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Article #63695Red Skelton
From: Dan Tapp
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:48
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 10:48
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In article <355iil$m0f@news.onramp.net> jgray@onramp.net (Joe Gray) writes: >Actually, he's still alive (I think he's over 70). I wish someone like >Nickelodeon would rerun his old TV show. I loved watching that as a kid. >He did an HBO special not too long ago and he was as funny as ever. A close friend was the (vice?) president of the University of Denver Alumni Assoc. a couple of years ago, and M.C'd Red Skelton as the star entertainment for their Annual High Roller Banquet. He said Skelton came out, did a VERY lengthy and absolutely hysterical show (I always thought his most endearing trait was his ability to crack himself up), and then collapsed in agony in a wheelchair as soon as he was out of the audience's sight. Seems he's in constant pain from savage arthritis in both knees, but won't give up touring, and won't use a wheelchair or stool when he does his stand-up thing. Won't give the audience a hint that anything's wrong. Talk about a trouper...
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