I have heard it said many times that the secret of good comedy is timing. Jack Benny is the best example of this I can think of. I've seen Groucho more often in movies so it's not quite as easy to judge but he and Jack were two of America's best ever comedians.
it’s due to vaudeville and radio, the vaudevillians had to learn quickly to include pauses because the audience reaction helped with the flow while the radio people had to be coherent through the radio at home
Hilarious to watch Groucho ad-lib and try to crack up Benny ("Ronald, huh? It was Rodney during rehearsal"). They were both the absolute cream of the crop and great to see them working off of each other.
Vaudeville and Burlesque nurtured a retinue of talented entertainers. There was only one Jack Benny and Groucho was an original. BTW: He brought the house in which I was born; I hope he liked the neighborhood.
ITILII True. And Groucho was very intelligent; so much so that his very literate letters to Dick Cavett and visa versa, are now in the Smithsonian institution.
How nice to discover so many Jack Benny fans in the comments. I also notice a high level of literacy in the commenters, especially when compared to the poor spelling, bad grammar, and outright gibberish of commenters on most other UA-cam videos. We have raised 3 generations of dunces now thanks to our failed public schools ... and colleges.
Great among the great. They built a paradise where it made sense to laugh. Too bad that the young generations of the United States did not understand his legacy.
13:55 -- Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890 - October 11, 1970) was a Russian Empire-born American musician, music critic, composer, and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s. He rose to fame after he led an all-female orchestra, a novelty at the time.
I never realized how good of an actor Rochester was but I should have bc Jack Benny surrounded himself with talented people. I can’t think of the guy playing the sailor but I’ve seen him in movies. I looked him up. Don Durant and he played in the short lived series Johnny Ringo
The story of this episode is almost as interesting as the show itself. Apparently the only kinescope was given to Groucho and he stored it in his closet and used to drag it out for his parties. Which means it wasn't shown in syndication. Since I haven't watched broadcast television in a long time, I have no way of knowing if it's been re-inserted with the other episodes.
i got lost on the la freeway one time in road construction and ended up at the bob hope airport. i said now LOOK finally theres HOPE! my wife turned to me and said bob thats the worst joke i heard all year.
As a fan of both Jack Benny and Groucho Marx, I have been trying to find this show on DVD. Do you know whether it's included anywhere? Also looking for the show with Peter, Paul and Mary.
Joe Hill I love Peter Paul and Mary and had to hear them do forever young the other day, so I was watching several shows on UA-cam with them. I had no idea the song For orever Young was written by Bob Dylan. One commentor said something that I have to agree with, and it really pertains to this song in particular: Peter Paul and Mary could usually take any song and make it better. I like most of Bob Dylan‘s vocals on his own music, but that one really sounds better by the trio. I got to go listen to it now again.
+Joe Guzman I know. It seems extraordinary. And poor dear Groucho was in court almost up until the day he died. Very very sad. Greedy people taking advantage of the wealthy and the vulnerable. There should be a law.
According to a court disclosure a year after his death, the Jack Benny's estate was worth $5,852,000 in 1974. That's equal to $30 million in today's inflation-adjusted dollars. Included in his estate was a 1729 Stradivarius violin that at the time was valued at $46,000. It is one of roughly 500 left in the world. He also owned a mansion in LA's ultra-exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood directly across the street from the Playboy Mansion. The property was sold in 1985 for $3 million, two years after Benny's widow Mary Livingston died.
@@frankprovasek5394 Very interesting info, thanks. Do you know what provision he made for his adopted daughter Joan? Do you know who acquired Jack's precious violin?
Back in Vaudeville, the Marx brothers wanted Jack (Ben Kubelsky) to join their act as violinist and to lead the orchestra. His mom said no. How cool would that have been? Either way, both flourished and gave us so much entertainment. Thanks Jack and Groucho.
Irene Tedrow as Jack's partner was very good. Audiences will remember her from many dramatic appearances, but she handles the comedy here with considerable skill.
So there's this wonderful connection between Groucho and Jack Benny. Groucho's mother, MinnieMarx (who developed the act of her sons) saw Jack Benny perform and helped him improve and get better bookings.
I thought Mary Livingstone (Benny) was a cousin of the Marx Brothers but apparently not. However they did first meet when Zeppo Marx brought Jack to a Seder dinner at her parents home.
