Pretty crazy how he was 60 years old in this. He looks damn young or else the tv makeup was really good back then and cameras were terrible. Check out his Dean Martin Roast appearances, he still looks good, although he died in '74, right after the roasts
Thank you for sharing. I so miss the TV shows I grew up with. I choose to not watch tv these days because the shows don't grab my attention. I long for the days when humor was simple, clean and funny.
@eddiefonzarelli I'd say "Duck Soup"....As Groucho himself said, "After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life." It's only about an hour long and just hilarious.
@eddiefonzarelli Groucho and Me, and Harpo Speaks are actually most dear too me but if I have to go with a single film then I reluctantly have to go with A Night at the Opera.
"You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!"
Buster Keaton staging the physical gags including Harpo swinging through the backstage eves like Errol Flynn... not to mention the whole Maurice Chevalier impersonation-off.
I know there's no Zeppo but this saved them after the actual flop of Duck Soup at Paramount.
@clovisman...not to nit-pick but I've read that the Marx brothers mother was the one who wanted to bring Jack into their act, but Jack's parents refused...at that time Jack was 17
That's true. Jack and Zeppo remained good friends, though, and Jack's wife Mary was actually a distant cousin of the Marx Brothers. Also interesting is that when Jack first went into show business he was sued by someone with the same name as Jack - Benjamin Kubelsky - claiming that he was trying to pass himself off as this other guy, a well known vaudevillian. Instead of fighting for the right to use his rightful birthname, easy going Jack legally changed his name.
I'm 24 years old, and it makes me VERY sad to think that most kids my age have never even heard of either of these guys and have no clue who they are. What's worse, if you sat somebody of my generation down and told them to watch one of their shows, they probably wouldn't find it funny because there are no dick jokes.
@AndrewGilmore1986 I'm 28 and I find them hilarious! I also think Johnny Carson was the greatest as well! There are those of us who still have class and good taste in programing. Showbiz has dropping profits and numbers every year; so, I eventually see some actual effort in entertainment coming back eventually. Money is the object now and not entertaining people; that's the problem. Modern Showbiz execs are corporate bankers; not entertainers.
At one time Groucho wanted Jack Benny (then Benny Kibulski) to be a Marx Brother even though they weren't related. He phoned his mother, Minnie, and she nixed the idea.
For those who don't know, Jack Benny played a stingy miser on radio and TV. For all 21 years of his radio run (and I assume his TV run) he was 39 years old. Once (on radio) he "got a parking ticket" and when asked to update the personal info form at the police station from 8 years earlier, the woman said his age then was "39." He answered (as he had to everything on the form so far), "The same."
god i wish they put all these on tv. i loved this show.. watched a documentry about groucho once and on this show he had a bloke on with 10 kids and groucho and groucho said my god you've got ten kids. how come you've got ten kids and the man says well i just love kids and then groucha came back with well i like a good ciger but i take it out of my mouth now and again.....piss funny.....................
@gandelf1967 That was never televised from what I heard. It did happen. What happened was that the studio audience told all their friends and it became a sort of truthful urban legend.. The Jack benny show is on Antenna tv in the US. There are some dvd's of the Jack Benny Program around.
I enjoyed listening to Jack Benny on the radio when I was a young boy, and watching him on television. When I celebrated my 39th birthday, while shaving that morning, I got the joke! It hit me over the head! :)
Back when you needed actual talent and wit to be famous. Funny stuff. Will people be watching Paris Hiltons rubbish or listening to Chris Brown in 60 years from now? NO. But they will still be laughing at Groucho and Jack. And... listening to the King. I've ranted long enough.
@filmmekker In George Burns case,it wasnt just those cigars,Bub-He drank Red Wine to cancal out those nasty cigars bad for health effects...not too sure if Milton Berle drank any kind of alcohol,Jack Benny or Red Skeleton however,would be more obvious
@LATEXDOLLTOMBOY George Burns smoked around 16 cigars per day- I seriously doubt he drank red wine with every cigar. Milton Berle did not dring alcohol.
