The Jack Benny Show was definitely one of the best! Other great radio shows included The Martin & Lewis Show, Suspense, Gunsmoke and hundreds of others.
Quality entertainment without any foul language! A complete opposite of what is supposedly entertainment today! Oh yes. Back then entertainers still stood up for and applauded America and didn't feel entitled!
I went to many CBC Radio comedy tapings, in Toronto, when I was a kid, in the 1980s. By then, each performer got their own microphone, but the magic was the same: creating worlds and characters with just sound effects, voices, and words on paper. I've done scripted radio myself, and it's just as much fun to do (no camera set-ups, lighting, costumes, or make-up) as it is to listen to. It's also the only place where I can play a femme fatale, and get away with it.
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Its so nice to see this live. I wish there were more. Thanks for sharing.
This is so interesting to see the radio show. I love old radio shows, my dad introduced me to them.
Jack Benny was great and let others shine and had GREAT writers. Great clip.
The Jack Benny Show was definitely one of the best! Other great radio shows included The Martin & Lewis Show, Suspense, Gunsmoke and hundreds of others.
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You're not kidding about the writers! Jack Benny must have had the funniest writers in America working for him.
Thank you for posting this! So awesome to see actual footage of the historic Jack Benny radio days!
Thank you for putting this on here! it was so fun to see especially since I've been listening to the radio shows 😄
Wow what a treat watching this.
I'm glad you liked it! I'm a big "Old Time Radio" fan myself and it is special to see a show being produced!
Love it!!
One of The Greats, an Authentic Phenom. Awesome to see the cast at work, Masters of Comedy indeed!
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Wow, the crew is so young.
Quality entertainment without any foul language! A complete opposite of what is supposedly entertainment today! Oh yes. Back then entertainers still stood up for and applauded America and didn't feel entitled!
I went to many CBC Radio comedy tapings, in Toronto, when I was a kid, in the 1980s. By then, each performer got their own microphone, but the magic was the same: creating worlds and characters with just sound effects, voices, and words on paper.
I've done scripted radio myself, and it's just as much fun to do (no camera set-ups, lighting, costumes, or make-up) as it is to listen to. It's also the only place where I can play a femme fatale, and get away with it.
That's an awesome experience to have! Not many people get to participate in an old school throw back like that.
I always enjoyed the imagination of radio!
The sound effects are really great. After a few minutes your eyes turn off and you feel like your in the story!
That actually sounds fun to do!
It's almost hard to believe that's the same Phil Harris who would later voice Baloo, Little John, and Thomas O'Malley!
Phil Harris made a short film in 1933 titled, "So This Is Harris!" and it won an Academy Award!
I would love to see a filmed show with Mr Kitzel and The Tout.
Are there any more of these videos of The LIVE RADIO AUDIENCE Shows of The Jack Benny shows?
Phil Harris is so loveable
Awesome!
Love it. Where did you find it?
Sorry but it's been so long ago that I don't remember where I found it. Glad you enjoyed it!
I was a big fan of Jack Benny and was hoping for several years after his death for a biographical movie starring Rich Little.
Is Virgil Römer not Frank Nelson? He looks like him?
Yesssssss. That's him.
@@jackwestofficial thanks...I love Jack Benny and his fellows Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson
Rochester and razors....
Everybody had hair?
In what year was this??
1942. Benny, Hope and other Radio entertainers went to a lot of the Military Bases to put on their shows, as a way of providing morale support.