Jack Benny Program: Jack at the Supermarket 

The low prices weren’t really that cheap, you have to figure in how much you were paid then compared to what things cost! Some things are technically cheaper now!

And no face masks.

In Woodside, Queens in NYC in the 1960s There was a grocery store with only 2 cash registers with a moving roll belt to put groceries on it was 5 blocks away from the Long Island Railroad station and sevrd everyone in the neighborhood.

I can remember when supermarkets were like they were here. In addition, you also had the kids working there who not only bagged your groceries, but would actually carry them out to your car if you wished! The cashiers were almost always middle aged women who had been there for years and would hit those buttons SO hard on those mechanical cash registers. And they never seemed to look at the keys, just the price stickers on the items you were buying because they knew where every key was on the register! And the trading stamps as well. Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps! My parents used to paste them in books! I sure do miss those days. Now in declining health if I ask for help in the supermarket its usually 'I dunno I'm new here' or 'this isn't my section!' And if you complain to the manager, they attack YOU and protect the employee!

Don't forget the "Hours of Operation" sign: 8am. to 5pm. People budgeted their time far better back in the day, it would seem, with those hours.

I was born In 1969, but was raised by my grandparents. I always looked forward to this every week. Till this day, I always listen still. I even listen to this show with my own children, 16 female and 19 male. True comedy and peace in every aspect.

Hello Anna, How are you doing?

He had perfect timing, as a comedic performer. I remember Johnny Carson saying, that Jack Benny was a big inspiration to him!!!

TheInvincibleViolet Omg My faves are Jack Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson! he's way too hysterical!

@jacke sutton pilsner coltrane Copy that, forever, in this, the 125th anniversary of his birth, and the 45th anniversary of his passing.

@@juliaflo3172 what 125th he is only 39

And a real gentleman. Loved his relationship with Rochester outside of the show.

I was born in 1977 never knew about Jack Benny Burns and Allen and many older shows music etc. Thanks for the downloads on RU-vid I get to see god quality Tv good clean fun

@@nm202 When he made appearances on the Tonight Show, Jack Benny was afraid that Fred Allen was being forgotten - there were two or three different times he would ask the audience, "Do you remember Fred Allen?" And at least half of the audience was applauding for him, now people are forgetting Jack? In the late 1970s, a radio station was still playing reruns of those early Jack Benny shows ...

Born 1960 Same Years only

Good taste.

I was born 1992, mine is mid 50s to mid 60s

1963 for me. When I was a kid I knew I was born to late. 50 years later, and I know what I knew then was true!!

You are very wise in your taste! The golden age of hollywood.

That is so true! When you think how many violinists were on the show and Jack always let them shine while he comes off as a horrible violinist but was an absolute master!

Jack Benny is a sweetheart !!!❤ Ever seen him on an interview show, like Dick Cavett?? A humble, kind man, he was much loved by his peers in Hollywood, as well as his fans !!! This is one of my favorite episodes!!!😍My gramma, first told me who Jack Benny is. I started watching his show, on TV, and loved him right away, I was hooked. I also love the episode of What's My Line, when he was the celebrity guest....hilarious !!!!😁Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong era.

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@@stuart2010ification it's gone

And then I love Jack's expression, as he looks at the camera... priceless!!! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!😅

He also has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for each.

Like Will Rogers was a big personality of the Rodeo, Stage, Lecture, Film, Radio and Newspapers.

Lena Horne has two stars. She was miserable being the first black woman and very lonely.

William Anderson Bob Hope

12:18 YEEEEESSSS

Frank Nelson will always be one of the Greatest Actors of all time

​@@jonathanclary3992 I still hear people trying to imitate Nelson's style and voice. 😅

I remember Plaid stamps, (A&P), Blue stamps, (Grand Union), Green stamps, (Acme) Those were the days.

There was an S&H redemption center near where I live up until 35 years ago. It sounds like it's a long time in the past but I remember clearly going with my wife to get the Tiffany-style lamp she had been saving for since mid-1983. We'd gotten a few other items, beach ⛱ chairs and a folding table in the years since we'd been married in 1976. The physical building is still there and I will notice it sometimes.

