JACK BENNY SHOW: Jack stands in for Gracie Allen (4/11/54)
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2018
- A very funny script which had been done as a live show on 3/9/52: Gracie fails to show up for her guest appearance, so George convinces Jack to dress up and and do the act in her place.
The audio from the otherwise lost 1952 version can be heard here:
• JACK BENNY SHOW: "LOST...
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Boy, when Phil Harris said, "You could put a dress on Jack Benny and take him anywhere," he wasn't kidding.
This has to be the best and funniest of Jack Benny's television shows!
Jack Benny's make up department did an outstanding job dressing him to look like Gracie Allen! Doing Gracie's lines with George Burns was the best! Jack Benny, George Burns and Gracie Allen and also Rochester! That was comedy you will never see again.
Jack's dialogue when they finish the act was right out of Charley's Aunt a marvelous play where Jack is Lord Babberly Fancourt whose friends want to court two girls and they need a missing aunt to chaperone so they dress rheir friend as the aunt! Jack was marvelous in it!
Agreed....tho I was wondering why he didn't curtsy at the end. ; )
For a reason. It was rubbish then and it's rubbish now.
@@zapkvr Oh please!
Frank Nelson deserves a mention Here he is the make up man. Nelson’s mere appearance cracked people up. He delighted in tormenting Jack Benny he was everywhere, the train clerk, the bank teller, the store salesman, wherever Jack was Frank was there to torment him.
I think that Jack did a marvelous job as Gracie Allen.
Actually I thought George did an outstanding job as Jack's...er...I mean Gracie's partner. But then he was more acquainted with the material.😉
You mean Gracie Benny!
That little bit at 1:25 when George Burns and Rochester dance together is awesome. Burns gives Rochester a look of great admiration as it concludes.
you so easy move to exaggeration ?
Many people seem to not realize, or at least don't comment here: Jack (especially), and George (in this episode) " said " A LOT without actually saying a word. George's face when he is waiting for Jack to stop " mugging " for the audience, and Jack's face while he is " mugging ". ABSOLUTELY PRICELESS.
Jack & George were best buds, and Jack actually did a great Gracie imitation!
the way Gracie delivers that 'well!' -- this delivery seems calculated as a hat-tip to Jack. how sweet.
"i'd recognize that voice anywhere, tallulah!" 😂😂😂
Vaudeville produced many exceptional talents we will never see again.
AMEN....
It really took true talent
For a reason. We were an unsophisticated bunch.
@@josephmueller335 well and stupid audiences with low expectations
to me, the saddest part is that these people were GIANTS, and now nobody even knows who they are. i'm in my 30s, and even MY age peers aren't familiar with Jack Benny or Burns and Allen. it's a crying shame, because they had incredible talents and we are SO fortunate to have decades' worth of brilliant material, most of which has held up remarkably well.
I love how B&A shared their love with us. their devotion to each other feels palpable. there was a lot of genuine love between Benny & the Burns' as well. they had a lot of history together, from vaudeville to radio to television. you can feel the warmth of their friendship and the love that they held for each other.
If we only had great comedians like this today, super funny without cursing every other word.
Or without sexualizing everything and talking about intimate moments
Omg. The cast on the Jack Benny show was the greatest cast ever assembled. Truly amazing talent.
For those who've seen only contemporary whatever it's supposed to be, THIS is comedy.
Benny did a spectacular job covering for Gracie.
Gracie And George And Jack Was All Great Together.
I remember George Burns as a little old man .
Watching this with Jack Benny is awesome
That routine from 8:46 to around 13:00. Ive seen George and Gracie do that exact same set of jokes. It funny watching them be delivers by Jack. It's funny for different reasons. But he can't hold a candle to the nonchalance or the timing of Gracie Allen. When she delivers a joke, it comes special delivery.
This is old Burns and Allen sketch....Benny is playing Gracie...as the writers wrote it for Gracie. Excellent job.
Christopher Kalble Jack did the dialogue from Charley's Aunt when he said "Are you happy now? I did everything you asked me!".
What a slice of American Comedy Classics.
RIP Jack Benny (1894-1974)
Jack Benny was histerically funny.
