Comedian Red Skelton did more than just act like a clown on stage. He dressed like one, too. And wow, what a stage he had. Richard "Red" Skelton was born July 18, 1913, in Vincennes, Indiana. His ...

WHEN RED SKELTON died the other day at age 84, baby boomers did something they loathe: They felt their age. Skelton’s act, of course, traced back much farther than the boomers, the oldest of … ...

Hoffman channels the comic, who died in 1997, in “Remembering Red: A Tribute to Red Skelton.” The one-man show will come to the Bickford Theatre at the Morris Museum this Saturday.

Red Skelton always wanted a theater of his own. His career spanned six decades and four genres — vaudeville, radio, movies and television — but the rubber-faced comic never owned one of the ...

Brian Hoffman, who has the ability to look, walk and act like Red Skelton, performed many of the characters played by Skelton throughout his career in a one-man skit style presentation.

Red Skelton, the late vaudeville-inspired comic who shaped the art of silly, has gone viral. The man whose career spanned five decades starting with 1930s radio is now a hit on YouTube.

He got to meet his legendary influence, someone who also is known for his many different characters: Red Skelton. And even better is that Skelton had wanted to meet Nelson, too.

If there is a funnier, sweeter, subtler or more extravagantly gifted clown than Red Skelton, he has yet to make himself known. Friday night at the Chicago Theatre, Skelton repeatedly proved that ...

Red Skelton had been one of the crown princes of comedy at MGM in the 1940s and early 1950s, starring in such films as 1942's "Whistling in Dixie" and 1949's "Neptune's Daughter." ...

He sat in an upscale barbecue emporium without a red hair on his head, nothing but a high, pink dome giving way to a white mane of rogue strands.But the face was still a face from the Old School ...

Red Skelton and Will Rogers Jr. were the special guests on this episode of "The Bob Braun Show." ...