Featuring rare video of legendary vintage comedians, focusing mainly on Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, and the Marx Brothers.
The original "Vintage Comedy Vault" was my first channel on RU-vid-- unceremoniously deleted due to outrageous copyright strikes in 2015. I've been so wrapped up in my other channels, it's taken me three years to finally relaunch it! (See "Featured Channels" for other channels of interest.)
I'll do my best to post new videos every day. . . at least for a while! I have a ton of material to share, but I do stretch myself too thin to keep up sometimes. Some videos I'll be posting were previously on the original VCV channel, but there's quite a lot that will be brand new. Please show your support by subscribing, upvoting videos, and leaving comments-- it really helps!
The brilliance of this comedy is beyond words. The jokes are corny and the comedians don't seem to be doing much of anything, but we just can't stop laughing. Why is that? How is that? The pure talent of "less is more." And those perfectly timed dance steps, absolutely unbelievable!
I loved hearing and watching Burns and Allen. The interesting part of this episode is that I JUST LEARNED SOMETHING USEFUL! LOL😄😄 The Carnation condensed soup script is good writing and probably soul-stealing at the same time.
It's interesting that in the move, The Final Countdown (1980), the Commander of the Nimitz (Kirk Douglas) smiled when they were listening to the Jack Benny show on the ships radio.
Ahhh Benny Goodman! My father’s idol when he was a kid and he had original albums of Goodman and Glenn Miller and others. I grew up listening to dad’s Big Band music. In 1975 the family saw Benny Goodman in concert and my father was like a kid in a candy store. He was just thrilled to death to see his idol and seeing dad made me happy. Dad got a clarinet as a kid to play like Goodman. Never worked as dad squeaked. But I have his clarinet whose so old that the original case the handle fell off. Because my father idolized Goodman and grew up to Swing, seeing this has a special connection.
I believe that they were still broadcasting "live" from New York with this episode. The following year, they started filming the shows in Los Angeles, which is the familiar version of the show.
What an entrance by Jackie Gleason. It's so awesome to be able to watch the great Jack Benny in the year 2024. I like his radio shows too. The interweaving stories, running gags and themes show the creativity of the writers. Buck Benny Rides Again. Cheers y'all.
Jonny appears in another episode as Jack"a son when they play the owners of a traveling circus. It's a bit strange but hilarious that Jack would spank Dennis since he never spanked his daughter, Joanie. She was a daddy's girl from the beginning and even appeared in the show once as his daughter in a dream about his being cheap.
Frank Fontaine made his name in comedy with the Benny show, both on radio and TV. But he hit his stride with Gleason in the Joe the Bartender sketches. He died much too young.
I'm 34 years old and I would give anything to have been born during the peak of the radio comedy era. I don't know why I watch stuff like this and feel like I'm seeing old friends. It delights me and then leaves me with a longing feeling that's so difficult to describe.
Jack Benny took pride in being an employer. He was responsible for keeping a lot of family going. Most of these individuals came from the great depression. Jack was a special human being.
Jack in drag performing the Gracie part is just as funny as Gracie. Lucille Ball performed the Gracie role with George Burns on The Lucy Show. She was funny but not as funny as Gracie or 'Jackie' lolz.