I believe that Mary Livingstone's real name was Sadie Marx, and Jack Benny really did meet his wife of 47 years at a Passover Seder hosted by the parents of the Marx Bros..... Amazing. Wait a second, Sorry. Zeppo Marx brought Jack Benny to the home of Sadie Marx for Passover? Still Amazing!
That is so wonerdfol to watch two of the great entertainers of the 20th century on the same show. Find myself watching more on my tablet then watching the boring shows on cable
Watched Benny on our Black & White tv set back in 51 when I was 8 years old. For a while, back then, we had the only TV set on our residential block. Memory LANE !
Making Jack choose between $3000 and revealing his age reminds me of the one where Jack is held up. The mugger says "your money or your life"...long pause...Jack says "i'm thinking!"
The most accurate words Jack ever said about the "Media" and it is still valid today, and on a larger scale. "Why DON'T they print the NEWS instead of opinions"
@@marcschneider4845, no, why don't they print, outside of editorial opinion pieces, facts IN HARD NEWS STORIES? They are mostly dem party apparatchiks. That is why. YOUR MOVE..
I like the fact that when you listen to the Jack Benny radio shows from during WW2 (when they did performances for the troops) Rochester is the one who, by far, gets the most applause! He was hugely popular.
It wasn’t just on the tv show. When they were traveling Jack insisted that Eddie Anderson (Rochester) be given equal rooms in hotels. There were at least two instances where Jack refused to stay at a hotel because they wouldn’t allow Anderson to stay there. On the radio program he was treated as an equal and often got the better lines instead of Jack. See the Wikipedia page on Eddie Anderson and it’s related footnotes for my source.
@@concatinate I believe that [Rochester] Eddie Anderson was on the radio program since the 30s. And radio shows are broadcast as the actors read the scripts live and on-air, which means that Eddie is literate and fluent. I agree; Rochester's popularity gets the laughs because he has the instinct and timing to top Benny (and as mentioned earlier) as equals. Listen to Dean and Jerry's radio programs, and Jerry sounds like he's nervous and fumbling. I love Jerry, but Benny's program is tough to beat. Don, Mary, Phil, Jack, and the sound of Jack's car (voiced by Mel Blanc.) is golden radio entertainment. And Jack's special Hollywood guests were also fantastic on the radio broadcasts.
@@mdeange3 You are very right. Benny had a talent for giving each of the show performers freedom find and develop their own latent talent--how Phil Harris went from a nervous bandleader to Swingin' Philzy is another case.
@@harlow743 Jack being 39 was a running gag, like his being cheap was. (By the way, are you, by chance, related to the great Bobo Brazil? He was one of the few fighters I enjoyed seeing.)
Not many can hold their own with a comedy legend like Groucho, except another comedy legend like Benny of course it also helps to have your own show and writers).
Tre404 this is what i do. My mission in life is to correct grammar and English mistakes wherever i find them. Im curious. Where on earth did you read that word?
Starting with the radio programs, it is such a great level of character development with the cast that made such wonderful comedy. Note the callback to Ronald Coleman in Groucho's ad libbed line.
One of the finest things about Jack Benny was his loyalty to his friends, particularly Eddie Anderson. Jack was color blind to race. Once, when they had their show on the road, a hotel refused to let Eddie stay there because of his color. Jack had booked most of the hotel for his cast and crew. He told the hotel management if Eddie didn't get to stay there, NONE of them would stay there. And he meant it. Eddie stayed there and was treated well. Eddie had a gambling problem, so Jack managed his money for him all of his life, and kept him on an allowance, so he wouldn't get in serious trouble from it.
The part of the hotel story is right, but the gambling and the money problems of Rochester are unheard. That's not the story of Rochester. Check the wikipedia.
Eddie Anderson never had a gambling problem. He owned a home and his parents lived on one side and his wife's parents lived on the other side. Jack's only complaint about Eddie was his showing up late for Saturday rehearsals.
However, a very clever "integrated" commercial where Jack's vocal group, The Sportsmen Quartet, do impressions of Groucho, singing "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" (while plugging the sponsor's product), IS included...
Benny's movies are also fantastic-@ least the 2 I've seen. 'The Horn Blows At Midnight" , which he always referred to self-deprecatingly, is a blast of a movie, and "Buck Benny Rides Again" is side-splitting.
