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Jack Benny: The Sporting Life
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Let's play ball! Or hit the track! Or roam the links! Or lace on the gloves! You name the sport, Jack Benny's a fan...and maybe even a participant! Whether he's sitting in the stands or standing in the thick of the action, it all adds up to clutch classic radio comedy! Cheer on Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Kenny Baker, and Don Wilson in 16 half hour episodes filled with equal parts rah-rah-rah and ha-ha-ha!
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Jack Benny: Tall Tales
- By: John Tackaberry, George Balzar, Milt Josefsburg, and others
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn't do, or hadn't done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to romantic lovers and back again. Here's a collection of some of Jack's most fabulous guises! Includes eight digitally restored and remastered episodes.
By: John Tackaberry, and others
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Jack Benny International
- By: Jack Benny
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Loved by millions the world over! That's Jack Benny - a man who managed to make friends in every corner of the globe (even though he never picked up the check). Here's a laughter-filled collection of Jack's international exploits, both real and imagined. From Venice to Quebec...from the Queen Mary to the Klondike...Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson are along for the ride! Are you? Passport, please!
By: Jack Benny
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Jack Benny
- Maestro
- By: Bill Morrow, John Tackaberry, Sam Perrin, and others
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
As a comic instrumentalist, sawing away week after week at his violin, Jack Benny stood as radio's reigning off-key virtuoso, producing more laughs per measure than any other comic before or since. This seven hour set of 14 digitally remastered radio episodes finds Benny and his badly squeaking bow mangling the classics and infuriating the long-suffering Professor Andre LeBlanc (Mel Blanc). He also discovers his "talent" as a songwriter - a skill every bit as highly developed as his ability with the violin.
By: Bill Morrow, and others
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Old Time Radio's Greatest Stars: Jack Benny Collection 1
- By: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Versatile actor/comedian Jack Benny had a long career (1911-1974) and was truly a star of stage, screen, and radio. Recognized as a leading 20th-century American entertainer, Benny often portrayed his character as a miser, playing violin poorly, and claiming to be no older than 39, regardless of his actual age. His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major contribution to the sitcom genre. We’ve carefully chosen 11 radio episodes starring Jack Benny from our master archives for this collection.
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The Jack Benny Program, Collection 2
- By: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Jack Benny liked to portray himself as a skinflint but his generosity as a comic allowed other characters to get their fair share of laughs...usually at his expense. Benny got more laughs playing the straight man and didn’t care if he was the butt of the jokes. With his brilliant timing, smooth delivery, and trademark mannerisms, Benny was a huge influence on the development of the radio sitcom. References to Benny’s reputed stinginess, vanity, and infirmities were expected and weekly running gags established the program’s memorable characters.
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Jack Benny: The Sporting Life
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Let's play ball! Or hit the track! Or roam the links! Or lace on the gloves! You name the sport, Jack Benny's a fan...and maybe even a participant! Whether he's sitting in the stands or standing in the thick of the action, it all adds up to clutch classic radio comedy! Cheer on Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, Kenny Baker, and Don Wilson in 16 half hour episodes filled with equal parts rah-rah-rah and ha-ha-ha!
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Jack Benny: Tall Tales
- By: John Tackaberry, George Balzar, Milt Josefsburg, and others
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
Jack Benny was a fearless combat pilot, a brilliant-but-troubled surgeon, the terror of the high seas, and the hero of every conceivable caper. There was nothing Jack Benny couldn't do, or hadn't done. To hear him tell it, anyway. The classic Benny persona fit hilariously into hundreds of ridiculous roles, from rough-and-ready adventurers to athletic heroes to romantic lovers and back again. Here's a collection of some of Jack's most fabulous guises! Includes eight digitally restored and remastered episodes.
By: John Tackaberry, and others
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Jack Benny International
- By: Jack Benny
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
Loved by millions the world over! That's Jack Benny - a man who managed to make friends in every corner of the globe (even though he never picked up the check). Here's a laughter-filled collection of Jack's international exploits, both real and imagined. From Venice to Quebec...from the Queen Mary to the Klondike...Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson are along for the ride! Are you? Passport, please!
By: Jack Benny
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Jack Benny
- Maestro
- By: Bill Morrow, John Tackaberry, Sam Perrin, and others
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Dennis Day, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 11
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
As a comic instrumentalist, sawing away week after week at his violin, Jack Benny stood as radio's reigning off-key virtuoso, producing more laughs per measure than any other comic before or since. This seven hour set of 14 digitally remastered radio episodes finds Benny and his badly squeaking bow mangling the classics and infuriating the long-suffering Professor Andre LeBlanc (Mel Blanc). He also discovers his "talent" as a songwriter - a skill every bit as highly developed as his ability with the violin.
By: Bill Morrow, and others
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Old Time Radio's Greatest Stars: Jack Benny Collection 1
- By: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Versatile actor/comedian Jack Benny had a long career (1911-1974) and was truly a star of stage, screen, and radio. Recognized as a leading 20th-century American entertainer, Benny often portrayed his character as a miser, playing violin poorly, and claiming to be no older than 39, regardless of his actual age. His radio and television programs, popular from 1932 until his death in 1974, were a major contribution to the sitcom genre. We’ve carefully chosen 11 radio episodes starring Jack Benny from our master archives for this collection.
