Kings of comedy. Bob Hope stealing Jack Benny's pants is hilarious. Don Wilson wearing Jack Benny's pants is even funnier. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin's surprise appearances from the audience is extra awesome. Legends.
@@Robwolf28 oh, people knew. There are writings that declared the bad effects centuries before. People noticed people coughing and other effects. But advertisers paid a lot of money to make smoking seem healthy or not the cause of this.
(guest)Dear " Roci Stone", I agree with you, these great old shows are so more entertaining than the modern stuff. Most of them, I haven't ever seen, so they are like new shows .😊. Thank you so much, You Tube.😊🇬🇧🎄🇬🇧😊
ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OLDER CLASSIC TV EPISODES ARE REALLY GREAT TO SEE ONCE AGAIN SO MANY YEARS AFTER THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH WITH MANY NOW VERY WELL KNOWN ACTORS BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR ULTIMATE FAME - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FINDING AND POSTING THEM HERE.
Bob Hope and Jack Benny by this time were already well established stars from their radio days. They are flawless in their delivery and timing. Please note all these tv shows were telecast live. It was a big deal to turn on your 10" black and white tv and see real entertainment like this. I think Benny was on Saturday night and Groucho (You Bet Your Life) and Ed Sullivan were on Sunday. The sketch with the tiger/lion is brilliant, again their timing and improvisation is incredible. The jungle song Diga Diga Doo was first recorded almost 30 years prior by Duke Ellington in 1928.
This show was shot on stage 33 at tv city. If you look close when Martin and Lewis come in you see the front of the stage and the stairs. This is where Price is Right is shot and where Carol Burnett shot her show also
Only recently discovered these shows. I remember (vaguely) watching them in the 50s in the uk, as a young girl. Mum and Dad loved him. Very funny man. I’m hooked!
Just to show that! it was possible for Jack Benny, as good as he was, could completely lose control of his show. Bob Hope is the master of improve, and Benny didn't know what was coming next. Hilarious
For the benefit of the youngsters, the remark by Hope about the shine on Benny's pants causing another hearing referred to G.David Schine, a prominent figure in the viciously contentious Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, followed closely by the still new medium of TV.
I read that in a trip to New York the whole crew stayed in a Hotel but the manager didn't allow Rochester to stay in the Hotel due to his race. Jack Benny and his crew ( all Whites ) were Furious and left the Hotel in Protest. They were great friends.
Wrong. VERY wrong. Benny was QUITE well-known for being what they used to call a "comedian's comedian," meaning there were MANY comics who used to bust Jack up, especially the ultimate one, his best friend George Burns. Burns used to have Jack on the floor laughing. So you are terribly wrong when you say that Hope was the only one who made Benny laugh. I don't know where you got that information. Just watching Jack's shows proves that is wrong, as there were MANY guest stars that had Jack laughing!
From Rochester readying to shave Jack until Don Wilson leaves the stage the script is very much the same as the show Jack did with Phil Silvers. By the way the joke about the tiger / leopard and the hands on its hips when Bob Hope shot it and Jack's comment about the vet being from Denmark was all built around the world's first widely publicized sex change operation of Christine Jorgensen...rather daring for the time, around 1954-55. This episode is filled with ad libs about Marlon (Brando), Betty Furness and GE refrigerators, cannibals (Campbell Soups), Sandler Wells, Super Chief (Texaco), candelabra on the bongo (Liberace), Martin and Lewis lighting the fire. I had to watch the jungle part three times and I still missed some of the jokes
Dean and Jerry were under contract to appear on NBC's "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR" once a month [Sundays, 8pm(et), following Jack, and opposite CBS' "TOAST OF THE TOWN" {Ed Sullivan}], 'general', so they couldn't really appear as "guests". They COULD make a "gag" appearance, though....
Actually, this aired on Sunday, May 23, 1954 (the opening Lucky Strike sponsor I.D. and commercial [on film] at :08 is missing). The routine involving Jack and Don's pants was reworked for Phil Silvers in a 1962 filmed episode. Bob was notorious for shamlessly ad-libbing during his appearances on Jack's radio and TV shows [he rarely stuck to the script all the way through], yet Jack allowed him to get away with it because he WAS funny, and he appreciated the extra laughs that came with them...
Funny episode. But the closed caption for the Africa song was way off. On another episode when Dennis Day was singing it keep saying fart. Closed caption cracks me up sometimes, other times not so funny.
I understand there are basically two types of closed captions. 1. A trained person types the captions and 2. A computer "listens" to the dialogue and generates the captions. When the 2nd one is used..like it was here, those mistakes abound.
@@900milesfromnormal3 I always wondered how closed captioning is done in my mind there is a dark room of enslaved people having to watch terrible movies and typing what they think the actors saying. 😂
Jack and Bobs comedy was somewhat related. But Bob did more stand up. Bob improvs. Jack sticks to script but improvs silences in between Newhart obviously influenced!
