Louis "Red" Deutsch
American boxer
- Born
- 16 September 1895, Odesa
- Died
- 11 September 1983
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxer, screenwriter, bartender
The Tube Bar prank calls are a series of prank calls made from 1975 until 1977 or 1978 to the Tube Bar in Jersey City, New Jersey, in which Jim Davidson and John Elmo would ask "Red", the proprietor of the bar, if they could speak to various non-existent customers. The gag names given by the pranksters were puns and homophones for often offensive phrases. Recordings of the calls were circulated widely on duplicated cassette tapes and were the inspiration for a long-running gag in The Simpsons.
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Facts from Wikidata Q6686548 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.