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The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio and television comedy series. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio, and from 1950 to 1965 on television. The show ran for over three decades, from 1932 to 1955 on radio, and from 1950 to 1965 on television.
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky; February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing the violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with a highly popular comedic career in radio, television, and film.
Jack Benny and Eddie Anderson disembark from a train in Los Angeles in 1943 with a camel.. Anderson's first appearance on The Jack Benny Program was on March 28, 1937. [9] [10] He was originally hired to play the one-time role of a redcap for a storyline in which the show traveled from Chicago to California by train, which coincided with the show's actual return to NBC's Radio City West in ...
For Benny's vault, radio audiences were given an audio tour of the subterranean fortress-like moat filled with alligators, and through creaking doors to an entrance guarded by an old soldier (Joseph Kearns) who was a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. [5] The concept of Benny's vault was transformed to visual reality on television.
Nelson began to appear on Benny's radio show in the late 1930s, [3] doing various roles, but his eventual character began to take form around 1942. [4] Nelson, whose character was never given a name, [5] typically portrayed a sales clerk, dentist or customer service worker, and Benny's character would run into him seemingly out of nowhere.
In the sketch, Jack recalls when he first met Phil: Silvers shows up at Jack's house with a note pinned on him from Jack's Aunt Sudie, asking Jack to help the young man get a break in show business. Phil proceeds to mooch off Jack, play the clarinet at 4 a.m., and sell Jack's violin for poker money.
This is a list of the 260 episodes for the television version of The Jack Benny Program, as opposed to the radio program of the same name. Series overview
During the monologue, Jack Benny brings out Jack Webb and demands to know why his show paid Webb $5,000; he doesn't sing, dance, or play music, and he's not a real cop! After the Lux Liquid commercial (in which Don appears as "Confucius"!), Benny says that Dragnet is just like a Charlie Chan movie, leading to a sketch called Dragon-net : Benny ...