Wilson, Flip Description This bodysuit was worn by Black comedian Flip Wilson portraying his character Geraldine Jones in a sketch on his comedy/variety program The Flip Wilson Show. In the sketch, ...

Flip Wilson’s famous female alter-ego on The Flip Wilson Show, Geraldine, was the obvious inspiration for other outrageous drag characters that popped up decades later, such as Martin Lawrence ...

Before Martin Lawrence's Shanaynay character, or Tyler Perry's Madea, Flip Wilson set the bar high with his portrayal of the sassy Gerladine Jones. She was one of many characters from the late ...

Flip Wilson, a pioneer in prime time. News. Home Page ... a compact fireball whose early-1970s NBC variety series embedded characters such as the Reverend Leroy of the Church of What’s ...

Comedian Flip Wilson is the focus of the documentary series “Unsung Hollywood” to be aired tomorrow on the TV One Cable Channel at 10 p.m. Born Clerow Wilson in Jersey City on Dec. 8, 1933, he ...

Answer: The Flip Wilson Show would be hard to forget. It was the No. 2 show on TV in the early 1970s, behind only Marcus Welby, M.D. one season and All in the Family the next.

Flip Wilson, whose outrageous characters and spunky catch phrases like “the devil made me do it” made him one of the most popular black comics in the 1970s, died yesterday in Los Angele… ...

Never underestimate the archaeological prowess of the folks at Nick-at-Nite. Just when you thought they’d brought back to television just about everything there was to be brought back, they d… ...