Jack Benny - Don Wilson's Story (2/3)

Jack honors his announcer of twenty-seven years, Don Wilson, and tells the story of how they came to work together. Don is pretty rough around the corners when he and Jack first meet but Jack has a solution for that problem. In this episode you will see the familiar faces of some actors who went on to play in popular television comedies in the sixties.

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[fromthesidelines]

Howard McNear often appeared in different roles on Jack's radio/TV shows...as I said previously, this sketch exaggerated, for comedy's sake, HOW Don Wilson was hired as Benny's announcer in 1934 [of course, there was no such sponsor as "Universal Corset Company", and the CBS announcers appearing as themselves- Roy Rowan, best known as Lucy's announcer on her TV shows- and Bill Baldwin- never worked for Jack]. The one bit of truth concerning Don's hiring was that Jack DID like his "hearty laugh".

[hwy61media]

He was the perfect number two man for Jack. Jolly with that great big laugh. They went well together.

[LosAngeleno1959]

Oh geez! It's Floyd the Barber!!

[hwy61media]

Floyd got around especially when business was slow in the barber shop :)

[chumshot1]

Lola Floyd comes out of nowhere and continues to be spazzy :D

[fromthesidelines]

The "elocution teacher" was played, of course, by Nancy Kulp, who appeared on a few of Jack's TV shows, and was a personal favorite of writer/producer Paul Henning; he cast her as "Pamela Livingston" on "THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW", and as a similar character- "Jane Hathaway"- on "THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES", a year after this episode aired.