I love it.

Oh yeah.

Hahahaha! It sounds like that buggy from that old cartoon... ahh crap what was the name of that show...

Speed Buggy. Mel did the voice from that as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzEqlT58zNk

Ha! Yup, that's the one

Mel Blanc also did the same Maxwell chugging noises for the Ant Hill Mob's "Chuggaboom" car in "The Perils of Penelope Pitstop".

Not to mention "The Mouse That Jack Built".

Jack... He, truly is, my IDOL!

Yeeeeeeeeeeees!

I would suggest that you quit smoking and visit your doctor twice a day!

(BTW, I'm also a Jack Benny fan.)

Don't let Fred Allen hear that.

Oh, really? Well.. What do you think the Nasal Nose of Northern New Hampshire will say about it?

(<_<),

Something trenchant, no doubt.

Ah, I remember this! A local AM station used to play the old radio-only Jack Benny Program every Sunday. Me 'n the folks listened to it religiously.

Jack Benny, Fibber McGee and Molly, the Honeymooners (before they were televised), and a couple others I can't remember. I remember that Maxwell, though! Good 'til the last drop! *laughs*

I do a daily OTR schedule at work, courtesy of archive.org. A western (went through all of Gunsmoke, now working on Have Gun Will Travel), a detective story (finished Dragnet, now working on a mixed bag), a Jack Benny episode and "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar" (for maximum surrealism, try interspersing the fifteen minute Bob Bailey serials with Frank Zappa selections). :D

Yeah... that would definitely be surreal!

Very cool! I kinda fell in love with those old radio shows, the whole lot of 'em. Remarkable just how entertaining they could be! Really wish someone would bring them back.

Actually, they are...

http://www.greatnorthernaudio.com/

Awesome! Thanks for the link!

Of course, Blanc also played Professor LeBlanc, the long suffering almost crying violin teacher who tried to improve Jack Benny's playing (without success), the train station announcer ("train leaving for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cuc...amonga"), and Sy the Mexican fellow (Si?, Sy.). On television and on radio.


Chugga chugga...cough...hiccup.

Plus the hysterical department store clerk on the Christmas episodes ("Why, oh, WHY did the warden PAROLE me?!")

I generally listen to one Jack Benny episode a day at work. Helps the day pass faster.

A local radio station in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s used to have a two hour weekday afternoon block in which comedy records (clean, G-rated, no profanity) and old radio comedy programs were played. "Les Malloy's Freeway Funnies" on Radio Station KEST-AM. Vital afterschool listening while studying.

I was introduced to "The Jack Benny Program", "Fred Allen", "Fibber McGee and Molly", "Phil Harris and Alice Faye", "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy", "The Life of Reilly", and other classics as well as old stand-up comedy records with Woody Allen, Charlie Manna, Phyllis Diller, Shelley Berman, Jackie Vernon, Bill Dana, and more.

The show ended in the mid 1980s after Mr. Malloy retired from broadcasting and passed away shortly after.

If there is a definitive Jack Benny radio show collection with most of the episodes on CD out there, I would be interested in buying...as soon as I go to the vault and count my money way down there.

All ya need is a broadband connection. Hie you off to http://www.archive.org/index.php and dive into their OTR archives...

Oooh, nice.

As long as it doesn't cost me much more.

Oh, COME now!

I remember watching an interview with Mel Blanc. He said that the writers of the Jack Benny show were constantly trying to make up a voice that he couldn't do. He said that one day, they had thought they had him. They had Jack going to talk to his goldfish and Mel was supposed to provide a voice for it. Mel said he walked up to the mic and just moved his lips causing everyone on the set to break out laughing.

BTW, I used to have four shows that Abbott & Costello did on radio. I used to laugh for hours at those two.

I liked Mel's English Horse...

Is there a link to this character?

https://youtu.be/HKVw4Zc5Xdw?t=354

That may be the interview I was talking about earlier since he mentioned the goldfish.

Could be; he was in good form that night.

Especially when he did the Nazi pig at the end.

Isn't that what you sound like every morning when you get out of bed?

But this is good stuff here!

"Well, you heard it, Rochester. What do you think? You know, honestly?"

"Honestly? Well, Mister Benny, I think that if we threw it over a cliff we'd be better off!"