Wife Exterminator – a one-minute drama from The Red Skelton Hour episode, The Love Bug’ll Getcha If You Don’t Use DDT – a comedy blackout sketch
Props:
- Tennis outfit for the wife
- Tennis racket
- Wheelchair for the husband
Skit
Two male clowns are talking on stage. First clown says he needs to get rid of his wife. Divorce is out of the question. Second clown has the solution for him. Take her out drinking, dancing, carousing every night. Make sure she doesn’t get any sleep, and she’ll be dead in a year.
… One Year Later
The healthy young wife, in a tennis outfit, pushes her decrepit, shaking husband across stage in a wheelchair.
Wife clown: Tennis, anyone?
Husband clown: What bravery! Little does she know she’ll be dead tomorrow …