But their free catalogs, month by month, and year by year, always offered the same things all the time, hardly any variety. I had to go to the White Front store to get clothes for my Barbie (I called her Barbette ) Francine, and Skipper in 1970. For my Ken ( Kevin Twinkle) doll I got him a suit and a golf bag - all clothes sold separately .

@@danielklein9855 Top Value stamps

Look at them stamp lickers, ain’t they champs? Drool, slurp, slobber...licking them stamps. Licking them green stamps, licking them blue Eating that paper, licking that glue! Them Lully-guggle stamp lickers ain’t they a rage? Putting them sticky stamps on that page. Wanna be a stamp licker, don’t need a ticket... Get yourself a stamp, juice up & lick it!! - Mason Williams

werksdesign Who writes the junk comedy shows and lousy boring movies today omg???

Mr.JoeIM, I do too. We have very few nowadays but with the way OUR COUNTRY and society/mobs whin and pitch their fits over the disease of “politico correctness mobs” and the “cancel culture mobs”, our CLEAN, DECENT, FUNNY comedians, script writers, cower to these black hearted evil mobs. I, listening eyes, am thrilled to admit that I have NOT one speck of that disease of “political correctness OR cancel culture” in me. You don’t like it, DEAL WITH IT😊. wado, listening eyes.

vic vega Benny Rubin's the bus driver on I love Lucy's The Tour! he looks sounds and acts just like Mel Blanc! wait til u see!

SymphonyBrahms Yes!

Can we add Mel Blanc at 23:10? Sure sounded like him barking.

Allyson Andrews When I turned 39, I declared it my: "Jack Benny Year". 2 years on, and I'm still 39 ... that's right, 39. ;)

+jazzpoet1974 lol. I'm 20... I mean... 19. 19 is funnier than 20.

I'm.....20.5

Allyson Andrews lol me too! when's your bday?? mine's 09-19-95

+Sarah Brandy Peters (Gravydog316) I was born in '72, the 12th of December :)

Chad Quick they should have put in Mel blanc too omg!

Hello Sandra, How are you doing?

do you wear a chinese kimono when you play cards

TheProtigiousNerd TV no, a bunnyhug. it works.

TheProtigiousNerd TV or cleavage works lol (you can distract AND hide your cards!!) (only works on SOME girls, tho!)

Gravydog316 Omg Rochester's a riot too!

TheProtigiousNerd TV Yes

Funny funny man .

I agree and it's good to be able to see this and many other shows... Good clean fun

Yeah, he really used to get under Jimmy Stewart's skin, when He guest starred on the show.... all in good fun, of course!!! They were probably great friends, in real life! ❤❤❤

That what makes jack benny's funny. He's cheap.

+MarjaMariachi call me stupid, but I dont get it..

CLASSIC, LOL X-D

+MichaelcohenLyingPOS I was born in '72 but I, myself, still get it: Frank Nelson was just giving Jack a hard time, that's all. Still pretty dead-on hilarious in my book :)

+MichaelcohenLyingPOS Actually, I'm not too big on the Marx Bros., but I DO love Popeye, Betty Boop, Munsters, Addams Family, AND especially Looney Tunes and Carol Burnett. In fact, I don't know exactly when it was, but when I was growing up, I do remember Jack, with his wife Mary, Rochester, and Don Wilson, as these cartoon mice in a 1959 Looney Tunes short called "The Mouse that Jack Built". By the end of that episode, Jack wakes up in a live-action sequence and realizes it was all just a dream, LOL It is SO funny if you saw it :)

+MichaelcohenLyingPOS I like You Bet Your Life, but the Marx movies are just ok, imo. I'm more of a 3 Stooges chick. (even if my dad & brothers think they are juvenile ha ha)

Hello Catherine, How are you doing?

Yyyyeeeessss

Hello Theresa, How are you doing?

Larry David clearly inspired by Jack Benny. Both the best!

Yeeeeeeeesssss

Michael Hartman Funny how the whole cast is crazy funny lol!!!

Joe Postove I don't know, but Ann-Margret probably is. She guested on the show either in '63 or '64, even if she wasn't a series regular. Everyone else, sad to say, is gone.