@filmmekker Oh,George Burns didnt drink glass of wine with EVERY cigar he smoked,not exactly what I meant,but it is shown and known that George burns was known to combine the 2 (Smoking cigars and drinking red wine)
@filmmekker You don't inhale cigars which is why they don't kill :o) Some studies show that nicotine has some health benefits, the main problem is that the most common means of ingesting it is through cigarette smoke. However cigar smokers get it through the lips and tongue.
It's not the comedians that were funny, it was what the people found funny. Comedians like these are all over the place, but it's about what makes the people laugh.
Fantastic...just fantastic...I have watched this clip time after time after time.....don't mean to be boring but where are all the new comedians at?...this sketch warmed me to them...new comedians shout at me and bully me to like them....Maybe it's me and an age thing; but this sketch was before I was born,,,,Thanks for the Vid
I second that emotion! The late great Mr Benny never minded being the butt of a joke. Unlike many comedians (who demand to always be the focus), he was more than happy to share the spotlight. He knew that having funny people around him helped him look good in the long run.
Does anybody know if are any region 2 dvd's (dvd's compatible with European machines) of the best of Jack Benny are for sale? I've had a scout on Amazon and Ebay and cannot see any. Absolutely adore this clip, its delicate restraint, sense of gaiety and it being a lecture in comedic timing. Anybody not familiar with Groucho should read his autobiography 'Groucho and me' his 'Memoirs of a Mangy Lover', and other bits before graduating onto Harpo's autobiography.
Jack's program was on CBS when this origially aired in April 1955, 'silver'. Groucho's "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" was on NBC (he appeared on Benny's show through the courtesy of his sponsor, DeSoto-Plymouth, as the closing credits noted- and NBC).
@TheFrankieDee Todays So-Called "COMODE-DIANS" wont ever be as funny as Groucho Marx's Ad-Libbing,or nowhere as funny as Abott and Costello's Timeless radio classic->WHO's ON FIRST? What makes that Who's on First joke so unique is that even if certain people didnt like BaseBall (Women back in 1930's up to 1950's?) This timeless joke made clear (Pun alert!) *WHO* the important characters was that makes the set-up work-Best example is a G1 Tranformers Ratchet & Ironhide Mash-up with AbottCostello
Love Benny's fake, affected "laugh" at 0:31! I'll have to use that at a party with someone I don't like. This is a great clip. Thanks so much for posting it!
The comedy of today is tediously samey and used simply for shock value or to accommodate the thick-as-shit audiences that, tragically, will never warm to the older, WELL written, witty, material like this. Are people becoming more stupid?
Even though this sketch was before I was born, I thoroughly enjoyed it as if it were during my lifetime. Whatever happened to clean comedy, like what Red Skelton used to espouse? Groucho's reference to sex, while chauvinistic, doesn't even come close to the garbage that comes out today.
Two absolute masters of their craft. Hilarious without a single vulgar comment or lewd reference. A privilege to see these greats so long after they've left us. Thanks for posting!
Irene Tedrow did not have any lines in this sketch, but she had the perfect reactions and glances at the other two. Superb ! This was a golden age of comedy.
I don't find any of the modern so called comedians funny in the least.
I am old enough to remember this show when it was new.....I have many episodes on DVD.......I have noticed that many of these supposedly common contestants were in fact "B Movie" actors and actresses. For example this lady played Mrs Elkin on Dennis The Mennace TV show. Anyone else notice this too?
@inkey2 I think so...It's on a DVD set of "Best of Jack Benny" I have. And Groucho's set looked different. ...And Groucho had an announcer to introduce guests.
@PREZ150 I don't know if you -can't- beat them - there are amazing comedians in every age - but I agree with you in that it's very nice to hear comedy that doesn't have to be crude to be funny. Or to try to be funny.
