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Jack Benny: Your Money Or Your Life (S704)
From: Anonymous Jr. on 7/10/2010
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Source1: http://noahscomedypalace.blogspot.com/2009/06/
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Here's what you have
to know to appreciate the comedy of Jack Benny:
1. Jack
Benny is cheap.
2. Jack
Benny plays the violin badly.
3. Jack
Benny is 39.
That'll do it; armed
with those three facts, the sound of his voice, and/or the sight of his
face, you are now fully equipped to enjoy Jack Benny. You're in.
(In real life, Jack Benny wasn't cheap at all, and
he was only 39 for
one year. His violin playing is a matter of taste.)
The most legendary
Jack Benny joke, which took place on his radio
program on March
28, 1948, was an exchange between Benny and a mugger. (This particular
joke deals with the first item on the above list.)
The line became so
famous that a myth sprung up about the length of the laugh which followed
it; many people who think they know what they're talking about go around
saying that this was the longest laugh in the history of radio. As
Laura Lee Leff, President of the International
Jack
Benny Fan Club, has proven,
it was not even the longest laugh in
the history of the
Benny show. And anyway, it's really two laughs,
not one.
All of this is entirely
beside the point, which is that you are about
to hear one of comedy's
golden moments. In this episode, whose official title is "The Stolen
Oscar," Jack is visiting the home of actor Ronald Coleman, and asks if
he can borrow his Academy Award.
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