The biggest names in clean comedy in the Midwest will go head to head in honor of Red Skelton’s birthday on July 18th, but only one will win the revered Skeltie Award! Join Clint Hall, Andy Imlay, Drew Davis, Gavin Eddings, Carrie Moore, Kris Izzi, and Molly Fahrlander as they battle it out onstage. Will it be the Dry Bar Comedy veteran, the funniest man in Louisville, or the “kid the DARE program worked on” taking home the gold? Or one of our wild cards? You’ll choose! The show starts at 7 p.m. EST at the Red Skelton Performing Arts Center.
Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California’s wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the eighth movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “Sideways.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winner: Oscar Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor Nominees: Oscar Best Motion Picture of the Year: Michael London Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Thomas Haden Church Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Virginia Madsen Best Achievement in Directing: Alexander Payne
June 10, 2023
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10:00 am
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June 11, 2023
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3:15 pm
The Red Skelton Museum of American Comedy will host the 18th annual Red Skelton Festival and Parade June 10-11.
Saturday June 10–
10 a.m. -5 p.m. Museum is open and festival button provides admission
8-11 a.m. Clown-o-Rama classes and parade prep
12 p.m. Red Skelton Parade through downtown Vincennes
1-4 p.m. Red Skelton Festival at the museum with stage entertainment, kids activities and food trucks
6-11 p.m. Red Skelton’s Vegas Casino Night at Adams Coliseum, including dinner, a live Red Skelton show, and a silent and live auction/casino. This is a ticketed event.
Sunday June 11–
10 a.m. -5 p.m. Museum is open and festival button provides admission
11 a.m. to noon Tent Show Lecture by Grace Swank-Davis
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the seventh movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “As Good As It Gets.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winner: Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jack Nicholson Best Actress in a Leading Role: Helen Hunt Nominee: Oscar Best Picture: James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Greg Kinnear Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen: Mark Andrus (screenplay/story), James L. Brooks (screenplay) Best Film Editing: Richard Marks Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score: Hans Zimmer
A woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the sixth movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “Victor/Victoria.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winner:
Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score: Henry Mancini and Leslie Bricusse
Nominees:
Oscar Best Actress: Julie Andrews Best Supporting Actor: Robert Preston Best Supporting Actress: Lesley Ann Warren Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium: Blake Edwards Best Art Direction: Rodger Maus, Tim Hutchinson, William Craig Smith, and Harry Cordwell Best Costume Design: Patricia Norris
A vaudeville duo agrees to reunite for a television special, but it turns out that they can’t stand each other.
This film has a Red Skelton connection!
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the fifth movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “The Sunshine Boys.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winner: Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role: George Burns Nominees:Oscar Best Actor in a Leading Role: Walter Matthau Best Writing, Screenplay Adapted From Other Material: Neil Simon
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Join Red Skelton Museum Curator, Mark Kratzner and director, Anne Pratt as they present the fourth movie in the Oscar Laughs! series, “The Apartment.”
These events are made possible by a grant through the Indiana Humanities.
These events are free and open to the public, but attendees are asked to register in advance using the Eventbrite link.
Winners:
Best Motion Picture and Best Director: Billy Wilder
Best Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen: Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond Best Art Direction – Black-and-White: Alexandre Trauner and Edward G. Boyle
Best Film Editing: Daniel Mandell
Nominees: Best Actor: Jack Lemmon
Best Actress: Shirley MacLaine
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Kruschen Best Cinematography – Black-and-White: Joseph LaShelle Best Sound: Gordon E. Sawyer
A TRIBUTE TO THE PAST WITH RANDY RIGGLE- COMEDIAN, SINGER, IMPERSONATOR AND ENTERTAINMENT EXTRAORDINAIRE!
WITH HIS CLEAN, REFRESHING APPROACH TO HUMOR, RANDY TAKES YOU ON A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE FILLED WITH SONGS AND LAUGHS IN HIS ONE-MAN SHOW, WHICH INCLUDES A SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO VETERANS.
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March 15, 2022
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April 18, 2022
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5:00 pm
From the antics of fat-cat Garfield to the cracker-barrel philosophy of Brown County savant Abe Martin, the many creations of Hoosier cartoonists are highlighted in this colorful exhibit designed to amuse and intrigue your audience. The exhibit explores the amusing goings-on of characters from comic strips like “Chic” Jackson’s “Roger Bean,” which featured the lives of a typical Hoosier family, to the editorial musings of Pulitzer Prize-winning artist John T. McCutcheon, who was a fierce opponent of America’s entry into World War II.
Drawn from the collections of the Indiana Historical Society, Indiana State Library, and other institutions throughout the state, the exhibition also examines the life and work of such Indiana cartoonists as “the dean of America’s editorial cartoonists,” Evansville’s Karl Kae Knecht; artists from the Crawfordsville area known as the Sugar Crick School of Art; “the first black political cartoonist,” Henry Jackson Lewis, who worked for the Indianapolis Freeman; Abe Martin creator Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard; Richmond’s Gaar Williams, who earned a designation as the “James Whitcomb Riley of the pencil”; and Muncie’s Jim Davis, responsible for bringing Garfield to life.
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