Mel Blanc - Telegram for Jack Benny

" I thought I had smaller change than this. "

[@hebneh]

This shows that Mel Blanc wasn't just a man who could do hilarious voices for cartoons, he was a full-fledged actor!

[@drumbum3.142]

There Are Possibly and Potentially A Few Counter-Examples; (but) Voice Wizard here just might be the FUNNIEST Human we've EVER Scene (!) ...and/or Heard Lol

[@dragn1007]

He had his own radio show back in the day.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Mel was an icon. Not only in animation but acting as well.

[@dharmaseed]

Geez, Mel Blanc was talent to so many mediums...radio, television, cartoons...rest in peace Mr. Blanc.

[@Johnny-dz6vl]

Mel Blanc 1908-1989 R.I.P. gone but Never forgotten LEGEND.

[@bak-mariterry9143]

The day he passed , at a friend's house and started talking about all the voices he did . He ...still today still is in our lives .

[@dfp6466]

I like the sofa.

[@sammytolliver4429]

He will be missed but he I a legend and icon and he did the voice of all the looney tunes characters

[@aliarturo8741]

i guess Im pretty off topic but does anybody know of a good place to stream new movies online?

[@muhammadivan1522]

@Ali Arturo lately I have been using flixzone. Just search on google for it =)

[@BrandonKohout]

No wonder Jack Benny and Mel Blanc were the best of friends.

[@bankerguy66]

Mel Blanc was a GENIUS! PERFECT timing!

[@eightinches6094]

Mel Blanc stole that scene for sure, lol!

[@rickmiller1429]

But who could carry it out better? Mel Blanc was a genius.

[@pretorious700]

Mel Blanc is just perfect in this.

[@jeanpreston8009]

Mel was perfect in EVERYTHING he did, and he did it all. And better than anyone else.❣

[@PatrickRsGhost]

Surprised Jack didn't charge him a dime to use the phone.

[@bryantlane8646]

Awesome AWESOME AWESOME TRUE COMEDY….BOTH PLAY OFF EACH OTHER BEAUTIFULLY DONE….

[@okee9]

"I thought i had smaller change than this" Classic

[@Gravydog316]

haha yes!!!

[@fourbyfourer]

Hey sweetheart, you're my kind of girl cuz your beautiful and I see you have a picture of the Delorean Time Machine as your cover photo. I love Back To The Fututre.

[@kurtnmia]

Mel Blanc was great.You laugh just looking at the guy. He even looks like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of his characters.I Love him.

[@abnowacky]

Yeah he looks just like them. Same with Arthur Q. Bryan and Elmer Fudd.

[@livetheatre7463]

"Keep up your courage" - I love that!

[@michaelcaputo7215]

Pure comic genius no one around today has the talent of Jack Benny or Mel Blanc

[@georgealderson4424]

Mel Blanc appears to have been a good actor as well as a voice artist. I dod not recognise him as I have not seen him very often but hear him countless times in his many voice roles. Thank you for showing us this video

[@lindaeasley4336]

Every voice he did sounded like a Warner Bros cartoon character . He made a lot of guest appearances on radio shows in the 1940s

[@orchardist1965]

Multi-talented Mel Blanc, this acting sketch just great, forgot for a moment that it was Mel.

[@thomasryan5736]

I was expecting Jack to say “Well!” After Mel commented on Jack’s small tip. One of the funniest shows I was blest to grow up with.

[@SarahOstrin1]

I love Mel Blanc and Jack Benny. Priceless.

[@Horsefeathers6000]

LAUGHNG SO HARD!! Mel Blanc AMAZING voice starts at 2:19 Great memories! Sounds just like the old cartoons!

[@kyokogodai-ir6hy]

At one point I thought I heard Barney Rubble, LOL.

[@WornoutRNPARAMEDIC]

Jack Benny and Mel Blanc were so very funny!!! Loved them both.