@@lyudmila2882 Now I have to find that. Honest-to-God, Buck Benny Rides Again was so damned funny. "There's a bird singin' outside the bunkhouse...prettiest sound I ever did hear.." Had Phil Harris, was set at Andy Devine's "ranch," and Rochester did a dance number that was mind-blowing--I mean on the level of the Nicholas Brothers.
@@TheRealDrJoey And thank you for your recommendations. Rochester dancing!! Broadway Melody of 1936 has fun characters, tremendous dancing by Buddy Ebsen and Eleanor Powell (especially her tap routine as Mme Arlette), and others not famous.
Check out To Be or Not to Be, Charley's Aunt, and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson was also iin. Jack was in many other movies, but these are the ones I remember. I grew up with Jack, Groucho, and Rochester on tv, radio and in movies. RIP, gentlemen, and thanx for the many many many years of magic, music, and memories.
Hi. Her name was Irene Tedrow. She was a character actress who was in hundreds of movies and T.V. shows from the 40s to the late 80s. And yes you are correct, in 1965 she appeared on one episode of The Andy Griffith Show as a character named Mrs. Foster. I recognized her from her appearance as Congresswoman Geddes on the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode ' The Dinner Party ' in 1973. That episode was also Henry Winkler's first television appearance.
It goes a show that if you have true talent, you don't have to use the f word every other word, and these were two of the most talented comedians that ever lived
"Not only is your face familiar, so is your philosophy" BRILLIANT line.
Hypatia4242 Bob Hope to two Berbers in Morocco: I don't know your name, but your fez is familiar.
I just turned 39 two days ago and I'm celebrating it with the greatest 39-year-old.
😀😀😀👍
You are still 39 in 2020 ? :)
@@shenysys Benny was 39 for decades!
@@-oiiio-3993 As someone said, Him and Mary just celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary and he is still only 39 :)
When Jack Benny passed, Johnny Carson cried on TV. George Burns was one of Jack's closest friends.
I have heard it said many times that the secret of good comedy is timing. Jack Benny is the best example of this I can think of. I've seen Groucho more often in movies so it's not quite as easy to judge but he and Jack were two of America's best ever comedians.
it’s due to vaudeville and radio, the vaudevillians had to learn quickly to include pauses because the audience reaction helped with the flow while the radio people had to be coherent through the radio at home
Jack Benny and Groucho Marx vey likable and wonderful Comedians, never get tired of them!!!
an absolute gem of a classic!
whats my line
0:22 0:22
Jack Benny and Grouch Marx!!! Two comedy Giants!!
Grouch was a friend of yours, since you shortened his stage nickname?
Two of the half dozen or so true comic geniuses that ever lived. Benny & Groucho were both one of a kind.
Hilarious to watch Groucho ad-lib and try to crack up Benny ("Ronald, huh? It was Rodney during rehearsal").
They were both the absolute cream of the crop and great to see them working off of each other.
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Only George Burns could crack Benny up.
Watch the episode with Ernie Kovacs....one of the very, very few who could even try to keep up with Groucho
Rickles did a pretty good job of cracking Benny up during a roast of Ronald Reagan
Used to watch that as a kid. Haven't seen it since, but now getting so much more of his humour.
This was wonderful to hear and enjoy comedy that was not vulgar, political or woke. These men were comedic geniuses in their timing and dialogue.
Nice try, but Benny didn’t hate black people like you do. Nobody uses “woke” except Trumptards.
Absolutely..
Two comedic geniuses
"telephoney" :D what a great episode!
Two absolute comedy legends . Still funny after all these years .
"What's wrong with my check?"
"Well I can telephony too!"
One of the best come backs from the great Groucho Marx.
Tell a phony..
Just wonderful. Very special. Thank you for posting this.
Vaudeville and Burlesque nurtured a retinue of talented entertainers. There was only one Jack Benny and Groucho was an original. BTW: He brought the house in which I was born; I hope he liked the neighborhood.
I wouldn't live in any neighborhood that would allow me to buy a house in it (sorry, I couldn't resist)
Always the BEST
There was an episode of Jack's radio show where he appeared as Myron Proudfoot on Fred Allen's King for a Day. An unforgettable ending! 😜
The live TV shows are the best in the series. And the live cigarette commercial is an added tip of the hat of early TV.
No comedian could use words, better than Groucho; no comedian could use silence, better than Jack ....2 absolute Legends
ITILII True. And Groucho was very intelligent; so much so that his very literate letters to Dick Cavett and visa versa, are now in the Smithsonian institution.
