The episodes are just as funny now as they were 50 years ago.
Jack benny radio program dinner at the macombo archive#
I was daddy’s little girl.”īenny’s comic brilliance is on display in Shout! Factory’s new DVD set, “The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes,” which feature 18 episodes restored by the UCLA archive from his 1950-65 TV series that haven’t been seen since they first aired. He probably could have been a little stricter. If I have a complaint, it is probably that he spoiled me. He is probably the nicest man I’ve ever known. Her father, Joan Benny said, “was truly a nice man. The whole persona that he built - the chintziness, the vainness, the 39 forever - it was really a fully realized character.”Īnd one, according to his only child, Joan Benny, that wasn’t the real Jack Benny, something audiences instinctively knew. “When he would turn to the audience and give them a look or wait a beat before he would say a retort, it was just right on the money. “His comedic timing is just perfect,” said Einstein.
His peerless sense of timing has been used by countless comedians, though rarely as effectively as Benny. PHOTOS: Behind-the-scenes Classic Hollywoodīenny kept active until his death in 1974 at age 80, headlining live concerts, doing TV specials and appearing on all the talk shows he was a particular favorite of Johnny Carson’s. After appearing in several features including the 1945 flop “The Horn Blows at Midnight,” he took his popular radio series “The Jack Benny Program” to television in 1950. Like so many of the comedians of the era, Benny began his career as a teenager in vaudeville and became a radio star in the early 1930s. ‘The Jack Benny Program’: The Classic Hollywood column in the July 22 Calendar section on the DVD release of ‘The Jack Benny Program: The Lost Episodes’ misidentified the founder and president of the International Jack Benny Fan Club as Lauren Leff. His catchphrases - “well” (with a long pause) and “now cut that out” - were part of the pop culture landscape for decades. And Jack Benny was the “Everyman” comedian.įor nearly half-a-century, Benny kept audiences in stitches with his alter-ego of a vain penny-pincher who was forever 39 and delusional about his skill at playing the violin. George Burns and Gracie Allen were farceurs of domestic life.
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