Kudos to the makeup, costume, and hair people, who made him look amazing.
George and Jack on stage were so hilarious, I had to watch the whole show all over again! I like Milton Berle in drag, but Jack Benny looks great.
LOLOL LOLOL LOLOL. I needed this laugh today !!! Jack Benny and George Burns !!! LOLOL
The more I watch this, the more I appreciate their brilliance. All of them. Burns is the consummate straight man: after he strolls on with "Gracie Benny," Burns doesn't move a muscle to keep from upstaging "her", not even his fingers, while "Gracie" preens and looks this way and that. It might not have been necessary to stand stock still: who could take their eyes off "Gracie"? Benny seems secure in high heels even when they dance, but George's hand is always there to lend support.
George Burns said that the only two times in his life he ever really cried were the day Gracie died, and the day Jack died. when Burns went to deliver a eulogy for Jack, he could only choke out the words "Jack was someone special to all of you, but he was so special to me ... I cannot imagine my life without Jack Benny, and I will miss him so very much" before he broke down crying and had to be helped back to his seat.
the love between all three of them was very real. when i watch them all together, that love feels palpable. in my opinion, it made their work together even better.
When George and "Gracie" (Jack) first get out on stage, the look on George's face is absolutely priceless. It's almost as if he's seeing Jack dresses as he is for the first time, and George seems almost in disbelief of how hilarious Jack looks. I love this episode for so many reasons, but that moment gets me the most.
Absolutely fabulous, so good to see Gracie, Jack did a great job of doing Gracie"s routine , thank you for sharing.
Love Jack show /he is the best . thanks
"Well!..."
Black history: "Rochester" was treated as an equal, and many times got the best of Jack in episodes - very rare for a black actor over a white in those days. The two were friends for life.
Yea... But we are a racist nation. Jack and “Rochester” are rolling over in their graves right now.
Before I get chewed out, I’m 55, married to the greatest woman on the planet for many years, and she is darker than Obama! So very many of Americans don’t have a racist bone in their bodies!!!
America is lost.
I'm so sick of that racist crap. Why don't you people think for yourselves and stop listening to the liberal idiots
@@TERoss-jk9ny - It all depends on what a person chooses to focus on. If someone is looking for racism, they will be able to find examples. If someone is looking for examples of people that are not racist at all, they will find plenty of them as well. The truth is that the country is made up of many people that fall into both categories.
But the whole idea that racism is/was the foundational ideal that America was built on is complete and utter nonsense. It's not even agreed upon by most college professors, and they are just about the most liberal group of people around. Of course, most of them won't publicly disagree though because of fear of retaliation.
Oh yeah some of my best friends are black. And gay. And Jewish. Hahahaha
@@cornstock9946 the US was built on religious fundamentalism. The pilgrims were religious nutcases who wanted to build a society where there would be no dissent.
I could look at this and enjoy it every day.
I go to bed at night listening to Jack Benny shows. His radio shows were beyond awesome and WAY beyond funny!
I also listen to Johnny Dollar! To be honest.....I have some really weird dreams now and again.
Pure gold!
these jack benny shows are among the best television ever had to offer. they were consistently funny and creative. i didn't live in a tv market that offered these reruns. so i'm seeing here on youtube for the first time.
i discovered old gems like burns and allen, ozzie and harriet and anything with ernie kofax on cable in the 80's but i never saw these benny shows before. i think he's got them all beat. i've seen dozens of these and i haven't seen a bad episode yet. thanks for the upload.
Who knew Jack Benny had such lovely, dainty ankles?
2022 this is wonderful.
Love this! I go to sleep listening to George and Gracie every night. I'm not much of a Jack Benny fan but this was amazing! I'm going to download it to my phone. Thank you for posting this.
I do the same, I put george and gracie on every night when I go to sleep. My favorite!!!
