I loved Jack Benny..I never missed a show if I could help it...He was not only funny, he came across as kind...kids are intuitive.?his daughter was very fortunate, which she well knows...I read her contribution to the book..really lovely.
I recall reading somewhere that Jack didn’t care if other cast members of his show got more laughs than he did. Jack just wanted the show to be funny. That just proves how kind and generous he was.
Comedians normally have stooges or straight guys. Jack himself was straight. He never told any jokes (like, for instance, Bob Hope). If he did, they were insipid, and no one - at least not the other characters on the show - would laugh at them. We laughed at Phil Harris, Dennis Day and others. They were the funny guys. We laughed at Jack because he was NOT (trying to be) funny.
Like Jack told Johnny Carson, you can have great talent on your show but the next day people will say...did you watch Johnny Carson last night or did you watch Jack Benny last night?
I'm now 70 & grew up with great TV compared to the junk that is on today. Yes, I did watch Jack Benny & a lot of those shows in the 1960's. Today my computer is my TV set for those old TV Shows.
To me Jack Benny is the nicest person to walk on this earth. He is my favorite. I've read the book many times and I was left with the feeling that there was a lot of animosity between Joan and Mary. Joan was about to marry and Jack was going to give Joan the house on Roxbury as a gift. Jack and Mary moved to a new house in Hombly Hills, Mary hired a interior decorator which cost Jack $50.000. Mary didnt like the results and threw everything out and bought new furniture. This cost Jack so much that he couldnt give the house to Joan but had to sell it to recoup the loss. A year before Jack died he was told he was $700.000 in debt which is why he worked almost to the end of his days. But for a man who arranged to have a rose delivered every day to his wife after his death must be a saint.
First time ever hearing this claim and hard to find sources he was in debt when he died. Could be, but there are sources stating he had the equivalent in today value of 30 million when he passed.
@@mwilliams1330 It came from Irving Fein's book, Jack Benny A Intimate Biography. Remember Jack was told this one year before he died. He was not in debt when he left us but this statement enforced the authors opinion that Mary was spending way more than Jack was taking in.
@@chrischeshire6528 Jack shared many times he could not refuse Mary, especially when they went overseas. I am not sure how much of a business man he was. Point being Hope and Crosby invested in many different business ventures, Hope even had his contract renewals with NBC to include real estate. While I am sure there were some investments, his primary income likely was from performances.
@@mwilliams1330 Jack Benny was not a business man. He needed help after selling himself to CBS for 2 million dollars and then realizing how much the IRS wanted. He found a CPA who advised him to incorporate, thus J and M Enterprise was formed. CBS paid him $50.000 a week for his radio program and $80.000 a week for his TV show. On the TV show Dennis Day said he was paid $3.000 a show. A fan letter from a lawyer who threaten to sue Jack on behalf of Rochester because he believed what he heard on the radio program was real life! Jack wrote back and told the lawyer that he paid Rochester $2.100 an episode. He said Rochester made $70 dollars a minute on the show. Jack's only produced TV show that became a success was "Checkmate" . So Jack did own a big house in Bevery Hills and owned a Rolls Royce and Mary did buy anything she wanted according to Joan Benny. Maybe he did turn out to be a good businessman after all.
@@chrischeshire6528 I recall reading or hearing something similar. Jack was the highest paid radio entertainer of his time. The war taxes were going to take nearly everything and Jack (and other entertainers) through the CPA's found loop holes by incorporating and deferring funds. So for many, though the money looked big on paper, it was actually income that was technically there, was also not available as ready cash. as for Eddie Anderson, correct me if I am wrong, but he was the highest paid Black entertainer in Hollywood. Jack did not give him that, Eddie earned it for sure, but shows Jack recognized and appreciated, and paid the talent. Funny on breaking the money down by the minute..a recurring gag on radio when Day wanted a raise.
Jack Benny was an amazing man with amazing talent. I grew up enjoying him as well as Bob Hope, George Burns, Abbott and Costello, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis, Jr. The list goes on and on. (I once had lunch with Bob Hope. It was in Cleveland, Ohio where I grew up.) Those people and many of their contemporaries were all true talent and true Americans. They were heros in their own way because they were there for their audiences and not for themselves. In my opinion, they were the best of the best and will have no equals, ever. That is why I enjoy them still, as do my children. Now, my grandchildren are learning to enjoy them, too.
I was born in Waukegan, Illinois, like Jack Benny. There is a Jack Benny Elementary School (ok, there was a Jack Benny Elementary School - probably renamed Che Guavera Elementary School now...)
when i was a teenager i can remember my mother laughung so hard at the,jack benny show . she really enjoyed him ... now im a granma and watch the reruns of his show and i get him now and also laugh and enjoy him very much. . go figure i guess i didnt know he was,so funny as a teen !
I think you're misremembering facts. Johnny Carson NEVER worked directly for Jack Benny as a writer. He was invited on a Benny program but he didn't work for Benny. He was inspired by and copied some of Benny's mannerisms. No question Johnny Carson was a Jack Benny fan. Most people in comedy back then were or they copied Benny and incorporated things into their acts. Benny was an institution for decades but he's unknown to virtually everybody born after 1980. Benny died just before Christmas in 1974. I was still a toddler when Benny died and I knew him first from reruns of the Looney Tunes animated short they made with the classic Benny cast in the 1950s! Not surprising to me Benny is virtually unknown today to people under 50. They weren't rerunning the Benny TV series in my area by the late 1970s. If you weren't I Love Lucy or The Honeymooners, they weren't generally rerunning your B&W TV show because you had to be a full-color show. A lot of series that were in reruns then only had later full-color seasons broadcast. There were tons of B&W programs in both the UK & the US that were wiped/destroyed because they didn't see the rerun value of B&W TV after color TV sets because the standard and NOBODY saw the home video market and anything like streaming becoming standard! I didn't even really see the Benny program or Burns&Allen episodes until I caught YT fan channels posting episodes of their old B&W TV episodes in the last few years!
I think a lot of us liked him even better on radio. Probably because on radio you have to imagine everything, whereas on TV you can see it. It was even more fun on radio.
Thanks, interesting overview....for a chance to see Jack,Benny Perform at PURDUE U( Hall of Music: VICTORY Varieties) in 1966?: Anyways great Performance . Interestingly, it was enlightening to see Jack well before the Show,(“taking a Comstitutional/Smoke/ stretch / etc) out behind the Hall as We walked past....