[@mike42441]

Mel Blanc was a genius of comedy and voice !!!

[@bodegabreath4258]

Mel Blanc comedic genius.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Jack was one of a kind. Totally fabulous. July, 2023, England.

[@theresaholguin699]

Great comedy from Mel and Jack both were wonderful without cuss words. I miss comedy like this

[@lateefcarrere1649]

"How do you like that?" Jack Benny I like it fine, Mr. Benny - just fine. :)

[@michaelgreen5206]

Love these two mensch's!!

[@carmenfoote7999]

Two of the comedy legends, Jack Benny as his usual miser self and Mel Blanc as the man of a thousand voices. Great little skit. Thanks. Joe S

[@davesstuff1599]

Remember Benny getting held up when the crook said 'Your money or your life'. Benny was taking a while to answer and he told the crook 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking!".

[@BIZKITJODE]

Take my life, I'm saving my money for my old age...😯

[@robwatts4623]

"I'm thinking it over!"

[@CourtofRecord]

Wow he didn't dispel anyv CHEAP Jewish stereotypes did he? Benjamin Kubelsky ( 1894 , 1974), known as Jack Benny. He was the son of Jewish immigrants Meyer Kubelsky (1864-1946)[3] and Emma Sachs

[@kellygervais3440]

Lol, you hear that in Deadpool 2..

[@BBT609]

Mel and Jack were best friends on and off camera. When Blanc was in a almost fatal accident on dead man’s curve in 1961, it was noted by Mel’s son Noel that Benny would visit the hospital every day until he was better and if couldn’t get a ride, he would ask Noel to pick him up.

[@BrianSmith-wh9bi]

Of course, in real life Jack Benny was no cheapskate. A very generous man. With a very small ego.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Brian Smith and Trump in real life, if he has contact with one- a real miser with a bottomless and maybe topless ego, too.

[@coolmovieman1]

legendary acting by blanc and jack benny a dime benny always the cheepskate lol wonderful performances

[@matizz8]

classic voice of barney ruble, thanks Mel

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

This is classic stuff! Pure Jack Benny!

[@thomaslauffenberger5795]

Move over, Howard Stern; Jack Benny WAS and always WILL BE the KING OF ALL MEDIA!

[@TerryDowne]

Poifect, as the Rabbit would say.

[@jeanpreston8009]

We all know which Rabbit you're talking about.😘

[@jasonphillips2718]

Mel Blanc would have played a great cowardly lion in wizard of oz

[@TheAtomicEwok]

+Jason Phillips He would have been great as any character.

[@veeganboy]

...and he was.

[@MaskedMan66]

He did! That is, he did the voice of the Lion in a thing called "Off to See the Wizard," which was a series of animated links which served to present movies on T.V.; Dorothy and the gang would go to the Emerald City, where the Wizard would show them a film. Incidentally, June Foray played Dorothy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/laW0nKaEi7p2prc

[@amendable5401]

Or Bugs Bunny even.

[@mr.scottpowell]

Love Mel Blanc! Great routine

[@critter7052]

hilarious.....what a comic treasure!!

[@trevormiles5852]

" I wouldn't want to influence you in any way....." lol great set up.

[@altmouse4006]

that MUST be the same set used in the latter seasons of I Love Lucy.

[@valeriekoch9128]

I am in Waukegan now, the mayor is still waiting for Jack's apply ..Mel is hilarious

[@Tsamokie]

Mel Blanc: man of a thousand voices.

[@jamesworthington3346]

Mel.blanc was on Jack's show for years. Jack knew real talent when he saw it

[@JERSEYTOMATO]

MEL BLANC - PRICELESS

[@bobw5024]

I Did not know that Mel Blanc did anything other than cartoon voices. Great talent

[@jeanpreston8009]

Do some research on Mel and you will find he could do it ALL, including a musician and the leading recording artist for Capitol Records. What a talent!!

