If you have a refined and sophisticated sense of humor (like me), you cannot get enough of Jack Benny.
Here, the laughs are doubled because Jack's guests are George Burns and Gracie Allen. Also featured are the usual gang -- Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNVK6QCI8dI
I was able to see Benny's last professional TV work as a kid...and since my parents bought the first four volumes of the Time/Life heavily illustrated THIS FABULOUS CENTURY (I guess the 1940-50 WW2-dominated volume was pushing the fabulousness envelope a bit hard, even given the ubgreat war stymying fascism for a minute), I had a transcribed and illustrated introduction to the Benny-Fred Allen "feud" from radio days, which led to my borrowing a cassette at the Enfield (CT) Cental Library with THE FRED ALLEN SHOW "King for a Day" (with Benny, of course) on one side and an INNER SANCTUM on the other, in 1974, when I was 9yo, pushing 10.
ReplyDeleteSo I have been a long-term fan. Thus, a decade back: https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2015/12/two-tributaries-to-our-overlooked.html