THE ONE JACK BENNY I JUST LOVE. HE INVITED. A DOWN AND OUT. POOR GUY. FOR A FREE BREAKFAST. AT A SMALL DINNER. AFTER JACK. FINISH EATING. HE WALK. UP TO THE CASH REGISTER. TO PAY. FOR BOTH MEALS. HE TOLD THE OWNER. HIS FRIEND. WILL PAY. IT ALL. THEN JACK WAVED. TO HIM. THE POOR MAN. WAVED. BACK TO JACK. THE OWNER. LET HIM GO. BOY, THAT WAS FUNNY.
@@martywhite2988 I am British and our tv entertainment in the early 50s was abysmal. Limited viewings times and early shut downs . Then Jack Benny, came onto Uk TV and we all realised that comedians were supposed to be funny and humorous. A new window into American life opened
@@fscap811 Yes he was an all rounder and i assume you are American? He was outstanding radio comedian. Quick sharp and so lethargic. It seems to me his style was unique.
Great video I remember Jack Benny as a kid my parents would watch the JB show and laughed till their stomach hurt. One little fact you blew “ in 1917 was WW1”
There's a lot of other errors in this video besides that. As well as a raft of mispronounced names. It was "Livingston", not "Livingstone", even though it was spelled that way. The narrator also mispronounced "Kubelsky".
I remember Jack from his t.v. show.Absolutely loved it,never missed an episode.He was so good,perfect timing and his facial expressions always had me in stitches.He was a decent human and missed by so many.R.I.P. Jack,🙏🙏
I listen to Jack on OTR almost every night. I occasionally throw in Phil Harris & Alice Faye, or A Day In The Life of Dennis Day. Real comedy that still holds up.
THE THING IS,IT'S FUNNY AND GREAT WITHOUT FOUR LETTER WORDS OF HALF NAKED PPL!! THOSE WERE BETTER TIMES LOOK AT MUSIC AWARD SHOWS THESE DAYS,LOL AT THE BEACH HAVE MORE CLOTHES ON.
I WATCHED JACK BENNY AS A CHILD HERE IN AUSTRALIA, I ALWAYS LOVED HIM AND MARY WAS AN ABSOLUTE MATCH FOR HIM. LOVED SEEING THEM TOGETHER. I WAS ABLE TO GET UP HIS FUNERAL ON THE NET, THAT WAY I COULD SAY GOOD BYE AND THANKFUL TO HAVE SEEN HIM ON T.V.
Jack Benny will always be remembered for his long running radio show first, but then the television show was so good I really can't say which one was better. They were both exceptional just as was Jack Benny. I always think of Fred Allen and all the other comedians of the period with Jack Benny. There is not a person today that can compare with Jack Benny.
The actor's name was indeed Eddie Anderson. As Jack's valet on the Jack Benny Program he became known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. "Rochester Van Jones" was the name he gave or was given on the show.
I am right at the age where I'm to young to remember Jack and others of his day, but I was around during the first reruns of their shows. And even now, I still enjoy their comedy much better than many of today's so called comics. Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Red Skelton, & so many others, knew how to make people laugh, without the use of four letter words or negative political comments. I think we sure could use men like them around again.
Jacks friend Danny Thomas was one of the most amazing folks to have ever live. He founded St Jude with a little help from his friends. Today that institution lives on and saves countless lives! Amazing.
Such a great !! They all were !! Completely unpretentious; down to earth ! Just Great ! Sadly, there’s Nothing like it today . No, really. Ego ego ego. I saw an interview with Jerry Seinfeld and he was completely rude and unkind to the elderly interviewer. He even said: “Do you know who I am.? “. The ego !
Mr Benny was a superb comedian whose creative comedic genius did not depend on explicit sexual or bathroom humor. He strictly used his genius to mine a variety of comedic forms to bring humor and entertainment to his audience. He never grew stale due to perfect timing and true talent and humor. Never insulting, unkind or arrogant in any way to his cast or audience, or giving less than his full devotion to each and every performance or production. The fact he was a true top star through decades of daily, weekly and special performances was a merited achievement. Loved by all throughout his life, he was unique. We may truly never see his like again. He represented an era of men and women of individuality, respectability and comportment in life. At one time a normal standard, which has been steadily reduced by self interest and greed. It is utterly heartbreaking as we watch the standards and social behavior goals of a generation die with them to our sorrow. How we could benefit with simple good manners and putting others first.
@@pesoto74 Everyone at that time lived in an era when self deprecation was the social norm. They also were far less sensitive since everyone was treated with the same teasing back and forth. Of course there were many instances when people were cruel and bullying and still today it continues. Mankind will always be mankind. The difference was correcting intentional cruelty, to not take yourself so seriously and to take it in the spirit it was given. Due to the pernicious political and leftist social and educational influences our society has now turned in on itself into judgmental and tribal divisions of resentment and revenge oriented behaviors. Everyone has become suspect and speech is examined for ulterior neg motives and meanings.
I discovered Jack Benny through my Dad who collected old radio shows and had grown up in that era. Nick at night used to play the television show. They are both wonderful.
I was not born when the radio show was on, and was not born when the tv show came out, but i started watching The Jack Benny Program on cable in the 1980's, and was instantly hooked , and i still am. I don't know if there is a funnier person than Jack Benny . There are a lot that are very funny , and some that are even as funny, but none of em' are funnier. Although i am not from his era, his comedy still resonates today, and turned me on to other greats of those times that i find endlessly hilarious ( Berle, Hope, Burns, ect. .) , along with all the fantastic cast, and cameos, from his show like Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, Benny Ruben, Rochester, Barbera Nichols, and so many others. Funny is funny ,no matter when it was made, and Jack Benny is proof. Bob.G
Jack like so many of the actors/comedians of that era got to where they were by Their Tallent and Not thru Social Media. Always loved those celebs more than the ones of today along with the ones that came before Social Media.
My favorite was when he played in the mouse who played the violin and there was a guy by the name of Rochester that was my favorite cartoon I do remember them on radio but I love that cartoon
I remember walking down our street on a Sunday night when I was about 12 and realizing that every television was tuned to The Jack Benny Show. I knew that it would be the same when I got home. Somehow it was very reassuring and homey.