Go to OTR on the internet. There are many radio programs you can listen too for nothing. Super stuff. You Bet your Life , Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos and Andy, etc etc. It was the golden age of comedy. We will never see the likes of it again.
I would have never thought that old comedy was actually funny but I must say I've been pretty impressed with some of the stuff I've seen so far on YouTube.
With hair, Jack Benny is a dead-ringer for the late Phil Hartman... especially the facial expressions! It's uncanny! I wouldn't be surprised if Hartman learned his craft by studying Benny.
It was nice to come across something I'd never seen before. I like how the differences between the humor of Groucho and Benny played off each other. Thanks
Jack acted a little sweet as part of his act. He was just the opposite in real life. He was a ladies man. He also stuttered as well as Groucho and George Burns.
Sure. Jack Benny was 39. Actually, he would have been 51 at the time this aired.
bluebear1985 2 weeks ago
@bluebear1985 Check that, 61.
bluebear1985 2 weeks ago
@bluebear1985 Hi! Jack was 61 here..He was born in 1894 :-)
roon41 6 days ago
They had such great shows back then. I wish todays shows were more like them
coastguardpilot1 3 weeks ago
Hilarious
sunnyballet 1 month ago
Bennys face as he enters is just... already funny. I miss class-acts like these!
Foxx1981 1 month ago
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I'd rather watch this than 99% of what's on television today
lierxagerate 1 month ago
Pretty crazy how he was 60 years old in this. He looks damn young or else the tv makeup was really good back then and cameras were terrible. Check out his Dean Martin Roast appearances, he still looks good, although he died in '74, right after the roasts
beepandbop 1 month ago
Has anyone ever had a quicker wit then Groucho?
dsfddsgh 3 months ago
@dsfddsgh
no ! :) hes so cute and handsome too.
bossyboots55 2 months ago
This is so funny.
greg19670 3 months ago
Just great. 2 of the best!!
DanDelvis 3 months ago
Thank you for sharing. I so miss the TV shows I grew up with. I choose to not watch tv these days because the shows don't grab my attention. I long for the days when humor was simple, clean and funny.
lindamarteney 3 months ago
if i were to ask you what the definitive marx comedy is for someone whos never watched the marx brothers, you'd say....
eddiefonzarelli 3 months ago
@eddiefonzarelli I'd say "Duck Soup"....As Groucho himself said, "After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life." It's only about an hour long and just hilarious.
aatragon 3 months ago 3
@aatragon i'm on it, thanks for the speedy response!
eddiefonzarelli 3 months ago
@aatragon Hail Free Freedonia !!!
DoctorScrumpy 3 months ago
@eddiefonzarelli Groucho and Me, and Harpo Speaks are actually most dear too me but if I have to go with a single film then I reluctantly have to go with A Night at the Opera.
"You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause!"
Buster Keaton staging the physical gags including Harpo swinging through the backstage eves like Errol Flynn... not to mention the whole Maurice Chevalier impersonation-off.
I know there's no Zeppo but this saved them after the actual flop of Duck Soup at Paramount.
IMHO
maoutsaou 2 months ago
@eddiefonzarelli I like Animal Crackers. Duck Soup is great, but Animal Crackers...
PlateauEast 1 month ago
15 people can't tell a phony...
trishy621 3 months ago
@trishy621 15 are phonies
yryriza 1 month ago
@clovisman...not to nit-pick but I've read that the Marx brothers mother was the one who wanted to bring Jack into their act, but Jack's parents refused...at that time Jack was 17
Chronos127 4 months ago
@Chronos127
That's true. Jack and Zeppo remained good friends, though, and Jack's wife Mary was actually a distant cousin of the Marx Brothers. Also interesting is that when Jack first went into show business he was sued by someone with the same name as Jack - Benjamin Kubelsky - claiming that he was trying to pass himself off as this other guy, a well known vaudevillian. Instead of fighting for the right to use his rightful birthname, easy going Jack legally changed his name.
calvinnme2 3 months ago
...39
Chronos127 4 months ago
Loved it!!!
artiebarnes 4 months ago
What a scream!
goodsandsrvcs 4 months ago
The two funiest people ever.
gyinagal 5 months ago 2
I'm 24 years old, and it makes me VERY sad to think that most kids my age have never even heard of either of these guys and have no clue who they are. What's worse, if you sat somebody of my generation down and told them to watch one of their shows, they probably wouldn't find it funny because there are no dick jokes.