That look, arms folded, exasperated face!
Absolutely, I grew up on their comedy, we were so blessed. I'm now 69
And nobody could rasp out a funny line like Rochester.
Good one! And definitely two legends!
Mr. Benny was actually 61 years old when this episode aired.
he looked great for 61
"Thank you for the upload.💘
Watching from NSW Australia."
How nice to discover so many Jack Benny fans in the comments. I also notice a high level of literacy in the commenters, especially when compared to the poor spelling, bad grammar, and outright gibberish of commenters on most other UA-cam videos. We have raised 3 generations of dunces now thanks to our failed public schools ... and colleges.
love u I just subscribed! I'd have loved to have been married to Jack! way fun!
Great among the great.
They built a paradise where it made sense to laugh.
Too bad that the young generations of the United States did not understand his legacy.
13:55 -- Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890 - October 11, 1970) was a Russian Empire-born American musician, music critic, composer, and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s. He rose to fame after he led an all-female orchestra, a novelty at the time.
real comedy
Love it!!
I never realized how good of an actor Rochester was but I should have bc Jack Benny surrounded himself with talented people.
I can’t think of the guy playing the sailor but I’ve seen him in movies. I looked him up. Don Durant and he played in the short lived series Johnny Ringo
The woman psychiatrist is the great character actor Irene Tedrow
The story of this episode is almost as interesting as the show itself. Apparently the only kinescope was given to Groucho and he stored it in his closet and used to drag it out for his parties. Which means it wasn't shown in syndication. Since I haven't watched broadcast television in a long time, I have no way of knowing if it's been re-inserted with the other episodes.
There was more than one kinescope of this particular episode. Groucho's copy would have been a little more worn than this one.
that's exactly how I would behave on the show
I'd buy THAT for a dollar!
i got lost on the la freeway one time in road construction and ended up at the bob hope airport. i said now LOOK finally theres HOPE! my wife turned to me and said bob thats the worst joke i heard all year.
As a fan of both Jack Benny and Groucho Marx, I have been trying to find this show on DVD. Do you know whether it's included anywhere? Also looking for the show with Peter, Paul and Mary.
Joe Hill I love Peter Paul and Mary and had to hear them do forever young the other day, so I was watching several shows on UA-cam with them. I had no idea the song For orever Young was written by Bob Dylan. One commentor said something that I have to agree with, and it really pertains to this song in particular: Peter Paul and Mary could usually take any song and make it better. I like most of Bob Dylan‘s vocals on his own music, but that one really sounds better by the trio. I got to go listen to it now again.
Is this what they mean by make America great again?
Mr. Jack Benny in his tv shows was a 💰 lover but in real life he gived most away when he
Died he only ha is home and very little in the bank
+Joe Guzman I know. It seems extraordinary. And poor dear Groucho was in court almost up until the day he died. Very very sad. Greedy people taking advantage of the wealthy and the vulnerable. There should be a law.
Joe Guzman aw!
According to a court disclosure a year after his death, the Jack Benny's estate was worth $5,852,000 in 1974. That's equal to $30 million in today's inflation-adjusted dollars. Included in his estate was a 1729 Stradivarius violin that at the time was valued at $46,000. It is one of roughly 500 left in the world. He also owned a mansion in LA's ultra-exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood directly across the street from the Playboy Mansion. The property was sold in 1985 for $3 million, two years after Benny's widow Mary Livingston died.
I believe Jack Benny made arrangements to have a rose delivered to his widow every day for the rest of her life
@@frankprovasek5394 Very interesting info, thanks. Do you know what provision he made for his adopted daughter Joan? Do you know who acquired Jack's precious violin?
What is your name sir?
Ronald Forsythe
Really? It was Rodney during rehearsal
What did Groucho say upon finally finding the curtain opening?
What is your name?
My name is Jacques Ben Ni.
The look on Groucho's face when he knows he has Jack in the hot seat about his age is priceless!
The eyebrows 😆
I'm much too young to have seen this when it first ran....but...damn...TV was SO MUCH BETTER back then!
That entire concept of having Benny as a contestant on Groucho's show was absolutely brilliant!
