Jack Benny guests on the Lawrence Welk Show, 1971

Jack Benny guests on the Lawrence Welk Show, 1971

[@fakerating]

When I was a kid, I used to deliver Jack Benny's afternoon newspaper to his Beverly Hills office, sometimes I would hand it directly to him. His secretary told me I was the best paperboy they ever had, cause I delivered it the earliest. He gave me a nice Christmas tip, and I still have the signed card.

[@leewilson77]

☺️

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

That is wonderful!

[@dalehinds8008]

I guess we see why Jack was universally loved and admired. He treated everyone with kindness.

[@jubalcalif9100]

What a wonderful story! THANK YOU for sharing your memorable memory with us! From what I've read, Mr. Benny was a kind soul.

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@dalehinds8008 Indubitably! As far as I know, no one ever had anything bad to say about him.

[@hanzhabibi9778]

I miss Jack Benny. Our whole family never missed a show. He made us laugh so hard.

[@vandadossantos2429]

I really wish I had met Jack Benny

[@vandadossantos2429]

I wish I was born in America to see shows like this and meet Jack Benny. Also John Daily from Whats my line . 😢😢😢

[@richardwhite2181]

Jack Benny was one of his kind. No one will ever fill his shoes.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second THAT emotion !

[@ajgodwin3607]

I miss Jack Benny. I miss Jack every day of my life. He was so kind, so talented, and he owed me ten dollars!

[@vandadossantos2429]

Only in 2017 I saw it in my computer albout Jack Benny and the others. I feel so sorry. I miss a lot good things

[@johntaormina1084]

😅😅😅😅

[@matthewmattson7584]

😂😂😂

[@davecanoy3248]

True crowd pleasing performers. Never insults the audience like performers today.

[@elainekomara8555]

The performers today treat their audience like rats. They don’t care about the audience they just care about themselves.. and of course the money they will collect at the end of the show…. Pride in oneself can be ugly and Hollywood is promoting bad actors, and really in the world today true showmanship and generosity is gone in America.. sad to sad. Hollywood has lowered their standard so much that anyone can just show up and pretend to act and then be promoted..it’s degrading.. no more television for me. I threw mine out..

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yes, indeed! A truly gifted comedian like the late great Mr Benny knew how to get laughs without vulgarity or profanity.

[@johntaormina1084]

I'm 77 years old , 12-26- 1974 is 49 years ago I still miss him all these years ago . You just know some people are just good people

[@crivket1233]

Benny is , was and will be forever a "SUPER STAR!!!

[@rf-bh3fh]

When those who have real talent with kindness they become known . Kindness and Comedy go together.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indubitably!

[@akrenwinkle]

If anybody ever said a bad word about Jack Benny, I never heard it.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Me too ! A truly beloved soul !

[@francisomahony8602]

What wonderful presence and charisma Jack Benny had. A great comedian. You can hear that underneath his messing about on the violin, he was a lovely player. I'll always regret that when Jack Benny was on at the London Palladium in the early 1970s I couldn't get there. A true artist. Unfortunately comedy has gone in a completely different direction today, in my opinion for the worse.

[@ninapancaldo7444]

De de

[@williamdonahue6617]

Jack Benny was 77 years old when this was taped.

[@jubalcalif9100]

And still at the top of his game ! He would pass away 3 years later at the age of 80. One of the true icons of American comedy !

[@jeffreydavis7657]

What a hoot! How I miss Jack Benny. Just another reason to love the Lawrence Welk Show...

[@elwoodblues9613]

Robber: Your money or your life! Jack Benny: I'm thinking it over . . .

[@tj921able]

Watch Don Invites the Gang to Dinner on Antenna TV. You'll see this bit on it.

[@GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

I've watched this priceless clip at least a dozen times over the years - It never gets old.

[@supersami7748]

On his last show he played a beautiful number perfectly on the violin. It was a sketch with Mel Blanc and a physiatrist, at the end he tells the physiatrist not to tell anyone how well he played. He explains he had made a lot of money over the years playing the violin badly.

[@Pashasmom1]

How many people know he was an excellent violinist? I didn't, because I never saw him play anything seriously until I saw a show where he plays with his teacher on Jack Benny Hosts The Hollywood Palace. They did a duet with a small orchestra behind them, from memory, and it was a difficult piece of music. I was stunned because I had heard he really could play, but I had only seen him play bad for laughs.

[@josephgraif2588]

it's not easy to play "poorly" when you are actually very talented.

[@elwoodblues9613]

If you're that good, you know how to play badly so that you get a laugh.

[@rotunda57]

So true. Just like the boys on the Spike Jones Show.

[@jubalcalif9100]

THANK YOU for uploading this bodacious "blast from the past" ! Growing up in the 60s, my family watched Lawrence Welk's show almost every Saturday night. But I don't recall watching this Jack Benny episode back then. What a lot of fun to watch! I LOVE Jack Benny! I went online and found out that this was the year (1971) that ABC cancelled Mr Welk's show after 16 years on the network. But it was still so popular that it ran in first year syndication from '71 to 1982!

[@thomasjern1509]

just love jack benny

[@jubalcalif9100]

Me too ! My all time favorite comedian !!

[@pattibrooks1907]

Bob Hope Jack Benny and Robin Williams were my favorite comedy people they brought me so much humor and laughter to my life

[@Pashasmom1]

Another quick wit who could do accents interchangeably was Freddie Prinze, Sr. Not as many as Robin Williams, but he was still hilarious.

