werksdesign That sounds like Jack. The reason his show worked so well was that the writers surrounded him with people who made him funnier, that’s why Kelsey Grammer was great on Frasier
Frank Nelson was my neighbor in the Hollywood Hills when I was a child. A very nice man, but a little stand offish. He lived with his wife who had been a actress before the talkies. Her name was Viola I can’t remember her last name. He came to a sad end. He got cancer and then quickly got Alzheimer’s. I came home one day from school and he was in the street. We lived at the end of a cul de sac, so there were no cars, or other people around. He was sure his wife was trying to kill him and was in fear for his life. He was begging me to help him. He wanted me to call the police, but I brought him into my house and did all I could to calm him down and let him stay with me until my parents came home and took over. The Alzheimer’s took him quickly. It’s a shame how life can end on such a sad note, but he seemed to be happy and to have had a nice life before that. Imagine all the people he knew. It was nice to see this compilation. I just happen to be watching The Jack Benny Show the other day and he popped up on it. Imagine my surprise.
He was like the world’s longest running gag showing up on every show imaginable. It was like shared cultural experience and delight to see him turn around and deliver that famous line.
That is one reason I appreciate the societal restraints that were in place, back then. Their results actually benefitted _everyone_ , by insisting on clean language, dress, movement, etc.
Frank Nelson, an all-time comedy icon! The Jack Benny show and so many others on TV and especially radio in it's heyday. Thanks so much for sharing this. :-)
I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert where he played violin and performed his amazing comedy. He had great timing and had a talent for not laughing during his routines.Now THAT'S willpower! Jack Benny was one of a kind.So happy there are videos and DVDS available. I wish more comics were like him. Thanks for posting these!
+Ed Mace My parents were lucky enough to attend a concert that was for fund-raising for Ravinia Park after there had been a fire destroying much of the stage - the key performer was Jack Benny. I would have loved to have been there, but I was only about 2 o3 3 years old!
I’ve long wondered why there are no full-season DVD sets of his show. The ones available have basically the same episodes, and yet a network like Antenna TV has ALL the episodes, what gives?
The bits with Frank Nelson were always terrific. And yes, Mary did not like performing -- especially in front of a camera. Therefore she made very few appearances on the TV show. She much preferred to stay home and lavishly spend Jack's money! Note there's one slight continuity problem. At 7:04 Jack is carried into the back room by a claerk who turns right. At 7:15, Mary follows but turns left.
Though felt more comfortable behind the mic; case in point on radio, that Looney Tunes short feat. her, Jack, Eddie, & Don, and her voice only cameo in Here's Lucy
Funniest gag ever: Clerk: "Go to the shelf between G and I." Jack: "That's the silliest....why didn't you just tell me to go to H? Clerk: "REMEMBER, YOU SAID IT, I DIDN'T!"
This is the first time I've ever seen the Kodak camera commercial bit...totally brilliant, and the end credits were terrific. I'm all for modern, but sometimes we could learn a thing or six hundred about how good comedy could really be without dropping the f or s-bomb every sentence.
OH....MY.....GOD!!!!! Frank Nelson was an icon, though Jack of course was always the perfect straight man. Best was "Between G and I"....."Why didn't you just say go to H?"......"YOU SAID IT......" I am amazed that got by the censors, actually!
Actually, I have heard interviews with Frank Nelson where he says this routine ended up type-casting him for the rest of his career. He was glad for the money, but not for what it did to his career.
True, however, he did play "Mr. Ramsey" as Lucy Ricardo's neighbor when they moved to Connecticut. And as far his career went, he was VERY busy. Wikipedia claims he made over 10,000 appearances! Don't know how true that is - but the man worked PLENTY - AND was the head of AFTRA for a time.
The ironic thing is even though Frank and Mel Blanc worked as regulars on the Benny Show for 25 years, Nelson didn't do any voice for Warner cartoons until the early 1980s, just a few years before he died. If they studio wanted a Nelson-like character in one of the cartoons before that, they just had Mel do a Frank impersonation.
Best Frank Nelson episode: The Trial Show with Raymond Burr. Nelson's character takes a different turn during the dream sequence and even Raymond Burr gets to do his best Nelson imitation; "Visibility was zero!".
$30 seems cheap for a suit you're thinking? Well don't forget $30 was worth over $260.00 back in 1955. Similarly, a $150 suit would break the bank at over $1,300!
