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Jack Benny
Jack Benny news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Jack Benny performances. According to Wikipedia: Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was... [more]
Jack Benny news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Jack Benny performances. According to Wikipedia: Jack Benny, born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality.
A retrospect of the most famous and popular radio show starring the legendary "39-year-old" comedian and cheapest man around.Contributor: John RobertsPublished: Nov 21, 2009
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From the LIFE archives, here's Jack Benny and a few close personal friends. I recognize Van Johnson and Paul Douglas along with Dennis Day, Mel Blanc, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Don Wilson. Might be the Sportsmen Quartet in there, too, and maybe Phil's band (which wasn't really Phil's band exactly but that's another story.) Hard to estimate the date of the pic, however, as it seems to have been snapped on the occasion of jack's 39th...
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The great Jack Benny and the equally great Mel Blanc worked together intermittently for more than thirty-five years. This TONIGHT SHOW appearance with Jack's number one fan (before Karen Hughes anyway) Johnny Carson from 1974 was probably their final appearance together It was certainly one of Jack's final TV appearances as he died at he end of that year. Ya gotta love YouTube.
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Longtime readers will recall that I'm a big fan of comedian Jack Benny. I even contributed a couple of years back to a published anthology covering different aspects of Benny's career. My piece covered Jack's 1990's comic book appearance with Batton Lash's WOLFF AND BYRD. What i didn't know at the time was that this was NOT Jack's first major comics exposure!The beginning of 1967 saw the United States still in the grip of the preceding Spring...
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When I was in NY last June I found metal lunchboxes on sale in Waldbaum's. They packaged the past, and I'm not referring to rotten sandwiches. Now, I finally opened one of them which had Red Skelton on the box. Besides a dvd of his old shows, there's one of Jack Benny and .... lots and lots of cardboard. There's nothing like old comedy to keep an old guy (and his 13 year old friend) entertained.We can change the world!
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