[@Ontario100]

Jack was one of the greats. Jack Benny and Red Skelton were my favorite comedians growing up. This is a classic performance. 👍

[@jubalcalif9100]

Indeed ! Growing up in the 60s & 70s, I loved watching Red's CBS show with my family. And on Saturdays we watched Mr Welk's program. And on Sunday nights we watched Ed Sullivan's variety show. Wonderful memories !!

[@thehair1474]

Benny just 3 years before he died. He STILL had it. And he really could play the violin.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur!

[@thehair1474]

@@jubalcalif9100 and to the end, he was hysterically funny, just standing there.

[@randallriley]

So wonderful. Thanks for sharing!

[@janmcdonald3896]

Thanks for this. JB rules!

[@tj921able]

Amen to that! ❤️

[@colleenhenry-bs6ij]

Love whenever he comes on the shows to play his violin

[@gg4gb1914]

It doesn't get old

[@jubalcalif9100]

True !

[@porterslowrider]

A class act

[@chriscaffee4227]

He really hated “Love in Bloom”. He said that many times through the years on various talk shows. But he was known so well for that music as it was played on his radio and tv shows for years!!

[@bsk1460]

The comedians of today cannot shine the shoes of those in the past.

[@wasnhas]

Class Act !

[@spectrumlocalb191]

Jack was one of a kind.

[@dougfredricks2017]

As a teen in 70s I love how simplistic and well meaning the 📺 programming was.

[@smallcreep22]

the greatest.

[@ronwade2206]

One of the Violinists in this orchestra lived in Phoenix and after he retired I got to play his fiddle. It was well worn but loud.

[@darrelldurley9204]

His voice does not sound like a man in his mid to late 70s. It's still the same as a younger man. He looks great for his age to.

[@waynemarvin5661]

Looks great for his age to what?

[@Dr.Pepper001]

I was at the concert he gave in Jacksonville, Florida.

[@tranurse]

Civic Auditorium or the old Coliseum? Both gone now. I didn’t move to Jax until I was 5, in 1976.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

​@@tranurse -- It was the Civic Auditorium. The Coliseum was a larger venue. I was a student at Jacksonville Junior College and my Humanities professor gave us extra credit if we attended concerts. The first part of that evening Jack had us rolling in the isles. Then he got serious and dazzled us with his violin ability.

[@tranurse]

@@Dr.Pepper001 my high school graduation was in the Civic Auditorium. I saw a couple of concerts in the Coliseum, even though it was a horrible place acoustically.

[@nancyjaplon4909]

Oh Jack!❤️ thank you for making me laugh out loud!

[@steiventhatmexicanguy570]

My mom used to watch this show alot.

[@Pashasmom1]

I used to watch with my parents and grandparents. My parents played musical instruments, so watching shows with musicians was something we did as a family.

[@SuperIliad]

The one the only!

[@marcanthony2321]

A very class act

[@johnbrodecki2975]

Both Jack and Lawrence where stand up men.

[@StevenTorrey]

His movie, "Charlie's Aunt" is available on KZbin and worth a look. Also "To Be Or Not To Be" is available on KZbin.

[@jerrybierman1609]

That was awesome...

[@TheJPCatholic]

It’s interesting to note that while Garbo did get the Oscar for Camille, Chaplin had NOT. After Jack was on this program, the academy gave Chaplin an honorary Oscar a year later. Completely underrated comedian

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

Actually, Luise Rainer won in 1937 for “The Good Earth.” Garbo was nominated, but lost to Ranier.

[@frederickcombs8661]

It is very cool to see Welk change his program just to get back a favor. Classic showbiz in every respect.

[@drewbakka5265]

GOD HAS ENTERED THE SERVER

[@Eddie_Schantz]

This show aired on April 3, 1971.

[@12peekabooo]

Jack made comedy look effortless.

[@richardlubbock155]

So natural - then increasingly hilarious. The Master.

[@royb2251]

Talent like JB only comes along once in a lifetime

[@dabneyoffermein595]

johnny carson liked him

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Well!

[@mgretche]

Beloved……..

[@marianneevans9430]

That routine never stops being funny.

[@jws1948ja]

I want more likes.

[@mmjhcb]

This is a comedy genius. Today we have something that passes for comedy. Sad.

[@crivket1233]

Jacks father siynds like my Mom. .pay up kid .

[@waynemarvin5661]

Jack's father never siynded.

[@walkerpantera]

I bet Kevin Spacey could play this man perfectly!

[@RADIUMGLASS]

John Lovitz bought Jacks house in Beverly Hills.

[@crivket1233]

Wheres the BUBBLES??!!!

[@colleenhenry-bs6ij]

What does he mean by "Rex?"😂😂😂😂

[@JACKnJESUS]

Rex Harrison played the lead in My Fair Lady...joke is about diction...Welk's accent.

[@QueenOfTheNorth65]

The line “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain” is a line of dialogue from the movie “My Fair Lady.” It is spoken by the character of Henry Higgins, who was played by actor Rex Harrison, a famous British actor.

[@NoirFan01]

To win an Oscar, make a movie about Polish Jews in World War II

[@janmcdonald3896]

True, ‘to be or not to be’. Worthy of an Oscar & a classic.

[@mmjhcb]

That movie was hilarious! A REAL comedy.

[@jrnumex9286]

i did hear lawrence spent a few dollars on himself but cheap charlied all the cast on pay and expenses

[@brianwagar4512]

Boo... Comments are on

[@ThePoorLord]

Funny guy but AWFUL violin playing,

[@Pashasmom1]

He was a virtuoso violinist. He just goofed off for laughs.

[@rasalghul9331]

Does anyone know the title of the song Jack played?

[@Ontario100]

Love in Bloom

[@scottmcintyre7350]

The title was “Love in Bloom.”