AndrewGilmore1986 5 months ago 21
@AndrewGilmore1986 I'm 28 and I find them hilarious! I also think Johnny Carson was the greatest as well! There are those of us who still have class and good taste in programing. Showbiz has dropping profits and numbers every year; so, I eventually see some actual effort in entertainment coming back eventually. Money is the object now and not entertaining people; that's the problem. Modern Showbiz execs are corporate bankers; not entertainers.
DarkridesDisney 4 months ago 2
@AndrewGilmore1986
well said. they think crude jokes is all there is ! this is classic.
bossyboots55 2 months ago
@AndrewGilmore1986 That or it wouldn't hold their attention spans since there aren't 5 cuts a second.
Ryoku75 3 weeks ago
Love how Groucho throws Benny a curve: "Ronald, huh? It was Rodney during rehearsal!". Groucho took a shot wherever he could just to mix things up.
Lampshade51 5 months ago
Fantastic...
gregcircanow 5 months ago
love this, groucho and jack, couldn't be beat!
fantinlatourful 5 months ago
The woman in the clip is the wonderful actress Irene Tedrow.
haineshisway 6 months ago
@haineshisway She's been in hundreds of shows. Love her!
artiebarnes 4 months ago
At one time Groucho wanted Jack Benny (then Benny Kibulski) to be a Marx Brother even though they weren't related. He phoned his mother, Minnie, and she nixed the idea.
clovisman 6 months ago 2
These two were at a level few reach!
Aviv52 6 months ago
4:20 THOSE EYEBROWS!
rocketman544 6 months ago
This is gold !
jnavarro1984 6 months ago
Sad. This skit is twice as funny as SNL could ever hope to be, and that's without dirty jokes...
RocktheSocks 6 months ago
These old comedians beat todays lot hands down.
Zeriouslly 6 months ago
For those who don't know, Jack Benny played a stingy miser on radio and TV. For all 21 years of his radio run (and I assume his TV run) he was 39 years old. Once (on radio) he "got a parking ticket" and when asked to update the personal info form at the police station from 8 years earlier, the woman said his age then was "39." He answered (as he had to everything on the form so far), "The same."
SonjaHenieFilmFan 7 months ago 2
god i wish they put all these on tv. i loved this show.. watched a documentry about groucho once and on this show he had a bloke on with 10 kids and groucho and groucho said my god you've got ten kids. how come you've got ten kids and the man says well i just love kids and then groucha came back with well i like a good ciger but i take it out of my mouth now and again.....piss funny.....................
gandelf1967 7 months ago 2
@gandelf1967 That was never televised from what I heard. It did happen. What happened was that the studio audience told all their friends and it became a sort of truthful urban legend.. The Jack benny show is on Antenna tv in the US. There are some dvd's of the Jack Benny Program around.
yryriza 1 month ago
Classic!
roamer61 7 months ago
4:20 ftw!
mart1163 7 months ago
wait, what happened at the end? did benny tipped him 100 bucks for not saying his real age?
chgw01 7 months ago
Jack Benny - doesn't need to say a word,
Danazawa 7 months ago 2
Hey, I know a violin expert named Tellifoni.
Matt10670 7 months ago
I enjoyed listening to Jack Benny on the radio when I was a young boy, and watching him on television. When I celebrated my 39th birthday, while shaving that morning, I got the joke! It hit me over the head! :)
Thomas05091942 8 months ago
Classic: we need this kind of tv today !!
willypdyer 8 months ago
Jack Benny's real age? He would have been 61 after his birthday in 1955.
