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The Flip Wilson Show. Clerow "Flip" Wilson Jr. (December 8, 1933 – November 25, 1998) was an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and 1970s. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring character Geraldine.
The Flip Wilson Show is an hour-long variety show that originally aired in the US on NBC from September 17, 1970, to June 27, 1974. The show starred American comedian Flip Wilson ; the program was one of the first American television programs starring a black person in the title role to become highly successful with a white audience.
The series follows a middle class African American family who lived on the South Side of Chicago.. Charlie Richmond (Flip Wilson) is a black middle-class employee of the Division of Highways, who juggled his work and home life with his wife, Diana, a schoolteacher played by Gladys Knight.
Kortney Wilson. The Wilsons are Canadian husband and wife Dave and Kortney Wilson, who were country musicians and television personalities in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] They were TV presenters on the HGTV program Masters of Flip, having given up their music careers. They operated a business that flips (buys, renovates and sells) houses, the ...
In the next year, the Wilson family began to star in the CMT Canada reality series Meet the Wilsons about trying to juggle a family (two children at that time) while pursuing music careers. [16] In 2015, they began working on their new series about buying, renovating and flipping houses, Masters of Flip, originally on the W Network.
Dan Rowan and Dick Martin (1968) Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (often simply referred to as Laugh-In) is an American sketch comedy television program which ran for six seasons from January 22, 1968, to March 12, 1973, on the NBC television network. The show, hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, originally aired as a one-time special on ...
Geraldine Jones is a fictional African American character and the most famous recurring persona of comedian Flip Wilson. [1][2][3][4] Geraldine was played by Wilson in drag, as a sassy and liberated Southern woman who was coarsely flirty yet faithful to her (unseen) boyfriend "Killer". [5] She was direct and confident and did not change her ...
Professional ratings. The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress is the fourth comedy album by American comedian Flip Wilson, and the first record released by Little David Records, a boutique label that Wilson co-founded with his manager Monte Kay. Featuring material written by Wilson, it was his most successful album—his highest-charting album, his ...