Posted on 02/01/2024 5:17:39 PM PST by DallasBiff
Wilson portrayed many characters on his show and wasn’t afraid to laugh at himself while making his audiences laugh. One of his best-known characters was Geraldine Jones. Geraldine was one of the most recurring characters Wilson portrayed. She was a sassy, outspoken, liberated, black woman. She wore her clothes tight and revealing and flirted with the men but never failed to be anything but faithful to her (never seen) boyfriend, Killer. Geraldine wasn’t the sharpest tool in the shed but that didn’t keep her from being overly confident. She was a “what you see, is what you get” kind of girl.
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Sexual appropriation!
Flip Wilson’s show was awesome!
I loved Flip Wilson’s show! The church of what is happening now!
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.
Geraldine as a Playboy bunny with Bing Crosby was hysterical.
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.”
Whatchu looking at sucka!
Flip was not just funny, he also conveyed a sense of being a a fun person with a lot of good in him. Audiences not only liked him, they wanted him to like them.
Flip was a hoot. Along with other black performers of that era, Flip developed much of his material when he was on the “chitlin circuit” of black nightclubs during the waning days of segregation.
I remember one skit where his fellow actor got fresh and pinched Geraldines ass. Geraldine’s responces had me on the floor laughing hard.
He was particularly talented, a genius of timing as well.
Geraldine with Tim Conway and Burt Reynolds!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb13NQbsXPk
Burt Reynolds and Flip Wilson were very good friends.
A party for Richard Pryor
James Brown presiding.
I was thinking about Flip Wilson as Geraldine yesterday. I loved his show.
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