@@jaiyndoe Wow! I thought that I was the only one in the world! It's only 20 minutes long but I'm never awake at the end. The innocence of that era calms me even though Gracie lies / manipulates a lot. When I wake during the night, I put it on again. Lucy was a loud, physical comedian. Gracie was so talented, one of a kind. 💐
@@christiecoats33 I completely agree. Gracie and I have the same birthday! And lucy was funny as heck but was more physical humor as opposed to gracies schemes. and I put it on autoplay so if I make it through an episode before falling asleep it goes directly into the next😁its nice to know others appreciate and benefit from gracie and George as much as I do. Take care and rest well♥️
This is hilarious
The brilliance of this comedy is beyond words. The jokes are corny and the comedians don't seem to be doing much of anything, but we just can't stop laughing. Why is that? How is that? The pure talent of "less is more." And those perfectly timed dance steps, absolutely unbelievable!
Excellent.
I hav'nt laughed so much in ages...
No greater comedic talents will ever be seen than these two. I grew up listening to the program on its last season on on CBS radio, while also seeing his TV show. There have been comics since these two, but none are better. These Vaudevillians knew one thing that's a forgotten art now...timing. It's everything.
i feel sorry for people who never knew Jack Benny...he was a prize...
I love this one! Jack Benny looks pretty darn good in that dress. This episode is the first thing I ever saw George and Gracie in, and I immediately fell in love with both their voices.
From now on if anyone asks me about the long scar under my chin (childhood horseback riding accident) I'm going to say appendicitis.
Trivia: the brother Willie that Gracie would always refer to was in reality George's brother. He was one of Mr. Burns' writers.
Ha!
Jack Benny and George Burns, two comic geniuses, we will never see their likes again.........
A gem - thanks for posting
George responds to Jack “Turn it around, Turn it around😊!” wado,Ann Benson.
What Burns and Benny did on this show was an example of the Burns and Allen vaudeville act years prior.
Burns and Allen closed their t.v. show with such Gracie hair brained skits and they were hilarious.
hare-brained as in brain of a hare (rabbit).
Erich Wise: I was using my smart phone sitting in my barber's chair at the time.
such clean good fun
BROOKLYN NEW YORK, Unbelievable Comedy Geniuses, They Just Don't Make Tv like This Anymore
For a reason. Its drivel
Jack in ankle strap heels!
His new stage name Tallulah Benny!!!!
They’re both trying to keep from laughing. 😂😂😂😂
Just freaking perfect!! !!! what a great show! the scene in the dressing room is beyond hilarious!!! and Jack even danced in those high heels. it was funny, but you could see how Gracie would done it! i loved her!!
when Gracie was here, George was so alive. he had a twinkle in his eye. but, as far as the two of are concerned, by watching Jack do Gracie, i realized how much Gracie needed George to be her Character - as much as he needed her. they were the perfect duo. “Say good night, Gracie.” “Good night.”🌜🌹
One of my favorite episodes❤️
One of the rare three-camera filmed shows Jack did on the Desilu "I Love Lucy" sound stage before Mary Livingstone's retirement in 1958, because Jack and George wanted to have a live audience to react to the Gracie Benny routine (and with Mary not being in the episode, they didn't have to account for her mike fright from performing before a live audience).
Mr. Benny appears at times to be struggling with Gracie's lines, while Mr. Burns is calm and collected as usual. The live audience's reaction kills me.😆
This was also a live show. It just happened to be a remake of another live show.
George’s facial expression when he and Jack come on stage!
classic
Ha hah! Jack as Gracie! Now that's a LuuuuuuLu!
I saw George Burns on The Lucy Show - they did this exact same skit - it was hysterical - after the skit they did a song and dance number - it was fantastic. Lucy was 55 and George age 70. Very funny and very well done.
George and Lucy after the skit - sang and danced to "Some of These Days" - fabulous
Did I hear the quartet sing "Seattle, where the sun always shines"? I think not. 😄
I said the same thing 🤣.
Not anymore....
I love Jack Benny, but his delivery of Gracie's lines can't hold a candle to the real thing! :-)
Jack did his best at being her. Still a hilarious act. I thought it worked greatly :)
Jack is from my hometown of Waukegan, IL and George and Gracie are my favorites!
No one could really deliver Gracie's lines like the lady herself.
