Jack Benny - His Magic Violin

[@lornedey4040]

Nobody is funnier than Jack Benny; and it was all clean innocent humor. Boy do I miss those days!

[@jayonnaj18]

I absolutely agree with you, @lornedey@4040! I had my granddaughter, who was born in 2008, watching Jack's shows on KZbin with me when she was in grade school, and she just loved him, thought he was sooo funny! And yes, it was all clean innocent humor, wasn't it?!

[@clarinetplayer56]

I wish I was as talented as Jack was....he was a brilliant comic as well as a brilliant musician!!

[@Carehuea]

I had to press pause at 1.20... I cried laughing!!

[@lynxminx4]

For me it was 3:00

[@charlesdivers4325]

This is world class stuff.

[@kittyfun4619]

This is one of the funniest vids I have ever watched

[@fromthesidelines]

The young girl playing "Getting to Know You" with Jack was violin prodigy Talia {Toni} Marcus, who used the same arrangement Gisele MacKenzie played with Jack [she personally wrote it out for her to study before she did it with Benny]. Talia appeared several times with Jack on TV (the version shown here is from March 1962) and personal appearances...

[@danielweinstein5252]

I know Toni. I believe she's lived in Washington State for many years, still performing!

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

Oh Professor LeBlanc, I'd like to play something for you. Ah, not now, I just ate and my stomach is already upset.

[@fromthesidelines]

The scenes with Jack and his musicians are from a January 1964 episode that featured Nat Cole as guest star; on radio and TV, Benny often jokingly referred to several members of his program's orchestra [under the direction of Mahlon Merrick], inferring they were "drunks" and/or "on parole", and they occasionally appeared with him to perform on camera...the most notable were Frankie Remley [also one of his close friends], Sammy Weiss, Wayne Songer and Charlie Bagby.

[@chumshot1]

lolz I've never tried to play the Bee before, that looks insane!!!!!!

[@chellea9705]

This is such a joy to watch and hear!

[@Jiltedin2007]

That is just too much. Jack Benny was funniest playing his Violin. Lol, too fucking funny!

[@kscape100]

Laugh, smile, laugh!

[@colinwilliams553]

Of all the violin players he collaborated with on his show,I'm very surprised that he didn't play along side another great violin verturoso...... Larry of the three stooges.I guess they're both making up for the time that they didn't.Now they have all of eternity to trade violin licks.Jack will start of with A!!

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

That's close enough.

[@jaysmith1408]

Same with Werner Klemperer, was a fantastic violinist, which made it all the easier to play as badly as he did at Luft Stalag VIII

[@williamcurtin5692]

Could have played in his daddy's band.

[@chumshot1]

FRASIER!!

[@ScottInVa1760]

@billace90 I'd heard that, too... he was far more talented than he let on!

[@missionrd100]

LOL! Now cut that out!

[@makthnife]

Oh Jack....

[@Idontlikethisname-zy3zn]

Anybody knows the name of the piece at 2:41?

[@uranrising]

Brahms Hungarian Dance No.5. Greetings from East Anglia in England.

[@jonathanclary3992]

Kelsey Grammar

[@joselysylva9455]

Rádio

[@thvtonmoyhasan]

😁😁😁

[@kittyfun4619]

Lol!

[@thekittyjitters]

montague?

[@Gamefan113]

Will someone please explain the joke to be between Jack and the kid. He said that he used to play as well as jack. What's the joke? I don't get it.

[@rhondabrown5037]

Gamefan113 The little boy implied that now he played BETTER than Jack.

[@fredlong6661]

the more you practice the better you become, saying when he was a beginner he played like jack benny.

[@billsmith5985]

which is Jack's' secret sauce' --Give ALL the good lines to your cast.

[@scotth9857]

The kid made the point that he’s now better than Jack.