Bobby Wimsy In 1955, at 22y.o, high school graduate, Army veteran (2 years) married, one child, - none of that an unusual resume in those days, I was hired as Territory Sales Manager (an inflated title meaning I was a salesman in my own territory) for Queens, NY for Lipton Tea Company calling on grocery stores. Pay was $80 a week, full medical insurance, life insurance, pension, 9-weeks pay for making sales quota and 2 weeks paid vacation, new 1955 Chevy 6-cyl, radio prohibited, but all expenses including gas, maintenance, insurance paid with honor-sys payment of 2-cents per mile for unlimited personal use. To put that in perspective, our one-bed apartment in Richmond Hill was $80 per month, including heat and hot water. Bread was 10-cents a loaf, milk 40 cents a gallon, pork chops 20-cents a pound and - what put me in mind of all this per the mention of a suit cost, I bought 3 new all wool high quality US-made suits for a total of $90 plus 5 new shirts @ $1.95 each. New Forsheim shoes, $5 a pair. A year later I was promoted to Regional Sales Manager in NJ. At 23-y.o, with GI Bill I bought a new 3 bedroom house on 1/4 acre, all new appliances, $13,500. I honestly have sympathy for young people today who do not get that kind of start in life. In those day big corporations treasured it employees. Not today.
@@JoeHarkinsHimself 1/4 acre in Richmond Hill, Queens makes you a millionaire today - if you kept that investment (and if you want to live in Richmond Hill today)... So, you were a Florsheim guy? Classy. Thom McAn was too common. And let's not bring up Miles Shoes.
One of the weirdest ever, in which Levant parades his hypochondria and mental problems to help a paranoid Jack, who is rowing with all his friends. People who think Fifties sitcoms were vanilla should watch it.
All The Best Episodes of The Jack Benny Show are ones that include FRANK NELSON! And to not put to much of a point on it , There is nothing I have ever seen that included Frank Nelson , That was a flop ,in any way. Some way,some how ,Frank Nelson made the show!!!😎 ,He is always the one we remember! Love You ,Frank Nelson!!!
Kelly02895 ... That was part of the show and it was actually a throwback of how shows were once sponsored. It's interesting and fun to listen to a lot of the old radio programs and watch a lot of the '50's shows because during those days programs had only one sponsor, unlike the various commercials we have today. The sponsors would always get plugs written into the show. The sponsors of those programs also had a big say in the content of the programs.
That pool jump impact at the start should have driven Benny's spine upwards straight through his brain and out the top of his skull. I feel offended at this lack of realism.
Typical of Benny that he should get laughs by playing asleep. He could ham and dress up with the best or worst, but his forte was restraint. No comedian ever exemplified 'less is more' better. The most famous joke in radio consisted of Jack remaining silent, breaking the 'no dead air' taboo. And he could walk on stage dressed like a middle-aged businessman, just stand looking at the audience and they would begin to laugh.
I crack up when Frank Nelson says “YYYEEESSS”… BUT… there was always more to his comedy than just one line. His snide remarks were always fantastic.
I heartily concur !!
I was watching the Simpsons like "This "Yes Guy" HAS to be a parody of somebody" so I googled it, and I was not disappointed🤣🤣🤣🤣. Younger New Fan
Dan Castellaneta did a great impression of Frank Nelson. So spot on hilarious 😄
its a shame that human beings like jack benny cant live forever
Or Frank Nelson! The world needs more Frank Nelson.
jwhaler82 yessssssssssssssssssssssss
robert szvetics and jack and Rochester!
Jack didn't even make it to age 40!
They do...on TH-cam and reruns
It's so amusing how Jack always looks aside as if to say either, "I know I've seen this guy before," or "Oh crap. THIS is gonna suck."
Frank Had me crying laughing every time he said yesssssssss and something sarcastic lol true comedy
Me too !! Love ol' Frank !!
Frank Nelson and Jack Benny were perfect foils!
phoebecatgirl Perfect!
They were darn good as plastic wrap, too!
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !!
Nelson also made hilarious appearances on "Sanford and Son" in the 1970s.
One word made a career! YEEEEEEEESSSSSSS.......
