This episode is actually a live recording of a performance Red Skelton
did in front of the United Nations. Actually the show is little more than
a series of pantomime routines, with Skelton playing an idiot with a
feather, a chef micing up a salad, a man playing tennis, an old man
playing golf, a man and his wife walking up the Eiffel Tower and an
old man at a parade ... and wouldn't you know it, with his mouth shut
Red Skelton can actually be funny, mere miming keeps him from messing up
his lines or laughing about his own jokes before he has told them -
the typical flaws with large parts of The Red Skelton Show.
The only eally weak segment is actually when he sings a folk song, as
hneither is the song too good nor is he a good singer - as I said, h
should keep his mouth shut.
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