So strange to see a commercial about cigarettes. Those companies sure wanted to sell them. Just boggles my mind. I'm very glad that l never wanted to smoke such a horrible habit
It's more disturbing for me to see how much hard liquor is advertised and accepted on radio and television these days, and how widely it is available even in supermarkets and chain drugstores. Cigarettes may impact one's physical quality of life but they don't typically turn people into unpredictable caricatures of themselves that can potentially inflict psychological trauma upon others, like young children in their care.
Jack and Bob Hope together was fun😀, they were hilarious. Never has been two comedians as these two, ever!!!
Jack Benny and Fred Allen together was always hilarious as well as bob and bing
bob hope + jack benny in television = 100% comedy gold
So enjoyable to watch comedians trying to crack the other up rather than upstage the other.
This episode of Benny is one of the funniest things ever on television.
This is my all time favorite Jack Benny tv episode.
Kings of comedy. Bob Hope stealing Jack Benny's pants is hilarious. Don Wilson wearing Jack Benny's pants is even funnier. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin's surprise appearances from the audience is extra awesome. Legends.
Now this is REAL comedy, no foul language just good comedy!!!
I'd rather watch a half hour of Benny and Hope (Minus cancer stick ads) than I would three hours of what passes for Television these days.
They didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with ciagerettes back then, I suppose they didn't know to well what it caused.
The cigarette companies paid for the air time. Some people’s bad decision brough others entertainment.
@@Robwolf28 oh, people knew. There are writings that declared the bad effects centuries before. People noticed people coughing and other effects. But advertisers paid a lot of money to make smoking seem healthy or not the cause of this.
(guest)Dear " Roci Stone", I agree with you, these great old shows are so more entertaining than the modern stuff.
Most of them, I haven't ever seen, so they are like new shows .😊.
Thank you so much, You Tube.😊🇬🇧🎄🇬🇧😊
ALL OF THESE VARIOUS OLDER CLASSIC TV EPISODES ARE REALLY GREAT TO SEE ONCE AGAIN SO MANY YEARS AFTER THE DAYS OF OUR YOUTH WITH MANY NOW VERY WELL KNOWN ACTORS BEFORE THEY REACHED THEIR ULTIMATE FAME - THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FINDING AND POSTING THEM HERE.
They were the best Love Jack and Bob
Loved this one. Neither one could keep a straight face!! :-)
this is really great they are the best
none of the stars today are like this, this is good clean comedy
It was full of innuendos, which was Bob Hopes specialty!
Bob Hope and Jack Benny by this time were already well established stars from their radio days. They are flawless in their delivery and timing. Please note all these tv shows were telecast live. It was a big deal to turn on your 10" black and white tv and see real entertainment like this. I think Benny was on Saturday night and Groucho (You Bet Your Life) and Ed Sullivan were on Sunday. The sketch with the tiger/lion is brilliant, again their timing and improvisation is incredible. The jungle song Diga Diga Doo was first recorded almost 30 years prior by Duke Ellington in 1928.
This show was shot on stage 33 at tv city. If you look close when Martin and Lewis come in you see the front of the stage and the stairs. This is where Price is Right is shot and where Carol Burnett shot her show also
Only recently discovered these shows. I remember (vaguely) watching them in the 50s in the uk, as a young girl. Mum and Dad loved him. Very funny man. I’m hooked!
Just to show that! it was possible for Jack Benny, as good as he was, could completely lose control of his show. Bob Hope is the master of improve, and Benny didn't know what was coming next. Hilarious
This show is hilarious! I wish television was this clever these days.
For the benefit of the youngsters, the remark by Hope about the shine on Benny's pants causing another hearing referred to G.David Schine, a prominent figure in the viciously contentious Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, followed closely by the still new medium of TV.
I read that in a trip to New York the whole crew stayed in a Hotel but the manager didn't allow Rochester to stay in the Hotel due to his race. Jack Benny and his crew ( all Whites ) were Furious and left the Hotel in Protest. They were great friends.
This is a great show i love it
this premired exactly 43 years, (to the day) before i was born
Benny was hitting that apple pretty hard... I think it was to try to help him keep from laughing.
Bob Hope was the only who made Jack Benny laugh.
Wrong. VERY wrong. Benny was QUITE well-known for being what they used to call a "comedian's comedian," meaning there were MANY comics who used to bust Jack up, especially the ultimate one, his best friend George Burns. Burns used to have Jack on the floor laughing. So you are terribly wrong when you say that Hope was the only one who made Benny laugh. I don't know where you got that information. Just watching Jack's shows proves that is wrong, as there were MANY guest stars that had Jack laughing!
Fred Allen made Benny fall out when he surprised him on one of his shows at the end of the show and asked for his money back. It's on TH-cam.
@@Tre404 George Jessell is also ranks high among those who made Benny laugh along with Bob Newhart and Eddie Cantor.
@@Tre404 Boy are you a barrel of laughs
Mel did a great job at making Jack laugh.
