Flip Wilson as Geraldine the Cashier and Dom DeLuise Feb 8, 1973

[@OnlyInLasVegas]

Why can’t we have comedy like this in 2024!!??

[@jimcowan8770]

Flip Wilson was My Favorite! He was Truly The Goat!

[@ceilconstante640]

The music when Geraldine comes strutting in!

[@evalynlopez4698]

I am 68 now & I remember laughing with all my Familia during Flips Show. A master. The 1st Medea!! The master!! Loved u 💗 💖 Flip !

[@lillianmunster4734]

FLIP was a handsome man!! But you know as Geraldine he was a very attractive Lady. Simply a Great Actor!! RIP Flip Wilson 🕊️❤️🕊️ Missing ya

[@billrobbins5874]

Definitely, A W O M A N with an attitude! Whew! ♥️👍♥️

[@rubengreenberg2253]

absolutely! -a major talent...or a comic genius.

[@helena51troy]

Master storyteller. Loved his show.

[@lynellbentley5039]

There will never be another Geraldine. Forever funny and very much missed.

[@virginia.cherishian449]

So funny missing in USA today!!!!!

[@virginia.cherishian449]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@nanzeez7023]

Geraldine was so much fun.no one has ever seen anyone like this character. Too funny for words. Many props to Flip Wilson.

[@colleencolbert6900]

I’ll awaaaaaays treasure the memories of my dearly beloved uncle Clerow Jr. aka (Cleo) Flip Wilson. I’ll be saluting on your 🥳🎈12/8/22. Rest In Paradise with Dad 👑🌹, and the rest of our biiiiiig famiiiiiily. ✝️🙏🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽👑🌹😘🙌🏽❤️👀!

[@e37a]

Simply put, your uncle was one of the greatest comics that EVER lived!

[@PaleRider638]

Since I was a kid I watched Flip. I would be on the floor when he added that little fast footed soul dance and slipped into the cash register station. The Lord sent us a wonderfully funny man that helped to sooth our ales. One skit was where Gene Wilder and Flip, reversed roll's, and Gene acted soulful, and Flip acted like a white guy. I laughed my butt off!! It showed how we can laugh at each other and it be ok. Whilst cleverly showing that when people get vicious, is when its not ok! I choose laughter! Thank you for loaning him to us! I love that man! Ciao! God bless!!

[@tulsacaupain2882]

​@@PaleRider638That dance is hilarious

[@loveisreal4296]

I grew up watching The Flip Wilson Show. He always made me laugh😂and seemed like a very warm person💕You must be so proud of your Uncle🥰

[@BobPelot-v9x]

He was part of the end of the Golden age of entertainment. When it was about entertainment not indoctrination. At least not overtly. These people understand who actually buttered their bread. They had the common sense to try and keep their indiscretions to themselves. They were human beings like the rest of us. Unlike the walking talking Hollywood viruses of today.

[@JavanHamiltonTV]

One of my favorite sketches from one of my FAVORITE shows.

[@joannavasquez1220]

Love Geraldine ❤️my favorite was Geraldine and Joe Namath, he couldn't keep from laughing 🤣🤣

[@crivket1235]

Priceless....two MASTERS !! 👍👍👍

[@loiscandler814]

YES! Love seeing them Together! 🤗

[@mikedavis8314]

$5.85 for a bag of groceries. That wouldn't even pay for a cheeseburger at In and Out Burgers today. My my my! How times have changed.

[@loiscandler814]

Yes, but Geraldine is forever! 🥰

[@darlenebattle2713]

Oh!... yes they have!

[@flenif2247]

And so has the minimum wage. It was about $1.10/hour at this point.

[@CadillacRiver]

Simple math would tell you that the minimum wage was $1.60 hr in 1973. Also, this is a comedy sketch so take your MAGA elsewhere.

[@darinp5612]

@@flenif2247 which hasn't outpaced the level of inflation from xhi xhi joe

[@mr.roaddogwade7107]

Flip was a true comedy guy. What a character. Look out for Killa. 😂

[@PookieOnDaCouch]

Killa was a Black Man flip created to represent a strong Black Man that would protect his black woman. He did that to counteract him wearing a dress.

[@jacqulyynw]

Two kings of comedy who were also amazing comedy queens. When drag was mainstream and on network TV.

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

This isn't drag....it's a comedy skit

[@Ramon51650]

@@SUGAR_XYLER It is a comedy skit that contains drag as a comedic vehicle; comedy and drag have never been mutually exclusive.

