According to PW, "The daughter's sensibilities, at least as expressed here, contrast sharply with the father's bighearted outlook on life." Photos.Ĭopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. Here, in what PW termed an "entertaining and moving" manner, he reveals the secrets of his tremendous appeal as his daughter supplements the text with accounts of the family's home life.
We’ve done previous marathons of Jack Benny as well that were not tied to anniversaries, like for New Year’s Eve.Comedian Benny left behind his unpublished autobiography when he died at age 80 in 1974. So, it only made sense when the 70 th anniversary of its television premiere came up, we recognized it. It’s among the classic black and white nostalgia shows our viewers really like. And certainly the older viewers who remember Jack from radio or the TV show, long for seeing that again.” Jack Benny at his childhood home.Īs to the decision to air a recent marathon, he notes, “ The Jack Benny Program has been a big part of AntennaTV’s success in its 10 years. Jack’s pauses and glares at the camera almost lasted that long! But I think because of his different and original style, it still holds up. I’ve heard sitcom creator Chuck Lorre’s rule is to get a joke/laugh in about every 20 seconds. I don’t think a comedian today on TV could get away with Jack’s long comedic pauses and survive in our short-attention-span world. He came across as being a really nice person.” THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM, Jack Benny, 1950-1965Įlaborating on that, Tom Vodick, creative director at AntennaTV, emphasizes, “There is only one Jack. People knew that he was a nice man under whatever it was he was playing. People identified with that and they also knew in spite of his character, he only played being cheap. The miser, the somewhat pompous, somewhat put upon guy - all the things that he was on that show, he said was a reflection of the population in general.
He said in an interview that he had all the foibles that normal people have and they identified with him. Jack Benny, Eddie Anderson as Rochester on CBS Radio Network, 1951
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