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"I don't want to be called 'the very best' or 'one of the very best'; let other fellas promise to be the best. I just want to be known as a clown because to me that's the height of my occupation. It means you are able to do everything - sing, dance, and most importantly, make people giggle." (Red Skelton) "All I want to do is to make people giggle, to take the word 'heartache' out of the vocabulary." (Red Skelton) A lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to rate on the lives of America's most significant men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. Among radio personalities and television entertainers, almost nobody had a career for as long or storied as Red Skelton, one of America's foremost comedians during the 20th century. Over the course of 70 years, Skelton made crowds giggle from vaudeville to performing as a clown, even though he is most widely known for The Red Skelton Show and his other variety shows, he also maintained a 45-season stage career as a pantomime and the other characters he created over time. Although Skelton was popular in America at the top of his career, his entertainment was also a throwback to the first 20th hundred years, which compelled television studios to balk at the notion of continuing to air his shows by 1970, even though his shows acquired put in almost two direct decades with top 10 10 ratings on the environment. Understandably bitter, Skelton refused to own his shows in syndication before 1980s.
