Clerow “Flip” Wilson, a native of New Jersey, had already spent a decade honing his skills as a comedian at black clubs around the country, including New York’s famed Apollo Theater.

But it was television, culminating in “The Flip Wilson Show,” that ... a week to a show that was, its many white guests notwithstanding, unreservedly black in its tone and rhythms, Flip ...

By attracting 40 million viewers a week to a show that was, its many white guests notwithstanding, unreservedly black in its tone and rhythms, Flip was in himself revolutionary. Wilson was older ...

Flip Wilson, whose outrageous characters and spunky catch phrases like “the devil made me do it” made him one of the most popular black comics in the 1970s, died yesterday in Los Angeles of ...

It’s difficult to remember — or imagine — today just how influential a figure Flip Wilson was during the late 1960s and early 1970s. “Flip: The Inside Story of TV’s First Black Superstar ...