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...SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Senator Everett Dirksen reads "A Visit from St. Nicholas" and narrates an original story by Skelton about a soldier at Valley Forge...
...exceptional performances find something extra in their pay envelopes; those who let down get a stinging spray of verbal vitriol. Last season, after a lackadaisical game against Montreal, Francis announced that a "television deal" was in the offing. The players' faces brightened. "Yeah," sneered the coach, "the Red Skelton show needs some sloppy
Tuesday, February 27 THE RED SKELTON HOUR (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). As a sequel to his 1960 award-winning performance, Red presents another hour of pantomime, "Laughter-the Universal Language," before an audience of U.N. diplomats from 46 countries...
...JONATHAN WINTERS SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Winters-in a host of guises-welcomes Red Skelton, Barbara Eden and the Doors to the premiere of his weekly comedy-variety series...
Hope laces his wit with good taste. He may sometimes play the ogling goof, but he is essentially a monologist who portrays no other character than Bob Hope. Jack Benny is a "character" comedian-stingy Jack. Such comics as Danny Kaye, Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason shine best in sketches. Many of today's young monologists, in the style of the late Lenny Bruce, specialize in acutely perceived, often bitter commentary, not to say four-letter words. Hope's comedy is broader, less original in viewpoint, but it is almost always clean, just as topical, more deftly timed...