What a contrast to today's trash TV.
What a contrast to today's trash TV.
Well!
Jack Benny Lives!
Lately, I have been watching videos of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, I had forgotten how funny those roasts were, Don Rickles and the rest of the bunch from back then. I don’t think there is anything today that compares to the humor of that era. Foster Brooks was just great, as was Joey Bishop, even Peter Falk could bring a laugh.
Agreed - catch them now, especially any that featured Eddie Anderson as Rochester. The SJW crowd won’t allow those to hang around much longer, no matter how wrong they would be about the relationship of Jack Benny’s character with Rochester. Any I can recall seeing showed Rochester was usually 2 steps ahead of Jack while letting Jack think he was in charge. There certainly wasn’t any subservience on the part of Rochester, IMO.
Thug:
Look, bud, I said ‘Your money or your life.’
Jack Benny:
I’m thinking it over.
He makes a mistake on the form and goes to get another one.
CLERK: "That'll be $3.00."
JACK: "I already paid the $3.00."
CLERK: "The government already spent it."
I LOVE Jack Benny.
Many of his tv episodes reused scripts from his radio episodes.
People say that the radio episodes are far funnier than the tv episodes. I found that hard to believe until i listened to his radio episodes for the first time. Sure enough, they were right. If you like the tv show, you’ll love the radio show even more.
Here is a link to all episodes, free for download.
http://otrrlibrary.org/OTRRLib/Library%20Files/J%20Series/Jack%20Benny/
That hand to the side of his face, and the way he would look into the camera when he did that, was hilarious.
Amen
That was when there was real humor. Today, what they call “humor” is mean-spirited, filthy dirty sex talk.
His show alao had great writers. All in all, a level of comedic talent no longer around these days.