All the great Jewish-Amerícan comedians have gone. Jack Benny, Roger Dangerfield, Henry Youngman, Milton Berle, Joan Rivers, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, George Jessel, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, Gene Wilder, Red Buttons, Sid Ceaser, George Burns etc etc and those who are left aren't young....Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and Billy Crystal ( the baby of the pack!) treasure them America cos' there ain't going to be any more.
I have loved Jack Benny since the day I was introduced to him. And that day was nearly 30 years ago. Incredible career, great man, and truly a master of being funny. As a testament to him, I think one of the best stories is about what he arranged for his wife following his death. Mary received a single rose everyday for the rest of her life! Wow! And what he left for the rest of us was a catalog of shows that still hold up today, and are still funny today, nearly 50 years after his passing.
A current producer on NPR described how early in her career in the 1970's she was a production assistant on The Dick Cavett Show. One day, her assignment was to pick up Jack Benny at JFK Airport. As a 20 year old, she, of course, knew his reputation, but wasn't really a fan. A few blocks from the hotel he was staying at, Benny asked her to pull over so he could get a cup of coffee at a diner. She obliged and left him with his one traveling bag. As she was leaving the diner, she took a last look and saw him sitting sadly alone at his booth. She went back and asked him if he would like some company. He lit up, and said he sure would. They talked about everything for over two hours. She said it was one of her most astonishing experiences. Life, war, politics, sex, they hit on all subjects. Then he did Cavett's show and left town the next day.
Thank you for this tribute to Jack Benny! I understand he was a kind man and I'm like the character he portrayed, he was generous to a fault. It's been 46 years since you left us. Will be having a 50th anniversary celebration in 2024, that will mark the 50 years since his passing. I love his show! I watch the reruns on my computer. I consider these shows to be very funny I enjoy them very much.
I love these real life stories of those we loved. The trouble I have is trying to understand what is being said is said so fast. It is my age, 84, but I really want to understand it all.🎻 Thank You
Very enjoyable piece. Please get your facts straight!!!! Jack's real last name was Kubelsky. You bungled the pronunciation. Also Jack served in WW1 not WW2. He would have been in his late 40's by then. A nice unknown fact. Jack was one of the first stars to entertain the troops in WW2, even before Bob Hope. Jack Benny had a career spanning six decades. He lived till 80. Old in 1974, but some stars made it till there late 90's and 100's. A great act to follow. A true great American comedian and fellow human being......
I remember jack benny from tv & movies. Later they started selling cassette tapes of different radio shows like jack benny, george burns & gracie allen and of course bud abbott & lou costello. Amazing talent.
Comedians of this era -- Jack Benny, George Burns, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar et al. -- were funny without being vulgar. Their comedy emerged from situation and personality (Benny's famous stinginess, for example). Among modern comics, Jerry Seinfeld, Rita Rudner, and Jonathan Winters are the only ones with a similar approach to comedy. Vaudeville gave young talents of all kinds a chance to perform before a live audience. It was invaluable experience, particularly for perfecting comic timing. Modern comedy clubs are far more limiting due to their narrow demographic and the type of humor the clubs demand. They produce the frenetic, broad, juvenile comedy of a Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy -- hip, loud, and off-color. The urban, adult comedy and stage presence of Benny and his friends is no longer in vogue, but it was a wonderful era while it lasted.
When I was young I used to watch The Jack Benny show and loved it. It wasnt until the last 5 to 10 years that I discovered Jack's radio programs. I have to admit they were even funnier. I think because it was built more around his cast. And I enjoyed it best with Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson and Dennis Day. Mary Livingston was married to Jack but not on the program. Opposed to most other radio shows, The Jack Benny show still holds up today. Thanks for creating this video.
I remember vividly the "Burns & Allan" TV show from the early 1950s on daytime but for the life of me I can't recall "The Jack Benny Show." But watching them on RUclips takes me back to that time. Re Vaudeville; many of the early stars learned their craft on the Vaudeville Stage; now-a-days, the professional singer seems to learn the craft from the sound booth and end up being a product of studio engineering as much as from any inherent vocal talent.
I was lucky enough to see Jack Benny live in a 500 seat room while sitting at a table up front ... he was on stage with Dennis Day and I beleive his straight man ... it was around 1973 just before he passed away ... I loved it .. I remembered him from TV as a kid .. I still remember that evening fondly and feel lucky just for being there.
I remember a bit he did on TV with Bob Hope. The gag was that they had been captured by cannibals and were sitting together stewing in a pot. Hope was stoic about it, commenting on how they had had a good life. Benny agreed, but regretted that he would not make it long enough to turn 40. A payoff on one of the longest running jokes ever.
Jack Benny was truly one of the greatest ever. I remember the day he passed, it was as though all of show business came to a screeching halt. For the next few days all of the networks had hour long specials devoted to him and his career. I miss him and his style to this day.
I grew up seeing Jack on TV, starting in the 50s. We were all so upset that he left us so soon. I had just had a baby and was so sad that my child wouldn't see him. Thankfully, tv changed and as a teenager she got to know him.
Wonderful man and enjoyed him on TV as a child. He was one of a kind and the best of the best! Also, never new that he was in service to our Country in the US Navy!
I get the distinct impression that the reader has never listened to any of Mr. Benny's shows. I've never heard anyone pronounce Mel Blanc's name BLAHNK and Mary LIvingSTONE.
Yep. That guy knows nothing. He said Jack joined the navy in 1917 to serve in the SECOND world war. He also said Mary died first and Jack second when talking about the biography.
I get the direct impression he only listened to Joan's interview with cotton in his ears. It could be that Joan made some minor mistakes in a live interview (dates, or other faux paux), but the reader of this video did no fact checking.
As a little boy I had the good fortune of meeting Jack Benny! He was performing in a charitable classical concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In the newspaper it was mentioned that he was staying at the Royal York Hotel. So on a Saturday morning I went down to the hotel and asked at the front desk which suite Mr. Benny was occupying. They told me and upstairs I went. Arriving at his door, it was ajar. I could hear him playing his violin and so I politely knocked. Mr. Benny came to the door looking radiant and quite handsome. I asked him for his autograph to which he gladly complied. I think that he was touched that a little boy had knocked on his door. Jack Benny created a warm- hearted, kind impression and I remember how startled I was to learn of his sad passing a number of years later, in the 70's.
