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  3. Exactly, Name Withheld.

    Not everyone in the 60s was a drugged out hippie. And Red Skeleton was a very mild, wholesome family show.

    That entertainment was typical and the flowers, how they dressed, acted, and performed was totally normal.

    My thoughts when watching only half of the video was “Don’t bother making fun of something you have no idea about.”

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  4. A true example of a generation gap. A Millennial mocking a norm for Boomers. Family-oriented variety shows in the 60s adapted the hippie counter-culture style for pure entertainment. Yes, the performances were very corny and awkward but it was escapism – not meant as a political platform like “The Smothers Brothers” and “Laugh In” shows attempted. Mild compares to current tv shows.
    Future generations after Gen. Alpha will probably look at the porn infested Hip Hop culture influences like tweaking and gangster rap and wonder what were Millennials thinking. At least people in the 60s weren’t assaulted by leftist propaganda on every network show non stop. A simplier time has its advantages.

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  5. My dad and I would watch the Red Skelton Show in the sixties, it was a show that both adults and kids could enjoy. Clem Kadiddlehopper, Freddie the Freeloader, Willy Lump Lump. Red could get a laugh without being dirty or mean. Yeah, it could be hokey sometimes but we still laughed.

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  9. That is what we called saccharin sweet programming. I had to presss Eject when Liverachi showed up! That’s what I called him as a six or seven year old. I knew something was wrong with the guy, but at that age I didn’t know what or why, I only knew he turned my stomach.
    He still does to this day.

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  10. Well, at least we were able to change clothes as the styles changed and/or we matured; the current generations of super-geniuses have decided to tattoo their ‘style’ to their hides permanently for future generations to laugh at and ridicule them, preferably in-person in meat-space.

    (My brother and I encouraged our mom to discard her pictures of us from the seventies [cringe, as the youngsters say]; she refused.)

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  11. And now for something completely different. I don’t know how to describe this except was it was very weird and almost psychedelic and flamboyant and gay with Liberace in it. I can’t remember watching this back in 1968 and if I did it was on our big bright green pleasure machine of an early color TV with muted colors that were mostly greens and yellows and very low color definition back then. I did like the Red Skelton show though which we as a family watched every week. This video I almost expect would have been done almost the same on Lawrence Welks program. If you didn’t live in the 60’s you weren’t there. It was both good and bad times rolled into one very tumultuous decade that changed America forever.

    I was thinking Lawerence Welk too by the end. – Dr. Tar

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  12. geoff – I can’t remember watching this back in 1968 and if I did it was on our big bright green pleasure machine of an early color TV with muted colors that were mostly greens and yellows and very low color definition

    I guess that would explaing why the Red Skelton show wasn’t red.
    Ahem…

    BTW I loved Red’s explanation of the Pledge of Alegience.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2HGHdFmu5GU

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  13. Red Skelton was a truly funny comedian. You could watch his show without having to suffer vile and degrading humor. You could watch it with the whole family. Even after you heard the jokes they were still funny. Unlike most of today’s shock comedy that you laugh out of embarrassment but it is not really funny.

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  17. I remember watch a documentary on Turner Classics on Buster Keaton and seeing a clear demonstration that there would have been no Red Skelton without the older performer.

    It was Liberace’s appearance that really put this clip “far out” there me. I can only imagine how wild it would have looked to someone watching color TV for the first time.

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  18. Dr. Tar – I remember watch a documentary on Turner Classics on Buster Keaton and seeing a clear demonstration that there would have been no Red Skelton without the older performer.

    True. I think most things build upon previous accomplishments and get better over time whether it is the arts, technology, finance, etc.

    So far as Liberace’s appearance goes, unfortunately itz a friggin Pride Parade all day, every day now!

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  19. Liberace was the queer’s queer when most queers were still in the closet. He was the most recognizable openly, flamboyant gay queer of his time. And like Harry, I couldn’t stand him either. Even when I was a small kid, I knew that there was something definitely not right with him and the way he acted both publicly and privately. He may have a great piano player but at least he didn’t play the piano with his dick (that we know of) like Zelensky.

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  20. Cornell is very analytical and needs to be listened to in small increments.
    He really understands the structure of song writing. Eats and breathes the details of the creative process.
    He doesn’t understand the 60’s much. Understandable.
    I watched his take on Glen Campbell’s hit Wichita Lineman. Informative, and considers it one of the greats.

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  22. The majority of kids in the sixties didn’t know what was wrong with Liberace. I didn’t. His was extremely talented but the effeminate mannerisms, girly voice and garish clothing was creepy and disturbing. As a kid you just knew something was off. Adults would not tell us why he was weird because they were protecting our childhood innocence. I feel sorry for kids today. They are bombarded with perversions and depravity as a kid of the sixties, I could never imagine.

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  24. According to the comments below the above video this episode of Red Skelton first appeared on March 5th !968 which was the day after my 15th birthday. I still don’t seeing remember this at the time. Who was worse Liberace or Tiny Tim, they both sucked.

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