The Jack Benny Program, Collection 2 Audiobook (Free)

Jack Benny liked to portray himself like a skinflint but his generosity being a comic allowed various other characters to get their fair share of laughs … usually at his expenditure. Benny got more laughs playing the straight man and didn’t care if he was the butt from the jokes. With his brilliant timing, clean delivery, and brand mannerisms, Benny was a huge influence on the development of the air sitcom. References to Benny’s reputed stinginess, vanity, and infirmities were expected and weekly operating about The Jack port Benny Program, Collection 2 gags set up the system’s memorable people. Benny’s actual wife, Mary, was his sarcastic woman friend; Phil Harris, the brash bandleader, Dennis Time the eager juvenile, Rochester the lovable butler and Don Wilson, the over weight announcer. Jack port got his big break as a guest on The Ed Sullivan Radio Show in 1932 and was soon agreed upon to his personal show. Features included the long-running feud with fellow comedian Fred Allen, gags having a pet polar keep, and material about Jack port’s run-down Maxwell jalopy. He insisted he was hardly ever more than 39, was a skinflint, and had difficulty playing “Appreciate in Bloom” on his violin. A normal performer for more than two decades on radio, Jack made a smooth transition to television. 5/29/49 “Guest: Margaret Whiting”

9/25/49 “Guests: Edgar Bergan, Red Skelton and Amos N’ Andy”

3/12/50 “Jack wins the Sagebrush Soap Contest”

3/19/50 ”Ensemble Will a Sketch on ‘The Champion’”

5/14/50 “Guests: Frankie Fontaine and Vivian Blaine”

5/27/51 “Jack port Goes to the physician and Solid Unhappy with Contracts”

4/26/53 “Guest: Fred Allen and Remembrances about Vaudeville”

11/15/53 “The Cast is Rehearsing for Jack’s TV show”

1/24/54 “The Cast Presents ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’”

6/6/54 “The Last Present of the Season and Jack port is off to Dallas”

3/6/55 “Guest: Danny Kaye and Warner Brothers plans ‘The Jack Benny Tale’”

4/24/55 “Jack port Rents His Maxwell to 20th Century Fox to Use within a Movie”