MIKEPREAMP 9 months ago
meeting of the comic minds here haha
skydome29 9 months ago
groucho is the best comedian who ever lived but in this clip it was actually jack that had me laughing my ass off! XD
dragonfly8486 10 months ago 2
Back when you needed actual talent and wit to be famous. Funny stuff. Will people be watching Paris Hiltons rubbish or listening to Chris Brown in 60 years from now? NO. But they will still be laughing at Groucho and Jack. And... listening to the King. I've ranted long enough.
TheSinestr 10 months ago 2
Who says cigars are bad for you? Groucho live to 87, Milton Berle 93, George Burns 100!
filmmekker 10 months ago 8
@filmmekker EXACTLY BRO.
RJiminez51 8 months ago
@filmmekker Makes you wonder,doesn't it?
Nickcat5 7 months ago
@filmmekker In George Burns case,it wasnt just those cigars,Bub-He drank Red Wine to cancal out those nasty cigars bad for health effects...not too sure if Milton Berle drank any kind of alcohol,Jack Benny or Red Skeleton however,would be more obvious
LATEXDOLLTOMBOY 6 months ago
@LATEXDOLLTOMBOY George Burns smoked around 16 cigars per day- I seriously doubt he drank red wine with every cigar. Milton Berle did not dring alcohol.
filmmekker 6 months ago
@filmmekker Oh,George Burns didnt drink glass of wine with EVERY cigar he smoked,not exactly what I meant,but it is shown and known that George burns was known to combine the 2 (Smoking cigars and drinking red wine)
LATEXDOLLTOMBOY 6 months ago
@filmmekker You don't inhale cigars which is why they don't kill :o) Some studies show that nicotine has some health benefits, the main problem is that the most common means of ingesting it is through cigarette smoke. However cigar smokers get it through the lips and tongue.
TheTubePortal 1 month ago
@filmmekker And who knows how long Bill Clinton will go.
yryriza 1 month ago
@yryriza LOL
filmmekker 1 month ago
@filmmekker
All the people who died horribly because of them.
CollectivePreference 2 weeks ago
classic comedy
eomer41 10 months ago
Genius!
iancorporated 10 months ago
I love that he totally busted him on the name mishap.
SkilesASMB 10 months ago 3
i love that he wouldn't give his real age....as much as he loved money he loved being 39 more..... too funny
crystalbreezefan 10 months ago
It's not the comedians that were funny, it was what the people found funny. Comedians like these are all over the place, but it's about what makes the people laugh.
Lilyonsan 10 months ago
Fantastic...just fantastic...I have watched this clip time after time after time.....don't mean to be boring but where are all the new comedians at?...this sketch warmed me to them...new comedians shout at me and bully me to like them....Maybe it's me and an age thing; but this sketch was before I was born,,,,Thanks for the Vid
maxmiller435 11 months ago
Jack Benny always lied about his age.
L1S91 11 months ago
Jack Benny understood the joke was always on him, and he milked for every thing it was worth.
cleancab 11 months ago
@cleancab
I second that emotion! The late great Mr Benny never minded being the butt of a joke. Unlike many comedians (who demand to always be the focus), he was more than happy to share the spotlight. He knew that having funny people around him helped him look good in the long run.
JubalCalif 10 months ago
great old days
hah13 11 months ago
The older generation gets this, and we get Will Ferrell and Jack Black at award shows. Who has a flux capacitor!?