Your video is very good and looks professional. But you talk too fast and the pictures change too rapidly. I'm a great Jack Benny fan, and nothing I saw was news to me (apart from Joan's comments). This is not how to introduce him - or any other artist - to the general public. I liked the video because it was short and to the point. Had I not known much about Jack Benny, would I have learned something? Not a lot. I hope you take this as constructive criticism. Just slow down the pace so everybody - not just fans - can follow. These days there are people walking around who have never heard of Elvis or The Beatles. How could you sell them in your machine-gun videos?
Well ...every time I drive by the fountain at Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard I remember that that's where, under the fountain, Jack Benny kept all his money. All of it. Beverly Hills that is...
I was 8 when Jack Benny passed away. I was watching his tv program every weekend and thought it was new. I didn't realize it was old repeats. Because of this when he died I cried and cried till my mother explained that his show was repeats from the 50s and 60s. I actually thought Jack Benny was 39 when he died!
Once Jack dressed as a gypsy with his violin went out his back door, over his fence into Lucy's back yard and started playing...she wasn't home. He got back home but found he locked himself out so he tried the front door, it was locked also, just then a See the Hollywood stars homes bus drove by. Jack started playing, the bus stopped and he signed autographs for all.
@@elwoodblues9613 He really played his violin. When the TV show and his radio shows finished he decided to really learn the violin. He wanted to perform professionally on stage with a full orchestral. By this time in her life Mary was sick and tired of it and poor Jack was forced to practice in his bathroom. But he did perform in Carnegie Hall with money going to charity. He said "Tickets in the front row costs $5.00, tickets in the middle costs $10.00 and tickets in the far back seats costs $25.00 and if you just wall by outside the theater it costs $200.00 so you can't hear my bad playing."
Jack Benny was born in Waukegan Illinois 55 miles north of Chicago I went to Jack Benny Benny Jr high in Waukegan there's Parks named after him also he gave a lot of money to City of Waukegan for things
Jack was definitely a rare Gem. Jack was loving caring a very wonderful man and comedian. There will never be another Jack. No one will ever take his place. I love listening to Jack and all of the gang. Great radio program. I never saw the tv show. I was just a small child when the show was on tv. Luckily I get to see the tv shows on RUclips
Hope you got the chance to see the Kelsey Grammer tribute to Jack! I will always remain a huge fan forever after having the blessing of shaking his hand and refused washing it for a week.
I remember watching the Jack Benny show on TV when I was five years old, in Melbourne, Australia. In the show, he had a butler named Rochester, he was a miser, and kept his money stored in a vault in the basement of his house, with a moat around it, protected by aligators in the moat. That was hilarious.
I started listening to Jack Benny in , probably 1950-51. I enjoyed him the rest of his life. Thank you Joan for sharing your family.
I loved Jack Benny..I never missed a show if I could help it...He was not only funny, he came across as kind...kids are intuitive.?his daughter was very fortunate, which she well knows...I read her contribution to the book..really lovely.
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Jack Benny one of the many old time greats👍👍👍👍
So refreshing to hear about a truly nice celebrity that loved his family and had a normal relationship with them
I recall reading somewhere that Jack didn’t care if other cast members of his show got more laughs than he did. Jack just wanted the show to be funny. That just proves how kind and generous he was.
Comedians normally have stooges or straight guys. Jack himself was straight. He never told any jokes (like, for instance, Bob Hope). If he did, they were insipid, and no one - at least not the other characters on the show - would laugh at them. We laughed at Phil Harris, Dennis Day and others. They were the funny guys. We laughed at Jack because he was NOT (trying to be) funny.
Like Jack told Johnny Carson, you can have great talent on your show but the next day people will say...did you watch Johnny Carson last night or did you watch Jack Benny last night?
I wud pick JB over Ricard Pryor anytime, I'm a blk man in my 50s,& wat I really love about Jack, is he wasn't having that racism BS
At least he wasn't full of himself he was the funniest guy in show business him and George Burns were best of pals
Jack and Lucille Ball lived next door to each other for many years. They were great friends, and they often had each other as guests on their shows.
WW1 was the war Jack Benny served in 19 14-18 and as WW2went from 1939-1945.....Thanks for Mr Benny’s Story 🙏🤓😇
For someone who was adopted ,she has a striking resemblance to her adoptive mother !
I'm now 70 & grew up with great TV compared to the junk that is on today. Yes, I did watch
Jack Benny & a lot of those shows in the 1960's. Today my computer is my TV set for those
old TV Shows.
Thank you so much for sharing your life story. We're very happy to know that you're a fan of old shows! Which one is your favorite though?
Remember him during the radio days. He was just the best. Sunday night radio family appointment for sure
To me Jack Benny is the nicest person to walk on this earth. He is my favorite. I've read the book many times and I was left with the feeling that there was a lot of animosity between Joan and Mary. Joan was about to marry and Jack was going to give Joan the house on Roxbury as a gift. Jack and Mary moved to a new house in Hombly Hills, Mary hired a interior decorator which cost Jack $50.000. Mary didnt like the results and threw everything out and bought new furniture. This cost Jack so much that he couldnt give the house to Joan but had to sell it to recoup the loss. A year before Jack died he was told he was $700.000 in debt which is why he worked almost to the end of his days. But for a man who arranged to have a rose delivered every day to his wife after his death must be a saint.
First time ever hearing this claim and hard to find sources he was in debt when he died. Could be, but there are sources stating he had the equivalent in today value of 30 million when he passed.
@@mwilliams1330 It came from Irving Fein's book, Jack Benny A Intimate Biography. Remember Jack was told this one year before he died. He was not in debt when he left us but this statement enforced the authors opinion that Mary was spending way more than Jack was taking in.
@@chrischeshire6528 Jack shared many times he could not refuse Mary, especially when they went overseas. I am not sure how much of a business man he was. Point being Hope and Crosby invested in many different business ventures, Hope even had his contract renewals with NBC to include real estate. While I am sure there were some investments, his primary income likely was from performances.
@@mwilliams1330 Jack Benny was not a business man. He needed help after selling himself to CBS for 2 million dollars and then realizing how much the IRS wanted. He found a CPA who advised him to incorporate, thus J and M Enterprise was formed. CBS paid him $50.000 a week for his radio program and $80.000 a week for his TV show. On the TV show Dennis Day said he was paid $3.000 a show. A fan letter from a lawyer who threaten to sue Jack on behalf of Rochester because he believed what he heard on the radio program was real life! Jack wrote back and told the lawyer that he paid Rochester $2.100 an episode. He said Rochester made $70 dollars a minute on the show. Jack's only produced TV show that became a success was "Checkmate" . So Jack did own a big house in Bevery Hills and owned a Rolls Royce and Mary did buy anything she wanted according to Joan Benny. Maybe he did turn out to be a good businessman after all.
