Jack Benny Program Clip - Guest Groucho Marx

A clip from the JB Program, from 3 April 1955, featuring the great Marx brother Groucho. I'll try not to hand over spoilers, if anyone hasn't seen a shorter clip of this before.
It's a parody of You Bet Your Life, the plot being Jack disguising himself to try and pick up "some extra cash." He and his partner are doing great until the last question. dramatic music
After the sketch, Jack and Groucho have a little fun in the closing monologue.

[@theresaholguin699]

The great Jack Benny and Groucho 2 wonderful men and comedians. Love them both

[@danastrong1747]

Jack Benny, my favorite comedian of all time. Love Groucho, too. Good clean and funny stuff. These men are legends.

[@zelphx]

These two men were class personified. It may sound trite, but "they really DO NOT make 'em like that anymore". The line: "It was Rodney during rehearsal" is one of endless examples of Groucho's lightning-fast mind, and sharp humor.

[@not2tees]

I used to watch the Jack Benny show when a kid - what a great character he was! And under the great character, such a well-loved and respected gent, by all accounts.

[@chawkinz]

Irene Tedrow plays this perfectly.

[@fromthesidelines]

Veteran character actress Irene Tedrow appears as "the other contestant". For the record, Jack was 61 when this originally aired.

[@dwaileebe]

I watched all this stuff growing up. Sure miss these guys.

[@marions.120]

This is before my time, but it’s when comedy was really good!✌️🤣👍

[@freddylubin]

Benny, in real life was one of the most generous people in the business.

[@bloodgrss]

Yes, as was his friend and 'rival, the great Fred Allen...

[@harlow743]

Two comedy GREATS !!!

[@edwardklintworth2004]

They were so funny and good clean humor.

[@francesannjackson9524]

That getup on Benny is hysterical!

[@david.thankssonbenavides5846]

Pumpkin cake

[@larxley]

Thanks so much for posting this. Thoroughly enjoyable!

[@VinylToVideo]

11:25 "Where else can you buy 22 years for only $3000?" Interesting quote given Benny died 22 years later!

[@garytilford6155]

he died 19 years later

[@williammorse8330]

thanks, Jenny for posting.... greetings from Bellows Falls, Vermont

[@fromthesidelines]

Incidentally, Irene's character, "Dr. Jeanette Eyman", was an in-joke, as that was the name of Jack's script secretary at the time [she occasionally appeared in "bit parts" on his radio and TV shows].

[@artshifrin3053]

The similarity of this delightful sketch precedes any TV episode of YBYL. In one of Fred Allen’s (1946) NBC radio shows, Jack sneaks into the studio to avoid paying the fee for taking the Radio City studio tour. He winds up being contestant “Myron Proudfoot” (or Proudleg..I don’t precisely recall). That night, the show was spoofing radio contest formats to retain sponsors. Judging from the reaction by the LIVE audience, the show’s end was convulsively hilarious. I suppose that it didn’t take much imagination for listeners not in the studio audience to envision what was being done to Jack. It’s now 70 years after that episode of the Allen show & 61 after this episode of YBYL. I’m 68 and am very lucky that some of these various formats of audio & visual ‘recordings’ survive, despite their often technical imperfections and utterly greedy (especially internet) suppression via their alleged ‘ownership rights’. SAMPLE DIALOG FROM THE 1946 ALLEN SHOW: Fred: "What is your profession Mr. Proudfoot?" Jack: "I put wings on angel cakes..."

[@vividwatch47]

Ironic that Groucho Marx would outlive Jack Benny by nearly three years!

[@bakovbugalu5454]

The great men of history are known by one name: Caesar, Picasso, Napoleon......Groucho.

[@bluebear1985]

Interesting that this sketch was a gag. In 1957, for a gag, Jack Benny appeared as a contestant on "The $64,000 Question", where contestants who were experts in particular fields answered questions. His subject was the violin (what else?). He was asked the first name of violin maker Stradivari and the town he was born in. He answered correctly, then quit with only $64. This according to "The Encyclopedia of TV Game shows, 3rd Edition".

[@markstaggs7342]

I am so privileged to have grown up with these great comedy shows of the past.

[@soylentteal]

Actually, he was born in Chiss Sweeze.

[@thomasthomas2418]

Irene Tedrow, who usually plays stern, matronly types, is really quite attractive here!

[@retiredmusiceducator3612]

I'm glad Jack kept his private live in his closet! That's the way it still should be!

[@fromthesidelines]

And Hal March, the emcee of "THE $64,000 QUESTION", guest starred on Jack's program two weeks after his October 1957 appearance {Jack turns the tables on Hal by staging his OWN devious version of "The $64,000 Question"}.

[@matthewposkonka1871]

I'm also 39!

[@samspade3678]

Oldtinear I hadn't realize you commented. I added your name after I posted the comment and realize you would not be notified. Please look at the comment below.

[@Rebecca_J_Bastian]

No. He was 39. ;)

[@rustydog1236]

Groucho was Benny ' s wife's cousin.

[@johnyohalem6507]

That's absurd, Rustydog. Groucho was too professional to perform with blood relations.

[@surrealfarm]

@@johnyohalem6507 Jack Benny's wife was Mary Livingston, born Sadie Marx. She really was Groucho's cousin. Jack and the Marx brothers met on vaudeville when the brothers were perforning and jack was in the orchestra. The audience was bored to death, so Jack and the Marx Brothers started throwing things at each other. Thus started a lifelong friendship.

[@surrealfarm]

@@johnyohalem6507 And yes, I understand your joke.... he performed with his brilliant brothers almost all his life.

[@longliverock7985]

Such talent. A different era, when they had to please a paying audience. The arts are too heavily subsidized these day for this type of talent to evolve. They don’t make them like they used to.

[@IceAintNice]

WTF??

[@sanjuan5921]

all this nostalgia is forgetting how boring leave it to beaver was and only missing the smell of scented soap compared to the smell of rotten eggs and feces in today's disgusting postmodern swamp.