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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jack Benny was a regular on his own radio program since 1932. He brought the program, with his underplayed humor, to television along with his radio regulars. Jack, who remained thirty-nine-years-old, ...

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 ...

One of the favorite radio programs my dad, aunts, uncles and grandparents enjoyed while growing up in the 1930s on the family farm was the ever-exasperated comedian Jack Benny’s show. Forever fibbing ...

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 ...