JackBennyProgram BobHope

[@noelroberts8199]

Two of the greatest comedians ever, when entertainment was entertainment, a golden era.....

[@paulsarnik8506]

At least Benny could ad lib, improv, and quip with the best of them. 🤓😎✌🏼

[@richardlenoir7973]

Mr Benny and Mr Hope two classy comedians that will never have again thanks for video

[@jubalcalif9100]

I heartily concur !

[@catherinehazur7336]

Bob has Jack just cracking up! Quick never fail repartee!! 2 comedic geniuses and dear old friends. Iris Adrian!!!! Jesse White!!!These performances are just amazing never fail to amuse. Always fresh and surprising, never stale or dull. You never know who's going to show up or what they are going to do. Dont need a laugh track!! Jesse White had to turn away so the audience wouldn't see him laugh. Finally He couldn't hold it in any longer. Hope and Benny had great comedic rapport with each other

[@jubalcalif9100]

Well said and well put !

[@tombasye1016]

And Those Were The Best Days, Bringing Jack Benny And Bob Hope Together.

[@Tralala691]

When America was really great.

[@BudSchnelker]

Before Hart-Cellar.

[@tomjones5650]

Right and never will be again. It's too late.

[@mAgsals]

@@tomjones5650 it can be great again, we just need the will to change

[@andrewbutcher3391]

How did they go from this to Trump?

[@pfflyer3381]

​@@andrewbutcher3391reaganomics!

[@label1877]

From Vaudeville to radio to the silver screen to television. Jack was amazing!

[@eisenjeisen6262]

These were the great days, Benny and Hope, Hope and Benny, and thank you for this upload!!!!

[@utubeDaveutube]

I know, eh? Love our classics.

[@Tralala691]

See the way they walked onto stage? That’s class, style and attitude. Wow. Today’s hollyweird bums can hardly put one show in front of the other.

[@anish3183]

What weird criticism. Society's way of walking has changed.

[@smythharris2635]

​@@anish3183Every individual has a different gait. What are you talking about?😅 Society?😅

[@BBQFanNo1]

Good old days. Bob Hope was right when he said at his funeral in 1974 that Jack Benny gave us 80 years and it still wasn't enough. We want wanted more of him. I wish Jack Benny could have lived to be at least 100 like George Burns and Bob Hope lived but God had other plans. To think if Jack Benny had lived to be 100 he would have lived into 1994. The World would have seen Jack Benny the remainder of the 1970's after 1974, all of the 1980's and into the Early 1990's.

[@hawkmaster381]

I think this was the first time I’ve ever seen Jessie White laugh!

[@karlakor]

I loved seeing Jesse White and Iris Adrian in this show. They are two of my favorite character actors. Iris Adrian had such a distinctive voice.

[@JJJBRICE]

That voice was her bread and butter . Ms. Adrian was a beautiful woman , especially when you see her in her early movies . A real doll face .

[@Gablesman888]

Got to meet Bob Hope at a hospital fund raiser in my town several years ago. Amazing comedian who could instantly adapt to his audience and keep them laughing. I feel indebted to Hope for performing for my father's army unit just before they were shipped out overseas. He improved morale for generations of service men and women all over the world.

[@lydiaozuna3751]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for this treasure! 🙏😂

[@jessewolf7649]

I’ve seen 3 people on stage in my 71 years with unbelievable charisma and star power: mick jagger, liza Minnelli, Bob Hope!

[@frankcabanski9409]

It was nice for Jack to give the old folks like Bob a chance to bee on young Jack's show. Always respect and honor your elders.

[@fritobuggers834]

Gotta keep the old timers fed and clothed.😂🤣😎

[@kingalexander2704]

Ricky Marcelli did a great Jimmy Durante here!

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on December 4, 1962. Bob had a habit of ad-libbing whenever he appeared on Jack's show {he rarely stuck to the script}...this is why, when Jack claims, "I'm not getting any older... I mean, YOUNGER!", Bob ad-libs, "Which way are you gonna go?". Jack's chuckling reply: "The way I've always been going!". By then, Jesse White can barely control his laughter, while staying in character as the agent.

[@josephcalderon906]

+Barry I. Grauman Oh! i noticed mr. white was trying so hard to stay in character by desperately stifling his laughter. very unmistakably he relished being around these consummate old pros,hope and benny.

[@Gravydog316]

haha

[@dmiller1000]

The version of this bit I just watched, either from '54 or '57, had the boy playing Eddie Cantor, not Durante. By '62 Cantor was pretty much out of the public eye.

[@StevenTorrey]

Easy to forget that Bob Hope started out as a Broadway Hoofer. First played in "Roberta" in 1933. In that production also appeared Fay Templeton, George Murphy, Fred MacMurray, and Sydney Greenstreet as well.

[@harrylangdon491]

Wrong, he started in vaudeville.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

@@harrylangdon491 You are totally correct. A song and dance man first.