@@chrischeshire6528 I recall reading or hearing something similar. Jack was the highest paid radio entertainer of his time. The war taxes were going to take nearly everything and Jack (and other entertainers) through the CPA's found loop holes by incorporating and deferring funds. So for many, though the money looked big on paper, it was actually income that was technically there, was also not available as ready cash. as for Eddie Anderson, correct me if I am wrong, but he was the highest paid Black entertainer in Hollywood. Jack did not give him that, Eddie earned it for sure, but shows Jack recognized and appreciated, and paid the talent. Funny on breaking the money down by the minute..a recurring gag on radio when Day wanted a raise.
Jack Benny was an amazing man with amazing talent. I grew up enjoying him as well as Bob Hope, George Burns, Abbott and Costello, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis, Jr. The list goes on and on. (I once had lunch with Bob Hope. It was in Cleveland, Ohio where I grew up.)
Those people and many of their contemporaries were all true talent and true Americans. They were heros in their own way because they were there for their audiences and not for themselves. In my opinion, they were the best of the best and will have no equals, ever. That is why I enjoy them still, as do my children. Now, my grandchildren are learning to enjoy them, too.
Radio and tv. Loved the show. They were all great 👍🇨🇦🍁
Loved it thankyou
Awesome man!
I was born in Waukegan, Illinois, like Jack Benny. There is a Jack Benny Elementary School (ok, there was a Jack Benny Elementary School - probably renamed Che Guavera Elementary School now...)
when i was a teenager i can remember my mother laughung so hard at the,jack benny show . she really enjoyed him ... now im a granma and watch the reruns of his show and i get him now and also laugh and enjoy him very much. . go figure i guess i didnt know he was,so funny as a teen !
Jack Benny was the master of timing.
Jack Benny was a gentleman and a family man who adored his wife and daughter.... Jack Benny didn't involved himself in infidelity
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Johnny Carson was one of Jack Benny’s writers. They say that Johnny cried for several hours after Jack died.
I think you're misremembering facts.
Johnny Carson NEVER worked directly for Jack Benny as a writer. He was invited on a Benny program but he didn't work for Benny. He was inspired by and copied some of Benny's mannerisms.
No question Johnny Carson was a Jack Benny fan. Most people in comedy back then were or they copied Benny and incorporated things into their acts. Benny was an institution for decades but he's unknown to virtually everybody born after 1980. Benny died just before Christmas in 1974. I was still a toddler when Benny died and I knew him first from reruns of the Looney Tunes animated short they made with the classic Benny cast in the 1950s!
Not surprising to me Benny is virtually unknown today to people under 50. They weren't rerunning the Benny TV series in my area by the late 1970s. If you weren't I Love Lucy or The Honeymooners, they weren't generally rerunning your B&W TV show because you had to be a full-color show. A lot of series that were in reruns then only had later full-color seasons broadcast. There were tons of B&W programs in both the UK & the US that were wiped/destroyed because they didn't see the rerun value of B&W TV after color TV sets because the standard and NOBODY saw the home video market and anything like streaming becoming standard!
I didn't even really see the Benny program or Burns&Allen episodes until I caught YT fan channels posting episodes of their old B&W TV episodes in the last few years!
I remember Jack Benny for his T.V. show.
I think a lot of us liked him even better on radio. Probably because on radio you have to imagine everything, whereas on TV you can see it. It was even more fun on radio.
''Your money or your life !".....i'm thinking... i'm thinking.......the longest laugh in television history.
Listen to the radio show on satellite radio while driving.
Uh....Excuse me, sir
YESSSSSSSSSS
Thanks, interesting overview....for a chance to see Jack,Benny Perform at PURDUE U( Hall of Music: VICTORY Varieties) in 1966?: Anyways great Performance . Interestingly, it was enlightening to see Jack well before the Show,(“taking a Comstitutional/Smoke/ stretch / etc) out behind the Hall as We walked past....
So Mr. Benny was in the U.S. Navy in WW 2. What a Patriot! Defending his country at 49! Hahaha!
His one word moments - Well...........
Funniest guy ever.
THE ONE JACK BENNY I JUST LOVE. HE INVITED. A DOWN AND OUT. POOR GUY. FOR A FREE BREAKFAST. AT A SMALL DINNER.
AFTER JACK. FINISH EATING.
HE WALK. UP TO THE CASH REGISTER. TO PAY. FOR BOTH MEALS. HE TOLD THE OWNER. HIS FRIEND. WILL PAY. IT ALL.
THEN JACK WAVED. TO HIM.
THE POOR MAN. WAVED. BACK
TO JACK. THE OWNER. LET HIM GO. BOY, THAT WAS FUNNY.
I am over 70 now and he was with us through THE 50S 60S AND 70S. Outstanding tongue in cheek comedy. Come back Jack Benny.
I'm 46 and discovered OTR when I was 12 or 13. Brilliant shows. Benny was always my favorite.
@@martywhite2988 I am British and our tv entertainment in the early 50s was abysmal. Limited viewings times and early shut downs . Then Jack Benny, came onto Uk TV and we all realised that comedians were supposed to be funny and humorous. A new window into American life opened
thegowerboy That's only TV, if you count radio the 30s and 40s also
@@fscap811 Yes he was an all rounder and i assume you are American? He was outstanding radio comedian. Quick sharp and so lethargic. It seems to me his style was unique.
Great video I remember Jack Benny as a kid my parents would watch the JB show and laughed till their stomach hurt. One little fact you blew “ in 1917 was WW1”
There's a lot of other errors in this video besides that. As well as a raft of mispronounced names. It was "Livingston", not "Livingstone", even though it was spelled that way. The narrator also mispronounced "Kubelsky".
I remember his TV show, when he'd put his hand up to the side of his face and say, ,"Well."
I ALWAYS LOVED THE JACK BENNY SHOW!!!!!
Mary’s name was not
Living-stone. It was pronounced
‘Livingston’.
