jack benny

     

He celebrated his 39th birthday 41 times

Trivia about jack benny

  • Eddie Anderson said of him in character, "If he can't take it with him, he ain't gonna go"
  • This popular radio & TV comedian began in vaudeville at the age of 17 as a violinist
  • Marilyn Monroe made her major TV debut in 1953 on this "stingy" comedian's TV show
  • Master of the pause followed by "Now cut that out!"
  • Born in 1894, he grew up in Waukegan, Illinois, where he took violin lessons as a child
  • In the fall of 1953 Marilyn made her TV debut on this "stingy" comedian's program
  • In 1995 Grammer hosted a TV tribute to one of his heroes, this violin-playing comedian
  • This skinflint comedian played Ralph & Alice Kramden's landlord on 1 episode of "The Honeymooners"
  • Don Wilson was this comedian's announcer for his entire 15-year run on television
  • "Now cut that out!"
  • Born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan in 1894, married "Mary" in 1927, turned 39 in 1933, 1934, 1935....
  • On Sept. 13, 1953 Marilyn Monroe made her network TV debut on this stingy comedian's program
  • He's the tightwad comedian heard here in the golden days of radio
  • In 1950 this comedian brought his radio program to TV along with Rochester & announcer Don Wilson
  • To Rochester: "Now cut that out!"
  • (Hi, I'm Harry Shearer.) Rochester! Did you know that in 1953 I played this comic as a boy on his self-titled TV "Program"?