[@kenchovan5910]

LOVE, LOVE IT! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. Classics come and go! But not like nowadays! We were lucky to be there! KEN C. THANKS

[@patrickreynolds6861]

Love this stuff !! There really is no such thing as good TV or talent anymore.

[@johnsullivan2977]

two of the greatest

[@BrooklynJackBlue]

What really kills me is how I'm SURE Jack felt he was being unfathomably generous with that dime.

[@Tsamokie]

Yeah, he tossed quarters around like they were manhole covers.

[@BobDiaz123]

Both are Masters of comedy! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pretorious700]

That's the same household set they used in the later seasons of I Love Lucy.

[@daveluttinen2547]

Prior to Jack Benny's passing, he arranged for a florist to bring his wife, Mary, a fresh rose every day in perpetuity. Another thing that I find fascinating about Mr. Benny is his violin. While he clowned around with the violin on television, I have heard that he was actually quite accomplished at the instrument. The whole Jack Benny show was classy, and I always loved Rochester. (Both Benny and Rochester were in "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".) Just some trivia for you to fill in while watching great performers execute their craft. [Edited for better explanation to literalists. :) ] Mel Blanc and Jack Benny were also good personal friends.

[@edreiser1817]

I have a collection of over two thousand radio shows from the 1930s two the late 1950s. From comedy to westerners and Dramas.

[@phillipecook3227]

He knew exactly what he was doing with the rose instruction: expressing love and providing comfort from beyond the grave. What an Imaginative and wonderful gesture.

[@50zcarsman]

Benny had begun his career as a solo vaudeville act, entertaining US troops in camp and in Europe during WWI with classical violin pieces. When he fouled-up a piece on stage, he learned to play it off with some funny patter, delivered in the deadpan, condescending style that later became his trademark. The audience reaction to these interludes was so positive that he quickly substituted the patter for most of the playing, and deliberately-terrible violin music for the good stuff he was actually able to produce. The rest is history.

[@stranraerwal]

@@edreiser1817 : Keep on bragging. What's this got to do with J.Benny and M.?

[@carrollshelby8690]

Benny arranged a fresh rose for his wife in perpetuity BEFORE he died!

[@charlessands6933]

You can hear Barney Rubble when Blanc speaks.

[@xaenon]

I hear ya. My granddaughter thought I was watching the Flintstones. She heard it all the way from the kitchen and came running in. This was a number of years ago, of course. She's in high school now.

[@JackFlemingFan1]

Excellent!! You don't see great comedy like this now.

[@Gravydog316]

I love that everyone else commenting loves it!!

[@JackCarterDOA]

Gravydog316 :P

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

WOW! Jack Benny, Mel Blanc and Don Wilson .. WOW WOW WOW !!!!! They sure were talented . I’m sure you all know that Mel did the voices for most of the Looney Tunes characters. Just great people, all of them. And Rochester ( Eddie Anderson) in the beginning .

[@Tsamokie]

This was the Golden Era of TV comedy.

[@derycktrahair8108]

They don't make shows like that now. Where has the talent gone? Mel Blanc the voice of so many cartoon characters can play sketch comedy. Jack Benny as usual is the best.

[@luvagoodsongyeah]

Jack was one of the funniest as he didn't have even say anything to get a laugh and applause but Jack only had to move muscles in his face or raise his eyebrows. Anyone else could do this and there would be nothing. A legend was Jack Benny

[@stevenfanale4553]

The greatest acting job I have ever seen in my life!!!

[@3gdosrsfs]

+Steven Fanale Most people seem to miss this( though I have a feeling you may already understand this since you brought it up) is that the simple fact that Mel had to voice out characters makes him an actor well above most you ever saw overall. If you ever watched the Warner brothers cartoon documentary, you would know that many involved with the cartoon, would actually act out the actual parts of the characters in the outdoor area of the studio lot, Mel being the main one to do so but the animators did as well. Next time you watch a cartoon with Mel...try to imagine the real acting that does indeed go into the parts he voiced.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Steven Fanale Very interesting Steve. I keep having a recurring fantasy of all of the audio animatronic Presidents at either Disney World or Disneyland leaving their posts, flying to Washington, and confronting Trump- what a laugh riot that would be!

