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Jack is trying to get Gladys Zybysko on the phone. Plans are made for next week's show in Oakland.

Jack and guest Lauren Bacall do a love scene from "To Have and Have Not," when in walks guest Humphrey Bogart.

Jack and Mary wait on line all night for tickets to the Rose Bowl game. Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Artie Auerbach, Elvia Allman, Eddie Anderson, Hy Averback, Griff Barnett, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Jeanette Eymann, Phil Harris, John Laing (commercial spokesman), Edward Marr, Dick Ryan, Don Wilson.

Jack takes a break from practicing "The Bee" on his violin so that he and the gang can go meet Phil's mother and sister who are visiting from Mobile.

Phil wants to borrow $2000, so Jack pays a visit to the vault. Guest Hoagy Carmichael tries to sell Jack a fine song called, "Smokin' Luckies". Jack visits Professor Le Blanc for a violin lesson. It doesn't sound like Mel Blanc as Professor Le Blanc. Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Hoagy Carmichael, Dennis Day, Jack Benny, Bea Benaderet, Jerry Hausner, Joseph Kearns, Ukie Sherrin.

Cleaning up after her big New Years party, Mary thinks back to the previous night and the events that prevented Jack from joining the festivities.

Jack's footprints have been preserved in the concrete in front of Graumann's Chinese Theatre. The cast does its version of, "City For Conquest", a prize fight story in which Dennis knocks out Jack! Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Cliff Nazarro, Frank Nelson.

Jack and his friends are leaving for New York; so it's down to the train station for the traditional send-off...well, not quite.

From the St. Albans Naval Hospital, New York. Jack takes the gang to see his appearance in "Hollywood Canteen," and meets guests Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa in the theatre.

On his way to rehearsal, Jack runs in to Ed Wynn. He's happy to see his old friend - until he learns that his cast thinks that Wynn is funnier than he is!

"Train leaving on track five for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cuc-amonga!" A woebegone old car, a harried department store clerk, a monosyllabic man in a sombrero, and a train announcer whose line ran somewhere between Orange County and the Twilight Zone are all memorable characters from The Jack Benny Program, and all the products of a single talented throat: Mel Blanc.

Any comedian can be funny in the studio, but domestic comedy is usually considered the province of actors who happen to do comedy. Jack Benny straddled the two roles for most of his career - the suave, witty master of ceremonies standing on stage in front of a curtain one moment; the put-upon householder tormented by a bumptious servant, eccentric friends, and troublesome neighbors the next.

Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn't do, or hadn't done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to romantic lovers and back again. Here's a collection of some of Jack's most fabulous guises! Includes eight digitally restored and remastered episodes.

Bing Crosby hosts The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers visits with Bergen & McCarthy, and Red Skelton heads to Dead Eye's dude ranch. Come kick up your heels with Bob Hope, "Buck Benny," Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, and more!

Among radio comedy's most enduring features were its running gags - and few gags ran longer, or more hilariously, than the legendary feud between two of its great masters: Jack Benny and Fred Allen. For nearly 20 years the mere mention of Benny on an Allen program was guaranteed to produce an escalating laugh - just as bringing Allen up with Benny had listener in stitches at the mere anticipation of a response. This collection brings together the classic episodes that started it all, to the showdown that was supposed to end it once and for all.

This radio dramatization of the classic movie originally aired on September 26, 1938.

As a comic instrumentalist, sawing away week after week at his violin, Jack Benny stood as radio's reigning off-key virtuoso, producing more laughs per measure than any other comic before or since. This seven hour set of 14 digitally remastered radio episodes finds Benny and his badly squeaking bow mangling the classics and infuriating the long-suffering Professor Andre LeBlanc (Mel Blanc). He also discovers his "talent" as a songwriter - a skill every bit as highly developed as his ability with the violin.

Lights! Microphone! Action! Hilarious Hollywood spoofs were a beloved feature on many classic Jack Benny radio shows. Regular cast members and guest stars alike were recruited to send up cinema classics like Casablanca, High Noon, and Sunset Boulevard. Celebrities could count on large laughs - and, looking good next to Jack's lovably vainglorious and miserly self - while poking fun at their most famous films.

A woebegone old car, a harried department store clerk, a monosyllabic man in a sombrero, and a train announcer whose line ran somewhere between Orange County and the Twilight Zone are all memorable characters from The Jack Benny Program, and all the products of a single talented throat: Mel Blanc. "The Man of a Thousand Voices" was Carmichael the Polar Bear, who lived improbably in Jack's cellar.

Few people had a better perspective on comedy and comedians than the master of it all, Steve Allen. In Funny People, Allen conveys insightful and personal observations—by anecdote and example—of some of the 20th century' s greatest comic performers: Jack Benny, George Burns, Milton Berle, and Jimmy Durante. Laugh along with Steve as he offers witty and perceptive looks at comedy legends whose work has stood the test of time.