HueyRocks23 1 year ago
ronald ehh it was rodney at rehearsal LOL
dordtenaarzondernaam 1 year ago
Two geniuses playing off each other. It's that simple.
grabit1 1 year ago
klassik.....the real deal!!!!
fluffydolly 1 year ago
Does anybody know if are any region 2 dvd's (dvd's compatible with European machines) of the best of Jack Benny are for sale? I've had a scout on Amazon and Ebay and cannot see any. Absolutely adore this clip, its delicate restraint, sense of gaiety and it being a lecture in comedic timing. Anybody not familiar with Groucho should read his autobiography 'Groucho and me' his 'Memoirs of a Mangy Lover', and other bits before graduating onto Harpo's autobiography.
ryhmingmansplectrum 1 year ago
haha
I wish I was around with this kind of comedy
groucho looks older than in duck soup
was this later in his career?
vgneus 1 year ago
@vgneus Yes, this was about 22 years later or so.
FRAGIORGIO1 11 months ago
@vgneus i think Duck Soup is 1933. he was into his 50's in the video.
timeomyside 11 months ago
Jack's program was on CBS when this origially aired in April 1955, 'silver'. Groucho's "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" was on NBC (he appeared on Benny's show through the courtesy of his sponsor, DeSoto-Plymouth, as the closing credits noted- and NBC).
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
this is CBS? NBC? ABC?
silvercoke1 1 year ago
@silvercoke1 NBC I believe; he spent a great deal of his post Marx Brother's career with them.
DonovanDanteify 1 year ago
@silvercoke1
This is CBS. During the 50's, Jack's show appeared on the CBS TV network.
JubalCalif 10 months ago
this is comedy
sunrecords56 1 year ago
Oh my God! HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
SoleMan117 1 year ago
Oh Lydia, Lydia... Oh have you seen Lydia?
Lydia, the tattooed lady
Kelt4ever 1 year ago
there'll never be comedy like the old days they were great
frank di nunzio
hershey, pa.
TheFrankieDee 1 year ago
@TheFrankieDee Todays So-Called "COMODE-DIANS" wont ever be as funny as Groucho Marx's Ad-Libbing,or nowhere as funny as Abott and Costello's Timeless radio classic->WHO's ON FIRST? What makes that Who's on First joke so unique is that even if certain people didnt like BaseBall (Women back in 1930's up to 1950's?) This timeless joke made clear (Pun alert!) *WHO* the important characters was that makes the set-up work-Best example is a G1 Tranformers Ratchet & Ironhide Mash-up with AbottCostello
LATEXDOLLTOMBOY 6 months ago
oh zach galifinakis. you do a good jack benny.
dazdope 1 year ago
witty Groucho - so funny
contardi 1 year ago
OMG - Gene wilder's dad lmsao
madouc1 1 year ago
Jack: You left us nearly 36 years ago, but you remain in our hearts.
MIKEPREAMP 1 year ago
This is perfect comedy. Those who know Jack Benny and know Groucho know Groucho wins 100%. And Jack was always the perfect liar.
triguydeguy 1 year ago
39 "
HA ! good ol Jack Benny
VikingThor1 1 year ago
TELL A PHONEY
bobszvetics1 1 year ago 23
is it just me or does he look a lot like Phil Hartman?
Blitzpoltergeist 1 year ago
Jack Benny and Groucho do What's jMy Line.
Classic stuff.
thisiszaphodbeeblebr 1 year ago
Benjamin Kubelsky is great in this. Are there films of any of his early vaudeville shows? I know it might be silent film if there are eh?
idle edsel
idleedsel 1 year ago
Love Benny's fake, affected "laugh" at 0:31! I'll have to use that at a party with someone I don't like. This is a great clip. Thanks so much for posting it!
chem100 1 year ago 19
Great ad lib comedy.
boardrider58 1 year ago 2
My god this is hilarious
LorenzoMagnifico 1 year ago 3
The comedy of today is tediously samey and used simply for shock value or to accommodate the thick-as-shit audiences that, tragically, will never warm to the older, WELL written, witty, material like this. Are people becoming more stupid?
vivalasagne9 1 year ago
Even though this sketch was before I was born, I thoroughly enjoyed it as if it were during my lifetime. Whatever happened to clean comedy, like what Red Skelton used to espouse? Groucho's reference to sex, while chauvinistic, doesn't even come close to the garbage that comes out today.