[@valeriegrotefend4999]

Mel and Jack were best friends. Mel told me that in 1985!!

[@Rioraku]

Hilarious! I wish there could be more comedy like this these days!

[@bobbywimsy6741]

Rioraku Tune in to Trumpy now and then- he's hysterical, to most .One exception: himself

[@TheAnimationEz]

am 19 and am wondering why isn't this on TV ?!?! Mel Blanc is just awesome

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Two great comic talents. Mel was an underrated comic actor. He could do it all.

[@sr633]

Jack Benny my favorite, was really was upstaged by a real winner - Mel Blanc.

[@jayneandedwardtimper1631]

"I don't care who gets the laughs as long as the audience thinks it's funny". Not the exact quote but that's how Jack Benny felt, that's why he was the butt of the jokes a lot because the audience kept laughing

[@jeanpreston8009]

He always seemed to allow himself to be upstaged by Mel and if you look carefully, can't keep from laughing at Mel himself.😅

[@1brewski2]

@SHICOFF1 I think he was born in a hospital in Chicago even though the family lived in Waukegan. But he was and is Waukegan's favorite son anyway.

[@ryanrazo]

Jack Benny is *that* stingy- a dime for chrissakes! 😂🤣

[@muhammadhasan6862]

Just amazing

[@guynorth3277]

These are great, I listen to his old radio show's on Sirius 148.

[@OAKIE9531]

I saw him live....whole cast was there...I was 12 it was 1965, made my parents take me

[@marlenepearson3936]

These 2 were comedy gold. 🤣

[@shanke300]

True comic genius. MB.

[@petermcgill1559]

These sketches with Mel Blanc are excellent :)

[@jeanpreston8009]

ALL sketches with Mel are excellent. What a talent.❣

[@Gjeorje]

-Alternate punchline (Jack Benny) -Here`s your tip...I won`t charge you for the phone call.

[@CookinginRussia]

Local phone calls were free back then on landlines.

[@alabamaal225]

This bit illustrates the true genius of Jack Benny - he never hesitated to be the straight man in a routine. Observe who got the laughs - except for Benny's reaction to the telegram it was all what was written on the telegram and Blank's routine. In one show, network executives suggested they could replace Benny with a life-size cardboard stand-up of him, since it was the other actors who got the laughs. Certainly not true (and that's what made the suggestion funny,) but how many other comedians would have let that routine on their show?

[@9005067]

thanks ,Jack Benny always played the part of a cheapo

[@ReneeGepford]

"...I've just wasted a routine I could have sold to Bette Davis.". It means that false crying act he just did on the phone is a comedy routine Bette Davis might have paid him so she can use it. The funny guy, by the way, is the guy who originally did the voices for the Bugs Bunny cartoon characters--Bugs Bunny, Tweeth, Sylvester, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, and more!

[@bobareeniobobareenio2935]

Hahahah. Did anyone notice that Jack Benny had to bite his finger to keep from laughing ? Ahhhh hahahaha

[@LesterMoore]

Jack sure knew the value of a nickel. Times must have been tough back in the day in Waukegan Illinois. For Jack and the Mayor!🥶

[@dinnymallek9014]

Love Jack Benny I live in Waukegan went to Jack Benny jr high he came back every year and talked to us was a nice man . Never seen this bit thought made me laugh.

[@johnlevalley521]

Using his Barney Rubble voice in the pre-Flintstones Era. A generational talent.

[@robbiefarabee6954]

That was an interesting twist at the end.

[@juanmonge7418]

Mel was also the “voice” of Jack trying to start his car: The Maxwell.