Back in Vaudeville, the Marx brothers wanted Jack (Ben Kubelsky) to join their act as violinist and to lead the orchestra. His mom said no. How cool would that have been? Either way, both flourished and gave us so much entertainment. Thanks Jack and Groucho.
2:45 Jello last sponsored the Jack Benny Program in 1942, 13 years earlier
Jello again, I'm Jack Benny.
Groucho Marx and Jack Benny together adds up to a lot of fun. I liked both of them on radio and television.
Two geniuses at their pinnacle. Possibly the funniest sketch ever on television.
It was Rodney in rehearsal. Benny almost broke character. Only Groucho could do that.
Don't forget Bob Hope as well.
The lady with Jack Benny is actress Irene Tedrow. Such a classy lady and refined performer.
Irene Tedrow as Jack's partner was very good. Audiences will remember her from many dramatic appearances, but she handles the comedy here with considerable skill.
Excellent in every role.
She's a natural.
Classic pro. Made casting directors' jobs easy for decades.
So there's this wonderful connection between Groucho and Jack Benny. Groucho's mother, MinnieMarx (who developed the act of her sons) saw Jack Benny perform and helped him improve and get better bookings.
Wow I never knew that thanks for the information
That's interesting to know
I thought Mary Livingstone (Benny) was a cousin of the Marx Brothers but apparently not.
However they did first meet when Zeppo Marx brought Jack to a Seder dinner at her parents home.
I believe that Mary Livingstone's real name was Sadie Marx, and Jack Benny really did meet his wife of 47 years at a Passover Seder hosted by the parents of the Marx Bros..... Amazing.
Wait a second, Sorry. Zeppo Marx brought Jack Benny to the home of Sadie Marx for Passover? Still Amazing!
This is priceless ❤️😄😄😄
No US comedy today (or other) can compare to this. Style, manners, wit, sophistication. Jack Benny and Groucho... what a Gem.
I can think of two that are Laurel and hardy.
I have seen this sketch before, but it was edited, so I really enjoyed seeing the whole show.
Groucho's famous leering, 'crouching walk'', came about when he saw Lon Chaney as the "Hunchback of Notre Dame", in 1923. He simply copied it.
Bill Smith Cool!
I loved Rochester, one of the funniest around. Even his voice was marvellous.
OMG that tie!
Two masters of comedy with mutual respect.
Jack Groucho. Legends
Rochester and Jack!
oh, right…Jack and Groucho
@@bostonrailfan2427, all 3..
That is so wonerdfol to watch two of the great entertainers of the 20th century on the same show. Find myself watching more on my tablet then watching the boring shows on cable
captain jay I agree.
Yes, agreed. They had worked together as kids in vaudeville and their humor seemed effortless. They were incredible pros.
I love that he threw the kiss at the end of the show, he didnt do that with too many.. RIP Jack :) xxxxxxx and respects to Groucho !!
Great original Comedy with no politics no swearing just good old family Tv
Watched Benny on our Black & White tv set back in 51 when I was 8 years old. For a while, back then, we had the only TV set on our residential block. Memory LANE !
👍
"What is Jack Benny's real age?" That was priceless! Back then they actually WROTE dialog.
Bill D. in Iowa Look at his eyes and head movement towards the camera when he shows hes upset etc
Making Jack choose between $3000 and revealing his age reminds me of the one where Jack is held up. The mugger says "your money or your life"...long pause...Jack says "i'm thinking!"
Tmanaz480 Check out Jack going into his underground vault on radio, with the chains clanking- and Mel Blanc as the security guard.
Did you notice he revealed his actual age (22 + 39) at the end?
@@alfredoprime5495 wow. He certainly didn't look 49 !!... Somewhere in heaven Jack is smiling.😍
when humor was simple and simply funny
You're absolutely right, now we're stuck with dane cook and Amy Schumer... Trashy comedy. 😞
There wasn't a foul word or sexual reference, yet the humor was fast moving and hilarious!
“It was Rodney, during rehearsal” lol I spit my coffee out when Groucho cracked that line!
Jack almost lost his "moustache" when Groucho cracked that line.
This is maybe my favorite line ever uttered on television. My guess is it was written, but my hope is that it was not.
I just noticed that Groucho starts calling him Rodney about halfway through.
"Why don't they print news instead of opinions?" Ha! Some things never change.
A TV set in 1951 when I was an 8 year old Howdy Doody fan...was a 'Big Deal.'
Benny is soo wonderful
Very talented men,were they not?