[@erikm8372]

As a gay guy, when I see actors on comedy shows or in movies in cheap-looking “drag”, doing a funny role, it immediately feels like comedy, like Mrs. Doubtfire, To Wong Foo, Some Like it Hot, etc., and I’m not saying those looks were CHEAP to pull off back then. But they look half-assed or even haphazard for a reason-because it is known that it’s all a JOKE. The audience knew the actors were straight. For some reason, for many viewers not of the LGBT+, seeing a gay or trans queen feels either way too real, brutally honest, too politically confronting, or all three. I’m not speaking for everyone, of course. Just saying. It’s clear what’s accepted by the masses & what’s not… at the same time, certain venues and entertainment options are targeted more TOWARDS certain audiences, anyway. For example, Drag Race is watchable by anyone & includes straight people on nearly every single episode, from judges to coaches, and a lot of the crew behind the camera. But shows like Drag Race, or live drag shows at gay bars, are really part of the fabric of the gay community, and are going to feature much more gay “lingo” & gay “talk” that the average person may not get. And that can put ignorant ppl off.

[@dougjones7609]

​@@Ramon51650thank you, some people take it to far, it's called acting

[@lonestar1637]

Oh, I miss the days we could laugh at each other regardless of race!

[@jimzaharia5327]

Flip Wilson- one of the great comic geniuses of all time!!!!!!!!

[@happels]

That's a cashier I'd love to visit everytime.

[@LEGENDPantherJennings]

Flip is Gifted

[@suebigger5097]

Always loved Geraldine ❣️

[@lillianmunster4734]

Me tooooooo RIP FLIP 🕊️❤️

[@sweetscraps56]

The end tho LOL 😂

[@charlottebarnes6761]

Always loved her. She's the greatest and missed very much.

[@judywilliamson2068]

Oh I loved Flip Wilson!

[@DreamDancer82]

My mom told me a story when she was a kid. She had a pet rabbit and she named it Geraldine after Flip Wilson. The name was kind of appropos, because the rabbit turned out to be a male.

[@mablegreen6042]

I wish they would have his episodes on weekly on the decade channel along with Sanford and son.

[@cleaningtim]

Aunt Ester was my favorite on Sanford and Son...

[@lori4291]

I love her strut ... One of my fav as a kid

[@lillianmunster4734]

Me tooooooo 👍 RIP Flip Wilson 🕊️❤️🕊️

[@lillianmunster4734]

Me tooooooo!!RIP Flip and Geraldine 🕊️💕🕊️

[@lindamartin980]

😄 This is so funny!!! I love it when she throws the groceries back in the cart 😂

[@deliomarciofallerpereira]

Nunca, que eu me lembre, foi exibido no Brasil. Provavelmente, teriam dificuldades em traduzir para o português. Muitas piadas, expressões e costumes norte-americanos. Mas, assistindo agora em 2024, adoro!!!!!!

[@kathleenfullerfuller2155]

And nobody said they doubted his sexuality. It was just comedy and the best of comedy.

[@rmr2471]

🤗

[@robertmayer2748]

He and Dom were so good. I miss shows like this. Flip was a riot.

[@BobPelot-v9x]

It was comedy not pushy politics

[@BobPelot-v9x]

​@robertmayer2748 it was comedy not pushy politics

[@tracypulley9785]

I loved Flip!we didn’t get upset!I can think of a lot shows that people would be offended by now!We need to lighten up!I don’t how I would have got through the COVID epidemic without Lesly Allen Jorden!My Mom always said where are no fools there is no fun!Everybody is offended by everything now

[@cynthiakinkeade7555]

When you could say jive and turkey in the same sentence and it was just funny.

[@theogoldberg8919]

It would be far less boring running errands with such a cashier. D'love to meet her at my store

[@ryanomahony2060]

MY GOSH SO SO FUNNY WATCHING YOU IN IRELAND

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

Whatchu see is whatchu get honey! ( Geraldine's famous line? 😄

[@rubengreenberg2253]

Flip had it all...wit, acting ability, great body language. What talent!

[@vickynichols7308]

Love flip.

[@karenhill3970]

Haha I'm a cashier..!!! My sis ,Mom ,& Granmom Loved!! Geraldine". 😳🤎🤎🤎💖💖💖😎😎👍😂😂😂Aka Flip Wilson!!!!!

[@dlotboy]

Can watch this 100 times and still LMAO. Flip was the best.