BuddyNovinski 1 year ago 4
One of the greatest sketches of all time. Groucho is timeless.
shootersteve 1 year ago 2
i love this clip so much
kurumais 1 year ago
There will never be great shows like this ever again. Two comedy legends together.
scorps666 1 year ago
Forever "39"! I just love Jack Benny! Simply the "BEST"!
Serpe10 1 year ago
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Forever "39"! I just love Jack Benny! Simply the "BEST"!
Serpe10 1 year ago 3
¿Quien?
aatragon 1 year ago
@truepain7 ¿Quien?
aatragon 1 year ago
¿Quien?
aatragon 1 year ago
ronald, eh. it was rodney during rehearsal :D
genius
Charminbear01 1 year ago
Classic routine with two comedy giants.
I love this.
PamperedMex 1 year ago
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Jack Benny and Groucho were, are, and will be the greatest of all time, people like these two born every 100 or 200 years.......
donvitto00 1 year ago
Jack Benny and Groucho were, are, and will be the greatest of all time, people like these two born every 100 or 200 years.......
donvitto00 1 year ago
Classic Benny. He'd desecrate the sacred YBYL Duck for $100 but he wouldn't reveal his age for $3000
richardwha 1 year ago
sheer brilliance!
mikern2001 1 year ago
Jack Benny didn't have to talk to be funny. He could just stand there and look across the room with that classic expression of his.
jeffrushing 1 year ago
Guys, I'd like at least 1 comment on this page to have thirty-nine thumbs up because that is Jack's "age"
lano600 1 year ago
@lano600 I always remembered as a kid that Jack Benny was always 39!!! I got such a kick out of it when he said it just now. lol
Beautifulmusiclistnr 1 year ago
wow jack looooooks sooooooo different here
Blackjesus3 1 year ago
Two absolute masters of their craft. Hilarious without a single vulgar comment or lewd reference. A privilege to see these greats so long after they've left us. Thanks for posting!
buckfan1969 1 year ago 3
either i need to get glasses or you need to do your hair differently.
classic lol
quidnick 1 year ago 2
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ahart86 1 year ago
lmao, groucho is so amazing
TheAllGreatMonoblos 1 year ago
Priceless
m8kyn 1 year ago
One of Benny's funniest bits on TV...although they were all fabulous! Unlike a lot of the Youtube brats, I saw it on TV...when it was new!
DeserTBoB93535 1 year ago
Jack Benny looks like Kevin Spacey with a mo.
midguardz 1 year ago
i think that was irene tendrow isnt it?
TheEngineerWilliams 1 year ago
Very good post.
Thanks
dkmckinney1 1 year ago
Hysterically funny skit from Jack Benny's show thirteen days before I was born.....
JimAdsit 1 year ago
I read about this sketch in one of Groucho's books.He & Jack Benny are two of my favorites,thanks for posting it.
dlsofsetx 1 year ago
Irene Tedrow did not have any lines in this sketch, but she had the perfect reactions and glances at the other two. Superb ! This was a golden age of comedy.
I don't find any of the modern so called comedians funny in the least.
doubleten 1 year ago
I mention Benny and Groucho in the Celebrity Song.
superdavid002 1 year ago
Her name is Irene Tedrow. (as I mentioned in the info blurb) She was a fairly well-known TV character actress. Look her up; she was in tons of stuff.
aatragon 1 year ago 5
@aatragon She used to play one of the Dennis's neighbors in the old Dennis the Menace series.
Kirke182 1 year ago
Really funny! But who's the girl in between them?
revolver04 1 year ago
I am old enough to remember this show when it was new.....I have many episodes on DVD.......I have noticed that many of these supposedly common contestants were in fact "B Movie" actors and actresses. For example this lady played Mrs Elkin on Dennis The Mennace TV show. Anyone else notice this too?
inkey2 1 year ago
@inkey2 Unless I'm mistaken, this is Jack's show...not Groucho's. She was an actress for a reason...it's a sketch. :)
HarpoSpoke 1 year ago
@HarpoSpoke : oh is this supposed to be a skit on the jack benny show?
inkey2 1 year ago
@inkey2 I think so...It's on a DVD set of "Best of Jack Benny" I have. And Groucho's set looked different. ...And Groucho had an announcer to introduce guests.