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The Jack Benny Program, Collection 2
- By: Black Eye Entertainment
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2
Jack Benny liked to portray himself as a skinflint but his generosity as a comic allowed other characters to get their fair share of laughs...usually at his expense. Benny got more laughs playing the straight man and didn’t care if he was the butt of the jokes. With his brilliant timing, smooth delivery, and trademark mannerisms, Benny was a huge influence on the development of the radio sitcom. References to Benny’s reputed stinginess, vanity, and infirmities were expected and weekly running gags established the program’s memorable characters.
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A Jack Benny Festival
- By: Joe Bevilacqua
- Narrated by: Joe Bevilacqua
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Story0 out of 5 stars 0
A Jack Benny Festival is a hilariously historically apocryphal collection of tributes, parodies, and rarities of the world’s stingiest man—written, produced, and performed by Joe Bev. With Mary Livingston, Rochester, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Mel Blanc, Frank Nelson and the Sportsmen Quartet and special guest stars Paul Revere, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Jerry Colonna, Johnny Dollar, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bonus tracks feature remastered recordings of Benny himself.
By: Joe Bevilacqua
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Jack Benny: Fabulous 40's
- By: Jack Benny
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
It was the decade of a World War and a Cold War. It was the decade of the Zoot Suit and FDR. But most of all, it was the decade of Jack Benny! Radio's favorite comedian truly came into his own during the 1940s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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LOVE Jack Benny's radio programs!!! So funny!!
- By Goldilocks on 01-14-19
By: Jack Benny
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Jack Benny: Picture Parodies
- By: Jack Benny
- Narrated by: Jack Benny
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
Lights! Microphone! Action! Hilarious Hollywood spoofs were a beloved feature on many classic Jack Benny radio shows. Regular cast members and guest stars alike were recruited to send up cinema classics like Casablanca, High Noon, and Sunset Boulevard. Celebrities could count on large laughs - and, looking good next to Jack's lovably vainglorious and miserly self - while poking fun at their most famous films.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of Benny!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-08-20
By: Jack Benny
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Jack Benny: Drawing a Blanc
- By: Jack Benny, Mel Blanc, Mary Livingstone, and others
- Narrated by: Jack Benny
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 30
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29
A woebegone old car, a harried department store clerk, a monosyllabic man in a sombrero, and a train announcer whose line ran somewhere between Orange County and the Twilight Zone are all memorable characters from The Jack Benny Program, and all the products of a single talented throat: Mel Blanc. "The Man of a Thousand Voices" was Carmichael the Polar Bear, who lived improbably in Jack's cellar.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple review
- By Leanna on 08-21-19
By: Jack Benny, and others
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Jack Benny and Friends
- By: Jack Benny
- Narrated by: Dorothy Lamour, Tony Curtis, Groucho Marx, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story5 out of 5 stars 11
Jack Benny - he's your friend, my friend, and everyone's friend besides! He's always got his tried and true gang to pal around with, too, but that's not all! Throughout the 1940s and '50s, buddies from Burns & Allen to Bogie & Bacall came to play on his program. There were hilarious guest appearances by kings of comedy (Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, and Red Skelton) and queens of the screen (Rita Hayworth, Barbara Stanwyck, and Dorothy Lamour).
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5 out of 5 stars
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Only listen if you want to laugh
- By Francesca on 08-21-16
By: Jack Benny
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Jack Benny: Silly Skits
- By: Original Radio Broadcast
- Narrated by: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Here comes “This Week’s Play” with Jack Benny and all the gang! Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day, and Don Wilson all play their parts in parodies of Hollywood movies, wild Westerns, murder mysteries, and more. Kick back with 16 satirical skits in this collection of classics from the 1940s and 1950s, featuring guest appearances by Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Levant, Charles Farrell, Sam Goldwyn, Frank Sinatra, and George Jessel!
Publisher's Summary
Digitally restored and remastered, this collection showcases Jack Benny's comedic talents and illustrates why many consider his humor to be legendary. Episodes Include: "Little Red Riding Hood" (12-19-37); "Pinocchio" (03-31-40); "Bob Hope Show Parody" (04-23-44); "The Fiddler" (10-20-46); "Sorry, Wrong Number" (10-17-48); and "Jack and the Bean Stock" (07-25-54).
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- 12-27-11
Hardcore Jack Benny fans may like, but...
What would have made Jack Benny Spoofs better?
Funnier writing. Some Jack Benny programs are full of fun and laughs; these shows are not. There's not much wit here.
Has Jack Benny Spoofs turned you off from other books in this genre?
I will be careful which Jack Benny
Would you be willing to try another one of the narrators???s performances?
Yes
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Jack Benny Spoofs?
Pretty much all of it. There's little wit, the live audience on the soundtrack doesn't seem to know if and when to laugh.
Any additional comments?
Jack Benny shows vary in quality. These shows are at the lower end. Insults are too direct, gags are cliche'-ridden, there's not too much inspired comedy here.
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