Red Skelton: Funny Faces (1980)

This program is part of the HBO Standing Room Only series and was taped at the La Miranda Civic Theatre in LA, CA. In an opening monolog, Red talks about returning to TV after a several year absence; dressing rooms; looking good at old age; State Fair health; meeting people; and the different types of mimes. He performs mimes of a New Yorker on a horse; a Drive-In; a Greek restaurant waiter; the birth, life, and death of a flower in a storm; and his famous Dunkin’ Doughnuts routine. He jokes about desires at midnight; hunting dogs, featuring Clem Kadiddlehopper; Junior Cavendish talking about the milkman and about dust; about funerals and airplane fuel.