26th Sep 2009
Copywriting Advertising - How You Can Hook Your Audience Like Flip Wilson
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Did you know the great comedian Flip Wilson was discovered by Johnny Carson and Redd Foxx?
Flip has a famous joke he told on Johnny Carson . It contains the line Banana for Your Monkey. You can watch Flip Wilson tell that joke at the site.
A lot of people remember the great Flip Wilson and all his fun characters. Here are some facts about the man.
- The Flip Wilson Show appeared on NBC, Thursday nights at 8:00 for four years.
- It was one of the most popular and successful variety shows of the Seventies.
- People tuned in for Wilson, the host, to appear in drag to portray sassy ‘Geraldine,’ a wise-cracking smarty with an unseen boyfriend named ‘Killer.’
- The show featured just Flip Wilson and his guests on a stage set in the center of a live audience.
- This series featured guest appearances by the biggest musical and comedy performers of the early seventies - John Wayne,Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, , Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and pretty much every other major star was a guest on the show during it’s run.
- For the first two years it was on the air, the show was the number-two rated program (after All in the Family) in the nation and a top twenty show when it left the air.
- The Flip Wilson Show was the only regular prime time series to feature musical guests like Issac Hayes, James Brown and The Temptations.
- The Flip Wilson Show was the last television variety show to be successful as a venue for one star.
- When the The Flip Wilson ended in 1974 Flip turned up as a frequent guest on other variety shows of the time.
- Flip Wilson led very private life.
- He was rarely seen on television after his series left the air.
If the man was driven, it was because of tough times in the past and a struggle through the black nightclubs of the fifties. “With all the trouble black people have,” he once said, “They try to forget on weekends. You’ve got to be good to make them laugh.”
Flip’s rules of comedy - “Be sudden, be neat. As in the telling of the Banana for Your Monkey Joke. If you’re serious about something, leave it out.”
In March of 1984, Flip hosted a daytime game show on NBC called People are Funny which lasted four months.
A year later, Flip Wilson turned up as the star of a family sitcom called Charlie and Company, a Cosby Show clone that lasted only a few weeks.
Wilson retired from show business to pursue his spiritual interests and enjoy hot-air ballooning and long ocean cruises.
Flip Wilson died in November, 1998 in his Malibu home from liver cancer.
Wilson’s special brand of comedy offered light moments and just plain funny matrial to world that needed it. His Banana for your Monkey joke is a good example of excellence in comedy.
photo alan light
Did you know the great comedian Flip Wilson was discovered by Johnny Carson and Redd Foxx?
Flip has a famous joke he told on Johnny Carson . It contains the line Banana for Your Monkey. You can watch Flip Wilson tell that joke at the site.
A lot of people remember the great Flip Wilson and all his fun characters. Here are some facts about the man.
- The Flip Wilson Show appeared on NBC, Thursday nights at 8:00 for four years.
- It was one of the most popular and successful variety shows of the Seventies.
- People tuned in for Wilson, the host, to appear in drag to portray sassy ‘Geraldine,’ a wise-cracking smarty with an unseen boyfriend named ‘Killer.’
- The show featured just Flip Wilson and his guests on a stage set in the center of a live audience.
- This series featured guest appearances by the biggest musical and comedy performers of the early seventies - John Wayne,Dean Martin, Lucille Ball, , Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Johnny Carson and pretty much every other major star was a guest on the show during it’s run.
- For the first two years it was on the air, the show was the number-two rated program (after All in the Family) in the nation and a top twenty show when it left the air.
- The Flip Wilson Show was the only regular prime time series to feature musical guests like Issac Hayes, James Brown and The Temptations.
- The Flip Wilson Show was the last television variety show to be successful as a venue for one star.
- When the The Flip Wilson ended in 1974 Flip turned up as a frequent guest on other variety shows of the time.
- Flip Wilson led very private life.
- He was rarely seen on television after his series left the air.
If the man was driven, it was because of tough times in the past and a struggle through the black nightclubs of the fifties. “With all the trouble black people have,” he once said, “They try to forget on weekends. You’ve got to be good to make them laugh.”
Flip’s rules of comedy - “Be sudden, be neat. As in the telling of the Banana for Your Monkey Joke. If you’re serious about something, leave it out.”
In March of 1984, Flip hosted a daytime game show on NBC called People are Funny which lasted four months.
A year later, Flip Wilson turned up as the star of a family sitcom called Charlie and Company, a Cosby Show clone that lasted only a few weeks.
Wilson retired from show business to pursue his spiritual interests and enjoy hot-air ballooning and long ocean cruises.
Flip Wilson died in November, 1998 in his Malibu home from liver cancer.
Wilson’s special brand of comedy offered light moments and just plain funny matrial to world that needed it. His Banana for your Monkey joke is a good example of excellence in comedy.
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