Comedy
The Red Skelton Show
Red Skelton kept audiences laughing for many years with his many characters and rolls on The Red Skelton Radio Show. Red’s radio career actually began in the 1930s, but he is most remembered for his shows after he finished his service in the army. Here several The Red Skelton Show episodes that you can…
The Great Gildersleeve
The Great Gildersleeve is a radio situation comedy broadcast from August 31, 1941, to March 21, 1957. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history’s earliest spin-off programs. Here are several episodes of The Great Gildersleve that you can enjoy listening to right know. Each episode also provides a download…
The Life of Riley
The Life of Riley”: starring William Bendix as lovable, blundering, Chester A. Riley, was a radio situation comedy broadcast during and after wartime 40s. Because of its overwhelming radio popularity, Riley graduated as easily to a 1949 feature film, as it did to 1950s television. Also, in 1958, it hit the newsstands, when Dell Comics…
Amos & Andy Show
George Bernard Shaw once said, “There are three things I’ll never forget about America – Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains and Amos ‘n’ Andy.” Amos ‘n’ Andy was the story of two black characters—the modest, pragmatic Amos and the blustery, self-confident Andy—created by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. The characters first aired…