Bob has Jack just cracking up! Quick never fail repartee!! 2 comedic geniuses and dear old friends. Iris Adrian!!!! Jesse White!!!These performances are just amazing never fail to amuse. Always fresh and surprising, never stale or dull. You never know who's going to show up or what they are going to do. Dont need a laugh track!! Jesse White had to turn away so the audience wouldn't see him laugh. Finally He couldn't hold it in any longer. Hope and Benny had great comedic rapport with each other
Good old days. Bob Hope was right when he said at his funeral in 1974 that Jack Benny gave us 80 years and it still wasn't enough. We want wanted more of him. I wish Jack Benny could have lived to be at least 100 like George Burns and Bob Hope lived but God had other plans. To think if Jack Benny had lived to be 100 he would have lived into 1994. The World would have seen Jack Benny the remainder of the 1970's after 1974, all of the 1980's and into the Early 1990's.
Originally telecast on December 4, 1962. Bob had a habit of ad-libbing whenever he appeared on Jack's show {he rarely stuck to the script}...this is why, when Jack claims, "I'm not getting any older... I mean, YOUNGER!", Bob ad-libs, "Which way are you gonna go?". Jack's chuckling reply: "The way I've always been going!". By then, Jesse White can barely control his laughter, while staying in character as the agent.
+Barry I. Grauman Oh! i noticed mr. white was trying so hard to stay in character by desperately stifling his laughter. very unmistakably he relished being around these consummate old pros,hope and benny.
The version of this bit I just watched, either from '54 or '57, had the boy playing Eddie Cantor, not Durante. By '62 Cantor was pretty much out of the public eye.
I love to see the cast members break character and bust up laughing. Same thing when Tim Conway, and Harvey Kormann acted together and Tim made Harvey break character by his comedic antics.
Got to meet Bob Hope at a hospital fund raiser in my town several years ago. Amazing comedian who could instantly adapt to his audience and keep them laughing. I feel indebted to Hope for performing for my father's army unit just before they were shipped out overseas. He improved morale for generations of service men and women all over the world.
Easy to forget that Bob Hope started out as a Broadway Hoofer. First played in "Roberta" in 1933. In that production also appeared Fay Templeton, George Murphy, Fred MacMurray, and Sydney Greenstreet as well.
@@harrylangdon491 He is not wrong about Bob Hope starting our as a hoofer. Bob Hope first formed the dance team "Two Diamonds in the Rough" with George Byrne. Then came his first vaudville tour.
These kind of humor we have no more,at a present day. Money becomes shortly. Because have to earn it. Mr. Hope shows worth for every cent at least old good years on that time
+Barry I. Grauman Episode title: hope and benny in agent's office,whoa! i never this episode was initially broadcasted live.pity that episode doesn't exist anymore. thanks for the info anyways.
Jack Benny es el seudónimo de Benjamin Kubelsky (Chicago, 14 de febrero de 1894-Beverly Hills, 26 de diciembre de 1974) fue un comediante estadounidense famoso entre las décadas de 1920 y 1970, reconocido como uno de los principales talentos humorísticos norteamericanos del siglo XX.
i actually heard this same logic about 25 years ago in an interview with a dude during a harsh recession. this guy says - "times are hard, but i'm remaining loyal to my employer. i'm working for him for nothing to help keep the business open. i may be broke but at least i gotta job!" and the kicker is, he wasn't joking. this is how brainwashed people have gotten.
This is a remake of a radio sketch from 1953, with Bob Hope replacing Fred Allen in the original version. Barbara Pepper replaces Bea Benaderet, and Jesse replaces Mel Blanc. As good as Hope is, Allen was better. The part was written for his character, not Hope's.
@Corno di Bassetto They come from actually watching both versions and comparing them. (In short, by giving actual thought to the matter). As I mentioned (you must have missed it), the part was written for Fred, and based on his long-running feud with Jack. Jack and Bob didn't have that dynamic naturally, it had to be forced in artificially. "Oh, I'm sure they're all equally good" is a polite nothing, that you can say without giving the matter any thought, or even without seeing either one. Yours is an arbitrary, rubber-stamp comment.
