Jack Benny Kills Mel Blanc

[CarGuyZM10]

That's all folks!

[bob55566]

this was easily one of the best of his shows (and thats saying alot his shows were all gold) personally I always loved Jack's ending line " Come on Rochester lets get out of this crazy store" after calmly removing his change from the store's cash register.

[RetroToledo]

@bob55566 It's all about making an exit!

[BRRGames]

JACK BENNY WINS: HARA KIRI!

[originalmatchgame]

Please post more , I love Jack Benny !!!

[valentinolover70]

I love Jack Benny and Mel Blanc but I see no comedy when there is a gun involved and someone shoots themself. Happens too often in the real world.

[lynnesciortino]

I love this Christmas episode, and Mel Blanc is the greatest.

[dmtdmt1969]

Where have all the white people gone,we have been overtaken by the worthless mexicans.In a very short time we will not exist anymore.Hope you like your cheap labor and $1 hamburgers for that you are extinct.

[neonfox3]

i know how you feel mel, i deal with people like jack every day at quiznos.

[IBetYouWillFemales]

Damn it's amazing to see Mel Blanc on camera back then.

[bobolob]

Glad to know suicide was joked about even back then :)

[anasella3]

Amen, noahf67! I've about had it with the hypocrisy of today's television programming. Classic comedy like this deemed is too political incorrect, dangerous by people who don't know crap, and yet the brains of innocent children are being dumbed down and twisted on a daily basis from the manure of shows like Family Guy and prime time television! What a CROCK!

[zyxquark]

actually if you watch the part before this mel blanc kills jack benny-jack benny took pride in never laughing or cracking a smile during a routine (the sphinx of comedy) and mel blanc has him fighting mightily to not laugh, he drops his head, won't look at mel blanc, bites his finger, etc. very very funny. actually, two of the funnies men who ever were.

[mewrth]

I really like Jack Benny's voice

[ksteiger]

You are exactly 100% correct. Read Mel's book it's great. He talks about the fact that he did the 'Meep Meep" for the road runner ONCE. And they used that take forever. Mel blows away most of the current cartoon voice people. Especially the celebrities who simply use their own voices. Boring.

[Astraldragon1]

@ksteiger , Mel Blanc was the King of Cartoon voices . with all do respect to the current cartoon voice actors (mainly those who took over Mel's cartoons like Bugs and company.) but they can't compare to him, the man of 1000 voices.

[noahf67]

Sadly, this riotous piece would likely be

deemed too violent and criminal to

appear during Family Viewing Time today,

while "Family Guy" runs in major cities during the dinner hour.

[AEMoreira81]

Jack Benny's deadpan response makes this clip hilarious.

[thomaschavers]

I actually have this episode on a dvd that i bought at cracker barrel. I think it has 6 or 8 episodes on it. In the first episode on the dvd, it had george burns, bing crosby, and and bob hope. I am only 31, but i truly appreciate stuff like mel blanc, jack benny, fred allen, the 3 stooges, the marx brothers, and abbot and costello. I think it would have been great if somehow mel blanc and micheal winslow could have done something together. Now that would have be hilarious.

[zacandtaylorrule]

I have that DVD too.

[dadogster]

this should be called did you ever had one of those days?? still love this clip.

[WaterShowsProd]

This is my favourite episode of Jack Benny. I was hysterical the first I saw it and I still cracks me up every time.

[rarebutgreat]

I had tears rolling down my face the first time I saw this show. It was and still is Brilliant. Christmas doesnt start in my house until we have watched this episode of the Jack Benny Show

[hajune]

I misstated something. Mel Blanc's real name was Blank. He was inspired to use his real name misspelled as his show business name. He also was Jack Benny's second best friend next to George Burns. Mel Blanc at one point was doing 18 different shows a week. The Jack Benny crew once attempted to to fool him by putting a parrot who was English in a script. It was a practical joke that backfired. Problem was that Mel pulled it off and it was really funny. Everybody laughed .He was the best!

[deelizzle2]

Wasn't it a horse rather than a parrot?

[CarlDuke]

I saw a clip of Benny and Blanc recently and it was a horse. Blanc demonstrated how he portrayed the horse on radio with a British whinney.

[hajune]

Mel Blanc did 410 voices on the air. Nobody comes close! He became famous when on a radio progam the record with the prop sounds broke. He was there for 1 voice and was unknown. He did them all and that program got more letters then any other in its history. When young in school he was thinking what his show name should be. He was given a history test and drew a Blank. That was it ,he told himself and I'll even spell it wrong. Thats All Folks is what is on his tombstone. He was a gentle genious

[daveplomin]

WOW...I LOVE Mel Blanc, and agree that suicide is NOT funny, but all these un-PC jokes were and are still funny, only today you see them on the Simpsons and Family Guy instead of live people sit-coms. Probably even the same jokes!

[fromthesidelines]

Mel basically played a fictional version of "himself" in the annual "Christmas Shopping" sketches on radio- the more Jack returned to his counter, the more agitated and anguished Mel's voice sounded. In this 1960 episode, the 1948 radio ending was recreated. Variations included "Mel" shooting himself again, only to wail, "I MISSED!", or just whimpering into the distance...

