Benny, Jack

A twentieth-century American comedian best known for his weekly radio and television programs. Benny was admired for his sense of timing and for his deliberately slow delivery. His shows contained many “running gags” — jokes continuing from one show to another — often concerning his age, his stinginess, and his inability to play the violin .

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Jack Benny, whom he had watched on TV as a teenager to learn the art of comic timing!

Jack Benny, whom he had first heard on the radio when he was a boy in the projects!

But he's funny and the next day the people go to the water cooler and go, 'Did you see The Jack Benny Show last night?

Below, his definitive appraisal of the Jack Benny/Carole Lombard masterpiece “To Be Or Not To Be.”

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