+Jeff Smith The talentedest.
YES THEY WERE, JEFF
Jeff Smith Rochester the doll goes along with Jacks shenanigans! Lol
So he was 61....39 + 22 = 61
BTW, I'm 76 and saw this and every other Jack Benny show as a kid in the 50's.
Yep, so did my dad. I'm just now seeing this for the first time and noticing all the characters from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World in here.
61 + 1894 = 1955
Jack did his show in Studio 33 at CBS Television City in Hollywood (the Bob Barker Studio). I've been in this studio four times.
+Bob Sewvello You are indeed privileged Sir. So much history
Match game was also in that studio.
Even the musical quartet/pitchmen were especially good on this one!
Awesome! This is comedy at it's finest. Jack Benny and Graucho Marx can't get any better than that. Thanks for sharing!
The most accurate words Jack ever said about the "Media" and it is still valid today, and on a larger scale.
"Why DON'T they print the NEWS instead of opinions"
@Corno di Bassetto Brilliant
He never said that. The news prints the news, but op-eds print opinions. It has been that way forever.
You mean why don't they print the RIGHT opinions, meaning yours.
@@marcschneider4845 Definitely NOT yours.
LOL
@@marcschneider4845, no, why don't they print, outside of editorial opinion pieces, facts IN HARD NEWS STORIES?
They are mostly dem party apparatchiks.
That is why.
YOUR MOVE..
I like how Rochester is equal to Jack Benny. Very progressive in 1950s era.
I like the fact that when you listen to the Jack Benny radio shows from during WW2 (when they did performances for the troops) Rochester is the one who, by far, gets the most applause! He was hugely popular.
It wasn’t just on the tv show. When they were traveling Jack insisted that Eddie Anderson (Rochester) be given equal rooms in hotels. There were at least two instances where Jack refused to stay at a hotel because they wouldn’t allow Anderson to stay there.
On the radio program he was treated as an equal and often got the better lines instead of Jack.
See the Wikipedia page on Eddie Anderson and it’s related footnotes for my source.
@@concatinate I believe that [Rochester] Eddie Anderson was on the radio program since the 30s. And radio shows are broadcast as the actors read the scripts live and on-air, which means that Eddie is literate and fluent. I agree; Rochester's popularity gets the laughs because he has the instinct and timing to top Benny (and as mentioned earlier) as equals. Listen to Dean and Jerry's radio programs, and Jerry sounds like he's nervous and fumbling. I love Jerry, but Benny's program is tough to beat. Don, Mary, Phil, Jack, and the sound of Jack's car (voiced by Mel Blanc.) is golden radio entertainment. And Jack's special Hollywood guests were also fantastic on the radio broadcasts.
@@mdeange3 You are very right. Benny had a talent for giving each of the show performers freedom find and develop their own latent talent--how Phil Harris went from a nervous bandleader to Swingin' Philzy is another case.
Love it, especially the song with the music of the Captain Spaulding song.
Jack and Groucho great fun
Such a classic. Jack at his best.
And live TV too.
"Why don't they print news instead of opinions."
Good one lol 3:54
Jack Benny was really 61 in 1955.
Hence Jack's quip to Groucho about buying 22 years for $3000. 39 + 22 = 61.
Hence Jack's quip to Groucho about buying 22 years for $3000. 39 + 22 = 61.
I thought he was 39
@@harlow743 Jack being 39 was a running gag, like his being cheap was.
(By the way, are you, by chance, related to the great Bobo Brazil? He was one of the few fighters I enjoyed seeing.)
Jack Benny was born in 1894 so when this episode aired he was almost 61
Which is what he said to Groucho: "Where else can you buy 22 years for $3000?". 39+22=61
Loved Rochesters voice!!!
Not many can hold their own with a comedy legend like Groucho, except another comedy legend like Benny of course it also helps to have your own show and writers).
No writer for groucho!
Jack was 61 and Groucho was 64.
+Zenith Stratosphere We discussed this. It's ALBEIT. dictionary.reference.com/browse/albeit
+Kevin Russell ... Thank you, Kevin! lol
Tre404 this is what i do. My mission in life is to correct grammar and English mistakes wherever i find them. Im curious. Where on earth did you read that word?
Kevin Russell ]
Brian Salomon Yea but he had 22 years of experience
Benny's character in his radio/tv shows is self absorbed/cheap that it creates instant fun! We all have somebody like this is our lives!