HarpoSpoke 1 year ago
fantastic sketch. thx for posting it.
fredorulz1 1 year ago
I like it when Jack Benny laugh naturally at some sketches!
laybackrockguy 1 year ago 2
Thanks for sharing this great clip. Still a crackup after all these years. Nice to see Irene Tedrow again, too.
arew234 1 year ago
I thought that was Frank Costanza!
scason 1 year ago
The Correct Answer is Sixty-One in April 1955
Jack Benny was born on February 14, 1894 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Waukegan, Illinois
RM4FS 1 year ago
jack looks like ernie kovacs here...??!!
phlapps1 1 year ago
Good observation. He does look a lot like Kovacs did.
TomBarristerX 1 year ago
these Jew old-timers are sooo funny
ytertyu 1 year ago
Now that's comedy without curse word's.You can't beat them old timer's
PREZ150 1 year ago 44
@PREZ150 I don't know if you -can't- beat them - there are amazing comedians in every age - but I agree with you in that it's very nice to hear comedy that doesn't have to be crude to be funny. Or to try to be funny.
lostdrewid 1 year ago
I used to wonder which one was stronger: Jack's greed for money or Jack's ego. This video answered the question for me. XD
MWolfL 1 year ago
Two of the greatest comedy masters ever. They don`t make them like these people anymore.
larkin38 1 year ago 19
Go to OTR on the internet. There are many radio programs you can listen too for nothing. Super stuff. You Bet your Life , Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Fibber McGee and Molly, Amos and Andy, etc etc. It was the golden age of comedy. We will never see the likes of it again.
hajune 1 year ago 5
You can also go on iTunes and look AM710 Antioch. They play all sorts of old radio programs and from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm they play comedy.
MWolfL 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this.
TomBarristerX 1 year ago 5
That was cruel; making Jack choose between admitting his real age or losing the cash.
Talk about "Your money or your life"
Hikikomori013 1 year ago 5
I would have never thought that old comedy was actually funny but I must say I've been pretty impressed with some of the stuff I've seen so far on YouTube.
danconia3873 1 year ago 3
This is like opening a time capsule! Two great talents coming together.
franklindavid 1 year ago 3
Madonna
Bidil6 1 year ago
The actress playing alongside Benny was on TV a lot in the '60s. For the $1200 question: what is her name?
guywalker29 1 year ago
Irene Tedrow. I mention her name in the description.
aatragon 1 year ago 2
@guywalker29 hahahahah ups!
Ash8604 1 year ago
Emptyskull100. Totally agree with you.
mvies77 1 year ago
Groucho's leer at 4:28 is priceless.
DogbiteOW 2 years ago 2
imitation Strads.......priceless!!
joeszabo1 2 years ago
That was priceless. Thanks for uploading it.
ira1008 2 years ago
With hair, Jack Benny is a dead-ringer for the late Phil Hartman... especially the facial expressions! It's uncanny! I wouldn't be surprised if Hartman learned his craft by studying Benny.
MagicalMysteryTube 2 years ago 4
This is actually on The Jack Benny Show..notice Fennerman isnt there
lvpretor 2 years ago
This lady is a famous actor too,she was in many movies,the cinncinatti Kid, she played Tuesday Welds mother.
beagleman123456789 2 years ago
It was nice to come across something I'd never seen before. I like how the differences between the humor of Groucho and Benny played off each other. Thanks
stapelgek100 2 years ago 2
Jack acted a little sweet as part of his act. He was just the opposite in real life. He was a ladies man. He also stuttered as well as Groucho and George Burns.
acfinney 2 years ago