I remember Jack from his t.v. show.Absolutely loved it,never missed an episode.He was so good,perfect timing and his facial expressions always had me in stitches.He was a decent human and missed by so many.R.I.P. Jack,🙏🙏
Timing. Jack’s humor was in what he didn’t say.
Was hoping to hear story behind hand covering cheek. Wife scratch at sbowtime.
Groucho was like that - so hilarious.
I listen to Jack on OTR almost every night. I occasionally throw in Phil Harris & Alice Faye, or A Day In The Life of Dennis Day. Real comedy that still holds up.
Yep, several OTR apps on my phone. The old stuff never gets old.
THE THING IS,IT'S FUNNY AND GREAT WITHOUT FOUR LETTER WORDS OF HALF NAKED PPL!!
THOSE WERE BETTER TIMES
LOOK AT MUSIC AWARD SHOWS THESE DAYS,LOL AT THE BEACH HAVE MORE CLOTHES ON.
I love listening to Jack Benny and his crew. So happy to hear that his family was happy.
I remember Jack from both radio and Television. Such a very talented person. Giving and generous as well.
I WATCHED JACK BENNY AS A CHILD HERE IN AUSTRALIA, I ALWAYS LOVED HIM AND MARY WAS AN ABSOLUTE MATCH FOR HIM. LOVED SEEING THEM TOGETHER. I WAS ABLE TO GET UP HIS FUNERAL ON THE NET, THAT WAY I COULD SAY GOOD BYE AND THANKFUL TO HAVE SEEN HIM ON T.V.
I still listen to him on the radio!
Jack Benny will always be remembered for his long running radio show first, but then the television show was so good I really can't say which one was better. They were both exceptional just as was Jack Benny. I always think of Fred Allen and all the other comedians of the period with Jack Benny. There is not a person today that can compare with Jack Benny.
I loved Jack Benny !! He made me laugh just looking at him !! His actions were even funny !!
"Rochester Van Jones" was not the actor's name...unlike everyone else in the cast, Eddie Anderson played someone other than himself.
The actor's name was indeed Eddie Anderson. As Jack's valet on the Jack Benny Program he became known as Eddie "Rochester" Anderson. "Rochester Van Jones" was the name he gave or was given on the show.
The name was perfect and Rochester was perfect. 🤗
I am right at the age where I'm to young to remember Jack and others of his day, but I was around during the first reruns of their shows. And even now, I still enjoy their comedy much better than many of today's so called comics. Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Red Skelton, & so many others, knew how to make people laugh, without the use of four letter words or negative political comments. I think we sure could use men like them around again.
Agree
@Matt Stuart I remember him from his many appearances on the Johnny Carson show. They were good together.
Well... Red could get a little risque!
Matt Your Definitely Right for sure I'm with you on that I have to agree
Jacks friend Danny Thomas was one of the most amazing folks to have ever live. He founded St Jude with a little help from his friends. Today that institution lives on and saves countless lives! Amazing.
@@checkpointchickie1131 can you prove this?
@@checkpointchickie1131 scatological?
@@checkpointchickie1131 NONE of what you wrote has ever been proven by anybody
@@albertlaw786 Can you prove it didn't?
Uh? You think?
Such a great !! They all were !! Completely unpretentious; down to earth ! Just Great ! Sadly, there’s Nothing like it today . No, really. Ego ego ego. I saw an interview with Jerry Seinfeld and he was completely rude and unkind to the elderly interviewer. He even said: “Do you know who I am.? “. The ego !
Date He joined the war
(US Army) was WW I
Not WW ll
Mr. Benny wasn't in the Army during WW1. He served in the Navy during that conflict.
I noticed that glitch, too. WWII did not start in 1917; he served in WWI.
WWI started in 1917, for the Americans. They were late to the party, just like for WWII.
Mr Benny was a superb comedian whose creative comedic genius did not depend on explicit sexual or bathroom humor. He strictly used his genius to mine a variety of comedic forms to bring humor and entertainment to his audience. He never grew stale due to perfect timing and true talent and humor. Never insulting, unkind or arrogant in any way to his cast or audience, or giving less than his full devotion to each and every performance or production. The fact he was a true top star through decades of daily, weekly and special performances was a merited achievement. Loved by all throughout his life, he was unique. We may truly never see his like again. He represented an era of men and women of individuality, respectability and comportment in life. At one time a normal standard, which has been steadily reduced by self interest and greed. It is utterly heartbreaking as we watch the standards and social behavior goals of a generation die with them to our sorrow. How we could benefit with simple good manners and putting others first.
We totally agree, SD!
There was a fair amount of fat shaming with Don Wilson that you couldn't do today.
@@pesoto74 Everyone at that time lived in an era when self deprecation was the social norm. They also were far less sensitive since everyone was treated with the same teasing back and forth. Of course there were many instances when people were cruel and bullying and still today it continues. Mankind will always be mankind. The difference was correcting intentional cruelty, to not take yourself so seriously and to take it in the spirit it was given. Due to the pernicious political and leftist social and educational influences our society has now turned in on itself into judgmental and tribal divisions of resentment and revenge oriented behaviors. Everyone has become suspect and speech is examined for ulterior neg motives and meanings.
We can choose to exhibit these good qualities in our own lives, regardless of what others do.
I wish his show was back on
He was so funny
You can see the show on the COZI tv channel
I discovered Jack Benny through my Dad who collected old radio shows and had grown up in that era. Nick at night used to play the television show. They are both wonderful.
I was not born when the radio show was on, and was not born when the tv show came out, but i started watching The Jack Benny Program on cable in the 1980's, and was instantly hooked , and i still am. I don't know if there is a funnier person than Jack Benny . There are a lot that are very funny , and some that are even as funny, but none of em' are funnier. Although i am not from his era, his comedy still resonates today, and turned me on to other greats of those times that i find endlessly hilarious ( Berle, Hope, Burns, ect. .) , along with all the fantastic cast, and cameos, from his show like Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson, Benny Ruben, Rochester, Barbera Nichols, and so many others. Funny is funny ,no matter when it was made, and Jack Benny is proof. Bob.G
Jack like so many of the actors/comedians of that era got to where they were by Their Tallent and Not thru Social Media.
Always loved those celebs more than the ones of today along with the ones that came before Social Media.
Indeed agree
My favorite was when he played in the mouse who played the violin and there was a guy by the name of Rochester that was my favorite cartoon I do remember them on radio but I love that cartoon
At 82 I grew up with radio and Jack Benny was always clean and entertaining, I still love radio.........................................
