Jack Benny Program: Road to Nairobi (Guest Bob Hope) 

bob hope + jack benny in television = 100% comedy gold

Kings of comedy. Bob Hope stealing Jack Benny's pants is hilarious. Don Wilson wearing Jack Benny's pants is even funnier. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin's surprise appearances from the audience is extra awesome. Legends.

This episode of Benny is one of the funniest things ever on television.

Now this is REAL comedy, no foul language just good comedy!!!

I'd rather watch a half hour of Benny and Hope (Minus cancer stick ads) than I would three hours of what passes for Television these days.

This is my all time favorite Jack Benny tv episode.

Just to show that! it was possible for Jack Benny, as good as he was, could completely lose control of his show. Bob Hope is the master of improve, and Benny didn't know what was coming next. Hilarious

this is really great they are the best none of the stars today are like this, this is good clean comedy

So enjoyable to watch comedians trying to crack the other up rather than upstage the other.

Jack and Bob Hope together was fun😀, they were hilarious. Never has been two comedians as these two, ever!!!

They were the best Love Jack and Bob

(guest)Dear " Roci Stone", I agree with you, these great old shows are so more entertaining than the modern stuff. Most of them, I haven't ever seen, so they are like new shows .😊. Thank you so much, You Tube.😊🇬🇧🎄🇬🇧😊

For the benefit of the youngsters, the remark by Hope about the shine on Benny's pants causing another hearing referred to G.David Schine, a prominent figure in the viciously contentious Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, followed closely by the still new medium of TV.

This show was shot on stage 33 at tv city. If you look close when Martin and Lewis come in you see the front of the stage and the stairs. This is where Price is Right is shot and where Carol Burnett shot her show also

Benny was hitting that apple pretty hard... I think it was to try to help him keep from laughing.

Bob Hope and Jack Benny by this time were already well established stars from their radio days. They are flawless in their delivery and timing. Please note all these tv shows were telecast live. It was a big deal to turn on your 10" black and white tv and see real entertainment like this. I think Benny was on Saturday night and Groucho (You Bet Your Life) and Ed Sullivan were on Sunday. The sketch with the tiger/lion is brilliant, again their timing and improvisation is incredible. The jungle song Diga Diga Doo was first recorded almost 30 years prior by Duke Ellington in 1928.

this premired exactly 43 years, (to the day) before i was born

oh my goodness!!!! my favorite 4 comedy stars on the same stage! 4 genius! so good to see benny and hope joking and laughing together! @fromthesidelines there is nothing better than ad-libbing!haha

Loved this one. Neither one could keep a straight face!! :-)

Bob Hope was the only who made Jack Benny laugh.

ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OLDER CLASSIC TV EPISODES ARE REALLY GREAT TO SEE ONCE AGAIN SO MANY YEARS AFTER THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH WITH MANY NOW VERY WELL KNOWN ACTORS BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR ULTIMATE FAME - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FINDING AND POSTING THEM HERE.

Thankfully Lewis was only at the very end of this episode, therefore he did not ruin any of the talented work that Jack and Bob did.

This show is hilarious! I wish television was this clever these days.

I think this is the most 1950's thing I've ever seen.

They were hilarious!!😅😅😅

Only recently discovered these shows. I remember (vaguely) watching them in the 50s in the uk, as a young girl. Mum and Dad loved him. Very funny man. I’m hooked!

This is a great show i love it

Jack Benny and Bob Hope did a great show. Wonder if those with tender feelings enjoyed the Denmark joke?

I read that in a trip to New York the whole crew stayed in a Hotel but the manager didn't allow Rochester to stay in the Hotel due to his race. Jack Benny and his crew ( all Whites ) were Furious and left the Hotel in Protest. They were great friends.

From Rochester readying to shave Jack until Don Wilson leaves the stage the script is very much the same as the show Jack did with Phil Silvers. By the way the joke about the tiger / leopard and the hands on its hips when Bob Hope shot it and Jack's comment about the vet being from Denmark was all built around the world's first widely publicized sex change operation of Christine Jorgensen...rather daring for the time, around 1954-55. This episode is filled with ad libs about Marlon (Brando), Betty Furness and GE refrigerators, cannibals (Campbell Soups), Sandler Wells, Super Chief (Texaco), candelabra on the bongo (Liberace), Martin and Lewis lighting the fire. I had to watch the jungle part three times and I still missed some of the jokes

Funniest show ever! By anyone!

Dean and Jerry were under contract to appear on NBC's "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR" once a month [Sundays, 8pm(et), following Jack, and opposite CBS' "TOAST OF THE TOWN" {Ed Sullivan}], 'general', so they couldn't really appear as "guests". They COULD make a "gag" appearance, though....

Love this old humor. The only joke / reference I did not get was 8:58 "Who's in there with you? Jim Clinton?"

What a treat! Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis crash the show!

This is so much better than Blackish or Black Lightning. Even the cigarette commercial is better.

love it

Actually, this aired on Sunday, May 23, 1954 (the opening Lucky Strike sponsor I.D. and commercial [on film] at :08 is missing). The routine involving Jack and Don's pants was reworked for Phil Silvers in a 1962 filmed episode. Bob was notorious for shamlessly ad-libbing during his appearances on Jack's radio and TV shows [he rarely stuck to the script all the way through], yet Jack allowed him to get away with it because he WAS funny, and he appreciated the extra laughs that came with them...

AWESOME +

They almost blew the feline sight gag on the way in. And “Danish Taxidermist” I think would be a bit better. Oh, GL does it ever go downhill. 🧐😝

10:46 lol wow how outlooks have changed lol 👖📺

When shows were REALLY funny

The Nairobi thing done today would get everyone 100% cancelled

Blooper at 2:15. Anyone else catch it?

what is the song Rochester sings at the beginning

15:34 Was that joke referring to sex change operations? lol

Funny episode. But the closed caption for the Africa song was way off. On another episode when Dennis Day was singing it keep saying fart. Closed caption cracks me up sometimes, other times not so funny.

Jack and Bobs comedy was somewhat related. But Bob did more stand up. Bob improvs. Jack sticks to script but improvs silences in between Newhart obviously influenced!

7:19

Marlon tell me Bob Hope meant Marlon Brando

My only complaint is that Jack pronounced Oregon wrong. ;)

Shame the video I is such a dark copy.

So strange to see a commercial about cigarettes. Those companies sure wanted to sell them. Just boggles my mind. I'm very glad that l never wanted to smoke such a horrible habit

The cancer stick adverts are really today very sinister. Hope lucky strike got badly sued later on.

i love jack beny but this show was racist