Oops, and I forgot to mention, so is Carol Burnett. I just saw the episode showing her and Jack where they fantasize they're Jane and Tarzan. And boy, can she belt it out with that Tarzan yell like you wouldn't believe, Jack can't come any where as close 😀😁😃😄

@@NeluThat70sKid Where ya been the last three years, Kid? 😎😎😎😎

@@MrJoeybabe25 Waiting for Jack's show to come out on DVD, so I wouldn't take up too much space on my TiVO with reruns of his show, along with Munsters, the Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, and other classic old-school goodies from that era. Really can't help it if I'm a day late and a dollar short if that's what you're wondering.

@@NeluThat70sKid It is really a crime that Jack Benny is not on DVD. Was there a more important comedic figure in the 20th Century. How soon we forget. 😣

That's a great one.

In ten years you'll be as old as Jack.

DITTO, SAME HERE. Can't get enough of Jack's oh-so-polite but befuddled and over-the-top brand of humor, and I was only 39 four years ago :)

+Franklin Mac lol!

Hello Mary, How are you doing?

Arabella Dawn I think you’re awesome.

Yes,Boss?

Hello Rebecca, How are you doing?

Miss OR Mrs. J Bastian, Eddie”Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day and Phil Harris made the Jack Benny Radio Show funnier, they added to the humor😊. Just as Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and Dennis Day added more humor to Jack’s Television Shows😊.

It is a great name for a dog, so at least someone would come running when you call.

The days of 50s sitcoms are long gone but thanks to the Internet and antenna tv they will live on forever lots of love anne ox

One of my favorite sitcoms is hazel god bless antenna tv for all the memories a baby boomer could want love anne

travis7310 Actually, come to think of it, they already are. Only it's on JLTV (Jewish Life Television, ch. 366 on DirectTV). We all know Jack Benny was Jewish, but yet, at the same time, I don't see him flaunting the joys of Jewish life esp. when he was aiming for a mainstream audience all along. (I'm not Jewish myself, but even so what does it matter? I watch TV where I get good zany laughs.) But yet Lucy and the Honeymooners, which all had American bluebloods, lives on through DVDs and syndication. Ha. Real nice double standard, Hollywood.

NeluThat70sKid I think I get that channel! It used to come on Antenna TV, but, I don't know if they still air it.

travis7310 No? Well, then try googling the channel off the computer and there SHOULD be a website. (RU-vid won't allow hyperlinks to other websites on its message boards. I tried.) Anyway, I don't get Antenna TV in my area, but Direct TV, yes. Personally, I prefer watching reruns of Jack's show on both Direct TV/JLTV and RU-vid, sucks how it's not in syndication right now. So, good luck, hope this helps.

I just checked. He airs on Antenna TV weekends at 3:00 AM. Fortunately for me, I'm still up then. Unfortunately, I can't record them because I can only receive the channel over the air. Same with MeTV, which is another one of my favorite channels! I wish TV Land had him, but, they'd cut out all the good parts.

travis7310 Just out of curiosity, do you have TiVO or a VCR? My DirectTV comes with a TiVO and I have recorded eps of My Three Sons and Petticoat Junction from MeTV on it. It really IS rather funny now you said it, MeTV is based in Chicago and I live in northern Indiana. How ironic is that? :)

Simple humor that will always be funny. Jack Benny , what a sweet man.

Now 60+ and STILL hilarious. I think Jack's comedy is ETERNAL!

Year 9999: almost everyone: oh! Time to post more jack benny!

Hope Sears go to Hell but you can’t say that on tv back then. I believe

MisterNewOutlook same

I lived in those Good ole days without color t.v....played outside....no cell phone or tablets...the Neighborhood kids enjoyed playing baseball,hide and seek,jack rocks, making cool aid, sitting at the table with family,what a good time to be born despite the obstacles......there were many but nothing compared to today's generation.....

Jack was the original Rodney Dangerfield.

They still do, but only business minded people.

Now one is lucky if shoppers merely pull their pants up. And I don’t just mean Seattle and San Francisco.

In our days, some people dress like if they were about to wash a car...

back when black people were treated terribly and still are

Exactly!

Just reading your comment made me laugh.😅😂