#the jack benny show

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Marilyn Monroe and hairstylist Gladys Rasmussen on the set of The Jack Benny Show, 1953.

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All-star jam session rehearsing for an appearance on “The Jack Benny Show” in 1954. (L-R) violinist Jack Benny (of course), saxophonist, Fred MacMurray, Cornetist, Dick Powell, Banjoist, Kirk Douglas, and drummer, Dan Dailey.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price guest stars

Jack Benny Show (1956)

[countesspetofi]

One of my favorite episodes.

Flashbacks show how Jack Benny drove Professor LeBlanc crazy after 19 years of terrible violin lessons on The Jack Benny Program: The Final LeBlanc Sketch (February 18, 1964)

Featuring: Mel Blanc and Jack Benny

[faramirsonofgondor]

I love Challengers

[alloftheclassics]

@neil-gaiman spoke with the International Jack Benny Fan Club (501c) for the Jack Benny Convention about Why He Loves Jack Benny

Thank you, Neil! Like you said, “knowing and loving Jack is a responsibility”.

[papermoonloveslucy]

RIP TOM SMOTHERS

1937-2023

Tommy Smothers was one half of the comedy and music duo the Smothers Brothers, performing for nearly his entire career with his brother Dick. On September 10, 1967 CBS censored Pete Seegar's anti-war song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” during “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.” The network claimed the lyrics were an insult to President Johnson. This event was a landmark decision for television and affected the brothers' career.

Lucille Ball and The Smothers Brothers often appeared on the same variety and awards shows together, although not at the same time. They were involved in "Jack Benny's 20th Anniversary Special" (1970), "The Ed Sullivan Show Georgie Awards" (1970), "Dinah Shore's Like Hep!" (1969). "The Dean Martin Show" (1970), "Zenith's Salute to 25 Years of Television" (1970), "Jack Benny's Carnival Nights" (1968), and "John Wayne's Swing Out Sweet Land" (1972).

The brothers were mentioned on the very first episode of "Here's Lucy" (1968). When Harry balks about hiring family, Lucy says “Suppose the Smothers Brothers didn't hire relatives. We'd only have one Smother!” A month before “Here's Lucy” premiered, CBS presented a four episode series titled “The Summer Smothers Brothers Hour.” Season 3 of their popular variety show premiered a week later.

When Mr. Mooney sees Lucy and Viv reunited in "Lucy and the Lost Star" (1968), he calls them the 'Smothers Mothers'.

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November 5, 1981.

The legendary Frank Nelson of Jack Benny Program fame appeared on the Tonight Show to do a Benny-style routine with Johnny Carson. Nelson knocked on a door behind Johnny's desk and entered as a mailman. The routine ended with a pot joke.

Johnny Carson: Pardon me?

Frank Nelson: Yesssssssss?

Johnny Carson: Are you... are you the mailman?

Frank Nelson: No. I'm a kangaroo with a mustache. You want to peek in my pouch?

Johnny Carson: Now look, listen, we're... Look, we're on the air. Can't you see? How did you get in here?

Frank Nelson: Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor gray hair will stop me from my appointed route.

Johnny Carson: Now come on. Look, as long as you're here, do you have anything for me?

Frank Nelson: I didn't catch the name, whitey.

Johnny Carson: I'm Johnny

Frank Nelson: Well, cough up some ID.

Johnny Carson: Oh come on, this is silly. My announcer, Ed McMahon, will vouch for me.

Frank Nelson: Your announcer? I thought that was Shamu in a business suit.

Johnny Carson: Look, I have... This is really ridiculous, now I have... I have my driver's license.

Frank Nelson: Wellllll! I didn't know our little legs were long enough to reach the pedals!

Johnny Carson: Now look, I hope that's sufficient.

Frank Nelson: Fifty-six years old and still called Johnny. That's cute.

Johnny Carson: Look, I happen to be very busy. Can you just give me my mail?

Frank Nelson: Just hold your horses, Jackie.

Johnny Carson: It's Johnny!

Frank Nelson: Whatever!

Johnny Carson: Look, is there- is there anything else?

Frank Nelson: Oh yes, yes. I do have a package.

Johnny Carson: Good.

Frank Nelson: It's for the boys in the band. Aren't these South American stamps pretty?

[theodoradove]

tfw when you read the acknowledgements for an academic text on an incredibly niche subject and realize the author is the brother-in-law of a grad school classmate (in a discipline that is only somewhat tangentially related to the book in question)

[tuttle-did-it]

‘Moving Violation’ (s7, e13) Murder She Wrote

David Lansbury (nephew of Angela Lansbury, Law & Order, Sex & The City)

Stephen Macht (Sliders, Suits, Castle, General Hospital, Millennium, Star Trek: DS9, Columbo, Cagney & Lacey, Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

Susan Clark (Webster, Airport 1975, Babe, Marcus Welby, MD, Columbo, Benny Hill Show)

Jack Colvin (The Incredible Hulk tv show and 70s/80s movies), Jeremiah Johnson, Child’s Play, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy ME, Six Million Dollar Man)

Episode aired Feb 3, 1991

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People who have this kin list are my favorite genre of person 💕

[citizenscreen]

Jack Benny and Humphrey Bogart behind the scenes of “The Jack Benny Show” circa 1953.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price guest stars on The Jack Benny Show (1957)

Just fucking badass

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Marilyn Monroe Guest Appearance on The Jack Benny Show in 1953 Reblogged

TAG of Marilyn Monroe in my Tumblr https://kichisaburo3.tumblr.com/tagged/Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe during the shooting of her guest appearance on The Jack Benny Show in 1953. pic.twitter.com/RchFA7zdQj

— The Marilyn Diaries (@MarilynDiary) November 2, 2024

10 NOV 2024 Sunday

[driveintheaterofthemind]

TV Guide Vol. 02 #06 and Vol. 03 #047

Jack Benny

TV Guide Magazine Group (1954/1955)

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"I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Murdered Dear Old Dad."

Tune in below to hear Peter Lorre singing the intro to this tune on the Jack Benny Show (TV) on January 22, 1963! There's so much more to his appearance, too.

Jack Benny introduces Peter as "one of the most frightening, ruthless, cold-blooded and meanest individuals of all time."

Peter sadly voices his concern that audiences would misunderstand him. Fortunately, he's written his own introduction for himself: He's "one of the sweetest men in show business, a man whose emotional sensitivities are touched equally by the cry of a lost child, the chirp of a wounded sparrow, or the silent protest of a crushed petunia."

I NEED AN IMAGE OF PETER TOUCHED BY THE SILENT PROTEST OF A CRUSHED PETUNIA gahhh

Peter's song bit is at 6:06, but keep watching the show (get past the fractured singer there) to see more chatter, and then a super fun skit with Mel Blanc.

I madly adore Jack Benny like I do Peter Lorre. It's wonderful to see these two genuinely sweet men together. Jack was a wholly generous man who was never afraid of someone else getting the laugh. Peter even cracks him up a few times!

Incidentally: When Peter references Jack's own "frightening" pictures, he is most likely referring to 1945's comedy-fantasy, "The Horn Blows at Midnight" - which wasn't actually a bad film! Jack accidentally detonated his own film by spoofing on it so much, people believed it was terrible and stayed away from the theatre. :(

Jack appeared in a number of films.

Check out Jack and Carole Lombard in To Be or Not to Be, and

Jack and Kay Francis in Charley's Aunt.

If you're still here, you might as well take in Peter Lorre on Jack Benny's radio show in the lovely skit, "I Stand Condemned," from March 24, 1946.