[DallasBiff]

Man, Flip Wilson, was the biggest thing in the early 70's, and no he was not the original drag queen on TV, Milton Berle, was, things have changed, at least they were not genitally mutilated.

[Uncle Miltie]

Sexual appropriation!

[Uncle Miltie]

In Seattle, we had Gertrude on The J.P. Patches show in the mid 1960s.

[caver]

Flip Wilson’s show was awesome!

[Disambiguator]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb13NQbsXPk&pp=ygULZmxpcCB3aWxzb24%3D

[vaskypilot]

I loved Flip Wilson’s show! The church of what is happening now!

[lee martell]

I’m pretty sure most other comics of that time did not have a Drag alter ego, at least, they never performed that way on TV. Red Skelton, Dan Rickles, Professor Irwin Corey are a few of that nature.

Of course some didn’t need to dress up to be “Draggy”
Two of the Hollywood Squares favorite guests;
Paul Lynde, and Charles Nelson Riley come to mind.

[Huskrrrr]

Geraldine as a Playboy bunny with Bing Crosby was hysterical.

[Paal Gulli]

Would you believe me if I told you that after he left show business, Flip became a commercial helicopter pilot?

Can you imagine climbing in to his ‘copter unawares and then realizing your life rests in the hands of “Geraldine, honey.”

[shotgun]

Whatchu looking at sucka!

[NetAddicted]

I was thinking about Flip Wilson as Geraldine yesterday. I loved his show.