Jack Benny liked to portray himself being a skinflint but his generosity like a comic allowed various other characters to obtain fair talk about of laughs … usually in his expenditure. Benny got even more laughs playing the right guy and didn’t care if he was the butt from the jokes. With his brilliant timing, even delivery, and brand mannerisms, Benny was a huge influence for the advancement of the air sitcom. Recommendations to Benny’s reputed stinginess, vanity, and infirmities were expected and every week running about The Jack port Benny Plan, Collection 2 gags set up the plan’s memorable individuals. Benny’s real wife, Mary, was his sarcastic woman friend; Phil Harris, the brash bandleader, Dennis Day the willing juvenile, Rochester the lovable butler and Don Wilson, the over weight announcer. Jack got his big break like a visitor on The Ed Sullivan Radio Present in 1932 and was quickly signed to his own show. Highlights included the long-running feud with fellow comedian Fred Allen, gags featuring a pet polar keep, and materials about Jack port’s run-down Maxwell jalopy. He insisted he was hardly ever over the age of 39, was a skinflint, and got difficulty playing “Appreciate in Bloom” on his violin. A normal performer for more than 2 decades on radio, Jack made a smooth transition to tv. 5/29/49 “Guest: Margaret Whiting”

9/25/49 “Guests: Edgar Bergan, Red Skelton and Amos N’ Andy”

3/12/50 “Jack port wins the Sagebrush Soap Contest”

3/19/50 ”Solid Does a Sketch on ‘The Champ’”

5/14/50 “Guests: Frankie Fontaine and Vivian Blaine”

5/27/51 “Jack Goes to the Doctor and Solid Unhappy with Contracts”

4/26/53 “Guest: Fred Allen and Memories about Vaudeville”

11/15/53 “The Ensemble is Rehearsing for Jack’s TV show”

1/24/54 “The Solid Presents ‘The Firing of Dan McGrew’”

6/6/54 “The Last Display of the Season and Jack port is off to Dallas”

3/6/55 “Guest: Danny Kaye and Warner Brothers plans ‘The Jack port Benny Tale’”

4/24/55 “Jack port Rents His Maxwell to 20th Century Fox to Use inside a Movie”