Where Did He Go After His Show?
I know Flip passed away a few years ago, but why did he disappear after his show went off in 1974? He did very little afterwards.
shareI think I have even heard that he walked away from his show, not that it was cancelled due to bad ratings. He didn't seem to want that stardom, or he preferred stand up to any kind of actual acting, which he seemed to do very little of that.
He doesn't seem to have been aloof or troubled in his private life either.
Yet he did seem to emulate Bill Cosby to an extent.
Cosby had Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, so Flip had a couple of childhood animated specials of his own as well. They weren't that good.
Like Bill did several of the voices to the Cosby kids, Flip did alot of voices in his cartoon specials.
Later, Bill would get success with the Cosby show and Flip followed with his family show with Gladys Knight, which had endless sexual innuendo like the 70s sitcoms had been and didn't last very long.
I saw Flip when he appeared on Rolanda Watts' show and I don't know which one of them was more pathetic. I couldn't stand Rolanda, and Flip kept trying to sweettalk her and give her sad puppy dog eyes, trying to charm her, but obviously he was after only one thing.
A friend of mine saw it too and read it the same way, absolutely pathetic.
And Watts just kept laughing it all off, followed by 'we'll by right back after these commercial messages'.
You're right,Flip Wilson did a lot of animated specials that featured his childhood years with Wilson doing the voiceovers and a host of other characters in various animated specials that were produced for NBC and were produced by DePatie-Freleng Productions(the same company that was behind the Pink Panther theatrical shorts and cartoon specials)between 1973 through 1977.
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