Save the tpc: He wasn't supposed to be as good as she was at being Gracie. The story was about Jack Benny being forced to try to act like Gracie.. I'm pretty sure Charlton Heston didn't sound like Moses either. The best part was that the only person who believed Jack wasn't Jack was Gracie, who thought he was a vamping Tallulah Bankhead! _That_ is vintage Gracie. Poor Pierre Watkin: 430 acting credits in film and TV in a parade of roles as some kind of professional in a suit (an exasperated Perry White in the Superman serial six years earlier), waiting the whole half hour for the equivalent of a pie in the face.
@@altonpitts6550 Well, it was the "pixie-like" voice of hers, and the way she seemed to believe what she was saying. While a spoof, Jack seems to understand that what he is saying is ridiculous and conveying that to the audience. He does not project the "believing" tone and illogical logic that Gracie had.
I love it, this is pure GOLD
Not gonna lie but Jack Benny looks pretty amazing in drag.
There is a second version of this act farther down if you-all want to see it. Makeup not as good and no fur for Jack. Stay warm all you UA-cam people.
@@marywilliams9858 I would !!!!!
lol
My grandmother had a sister who looked quite a bit like Jack dressed as Gracie. (I hope Aunt Pearl doesn't hurl down lightening bolts on me for saying that. I remember her as being fairly good looking for an older woman.)
“Sounded like a .38”
🤣🤣
This episode that brought 2 wonderful tv shows together, the best!!
Seven people are put off by their attraction to Jack in Gracie’s clothes
As of 1/7/20, make it seven and counting.
You just have to make my life harder!
@@thespanishinquisition8617 I'm just trying to be helpful. Besides, I think watching George and Eddie doing that jig together was worth a thumbs up
Jack? I thought that was Tallulah!
How cute seeing Eddie Anderson dancing with George Burns for a bit, and even singing. What's the song he's singing?
Brother Anderson is singing Undecided. It was made popular by The Ames Brothers. George was around sixty when this was aired, and he moved pretty spry.
That was funny
I've been on most of those ferries in Washington.
I think Benny was enjoying that too much.
Wonderful!
George’s responds to Jack : “Turn it around, Turn it Around!”🤭.
Thanks y’all
Fabulous eposide
I wonder what they called the good old days back in the good old days. Hahaha
ANYONE from Hollywood watching! This is what show biz. Is!!! 🤪🤪🤪
He does look like Gracie.
The comedians and writers and all the crew were SOOOO amazing then. I was barely 5 years old when I became aware of them. And I do remember giggling. I remember LSMFT and how cigarette smoking was romanticized.
Jack was always a little fem but this is completely brilliant. He played Gracie not just funny but brilliant acting and impersonating.
That ending is almost as interesting as where Jack is a guest on their show and kisses Gracie when George tells her to say goodnight.
It's at the end of Season 3, Episode 3 of the Burns and Allen show: "Jack Steals George's Joke."
Good by Tallulah, Gracie gives him the evil eye. :)
Holy crap, is this funny or what?
Jack Benny did this great
Benny's looks like Eleanor Roosevelt
Jack is prettier. You know it's true.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually Jack Benny looks pretty good as a woman!
Best drag act ever. Not even gay.
Brilliant
Hilarious!
Genius.
Funny and not vulgar. When you had to have talent to be funny.
They're singing about Seattle sunshine? How did we EVER lose that PR guy?
12:55 - 13:02 Well, at least, we now know who the father ISN'T! It isn't a canary!
Many Jack Benny episodes are not available for syndication. I think Eminent Domain has something to do with it.
The live shows are not shown in reruns (syndication means local stations, not networks like Antenna TV). Many filmed shows are also not shown. Some USED to be shown but have been pulled from reruns. No idea why.
George Burns looks so young here.
The description above implies that this is not a live show. It was done live. The video of the original (1952) is lost, only the audio exists. This skit was also performed for The Royal Command Performance in 1961. ua-cam.com/video/hToP7nioNUM/v-deo.html
Rochester was great..Jack refused to continue on without him and he was to be treated like everyone else
Classic
Me too
Jack Benny looks like William bendix or Marty ingels
George Burns was 150 and couldn't even tie a knot in his tie.
Things got out of ✋
“sounded like a 38”
it’s true, i thoughts it was a gunshot!
Why does Rochester sound like that?