With the U.S. spending billions for defense, radio last week dedicated a great deal of time and money for tribute. The occasion was the start of the tenth year of big-time broadcasting for ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. "Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and ...

When people remember Jack Benny today, they usually think of the comic persona that made him one of the biggest stars of American entertainment: the eternally 39-year-old skinflint whose violin ...

Originally broadcast on radio, 1938-1957. Compact discs. "Digitally restored & remastered." Program notes by Anthony Tollin, with foreword by Irving A. Fein, and bibliography (50 p. : ill. ; 13 x 14 ...

The Jack Benny Program (1950) is a popular radio and television comedy series. The program originally aired on radio from 1932 to 1955 and on television from 1950 to 1965, spanning more than thirty ...

Welcome to our Fall Comedy Reads series, where we take a closer look at some of the newly released comedy-related books worth checking out this month. In 1937, while visiting Los Angeles, British ...

Carl Amari and Lisa Wolf bring you the best from the Golden Age of Radio on the WGN Radio Theatre on January 13, 2019. Our first classic episode of the night is: “The Six-Shooter: The Revenge of ...

In the spirited contest for most popular U. S. radio performer, Comedian Jack Benny has since October 1937 run a close second to a perverse but inanimate object —the saucy ventriloquist’s dummy known ...

Jack Benny is the man who made Rochester famous. Well, in reality, Benny made “Rochester” famous. “Rochester van Jones” was the name of Benny’s fictional Black valet for nearly 30 years on the popular ...