[@theaccursedj.e.2723]

This is brilliant!

[@FredCDobbs-er4qd]

There will never be another Bugs.

[@rogerdodger5415]

Mel Blanc was AMAZING!

[@jeanpreston8009]

He always was, in everything he did.❤

[@tomitstube]

the multi-talented mel blanc.

[@jeanpreston8009]

Nobody better.🥰❣

[@bravehome4276]

That trembling lower lip on Mel -- you can't teach things like that. He was not only a great voice actor, he was a great actor....

[@bryantlane8646]

ONE OF THE VERY BEST SKITS EVER MADE!!!DR.BRYANT LANE

[@williampotter2098]

Mel Blanc is probably better remembered now than Benny. I'll bet only about 1 in 20 college kids even knows who Benny was but most of them know the man who was the voice of the world's most popular cartoon characters. Of course at the time this show was made, Benny was the much bigger star. Life is strange.

[@davidlafleche1142]

In some ways, Jack Benny did a kind of "no respect" routine, long before Rodney Dangerfield. In fact, that stage name actually came FROM Jack Benny's radio program.

[@bvscfanatic]

Good point!!! Jack Benny was a master of self-deprecating humor. His timing was impeccable.

[@bobbywimsy6741]

When Trump was born, the Dr. slapped- the Nation, prophetically.

[@50zcarsman]

Jack was the only figure in radio confident enough in himself and dedicated enough to the comedy to: 1) play the straight man on his own show; 2) routinely take withering onstage digs from his underlings -- to whom he gave most of the best lines; and 3) give his fellow actors the latitude to evolve their own characters, catchphrases, and followings, even if it meant that he got upstaged form time to time. If an idea worked, Benny encouraged it; if it fell flat -- even if the reason was his own delivery of a line -- he canned it and moved on without recriminations. Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Red Skelton, and a host of others were too insecure and ego-driven to support as long a career as Jack had, or to become as well-liked in the industry as he was.

[@Bixfan78]

He was, ironically, the most generous of comedians. One of my favorite Benny radio shows is from April 9, 1950, and it's a showcase for a young comedian named Frankie Fontaine, who plays a goofy character named John L.C. Sivoney. In the early '60s, he show up on Jackie Gleason's "American Scene Magazine" as Crazy Guggenheim.

[@altonpitts5303]

There really was a B movie Western star from the third and forties named Rodney Dangerfield.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

Excellent.

[@davidmolina5023]

Long live Mel Blanc!

[@jeanpreston8009]

I wish he would and that my grandchildren could know and appreciate him. I'm trying to teach them but they are so brainwashed by this garbage on electronic devices and entertainers I don't consider role models that it's hard. But I won't give up. They will know and love Mel Blanc.😊😉

[@bryantlane8646]

SUCH EMOTIONS…SEEMS SO REAL….SO GENUINE…NOT MOTIVATE JACK BENNY TO GIVE BEYOND A DIME!!!TREMENDOUSLY FUNNY

[@davestark425]

love jack

[@fromthesidelines]

Jack appeared regularly on TV from 1950 (the first season, in quarterly specials) through 1965, 'rageman'.

[@schallrd1]

Pure gold. Jack was going into pocket for change for a tip. LOL.

[@SogekingFirebirdStar]

To answer your question, Jack, I liked it very much.

[@barbaramattson817]

THE GREAT MEL BLANC DID ALL THE VOICES FOR LOONYTUNES CARTOONS.

[@rchydrozz751]

Its hard to believe that Tweety Bird and Yosemite Sam came out of the same person. Mel RIP.

[@abnowacky]

Tweety sounds a lot like Sylvester Jr. too. And even Daffy can sound like Tweety at times like when he was screaming “You cwushed my widdy head!” in “Wise Quacking Duck” (1943) He voices pretty much every main character except Elmer Fudd until 1972 when he took over that role. But yeah, Rest In Peace 😓