Flip Wilson
FameRank: 6

"Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program/Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety or Music"1971 The Flip Wilson Show"Outstanding Variety Series - Musical"1971 The Flip Wilson Show

/ goldenglobeawards = "Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy/Best TV Actor - Musical/Comedy"1971 The Flip Wilson Show

/ grammyawards = "Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album/Best Comedy Album"1970 The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress

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"Flip Wilson" was an American comedy/comedian and actor. In the early 1970s, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series, The Flip Wilson Show. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe Award/Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards.

In January 1972, Time (magazine)/Time magazine featured Wilson's image on their cover and named him "TV's first black superstar".

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Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?

When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

The devil made me do it.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

It takes 15,000 nuts to hold a car together, but only one to spread it all over the highway.

Funny is an attitude.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

What you see is what you get.