I think this is the most 1950's thing I've ever seen.
It's good stuff...
They were hilarious!!😅😅😅
Jack Benny and Bob Hope did a great show. Wonder if those with tender feelings enjoyed the Denmark joke?
From Rochester readying to shave Jack until Don Wilson leaves the stage the script is very much the same as the show Jack did with Phil Silvers.
By the way the joke about the tiger / leopard and the hands on its hips when Bob Hope shot it and Jack's comment about the vet being from Denmark was all built around the world's first widely publicized sex change operation of Christine Jorgensen...rather daring for the time, around 1954-55.
This episode is filled with ad libs about Marlon (Brando), Betty Furness and GE refrigerators, cannibals (Campbell Soups), Sandler Wells, Super Chief (Texaco), candelabra on the bongo (Liberace), Martin and Lewis lighting the fire.
I had to watch the jungle part three times and I still missed some of the jokes
I've seen the episode with Phil Silvers and this one is a thousand times funnier.
Dean and Jerry were under contract to appear on NBC's "COLGATE COMEDY HOUR" once a month [Sundays, 8pm(et), following Jack, and opposite CBS' "TOAST OF THE TOWN" {Ed Sullivan}], 'general', so they couldn't really appear as "guests". They COULD make a "gag" appearance, though....
That suprised me, and this is the first time I watched this.
love it
Funniest show ever! By anyone!
This is so much better than Blackish or Black Lightning. Even the cigarette commercial is better.
What a treat! Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis crash the show!
Actually, this aired on Sunday, May 23, 1954 (the opening Lucky Strike sponsor I.D. and commercial [on film] at :08 is missing). The routine involving Jack and Don's pants was reworked for Phil Silvers in a 1962 filmed episode. Bob was notorious for shamlessly ad-libbing during his appearances on Jack's radio and TV shows [he rarely stuck to the script all the way through], yet Jack allowed him to get away with it because he WAS funny, and he appreciated the extra laughs that came with them...
+Barry I.Grauman Right! for i've seen the episode with the king of chutzpah hosting, he was one of the best of his generation of comics.
This show aired on May 23, 1954
Love this old humor. The only joke / reference I did not get was 8:58 "Who's in there with you? Jim Clinton?"
Same here. He was a baseball manager, don’t get the reference.
They almost blew the feline sight gag on the way in.
And “Danish Taxidermist” I think would be a bit better.
Oh, GL does it ever go downhill. 🧐😝
Yeah, but it is a sex-change gag lampooning trans pioneer Christine Jorgensen.
AWESOME +
What was the joke about the veterinarian from Denmark? around 15:27
10:46 lol wow how outlooks have changed lol 👖📺
The Nairobi thing done today would get everyone 100% cancelled
Blooper at 2:15. Anyone else catch it?
Thankfully Lewis was only at the very end of this episode, therefore he did not ruin any of the talented work that Jack and Bob did.
Very TRUE!
When shows were REALLY funny
15:34 Was that joke referring to sex change operations? lol
Yes
I've seen a MAD knockoff from 1957 also including Denmark sex change material. Surprising to encounter such references from that time!
More specifically to Christine Jorgensen.
what is the song Rochester sings at the beginning
"Oh My Papa"
"Oh My Papa" was a hit song in 1954 by Eddie Fisher.
Funny episode. But the closed caption for the Africa song was way off. On another episode when Dennis Day was singing it keep saying fart. Closed caption cracks me up sometimes, other times not so funny.
I understand there are basically two types of closed captions. 1. A trained person types the captions and 2. A computer "listens" to the dialogue and generates the captions. When the 2nd one is used..like it was here, those mistakes abound.
@@900milesfromnormal3 I always wondered how closed captioning is done in my mind there is a dark room of enslaved people having to watch terrible movies and typing what they think the actors saying. 😂
Jack and Bobs comedy was somewhat related. But Bob did more stand up. Bob improvs. Jack sticks to script but improvs silences in between Newhart obviously influenced!
My only complaint is that Jack pronounced Oregon wrong. ;)
I know people in Oregon who pronounce it just that way!
Marlon tell me Bob Hope meant Marlon Brando
7:19
Shame the video I is such a dark copy.
So strange to see a commercial about cigarettes. Those companies sure wanted to sell them. Just boggles my mind. I'm very glad that l never wanted to smoke such a horrible habit
It's more disturbing for me to see how much hard liquor is advertised and accepted on radio and television these days, and how widely it is available even in supermarkets and chain drugstores. Cigarettes may impact one's physical quality of life but they don't typically turn people into unpredictable caricatures of themselves that can potentially inflict psychological trauma upon others, like young children in their care.
The cancer stick adverts are really today very sinister. Hope lucky strike got badly sued later on.
i love jack beny but this show was racist
Because Rochester has nice clothes, and a steady job? Or because the Cannibals win in the end, and get their soup?
Grow up and get a thicker skin.