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Comedian Jack Benny's [[Radio]] program made its debut in 1932 as ''The Canada Dry Program'' and ran until 1955 under various titles: ''The Chevrolet Program'', ''The General Tire Revue'', ''The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny'', ''The Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program Starring Jack Benny'', ''The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny'', and, finally, ''The Jack Benny Program''. The program was also adapted into an eponymous television show, which aired from 1950 to 1965. |
Comedian Jack Benny's [[Radio]] program made its debut in 1932 as ''The Canada Dry Program'' and ran until 1955 under various titles: ''The Chevrolet Program'', ''The General Tire Revue'', ''The Jell-O Program Starring Jack Benny'', ''The Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes Program Starring Jack Benny'', ''The Lucky Strike Program Starring Jack Benny'', and, finally, ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]''. The program was also adapted into an eponymous television show, which aired from 1950 to 1965. |
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Generally, ''The Jack Benny Program'' was a [[Sitcom]] ''about'' the production of ''The Jack Benny Program''. Some of the action flashed back to what the cast had been up to that week, and some took place on the stage of the program, where Jack and the gang would try to put on plays and sketches, often taking the form of parodies of popular movies. Celebrity guests were not uncommon, and could be easily introduced as Jack's friends or neighbors in Hollywood. One long-term [[Running Gag]] was Jack's bitter "feud" with rival radio host Fred Allen. |
Generally, ''The Jack Benny Program'' was a [[Sitcom]] ''about'' the production of ''The Jack Benny Program''. Some of the action flashed back to what the cast had been up to that week, and some took place on the stage of the program, where Jack and the gang would try to put on plays and sketches, often taking the form of parodies of popular movies. Celebrity guests were not uncommon, and could be easily introduced as Jack's friends or neighbors in Hollywood. One long-term [[Running Gag]] was Jack's bitter "feud" with rival radio host Fred Allen. |
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Recurring characters included Jack's [[Closer to Earth]] co-star (and real-life wife) Mary Livingston; his long-suffering African-American valet Rochester; brash Southern bandleader Phil Harris; naïve boy tenor Dennis Day (and, beforehand, Kenny Baker in a similar role); and rotund announcer Don Wilson, who tended to turn the conversation or the sketch to a discussion of the sponsor's product. Jack himself, portrayed as notoriously cheap and self-aggrandizing, usually played the comic foil to the other characters: the real-life Benny is famous for noting, "I don't care who gets the laughs on my show, as long as the show is funny." |
Recurring characters included Jack's [[Closer to Earth]] co-star (and real-life wife) Mary Livingston; his long-suffering African-American valet Rochester; brash Southern bandleader Phil Harris; naïve boy tenor Dennis Day (and, beforehand, Kenny Baker in a similar role); and rotund announcer Don Wilson, who tended to turn the conversation or the sketch to a discussion of the sponsor's product. Jack himself, portrayed as notoriously cheap and self-aggrandizing, usually played the comic foil to the other characters: the real-life Benny is famous for noting, "I don't care who gets the laughs on my show, as long as the show is funny." |
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