[@solidpixel]

​@@harrylangdon491 He is not wrong about Bob Hope starting our as a hoofer. Bob Hope first formed the dance team "Two Diamonds in the Rough" with George Byrne. Then came his first vaudville tour.

[@manueltubens535]

I love to see the cast members break character and bust up laughing. Same thing when Tim Conway, and Harvey Kormann acted together and Tim made Harvey break character by his comedic antics.

[@donnabailloux1638]

OMG! Jessie White cracked me up! I hope his family knows that I admire him!

[@francisalanwormald6328]

GOLDEN DAYS!!!

[@travismaxwell9115]

Pure 💯 % funny

[@jessewolf7649]

As they say, they don’t make them like this anymore. White, Benny, Hope. I hope they’re not Resting in Peace but rather still Laughing it Up!

[@maraflore]

That girl isnt barbra pepper, her name is iris adrian

[@appledoreman]

Agent, handing Bob & Jack a gun each: "And if you miss each other, I hope you get me!" (ha ha)

[@garylandrum9036]

Jack Benny “there’s only one” simply the best

[@iwill3507]

Hey, now we know how little Jimmy Durante got that nose..... It's colossal!!!

[@Gravydog316]

haha

[@NoOne-kr4jc]

Wonder who that was

[@Gary-tm1kx]

The kid's name was Ricky Marcelli. I only know that 'cause someone mentioned it earlier.

[@thomasthomas2418]

"Turn up the gas, mother, we're cooling tonight!" I'm using that.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Good, clean fun. What has happened to show business? It's a disgrace what passes for entertainment nowadays.

[@ExcelsiorElectric]

I liked Hope's fancy footwork.

[@fromthesidelines]

This version with Bob, Graeme, was originally staged live on Jack's program on February 24, 1957.

[@josephcalderon906]

+Barry I. Grauman Episode title: hope and benny in agent's office,whoa! i never this episode was initially broadcasted live.pity that episode doesn't exist anymore. thanks for the info anyways.

[@josephcalderon906]

+Barry I.Grauman Now i do know this is the 1962 version.for which i recorded from a local pbs affiliate in april, 2011.

[@pekkanikkonen3070]

These kind of humor we have no more,at a present day. Money becomes shortly. Because have to earn it. Mr. Hope shows worth for every cent at least old good years on that time

[@eisenjeisen6262]

seeing something like this can bring tears to your eyes, for those good old days of laughter!

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

@@eisenjeisen6262 Funny and CLEAN! How unusual!!

[@npxmnpxm]

Still the greatest.

[@samuelm.hodnettii.2768]

America still got talent.. just time slow it down.. day ..

[@shigermuleye5203]

Bob Hope is actually funny and charming when he's working with Jack Benny.

[@irgski]

Classic!

[@elizabethhestevold1340]

Very Good !!🇩🇰🇺🇸🦅

[@felixthelmocevallosmorales41]

Jack Benny es el seudónimo de Benjamin Kubelsky (Chicago, 14 de febrero de 1894-Beverly Hills, 26 de diciembre de 1974) fue un comediante estadounidense famoso entre las décadas de 1920 y 1970, reconocido como uno de los principales talentos humorísticos norteamericanos del siglo XX.

[@davidturner7477]

Notice how Bob keeps reading his lines off stage

[@Gary-tm1kx]

Jack could really play the hell out of that violin.

[@kymnprayer]

I love that Jesse White can't keep a straight face.

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

i actually heard this same logic about 25 years ago in an interview with a dude during a harsh recession. this guy says - "times are hard, but i'm remaining loyal to my employer. i'm working for him for nothing to help keep the business open. i may be broke but at least i gotta job!" and the kicker is, he wasn't joking. this is how brainwashed people have gotten.

[@davidbaise5137]

With Jesse White, guest star! Original air date, please?

[@a.perkins907]

@ David Baise..... Dec. 1964

[@davidbaise5137]

@@a.perkins907 thanks so much! Longtime Superman and Maytag fan right here.

[@GraemeCree]

This is a remake of a radio sketch from 1953, with Bob Hope replacing Fred Allen in the original version. Barbara Pepper replaces Bea Benaderet, and Jesse replaces Mel Blanc. As good as Hope is, Allen was better. The part was written for his character, not Hope's.

[@davehallett3128]

The sarcastic secretary is iris adrian

[@GraemeCree]

@Corno di Bassetto They come from actually watching both versions and comparing them. (In short, by giving actual thought to the matter). As I mentioned (you must have missed it), the part was written for Fred, and based on his long-running feud with Jack. Jack and Bob didn't have that dynamic naturally, it had to be forced in artificially. "Oh, I'm sure they're all equally good" is a polite nothing, that you can say without giving the matter any thought, or even without seeing either one. Yours is an arbitrary, rubber-stamp comment.

[@michaelobrien5958]

Classy professional men..Don't make them like that anymore, sadly.

[@GSKCreations_2000]

17:25 Am I the only one who thinks that they pulled a joke on split of Martin and Lewis?

[@happydayz7857]

KTLA CW has/had great taste in programming.