Starting with the radio programs, it is such a great level of character development with the cast that made such wonderful comedy. Note the callback to Ronald Coleman in Groucho's ad libbed line.
One of the finest things about Jack Benny was his loyalty to his friends, particularly Eddie Anderson. Jack was color blind to race. Once, when they had their show on the road, a hotel refused to let Eddie stay there because of his color. Jack had booked most of the hotel for his cast and crew. He told the hotel management if Eddie didn't get to stay there, NONE of them would stay there. And he meant it. Eddie stayed there and was treated well. Eddie had a gambling problem, so Jack managed his money for him all of his life, and kept him on an allowance, so he wouldn't get in serious trouble from it.
The part of the hotel story is right, but the gambling and the money problems of Rochester are unheard. That's not the story of Rochester. Check the wikipedia.
Eddie Anderson never had a gambling problem. He owned a home and his parents lived on one side and his wife's parents lived on the other side. Jack's only complaint about Eddie was his showing up late for Saturday rehearsals.
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However, a very clever "integrated" commercial where Jack's vocal group, The Sportsmen Quartet, do impressions of Groucho, singing "Hooray For Captain Spaulding" (while plugging the sponsor's product), IS included...
"Ronald, huh? It was Rodney during rehearsal"! lol
That is such a great line and the fact that it likely wasn't scripted makes it even better
That was an ad-lib (including the part about "sucking up to Colman").
Benny's movies are also fantastic-@ least the 2 I've seen. 'The Horn Blows At Midnight" , which he always referred to self-deprecatingly, is a blast of a movie, and "Buck Benny Rides Again" is side-splitting.
And he's terrific as a Walter-Winchell type gossip columnist in "Broadway Melody of 1936."
@@lyudmila2882
Now I have to find that. Honest-to-God, Buck Benny Rides Again was so damned funny. "There's a bird singin' outside the bunkhouse...prettiest sound I ever did hear.." Had Phil Harris, was set at Andy Devine's "ranch," and Rochester did a dance number that was mind-blowing--I mean on the level of the Nicholas Brothers.
@@TheRealDrJoey And thank you for your recommendations. Rochester dancing!! Broadway Melody of 1936 has fun characters, tremendous dancing by Buddy Ebsen and Eleanor Powell (especially her tap routine as Mme Arlette), and others not famous.
Check out To Be or Not to Be, Charley's Aunt, and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, which Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson was also iin.
Jack was in many other movies, but these are the ones I remember.
I grew up with Jack, Groucho, and Rochester on tv, radio and in movies.
RIP, gentlemen, and thanx for the many many many years of magic, music, and memories.
This has to be the funniest episode...
So Benny gave his real age on here lol!
The lady next to Jack looks like one of he cast members of The Andy Griffith Show (maybe Hope Summers/Clara?)
Hi. Her name was Irene Tedrow. She was a character actress who was in hundreds of movies and T.V. shows from the 40s to the late 80s. And yes you are correct, in 1965 she appeared on one episode of The Andy Griffith Show as a character named Mrs. Foster. I recognized her from her appearance as Congresswoman Geddes on the classic Mary Tyler Moore Show episode ' The Dinner Party ' in 1973. That episode was also Henry Winkler's first television appearance.
I will be sure to watch next sunday for The Jack Benny Program
It goes a show that if you have true talent, you don't have to use the f word every other word, and these were two of the most talented comedians that ever lived
Classic at it's best.
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Groucho the greatest comic in history.
+meandmymouth I know. The funniest man to ever live.
No doubt.
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Always a treat to watch Groucho.
meandmymouth No, Jack was the greatest of all time.
Except when confronted by his brother Chico.
@@johneaton9457 Jack was also a great actor.
The more I watch him I realize how much of an incredible genius Groucho was.
These guys are cracking me up.
I was honored to be around for Mr. Benny’s last years. He was the funniest comedian ever
Are you willing to share about you friendship with Jack?
Two American comedian icons.
Love Rochester. What a voice! And they do so well with the standing jokes (Benny being cheap etc.). Great stuff.
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Ronnie Moore I love Rochester and his cool voice!
The voice of Hong Kong Phooey😉
@@haggismuncher that was Scatman Crothers
Mark V that’s the fella 😉
Modern product placement would be so much better if it took the form of a singing quartet.