He was and still is one of the greatest American comedians of the 20th century. His style of comedy was original and quite daring (for the time) and he treated his co-workers with admiration and respect. A great man and still sadly missed by his old fans but thanks to clips like these his magic lives on!
This is my all time favorite Benny skit. I've seen it 100 times and still laugh to the point of tears every time I see it. A classic from a grand master. Thanks for posting.
I love this and have watched it many times. My favorite is 4:30 to the end. Jack Benny was a brilliant violinist, and the band behind him very talented.
Lynette Bryant, a child actress who appeared in small parts in several movies at the time, was "Maw". Jack loved her performance so much [you can tell by the hug he gave her at the very end], she reappeared the following month in another episode as "herself", talking with him about this episode, among other funny things...
Is this it? "Fascinating Rhythm" is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical Lady Be Good.[1] The Astaires also recorded the song on April 19, 1926 in London with George Gershwin on the piano
For years on the Benny radio shows they made jokes about Frankie Remley, the left handed guitar player. You can see here, he really was a left handed guitar player.
That song was written by a governor of my home state, Louisiana, Jimmie Davis. I was too young to remember his era. I was young when our gangster-in-chief Edwin Edwards was governor. He recently got out of prison! We also had another controversial governor by the name of Huey P. Long, known as "the Kingfisher". He was so bright that he passed the bar examination without ever having gone to law school! He was assassinated at age 37 in our capital. The bullet holes are still in the marble walls.
You Are My Sunshine may just be the most famous popular song ever written; it has to be one of them. And a governor of Louisiana, my state, Jimmy Davis, wrote it.
According to D. Russell Connor's bio-discography of band leader Benny Goodman, drummer Sammy Weiss played on some of Goodman's recordings in 1934 and again in 1947.
Yes we do but people it seems had to have filthy talking comedians. It would be nice but there's no one who could be as good and funny as jack benny and all the other old timers red skelton etc.
Comments on comments already made: I still have the 78 of Dorothy Shay Feudin' aFussin' and a Fightin' . Robert Easton is or was a sought after dialect coach. Cliff Edwards - Ukelele Ike - was Jiminy Cricket - also the crow who sang When I See Elephants Fly in Dumbo.
This originally aired on "THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM" on November 4, 1951. Charlie Bagby, Wayne Songer, Sammy Weiss and Frank Remley were actual members of the show's orchestra (under the direction of Mahlon Merrick), and often referred to {and occasionally seen} by Jack on his radio and TV shows. Jack did this "hillbilly band" routine several times on TV over the years [and on film in a 1958 episode], and in his Las Vegas appearances as well.
For those who didn't know this, 'drhmweiss', your uncle was one of Mahlon Merrick's musicans on Jack's radio and TV shows for over 15 years [right up to his last weekly TV show in 1965]. He often appeared on camera whenever Jack needed a few of the "boys" to accompany him. Sammy was usually the object of "tall" jokes (and he was over six feet)- like the one he did on radio in 1955 when he claimed he was "Mickey Rooney's double in the movies".
Does Jack Benny Comedy get any better than this .. I doubt so. He, the master of the SLOW paced routine, the deadpan facial expression, and most of all, the PAUSE in the classic art of comedy. "This's muh wife ... " .. "this is our boy, Sammy .. ". Modern-day comedians should take note. Learn a little from a master ..
Why do some many clips of vintage shows on youtube are uploaded in such poor quality? They weren't broadcasted like that. The Retro TV networks wouldn't show them like that. Do the posters downgrade the video somehow for some reason? I'd gotten this episode on Pirate Bay ten or so years ago. The video quality was ten times best.
Bad video transfer. I'm sure the original kinescope film was of pristine quality. But a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy........well, you get the idea.
Plot twist: The girl who played the wife actually married the head guard at Buckingham Palace. Rumor has it that they have the kind of relationship where they read each other's minds. And that's all. 💂
When they started playing "putting on the ritz"(5:04), I laughed so hard i about fell out of my chair! Does anyone know the name of the song that they were playing just before?
You can see Jack doing the same thing during his Vauville days in San Francisco when he was just married to Mary. One night Jack was in his dressing room with Mary when two of the strippers walked in but didn't see Mary. Both where laughing as they shown Jack how they painted a pig face on one of the girls boob. After that Mary joined Jack on stage and quit the May Company.
@@HAM-sb2ns Read "Sunday Nights at Seven" by Jacks daughter Joan Benny. She gathered her memories, some of Jacks writers and Cast members and they put their times with Jack in print for Joan. There are great stories about Jack's radio show, like he was paid $50,000 a week for the show and $80,000 a week for his TV show. Funny and sad stories when dealing with celebrities.
@@spokev Oh for god's sake! Maybe you just have a perverted mind and you're making perverted assumptions. Your comment is what's cringeworthy! By the way, you are aware that this is a SKIT? It's called ACTING.
+Michael Terrell I used to think this was his daughter Joan, but apparently it wasn't. Still, it was a different era, and there wasn't a "pervy" bone in Jack Benny's body!