Jack Benny had often said that he didn't care who it was on the show who got the laughs just as long as the show was funny.
werksdesign That sounds like Jack. The reason his show worked so well was that the writers surrounded him with people who made him funnier, that’s why Kelsey Grammer was great on Frasier
Frank Nelson was my neighbor in the Hollywood Hills when I was a child. A very nice man, but a little stand offish. He lived with his wife who had been a actress before the talkies. Her name was Viola I can’t remember her last name. He came to a sad end. He got cancer and then quickly got Alzheimer’s. I came home one day from school and he was in the street. We lived at the end of a cul de sac, so there were no cars, or other people around. He was sure his wife was trying to kill him and was in fear for his life. He was begging me to help him. He wanted me to call the police, but I brought him into my house and did all I could to calm him down and let him stay with me until my parents came home and took over. The Alzheimer’s took him quickly. It’s a shame how life can end on such a sad note, but he seemed to be happy and to have had a nice life before that. Imagine all the people he knew. It was nice to see this compilation. I just happen to be watching The Jack Benny Show the other day and he popped up on it. Imagine my surprise.
That's such a bittersweet story
We had a neighbor lady who got Alzheimer's and wandered the neighborhood when her husband got drunk and passed out. Sad endings all around.
Jack had an awesome crew. The whole ensemble hit every note.
You got THAT right !!
Frank Nelson can even make a commercial hilarious!
He played Mr. Cow on the Tootsie Pop commercial and was featured in McDonalds ads as well. He was also in a commercial for a candy bar called Zagnut.
That's for sure !!
Every time Frank Nelson does his catch phrases I laugh. It never ever gets old.
Indubitably !!
He was like the world’s longest running gag showing up on every show imaginable. It was like shared cultural experience and delight to see him turn around and deliver that famous line.
If you are over 40 and I said “Yesssssssss” like Frank did you would know right away who I was doing. He even was on an episode of the Flintstones!
As himself, YESSSS!!!
ROBERT DIOTALEVI Really?
I remember that. He had a very distinctive voice.
I'm 21 and I always got a laugh on this show
I remember him on Sanford and Son.
frank nelson was a riot.
alan cobain Oh no a doctor? crack me up! his replies to questions are way too funny!
Indubitably !!
"You're breathing on my carnation!" "You walked in Lotus Blossom, nobody dragged you!" LOL
I still laugh every time. Every. Single. Time.
Me too !!
love the way they dressed then, classically simple and grown up. stylish looks and dialogue. ..oh, and funny at 100 miles an hour!
should've said '100 miles a minute', except for Mr Benny's exquisitely funny pauses!
That is one reason I appreciate the societal restraints that were in place, back then. Their results actually benefitted _everyone_ , by insisting on clean language, dress, movement, etc.
Frank Nelson, an all-time comedy icon! The Jack Benny show and so many others on TV and especially radio in it's heyday. Thanks so much for sharing this. :-)
My sentiments exactly !!
Absolutely awesome. Jack Benny and his cast were one of a key kind and the best ever!
Nothing made today like this and as funny
I could not agree more !!
frank nelson with his trade mark yyyeeeesssss?! was always a one liner hit with the audience
The shelf between G and I joke had me in tears omg 😂😂😂
THANK YOU so much for uploading these clips !! I LOVE Frank Nelson !! 😂
"Why didn't you just tell me to go to H?"
"Remember you said it I didn't!"
LMAO!! I wish I could be as sarcastic as Frank is at my job!
I had the pleasure of seeing him in concert where he played violin and performed his amazing comedy. He had great timing and had a talent for not laughing during his routines.Now THAT'S willpower! Jack Benny was one of a kind.So happy there are videos and DVDS available. I wish more comics were like him. Thanks for posting these!
+Ed Mace My parents were lucky enough to attend a concert that was for fund-raising for Ravinia Park after there had been a fire destroying much of the
stage - the key performer was Jack Benny. I would have loved to have been there, but I was only about 2 o3 3 years old!
Wow that's awesome Phoebe! He was such a great entertainer and very humble too. Anytime I want a good laugh,I just look him up and sit back. : )
Loved seeing Black Guy as Salesman in opening for Camera Commercial 🙂👍
I thought I have seen all of Jack Benny's videos, but that color Kodak commercial near the end was all new to me. Great Stuff !
sr633 me too
I’ve long wondered why there are no full-season DVD sets of his show. The ones available have basically the same episodes, and yet a network like Antenna TV has ALL the episodes, what gives?
....and while we're at it, let's hear it for the writers!
The bits with Frank Nelson were always terrific. And yes, Mary did not like performing -- especially in front of a camera. Therefore she made very few appearances on the TV show. She much preferred to stay home and lavishly spend Jack's money! Note there's one slight continuity problem. At 7:04 Jack is carried into the back room by a claerk who turns right. At 7:15, Mary follows but turns left.
Though felt more comfortable behind the mic; case in point on radio, that Looney Tunes short feat. her, Jack, Eddie, & Don, and her voice only cameo in Here's Lucy
Frank Nelson is awesome!
