Skip to main content

Search the Special Collections and Archives Portal

ent001327-012

Image

File
Download ent001327-012.tif (image/tiff; 103.7 MB)

Information

Digital ID

ent001327-012
    Details

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

    Red Skelton Page 12, A man of paradoxes, Skelton is often seen with a cigar in his mouth hut he never smokes it. While he loves talking into a microphone, he rarely ever answers a telephone. When he has the time, he loves to travel. He spends much of his time studying the idiosyncrasies of people all over the world. From mankind, individually and universally, he has found the meat for his characters. He sums up his role in life and in show business as follows: "I believe we were all put on this earth for a purpose - and I was put here to try to make people laugh. If it?╟╓s good enough for the Man Upstairs, it?╟╓s good enough for me.?╟╓1 -OoO- 3862