[@benw9949]

Hold up. I think I've been to that store, the way they bag groceries!

[@glennleslie6127]

Hysterical!

[@kevinkaatz883]

Met Dom circa 2005, and one of the nicest and MOST FUNNY

[@jeanetteupchurch5617]

Everybody should have this attitude on the job. It is important

[@BELINDA_LANE]

No one should have that attitude except in a comedy sketch, it just makes people look stupid

[@dwightgrantham4579]

Man I wish we could still have great TV like this. Thanks crybabies for ruining everything.

[@JavanHamiltonTV]

You’re crying right now…

[@unimpressed..]

HERE! HERE!

[@jimcowan8770]

They Always Ruin Everything for Everyone!!! I Agree!

[@ernestnora6188]

Back when middle America made no fuss or legislation about drags on prime time tv. In fact I remember watching the show with my family and hoping Geraldine would be included in the upcoming skit.

[@erikm8372]

Yeah, it was comedy back then, and still is. But it was more accepted likely because it was KNOWN that Flip was straight… kind of like “To Wong Foo”, with Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo and Wesley Snipes in drag… that’s a beloved movie and everyone knows the guys are straight. It becomes 10x more political & somehow “real” if a gay drag queen or a trans female queen is performing-Cause they’re IN this community, on the front lines. A straight actor in cheap drag being paid on a big tv show to be funny is always going to be more acceptable, and entertaining, to the masses, than a gay or trans queen trying to make ends meet, actually working as a performer or entertainer. Even today. And we have big names now, besides Ru, there’s Bianca, Trixie, Katya, Willam, the list goes on. But for some reason, the comedy hits differently for viewers when the person behind the costume is hetero. Then it’s almost like, more “acceptable”, as if it’s just a man who’s intentionally making a fool of himself to entertain the viewers.. with actual gay drag queens, trans queens, plus the drag kings, trans kings, etc., it’s like there’s something too real about it for the uninformed. Most people really don’t care and can get into it. Most people know some LGBT+ individuals. But I think the comedic effect is different… as a gay guy, I definitely see straight male actors in “drag” as purposely being a joke. It’s comedic drag, not high-fashion, not “daytime”, not “realness” drag. I think when the queens look the part, and men viewing it find themselves questioning things inside, it becomes an external issue to cover that up. Lol. And Flip Wilson as Geraldine reminds me of Tracey Morgan in drag, as Della Reese’s Tess from "Touched by an Angel", on SNL. I think the difference with things today like "RuPaul's Drag Race" (to the general public), and the majority of drag culture, is that it’s largely gay culture. And haters have a field day with that, causing it to become a legal battle, banning gay brunches at bars (private businesses), and banning drag shows (21+ events mostly)…

[@OofusTwillip]

You didn't see Anker cash registers back then, except at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. Almost every other store used either NCR or Hugin-Sweda. Tiny businesses sometimes used little Victor cash registers that were just a crank-powered adding machine on a cash drawer.

[@JillKnapp]

It's amazing how much Tracey Morgan looks like Flip Wilson. ❤

[@lillianmunster4734]

Thanks Galveston Loving this 👏👏👍😂

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Lesson on how to keep a straight face. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jamescunningham988]

And Florida wants to outlaw drag! An historic art form!

[@Ramon51650]

...and Tesnnesee and Texas; see a pattern?

[@celebrityrog]

So ironic how it was okay for a man in a dress to be revered in the 1970s. A BLACK MAN in a dress at that. But today people are upset over drag queens. Like really?

[@Ramon51650]

Drag has been in vogue for thousands of years. Kabuki is all male actors, regardless of the character role.

[@shamanbeartwo3819]

Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis did a film as two women back in 1959.

[@rmr2471]

One of my all time favorite movies! 🤗

[@dougjones7609]

It's just acting, a couple of white men played female roles , Robyn Williams as Ms Doubtfire, Dustin Hoffman as tootsie, also now martin played shenene and big momma's house Tyler Perry as Madea , Ving Rhames played a drag queen and many others , some people read to much into that stuff ,it's called acting.

[@deniseeugene1852]

So ahem ! Drag been around a minute. Flip Wilson was in the 70’s -80’s.

[@jacquelinefox2632]

Ill bet you a million squillion dollars that Jamie Foxx had some lessons from Flip. Amazing. Lmso. Lol.🥰

[@glenoneill3950]

B 4 Shenene, B4 Ugly Wanda.......There was Geraldine......!.........Bonifide classic.....!

[@unimpressed..]

