Jack Benny Part 2

Recording of the Jack Benny radio show at Camp Haan April 1942.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Jack
• Benny
• Rochester

[siddaviscomedy]

I'm a working stand up comic. This stuff is brilliant! If the rest of us could adapt this kind of natural timing....the "F" word would work it's way to extinction.

[bronxperson1966]

Benny, with his writers, helped Rochester to be that way as it was part of Benny's style of self-deprecating humor that his character was always under attack by the world. Rochester was about first black to be able to snap on a white person in public, and was also the first black person to be a regular on a radio show, beginning in 1937. Jack Benny loved, respected, supported and protected Eddie "Rochester" Anderson very much in real life.

[marconiusrex24]

@siddaviscomedy

Robin Williams had this kind of sans "F" word comic timing....back before he became "oversaturated" ;-)

[samking73]

@captainamerica1967us

a lot more than todays actors im sure.

[samking73]

hardly watch television anymore ive fallen for Old Time Radio and with programs like Benny,s is wasnt hard. this is an actual radio recording that someone recorded with a tv camera, thats why the scripts. Jacks thing was to be a cheap scape but in reality was a very generous man. Jack makes todays comedians look bad.

[Steelback70]

... and Virgil Reimer, world's best soundman.

[TheTeenSleuth]

@Hevynly1 sweet! I have both seasons of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew 19070's show on DVD. I even collect the Hardy Boys books!

[Hevynly1]

@TheTeenSleuth That is so cool!! I agree, radio shows are better than anything on television.

And yes, your name. :) I was always a big fan of those books growing up! And the 70s television show! Those episodes are great!

[TheTeenSleuth]

@Hevynly1 My dad broadcasts it on our very own radio station in our basement. I listen to the western stories, the FBI Files, The Whistler, The Shadow.

But my favorites are the comedies such as The George Burns and Gracie Allen Program and The Great Guildersleeve.

But Jack Benny will always be my favorite. I would take radio programs over TV shows any day!

And by the Nancy Drew reference, do you mean my name? TheTeenSleuth? If so, thanks! :-D

[Hevynly1]

@TheTeenSleuth Awesome! OTR still plays on the radio for you? Or is it an online station? I like the Live365 stations. They're pretty good.

I dig your Nancy Drew reference, too! :)

[TheTeenSleuth]

@Hevynly1 I listen to the OTR as well! I love listening to the comedies at 7 in the morning while getting ready for school. And then it comes on again at 7 at night so if I missed anything I can hear it again.

[TheTeenSleuth]

@bronxperson1966 yep, he sure did. I remember reading about a time where Benny went to a hotel to stay and they wouldn't let Eddie stay there because he was "colored" and so Benny refused to stay there. This is one of my favorite programs. One reason is because of their friendship.