show.  Not a bad collection by any means, and inexpensive as well ($9.95 U.S. dollars at the time of this writing), and it has a collection of some of my favorite episodes as well.  They are:

Clem the Dentist

Clem the Painter

A favorite Clem Kadiddlehopper episode—where Clem, the ‘country bumpkin’ takes the art world by storm—a very funny episode where Red ‘artfully’ mocks the modern art movement.

Deadeye and the Indians

A very funny episode that, interestingly enough, runs out of time—and Red plays that for all it’s worth.  Very rapid-fire, and very funny - “a hot stake is better than a cold chop!”

Look Awards Show

A very unusual show, where Red presents the Look Awards to various individuals, and performs some short related sketches

Freddie and the Spies

A very funny Freddie the Freeloader episode, where an American agent (played by Richard Deacon of The Dick Van Dyke Show) gives Freddie ‘the little black box’ to hide—and Edward Everett Horton makes an appearance as a fellow hobo who tries to find out why Freddie acts so suspiciously (hilariously funny!) and Freddie eventually gets contacted by the spies, who try to pry the information out of him—also hilariously funny!  One of my all-time favorite episodes.

Halloween Show

How to Make a Salad

A fairly funny Willie Lump Lump episode, with Willie in the Army on KP duty.

Mr. Lasagna

Red Skelton (playing a variation on himself, as opposed to one of his many characters) plays with his son Richie’s chemistry set, and inadvertently discovers a cure for smog.  A gangster, Mr. Lasagna (George Raft) wants the information, and is willing to get rough in order to get it ...

Bolivar Goes Hollywood

The U.N. Show

A very special show, where Red Skelton does a ‘command performance’ of pantomime at the United Nations.

Product Description of Red Skelton - America’s Favorite Funnyman

A clown with a heart of gold, Red Skelton‘s mission in life was to make people laugh. A first-class comedian, Skelton won the world over with his legendary alter-egos including Junior the Mean Widdle Kid (famous for the expression, “I dood it"); country bumpkin Clem Kadiddlehopper; clown hobo Freddie the Freeloader; con man San Fernando Red; henpecked husband George Appleby; drunkard Willie Lump Lump; boxer Cauliflower McPugg; and the not-so-honest lawman, Sheriff Deadeye. These characters and more made appearances on his popular television series The Red Skelton Show—the second longest running TV show in history at twenty years of broadcasting. For the duration of this time, Skelton’s series maintained top ten and top twenty ratings and won several awards. Packed with celebrity guests, pratfalls, pranks, and silly sketches, The Red Skelton Show continues to delight audiences time and time again, proving that Red Skelton is indeed “America’s favorite funnyman.”

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You are here: Reviews > Red Skelton reviews >Red Skelton Unreleased

Red Skelton Unreleased is a fairly different DVD collection of The Red Skelton Show in several respects.  It is digitally remastered, unlike most of the Red Skelton DVD collections out there.  It is also authorized by the Red Skelton estate.  It also contains a lot of episodes of The Red Skelton Show - sixteen episodes in all, as well three full-length color episodes from Red’s final year on broadcast TV, as well as a taping of one of Red’s live shows.

Table of contents for Red Skelton Unreleased

Volume 1 of Red Skelton Unreleased

Cauliflower Loses His Birds:

Guest Starring: Vincent Price

Appleby’s Bearded Boarder:

Guest Starring: John Carradine and Marie Windsor

Clem’s General Store:

Guest Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Jamie Farr and Jesse White

Deadeye the Outlaw:

Guest Starring: Mickey Rooney

Volume II of Red Skelton Unreleased

Best Man Blues:

Guest Starring: Dick Foran and Maria Palmer

Appleby’s Office Party:

Guest Starring: Marilyn Maxwell & Harvey Korman

San Fernando Cal:

Guest Starring: Mary Beth Hughes

Clem and the Beanstalk:

Guest starring Mamie Van Doren and Peter Lorre

Volume III of Red Skelton Unreleased

The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas:

Featuring: George Appleby, Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper and Willie Lump Lump

Clem’s Other Clem:

Guest Starring: Hans Conried

Go Van Gogh:

Guest Starring: Pat Carroll

Clem and the Beauty Pageant:

Guest Starring: Arthur Godfrey and Keefe Brasselle

Volume IV

San Fernando Loses the Dixie Queen:

Guest Starring: Cesar Romero

Appleby the Weatherman:

Guest Starring: Peter Lorre

Bolivar and the Roaring ‘20s:

Guest Starring: Barbara Nichols and Gerald Mohr

Deadeye the Magician:

Guest Starring: Vincent Price and Marie Windsor

Free Bonus DVD’S

Bonus 1 - Full length color shows!

Good Night and Good Bless –3 Shows

• Episode #1 Guest Starring: Jill St. John
• Episode #2 Guest Starring: Phyllis Diller
• Episode #3 Guest Starring: Jerry Lewis

Bonus 2 - Rare Live Footage!

• Live at the Nugget Hotel in Sparks – and Pledge of Allegiance

Product description of Red Skelton Unreleased

Enjoy sixteen full episodes and two bonus discs packed with hours of outrageous entertainment and gut busting humor from Red Skeleton, America’s favorite clown Prince. Released for the first time since they aired live nearly forty years ago, episodes I-IV showcase endearing moments with some of Hollywood’s greatest legends including Mickey Rooney, Jayne Mansfield, Cesar Romero, and more.

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Wee Wee Monsier (1938) starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

In Wee Wee Monsieur, the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) are three would-be artists, living in France, and working on their respective arts, and the short film begins with them singing The Lollipop Song ("the lollipop, the lollipop, the la-la-la-lollipop—woo woo!").  After some short slapstick, the Three Stooges try to ‘catch’ some food by ‘fishing’ out of their second story window, and catching bread from a vendor’s cart on the street—and accidentally ‘catching’ a French police officer’s pants as well!  Being thrown out of their apartment for being 8 months behind on their rent, the Stooges espy the offices of the French Foreign Legion—and while thinking that this must be the French branch of the American Legion (and that they can send them home to America), the Three Stooges inadvertently sign up for the French Foreign Legion—which leads to the second part of the film.

Vernon Dent, as their sergeant, makes the mistake of assigning the Three Stooges to guard the captain—who is promptly kidnapped while the Stooges fight over how to march.  What to do?  The only sensible thing—disguise themselves as Santa Claus and rescue the captain! Well, sensible for the Stooges, at least.  Despite the silliness, or more likely because of it, the Stooges rescue the captain from his captives and escape on Santa’s sleight.

Wee Wee Monsieur is available as part of The Three Stooges Collection volume 2 DVD.

Funny movie quotes from Wee Wee Monsieur starring The Three Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly

Moe Howard: The landlord’s threatened to throw us out.
Curly Howard: What’s he squawking about, we only owe for eight months.

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Curly Howard: Ah my fair beauty, open up thy curtains so that I might see your fair kisser.
Moe Howard: Oh boy! I’ll take the blonde!
Larry Fine: I’ll take the brunette!
Curly Howard: I’ll take the black and tan!

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[after Moe conks Curly in the head with a chisel, and then apologizes]
Curly Howard: Oh, oui, oui, oui, oui.
Moe Howard: Oui what?
Curly Howard: “Oui” ("We") should be more careful about what we do around here… Chisler!
[Moe conks him again]

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Curly Howard: [Moe has taken off Curly’s hat after his beard fell off and then slaps him] Oh you hit Santa Claus just for that no toys.
Curly Howard: [Moe bops Curlys head] Ow ooohhhh!

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