{"id":31770,"date":"2012-11-28T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T21:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31770"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:04:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T17:04:10","slug":"the-devil-made-him-do-it-must-see-history-a-few-months-before-this-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=31770","title":{"rendered":"The Devil Made Him Do It!  Flip Wilson&#8217;s Hilarious &#8220;Tonight&#8221; Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThe Devil Made Him Do It! Must See History&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A few months before this video, Johnny Carson asked Redd Fox who the funniest new comic around was. Redd&#8217;s answer was Flip Wilson. On September 30, 1965 Flip made his first of many Tonight Show appearances. At the end this 2:00 clip, it takes Johnny :40 seconds to stop laughing long enough to say, &#8220;that&#8217;s one of the funniest lines I&#8217;ve ever heard in my life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Flip Wilson tells his famous &#8216;Ugly Baby&#8217; joke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MP4 360p Flip Wilson   &amp;apos;Ugly Baby&amp;apos; routine\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_9XOEOSWBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/396909157051518\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Devil Made Him Do It! Must See History&#8230; A few months before this video, Johnny Carson asked Redd Fox who the funniest new comic around was. Redd&#8217;s answer was Flip Wilson. On September 30, 1965 Flip made his first of many Tonight Show appearances. At the end this 2:00 clip, it takes Johnny :40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[825,1033],"class_list":["post-31770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-johnny-carson","tag-tonight-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58642,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770\/revisions\/58642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}