How can you tell his personal hygiene on the radio?
I remember walking down our street on a Sunday night when I was about 12 and realizing that every television was tuned to The Jack Benny Show. I knew that it would be the same when I got home. Somehow it was very reassuring and homey.
Thanks for watching, stephanie!
All the great Jewish-Amerícan comedians have gone. Jack Benny, Roger Dangerfield, Henry Youngman, Milton Berle, Joan Rivers, the Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, George Jessel, Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, Gene Wilder, Red Buttons, Sid Ceaser, George Burns etc etc and those who are left aren't young....Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and Billy Crystal ( the baby of the pack!) treasure them America cos' there ain't going to be any more.
Chaplin was not Jewish.
Meir Wise : wow, thanks for the FYI, I thought they were just American and not jews
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I have loved Jack Benny since the day I was introduced to him. And that day was nearly 30 years ago. Incredible career, great man, and truly a master of being funny. As a testament to him, I think one of the best stories is about what he arranged for his wife following his death. Mary received a single rose everyday for the rest of her life! Wow! And what he left for the rest of us was a catalog of shows that still hold up today, and are still funny today, nearly 50 years after his passing.
That would have been 1990! Jack had been dead 16 years! Who you trying to fool?
Johnny Carsons idol.
Born in 71, Jack Benny was before my time. I'm just discovering his masterful television career....
I know who Jack Benny is- and am happy to hear of a happy family- 🌹Beautiful🌹 !
A current producer on NPR described how early in her career in the 1970's she was a production assistant on The Dick Cavett Show. One day, her assignment was to pick up Jack Benny at JFK Airport. As a 20 year old, she, of course, knew his reputation, but wasn't really a fan. A few blocks from the hotel he was staying at, Benny asked her to pull over so he could get a cup of coffee at a diner. She obliged and left him with his one traveling bag. As she was leaving the diner, she took a last look and saw him sitting sadly alone at his booth. She went back and asked him if he would like some company. He lit up, and said he sure would. They talked about everything for over two hours. She said it was one of her most astonishing experiences. Life, war, politics, sex, they hit on all subjects. Then he did Cavett's show and left town the next day.
Radio...I just turned 80 and used to listen to his show. Rochester was a memorable character.
To whoever is reading this have a nice day 😀
Same back to you Jen 🌷
Thank you you to
Have a nice day
Facts Verse omg hi lol
Thank you so much, and the same to you.😍😍👍👍🙏🙏
Thank you for this tribute to Jack Benny! I understand he was a kind man and I'm like the character he portrayed, he was generous to a fault. It's been 46 years since you left us. Will be having a 50th anniversary celebration in 2024, that will mark the 50 years since his passing. I love his show! I watch the reruns on my computer. I consider these shows to be very funny I enjoy them very much.
I love these real life stories of those we loved. The trouble I have is trying to understand what is being said is said so fast. It is my age, 84, but I really want to understand it all.🎻 Thank You
Very enjoyable piece. Please get your facts straight!!!! Jack's real last name was Kubelsky. You bungled the pronunciation. Also Jack served in WW1 not WW2. He would have been in his late 40's by then. A nice unknown fact. Jack was one of the first stars to entertain the troops in WW2, even before Bob Hope.
Jack Benny had a career spanning six decades. He lived till 80. Old in 1974, but some stars made it till there late 90's and 100's. A great act to follow. A true great American comedian and fellow human being......
Jack Benny is the king. He is the greatest comedian of all time, and he is also the creator of the situation comedy. Thank you for this video.
Our family loved the Jack Benny Show. We watched every week. 🤣🥰😂
I remember jack benny from tv & movies. Later they started selling cassette tapes of different radio shows like jack benny, george burns & gracie allen and of course bud abbott & lou costello. Amazing talent.
Comedians of this era -- Jack Benny, George Burns, Bob Hope, Sid Caesar et al. -- were funny without being vulgar. Their comedy emerged from situation and personality (Benny's famous stinginess, for example). Among modern comics, Jerry Seinfeld, Rita Rudner, and Jonathan Winters are the only ones with a similar approach to comedy. Vaudeville gave young talents of all kinds a chance to perform before a live audience. It was invaluable experience, particularly for perfecting comic timing. Modern comedy clubs are far more limiting due to their narrow demographic and the type of humor the clubs demand. They produce the frenetic, broad, juvenile comedy of a Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy -- hip, loud, and off-color. The urban, adult comedy and stage presence of Benny and his friends is no longer in vogue, but it was a wonderful era while it lasted.
When I was young I used to watch The Jack Benny show and loved it. It wasnt until the last 5 to 10 years that I discovered Jack's radio programs. I have to admit they were even funnier. I think because it was built more around his cast. And I enjoyed it best with Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson and Dennis Day. Mary Livingston was married to Jack but not on the program. Opposed to most other radio shows, The Jack Benny show still holds up today. Thanks for creating this video.
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A very funny man,but not entitled. A true gentle man and charming. If you watch What’s My Line, that charm shines through RIP MR BENNY
Umm...neither the script writer nor the narrator knew that the US entered World War ONE in 1917. 🙄
I remember vividly the "Burns & Allan" TV show from the early 1950s on daytime but for the life of me I can't recall "The Jack Benny Show." But watching them on RUclips takes me back to that time. Re Vaudeville; many of the early stars learned their craft on the Vaudeville Stage; now-a-days, the professional singer seems to learn the craft from the sound booth and end up being a product of studio engineering as much as from any inherent vocal talent.
I was lucky enough to see Jack Benny live in a 500 seat room while sitting at a table up front ... he was on stage with Dennis Day and I beleive his straight man ... it was around 1973 just before he passed away ... I loved it .. I remembered him from TV as a kid .. I still remember that evening fondly and feel lucky just for being there.
Very lucky what a great memory to have for all your life.
Sadly he passed before I was born. Shame. He seemed like such a great person
Greatest comedian ever. Nothing even close today.
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Jack Benny is one of my favorite old school favorite shows and the George Burns show is 2nd. Watching them work when they were young it's amazing!
If we only had him back and get rid of the trash that we have to put up with now😎😎
I remember a bit he did on TV with Bob Hope. The gag was that they had been captured by cannibals and were sitting together stewing in a pot. Hope was stoic about it, commenting on how they had had a good life. Benny agreed, but regretted that he would not make it long enough to turn 40. A payoff on one of the longest running jokes ever.