Ronnie Moore A riot!
Jack Benny was funny and Frank Nelson was great.
Funniest gag ever:
Clerk: "Go to the shelf between G and I."
Jack: "That's the silliest....why didn't you just tell me to go to H?
Clerk: "REMEMBER, YOU SAID IT, I DIDN'T!"
how could anyone give this a down vote what haters there are in this world
This is the first time I've ever seen the Kodak camera commercial bit...totally brilliant, and the end credits were terrific. I'm all for modern, but sometimes we could learn a thing or six hundred about how good comedy could really be without dropping the f or s-bomb every sentence.
Listening to the audio while doing my job at work helps me get through the day. Thank you so much.
laz4erin Jack going crazy so funny!
The shopping scene was hilarious
Brilliant!!!
Weeell, Mexico City!! What are you running away from this time? LOL!
I 💖JACK BENNY!
youll never see the likes of anything like this coming out of hollywood ever again
You might.
This was pure genius. Clean and "laugh out loud" funny. Nothing good on today.
Brilliant! Thanks for posting.
omg two riots at a time! I miss them
Jack Benny Rules!
OH....MY.....GOD!!!!! Frank Nelson was an icon, though Jack of course was always the perfect straight man. Best was "Between G and I"....."Why didn't you just say go to H?"......"YOU SAID IT......" I am amazed that got by the censors, actually!
Frank Nelson is sooo funny , so clean
Actually, I have heard interviews with Frank Nelson where he says this routine ended up type-casting him for the rest of his career. He was glad for the money, but not for what it did to his career.
True, however, he did play "Mr. Ramsey" as Lucy Ricardo's neighbor when they moved to Connecticut. And as far his career went, he was VERY busy. Wikipedia claims he made over 10,000 appearances! Don't know how true that is - but the man worked PLENTY - AND was the head of AFTRA for a time.
Webley Webster The greatest typecast
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS whats after?
true comedy classics i never tire of it
The great frank nelson
Frank did voice overs for almost every cartoon for 30 years. Great guy.
The ironic thing is even though Frank and Mel Blanc worked as regulars on the Benny Show for 25 years, Nelson didn't do any voice for Warner cartoons until the early 1980s, just a few years before he died. If they studio wanted a Nelson-like character in one of the cartoons before that, they just had Mel do a Frank impersonation.
Too funny. That damn Kodak commercial has me in tears still.
JACK BENNY BOY DO WE NEED HIM NOW
Face it he had us at "weeeellll......! 😎 Love Frank Nelson!!!! Mmmmmmm
Thank you for posting this!
Agslions I adore Rochester too!
Agslions Are u a store walker? no I'm a float in a rose parade! Lol
Best Frank Nelson episode: The Trial Show with Raymond Burr. Nelson's character takes a different turn during the dream sequence and even Raymond Burr gets to do his best Nelson imitation; "Visibility was zero!".
Nick Thomas Remember it well! If only they had gotten DA Ham Burger with Justice Frankfurter.
I LIKE THAT MAN SAYS YES YES YES YES YES LATE GREAT FRANK NELSON GOD BLESS YOU LATE GREAT ONE 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏👼👼👼
20:15 My favorite bit!
Nice work :)
$30 seems cheap for a suit you're thinking? Well don't forget $30 was worth over $260.00 back in 1955. Similarly, a $150 suit would break the bank at over $1,300!
MUSICOM PRODUCTIONS Try breaking this mathematica news to the Federal government, before we both tear our hair out.
Bobby Wimsy In 1955, at 22y.o, high school graduate, Army veteran (2 years) married, one child, - none of that an unusual resume in those days, I was hired as Territory Sales Manager (an inflated title meaning I was a salesman in my own territory) for Queens, NY for Lipton Tea Company calling on grocery stores. Pay was $80 a week, full medical insurance, life insurance, pension, 9-weeks pay for making sales quota and 2 weeks paid vacation, new 1955 Chevy 6-cyl, radio prohibited, but all expenses including gas, maintenance, insurance paid with honor-sys payment of 2-cents per mile for unlimited personal use.
To put that in perspective, our one-bed apartment in Richmond Hill was $80 per month, including heat and hot water. Bread was 10-cents a loaf, milk 40 cents a gallon, pork chops 20-cents a pound and - what put me in mind of all this per the mention of a suit cost, I bought 3 new all wool high quality US-made suits for a total of $90 plus 5 new shirts @ $1.95 each. New Forsheim shoes, $5 a pair.