[BTLemming]

I think Jack almost calls him "Mel" at the beginning of the video! Funny stuff.

[22349a]

I preferred Jack Benny's radio program to his television one, but this was classic Benny schtick,

especially when he went to the cash register to make his own change.

[PALLADINARC]

lmao you could never get away with this schtick now...ppl are too uptight theyd freak. BUT its still funny as helll

[oaklandfla]

I'm a young guy and love Jack Benny..My dad used to listen to him and I got hooked as a kid. He is still the best.

[HRVDNT]

What Looney Tunes character had this voice that Mel is using? I can't remember!

[thomaschavers]

I believe it was daffy duck or yosemit sam if not a combination of both.

[LoserAbove]

Yeah, something like that.

[5winston]

Every "Seinfeld" fan should take a look at this clip. Larry David and Jerry (whether they knew it or not) owe a debt to the great Benny for the 'callous but likable bastard' characters they wrote. Decades before George, Jerry, Elaine Marie, and Cosmo! Thanks for posting this clip!!!

[Flowbee79]

Plus, Benny and friends kind of established you can find humorous situations even in scenes that don't have huge storylines. You place oddball characters together in a particular place and let them react to each other by way of the situation. Seinfeld did whole shows either stuck in a Chinese restaurant or stuck in a parking garage. Some of that stems from this stuff.

[doghouse71]

great episode

[HardyRStudios]

I agree with Tendoking, it was dark but was really funny. Thanks for posting Houghs Videos. 5/5.

[Tendoking]

Damn, that was pretty dark! Funny, but dark.

[rayharryhausen6]

"Gee, that's a shame . . ."

The rest was funny too, but THAT line had me in stitches. Absolutely hysterical.

[HRVDNT]

Mel Blanc was the best comedian of them all.

[dougger42]

My Uncle went to school with Mel, in Portland, Oregon. Said he would do something like the woody woodpecker call, which I thought came from another vocal artist, not Mel... Anyway, those must have been some fun school days.

[glennmiller2005]

that was brutal...

[poopieman83]

I would've been nice to see the whole thing.

[JudgeJesse]

This must have been where Seinfeld got some of his material for his show. He often says, "What a shame" in a detached tone when an unfortunate incident happens to someone else. And his mom often says, "What a nice young man."

[billpeterson5150]

i've always though that-these sitcom jack benny's,as oposed to his variety shows had to be what Seinfeld drew from, they both played fictionalized characters of themselves,they both let their supporting casts get most of the laughs playing off them

[MuscleMikal]

Jack Benny was wise in letting his supporting cast get laughs at his expense. Mary Tyler Moore did the same, as did Candace Bergen in "Murphy Brown."

I always thought that Bette Midler's sitcom could have made it had she allowed herself to have a strong supporting cast instead of having a format that only allowed for her to be truly funny.

[Flowbee79]

Somewhat of a dark, risky joke for 1950s.  A high-maintenance customer so annoying that he drives the clerk to off himself right there in the middle of Christmas department store shopping? But it works for me, especially since it has some teeth in it.

[Voltan]

And this was coming from an age of television were T.V. couples couldn't even sleep in the SAME BED! It certainly was risky!

[fromthesidelines]

There were several variations of what happened to Mel Blanc at the end of the annual "Christmas Shopping" episodes on Jack's radio program- this was a recreation of the 1948 ending. Another year, Mel aimed the gun at himself, and wailed, "I MISSED!!!". And, in a third, he merely rants and babbles and breaks down crying...

[Concetta20]

My favorite skit in the entire episode! Mel is gold and Jack's reaction is just classic Benny!

[hajune]

mel blanc is perhaps the most under rated super star of all time

[Flowbee79]

Not underrated to Benny. Benny loved having him on the show, and was quite respectful of him. Blanc managed to make Benny cut-up and laugh in the middle of a sketch. Earlier in this sketch, Blanc's mumbling and grumbling is so seemless and pathetic that Benny actually had to bow his head down to hide real laughter. Blanc was an exceptional vocal comedian, and he was very good in live comedy as well.

[HoughsVideos]

In Chicago, we have a radio show on Saturday afternoons that repeats old radio shows. A couple of months ago, they had an interview with Mel Blanc (from before he died. We're not talking Bela Lugosi here). He said Jack used to have him do simple things on the show, like a polar bear.

[HoughsVideos]

(Part 2)Then one day Mel said he could have the bear do more than just growl. He did a few funny types of growls & murmurs for Jack, and Benny fell in love with the idea. He started finding new characters for Mel pretty much every week since then. The show also had a few of Mel's 15 minute radio shows on lately.

[apokryltaros]

One semi-running gag in Jack's radio show was how all of the persons and or animals Mel played all looked like each other.

[Cagney888]

I love this one!!! Thanks for posting!!

Can you please post the bit when Rochester is getting Jack Benny's present?!?!