Red Skelton was born on July 18th, 1913.
 Skelton dropped out of school around 1926 or 1927, when he was 13 or 14 years old, but he already had some experience performing in minstrel shows in Vincennes, and on a showboat, The Cotton Blossom, that plied the Ohio and Missouri rivers
 Around 1929, while Skelton was still a teen, he joined "Doc" R