I was addicted to the "Jack Benny Program" for a very long time. It was most funny. I just love that show day in and day out.
Jack Benny was truly one of the greatest ever. I remember the day he passed, it was as though all of show business came to a screeching halt. For the next few days all of the networks had hour long specials devoted to him and his career. I miss him and his style to this day.
And he was only 39 when he died!
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I remember him, I loved the old black & white shows
I grew up seeing Jack on TV, starting in the 50s. We were all so upset that he left us so soon. I had just had a baby and was so sad that my child wouldn't see him. Thankfully, tv changed and as a teenager she got to know him.
Wonderful man and enjoyed him on TV as a child. He was one of a kind and the best of the best! Also, never new that he was in service to our Country in the US Navy!
I get the distinct impression that the reader has never listened to any of Mr. Benny's shows. I've never heard anyone pronounce Mel Blanc's name BLAHNK and Mary LIvingSTONE.
Yep. That guy knows nothing. He said Jack joined the navy in 1917 to serve in the SECOND world war. He also said Mary died first and Jack second when talking about the biography.
@@martywhite2988 Misinformation really abounds. Anyone can post whatever they want and it looks informative to the uninitiated.
@@momirmilinovich2411 A great, and true, comment!
I get the direct impression he only listened to Joan's interview with cotton in his ears. It could be that Joan made some minor mistakes in a live interview (dates, or other faux paux), but the reader of this video did no fact checking.
I agree with all of you. Just a video with little real info designed to get sponsorship money!
As a little boy I had the good fortune of meeting Jack Benny! He was performing in a charitable classical concert with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In the newspaper it was mentioned that he was staying at the Royal York Hotel. So on a Saturday morning I went down to the hotel and asked at the front desk which suite Mr. Benny was occupying. They told me and upstairs I went. Arriving at his door, it was ajar. I could hear him playing his violin and so I politely knocked. Mr. Benny came to the door looking radiant and quite handsome. I asked him for his autograph to which he gladly complied. I think that he was touched that a little boy had knocked on his door. Jack Benny created a warm- hearted, kind impression and I remember how startled I was to learn of his sad passing a number of years later, in the 70's.
I grew up watching Jack Benny on TV. My parents always had him on. Still today. Hes my favorite comedian. Ed Blanchard
Your video is very good and looks professional. But you talk too fast and the pictures change too rapidly. I'm a great Jack Benny fan, and nothing I saw was news to me (apart from Joan's comments). This is not how to introduce him - or any other artist - to the general public. I liked the video because it was short and to the point. Had I not known much about Jack Benny, would I have learned something? Not a lot. I hope you take this as constructive criticism. Just slow down the pace so everybody - not just fans - can follow. These days there are people walking around who have never heard of Elvis or The Beatles. How could you sell them in your machine-gun videos?
Well ...every time I drive by the fountain at Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard I remember that that's where, under the fountain, Jack Benny kept all his money. All of it. Beverly Hills that is...
He joined the Navy for WWII in 1917? Now that's planning ahead: enlisting for the sequel before they've even finished shooting the first one!
I was 8 when Jack Benny passed away. I was watching his tv program every weekend and thought it was new. I didn't realize it was old repeats. Because of this when he died I cried and cried till my mother explained that his show was repeats from the 50s and 60s. I actually thought Jack Benny was 39 when he died!
I was an adult when he died...and I cried.
I agree with Jack's daughter. I liked the radio program better than his tv show. I still enjoyed his tv shows, just not as much as his radio shows.
Television. I absolutely love Jack Benny.
How can you call this “facts” when you said he joined the navy in 1917 in WW II? That was World War I!
What? You didn't mention that Lucille Ball was Jack's next-door neighbor on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills?
Well!
And the next house was jimmy Stewart!
Once Jack dressed as a gypsy with his violin went out his back door, over his fence into Lucy's back yard and started playing...she wasn't home. He got back home but found he locked himself out so he tried the front door, it was locked also, just then a See the Hollywood stars homes bus drove by. Jack started playing, the bus stopped and he signed autographs for all.
@@chrischeshire6528 I have all 4 of the biographies written on him.
@@chrischeshire6528 - do you know if Jack played those same eight notes over and over (C-E-G-F-E-F-D-E) or if he *really* played his violin? :-D
@@elwoodblues9613 He really played his violin. When the TV show and his radio shows finished he decided to really learn the violin. He wanted to perform professionally on stage with a full orchestral. By this time in her life Mary was sick and tired of it and poor Jack was forced to practice in his bathroom. But he did perform in Carnegie Hall with money going to charity. He said "Tickets in the front row costs $5.00, tickets in the middle costs $10.00 and tickets in the far back seats costs $25.00 and if you just wall by outside the theater it costs $200.00 so you can't hear my bad playing."
Jack Benny was born in Waukegan Illinois 55 miles north of Chicago I went to Jack Benny Benny Jr high in Waukegan there's Parks named after him also he gave a lot of money to City of Waukegan for things
He was unique.
I laughed at his facial expression
Did he say he joined the Navy during WW2 in 1917?
Yep, that's what he said.
He sure did!
EXCELLENT 🌟FABOULOUS 🌟AWESOME 🌟 JACK BENNY 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
jack benny made my childhood very enjoyable indeed, bless him, and has family
If you can read Sundays at Seven without falling in love with Jack and his daughter, I don't understand you. So much talent, humor and kindness!
Jack was definitely a rare Gem. Jack was loving caring a very wonderful man and comedian. There will never be another Jack. No one will ever take his place. I love listening to Jack and all of the gang. Great radio program. I never saw the tv show. I was just a small child when the show was on tv. Luckily I get to see the tv shows on RUclips
Hope you got the chance to see the Kelsey Grammer tribute to Jack! I will always remain a huge fan forever after having the blessing of shaking his hand and refused washing it for a week.
Jack Benny was born in Chicago - however, he claimed Waukegan, Illinois as his home town. The city often welcomed him home with celebrations.
I remember watching the Jack Benny show on TV when I was five years old, in Melbourne, Australia. In the show, he had a butler named Rochester, he was a miser, and kept his money stored in a vault in the basement of his house, with a moat around it, protected by aligators in the moat. That was hilarious.