Jack Benny - Best Christmas Shopping Shows

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1938 - Christmas Shopping in New York
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The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, is a radio-TV comedy series that ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century American comedy.
Cast:
Jack Benny - played himself. Protagonist of the show, Benny is a comic, vain, penny-pinching miser, insisting on remaining 39 years old on stage despite his actual age, and often playing the violin badly.
Eddie Anderson - Rochester Van Jones, Jack's valet and chauffeur. Early in the show's run, he often talked of gambling or going out with women. Later on, he generally complained about his salary.
Don Wilson - Himself. Don generally opened the show and also did the commercials. He was the target of Jack's jokes, mostly about his weight.
Gene McNulty - Dennis Day, a vocalist perpetually in his 20s (by the time of the last television series, McNulty was 49 years old). He was sweet but not very bright. When called upon, he could use a wide variety of accents, which was especially useful in plays. He usually sang a song about 10 minutes into the program. If the episode was a flashback to a previous time, a ruse would be used such as Dennis singing his song for Jack so he could hear it before the show. McNulty adopted the name "Dennis Day" as his stage name for the rest of his career.
Sadie Marks - Mary Livingstone, a sarcastic comic foil whose varying roles all served as, to use the description of Fred Allen, "a girl to insult (Jack)." Marks, who in real life was Benny's wife, later legally changed her name to "Mary Livingstone" in response to the character's popularity. Her role on the program was reduced in the 1950s due to increasing stage fright, and Livingstone finally retired from acting in 1958.
Phil Harris - Himself. A skirt-chasing, arrogant, hip-talking bandleader who constantly put Jack down (in a mostly friendly way, of course). He referred to Mary as "Livvy" or "Liv", and Jack as "Jackson". Harris explained this once by saying it's "as close as I can get to jackass and still be polite" Spun off into The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (1946-1954) with his wife, actress Alice Faye. Harris left the radio show in 1952 and his character did not make the transition to television.
Mel Blanc - Carmichael the Polar Bear, Professor Pierre LeBlanc, Sy the Mexican, Polly (Jack's parrot), The Maxwell and many other assorted voices. An occasional running gag went along the lines of how the various characters Mel portrayed all looked alike. He was also the sound effects of Jack's barely functional Maxwell automobile-a role he played again in the Warner Brothers cartoon The Mouse that Jack Built. Another participating voice actor was Bert Gordon. Mel also played a train station announcer, whose catchphrase was, "Train leaving on Track Five for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc-amonga." (Wikipedia)
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[@tonyquattrochi4312]

Some of the best radio and television shows are the Christmas episodes.

[@shawnmalone9711]

Merry Christmas 2023! 🎄⛇ 🎅 🎁

[@luislaplume8261]

The first program of this was on December 13, 1938. I have a picture of my late mother with her class in that year.

[@GohAhweh]

My mom was 10 years old in 38..😊

[@ericpatterson6031]

When I think of Jack's shopping trips I think of Frank Nelson as the Floor Walker. Classic.

[@steveb9151]

"Yyehhhhh-ssss?"

[@aphro65]

Oooh! Do I!

[@allenjones3130]

Dennis Day had a magnificent singing voice that was both lyrical and powerful. On the medley of sacred Christmas carols, he sings these songs as they were written, without the screeching and caterwauling that today's so-called pop singers indulge in.

[@freeindeed5393]

I had so many belly laughs listening to this!! Thank you so much!

[@luislaplume8261]

Radio City Music Hall is in Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan. I am a New Yorker who grew up there.

[@artyteatwaffle7536]

5 stars... Thanks Chesterton, great Benny trilogy.

[@truehill51hill72]

😊 thanks again

[@happyfeetgal3879]

🎄📻 Thank you

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

I love the Jack Benny Christmas Specials. I remember hearing when the group was in Palms Springs, and I think it was Los Angeles or Beverly Hills. There was the guy, Sheldon Leonard who always spoke words relating to a horse race.

[@steveb9151]

"Bud...hey, Bud! C'mere a minute."

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

@@steveb9151 That's him!

[@mmeellxx3919]

The racetrack tout, he was the best!

[@kimberlykasimoff1447]

@@mmeellxx3919 Someone brought up the Floorwalker Frank Nelson. He was good too. I will watch them all tonight, and I will enjoy them.

[@mmeellxx3919]

@@kimberlykasimoff1447 gotta love Frank Nelson as Jack’s foil in all episodes! 😂

[@mikerosevear3264]

hi im looking for the one jack says if i dont get glenn miller in my stocking any idea where i can find it

[@louisianagrandma3595]

Hi, I don't know if you're still interested in listening to the episode referencing Glenn Miller, but I found it. I was trying to find the Christmas Shopping radio episode where Jack is thinking of getting his sister, Florence a nightgown. The gown seems to have loops on it, and the salesman, pronounces it, "da loops". I love it. I didn't find the one I was looking for, but had just listened to the one you're searching for and read your comment. Anyway, the show you're looking for is on YT. It is dated 12/14/41 and entitled, "The Jack Benny Program, 'Buys Dennis A Bird On A Stick'. Credit to Ferdinand Cesarano's channel for putting it on YT. On his playlist, I believe it is #43. At around the 12:46-12:47 mark, Phil comes in and that's when Jack says the line about Glenn Miller. Hope you have a very Merry Christmas!

[@steveb9151]

The early shows from the late thirties were much funnier and more spontaneous-sounding than the predictable, formulaic shows from the forties.