Damn 😂 I forgot all about shenene😂

[@glenoneill3950]

@@unimpressed.. 😆😆😆

[@Sam-ef3bj]

Flip Wilson, “TV’s First Black Superstar,” - new book coming out. Richard Pryor and George Carlin too, were two of Flip Wilson's writers. Not all that well known, Flip Wilson was a Hollywood powerhouse who negotiated to own all the rights to his show...making him a multi-millionaire, many times over... here's an interview, new book coming out: Steve Adubato and co-host Jacqui Tricarico remember Flip Wilson, “TV’s First Black Superstar,” an American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the 1960s and 1970s.

[@sammiejones-e5g]

Flip Wilson he make laugh all the time

[@gregbrunnhuber9291]

And now 50 years later … a number of our society wants to control men in drag … I would bet they watched this program as children

[@johnhill9445]

Classic

[@lynnblack6493]

They were perfect. How they didn't break the watermelon. I saw it was wrapped, but still - so cute!

[@susanstancliff2937]

So super funny! Does anyone remember ever seeing Geraldine’s boyfriend killer?

[@tranurse]

This is the day my brother was born….

[@sjupicudacuda898]

awesome

[@always820]

It was always there.

[@johngrosso1938]

The audience set-up always baffled me. It looked like there were seats with no view at all

[@deltalove5868]

Dom Deloiuse was funny espically with Bob Hope and Milton Berl.

[@Junkbox90802]

Rupaul before Rupaul....i it. This brings back memories.

[@OmeedNOuhadi]

He looks like the guy from that Disney Channel show!

[@danietrublu]

That's his son

[@avalerie4467]

Back when we could have fun when men dressed in women's clothes just to make fun of men who dress in women's clothing. Those were the days.

[@jerryblair4106]

Flip a pioneer in comedy Jamie Fox copied him Martin also did.

[@snakeridda9]

Flip created the archetype, Eddie and Tyler Perry followed!

[@SUGAR_XYLER]

Yeah, the Klumps and Madea is good too 😂

[@LLeonardWilsonian]

Geraldine in 1923/Madea 2011

[@teutguy1]

Priceless...get it...

[@lori4291]

Omg cigs behind the counter lol 50 cents a pack

[@unimpressed..]

.50¢ a pack must've been a couple months or so before my time smoking. I remember paying .65¢ a pack and when they went too .75¢ a pack I always said if they ever hit a buck a pack I'm done. I lied to myself. I'm still stuck on stupid

[@rubywingo6030]

How did everyone in the audience see with the stage like that?

[@Ramon51650]

Monitors above camera range.

[@jezebelinadancer]

So many rights he'll be beggin' for a left.

[@christinarobinson516]

😂🤣🥰

[@nancybeamesderfer1995]

Loved Flip Wilson. Sadly, his kind of humor is dead. Those who consider themselves comedians are NOT funny.

[@toureharris3489]

Such as 👀

[@johnhennessy269]

Repo Man

[@SorayasFierceCookingShow]

Wow. I love Flip Wilson and Geraldine. However I found this offensive. Then the gun being pointed. I'm disappointed.

[@BELINDA_LANE]

Boohoo 😅

[@guitarwhisperer6262]

Indoctrination started long ago. Boiling frog 🐸

[@SugaBee]

🤣

[@ckeo3987]

😂😂😂😂

[@briankelly85]

Trader Joe's

[@kevinkaatz883]

He actually kinda looks like a cute chick

[@veebran7845]

These days i cringe watching our men dresses as women.😢

[@Jacqueline-l3w]

Just proves,,put a man in a women's dress ,, and everyone thinks it funny. Ps Patrick, Wesley and the Hispanic man look better in women clothing then Mr flip , but Mr flip was funnier.

[@lavernejones1973]

Jesus is Alive he love us all give her the loud voice that you couldn't see get white and look

[@lavernejones1973]

Jesus is Alive he love us all you heard the loud voice that you couldn't see get white and look up to heaven

[@lyndelld1]

Very boring

[@claudiaarmah2389]

Because not many people can understand black people jokes. This skit has no profanities and may sound dry to people. I also don't consider this skit to be extremely funny but it is funny to only a certain extent. Anyways, people like him and he has died with honor.

[@Ramon51650]

Well, there is alway Minnie Pearl.....

[@unimpressed..]

That's alright hoogie, we forgive you. You may yet develope into something less boring. Work hard at it. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

[@jimcowan8770]

You have No Sense of humor!