A year later I was promoted to Regional Sales Manager in NJ. At 23-y.o, with GI Bill I bought a new 3 bedroom house on 1/4 acre, all new appliances, $13,500.
I honestly have sympathy for young people today who do not get that kind of start in life. In those day big corporations treasured it employees. Not today.
@@JoeHarkinsHimself 1/4 acre in Richmond Hill, Queens makes you a millionaire today - if you kept that investment (and if you want to live in Richmond Hill today)... So, you were a Florsheim guy? Classy. Thom McAn was too common. And let's not bring up Miles Shoes.
It was such fun time.
Frank Nelson is as big as ever. I googled 'yeeeeees actor' to get here. 😄😅 It's true kids, say the right word, make a million - EeeYeeeeess?
"YYEEEEEEEEESSSSSS?!"
Who would've imagined many decades ago when this guy was in these films, he'd get a Simpsons character based on him :P
these were the best shows,
Love it
Bon Scott Cool Kodak cameras
22:19 --Eddie "Rochester" Anderson is the doorman. He was an _awesome_ actor and singer, playing the role of "Joe" in the play "Cabin in the Sky!!!"
Frank faired heavily in the Episode with Oscar LeVant!
Wow! Is that Mary Livingston there?! I forgot she was on the TV show for a short time.
E-yessssssss
15:05 Merry Christmas!, none of that Happy Holidays bit. Better times.
One of the weirdest ever, in which Levant parades his hypochondria and mental problems to help a paranoid Jack, who is rowing with all his friends. People who think Fifties sitcoms were vanilla should watch it.
I want that movie camera. Give it to me!
I just subscribed
oh mister?! yesssssss?
All The Best Episodes of The Jack Benny Show are ones that include FRANK NELSON! And to not put to much of a point on it , There is nothing I have ever seen that included Frank Nelson , That was a flop ,in any way. Some way,some how ,Frank Nelson made the show!!!😎 ,He is always the one we remember! Love You ,Frank Nelson!!!
He talked like that because he had a stroke.
No.
Frank Nelson. A Pipperoo!
There was more emphasis on the "e" than the "s".
Eeeeeeeeeyyeeeeuhsssss!
I'm surprised to see Mary. Wasn't she only on a few episodes due to her ever-growing stage fright?
So odd to see Mary on the TV show. As has been mentioned, she did very few TV episodes
cottagechskitty She was in 70 Episodes.
cottagechskitty she's perfect for jacks wife
He also voiced Spiffy on the animated cartoon, The Oddball Couple: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oddball_Couple
GOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOooooood
Hi everybody!
Yes this is the guy from the Simpsons is based off of
Welllllllllll....
Drear Pooson?
Did that yes guy do movies too?
Why does it have to be stretched out horizontally?
What's the name of the episode at 4:35?
Also, Mel Blanc!
17:59 YYYEEEEEEESSSS
Wow, please tell me that bit near the end was an ad for Kodak and not part of the show. If it was in the show itself, it's a heck of a plug.
I'm not sure what will make you happy:) It was part of the show:)
MyyyClips Why did you feel it necessary to stretch the picture into a wide-screen format?
Kelly02895 ... That was part of the show and it was actually a throwback of how shows were once sponsored. It's interesting and fun to listen to a lot of the old radio programs and watch a lot of the '50's shows because during those days programs had only one sponsor, unlike the various commercials we have today. The sponsors would always get plugs written into the show. The sponsors of those programs also had a big say in the content of the programs.
Kelly02895 a great camera, but not as smooth and mild as a Lucky Strike cigarette - they're toasted!
+chieftp funny!
Imagine how funny this would be if we could hear the audio.
BabyBoomerChannel Why can't you? We can.
Try turning your volume up.
Kind of like Jerry and Newman.
That pool jump impact at the start should have driven Benny's spine upwards straight through his brain and out the top of his skull. I feel offended at this lack of realism.
Well.They did call the chiropractor.
Homer: "Why do you talk that way?"
Yes Guy: "I had a stroooooke."
Typical of Benny that he should get laughs by playing asleep. He could ham and dress up with the best or worst, but his forte was restraint. No comedian ever exemplified 'less is more' better.
The most famous joke in radio consisted of Jack remaining silent, breaking the 'no dead air' taboo. And he could walk on stage dressed like a middle-aged businessman, just stand looking at the audience and they would begin to laugh.
What class. To think we have Reeves and Mortimer.
The radio show was better.
he was cheapest comidin of all times
Andrew Fernandez only onscreen!