Jack Benny · December 2, 1945 · 29 min · 4,033 words
The transcript of “The I Can't Stand Jack Benny Because Contest”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast December 2, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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K-F-I, Los Angeles. Spellbound. David O. Selznick presents Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in the screen's most masterful achievement in suspense. Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound. C. Spellbound today, Grouman's Chinese Low-State Fox Uptown. The Jack Benny program presented by...
L-S-M-F-T, L-S-M-F-T, L-S-M-F-T, that's right. You bet and how lucky strike means fine tobacco, so round so firm so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw. No cigarette is any better than the tobacco that's bought for it, and at market after market, I've seen lucky strike consistently by fine tobacco.
tobacco that is sweet as a nut, better aroma, thoroughly ripe and thoroughly mellow. So when it comes to my own cigarette, I naturally choose Lucky's. Yes, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco. So smoke that smoke of fine tobacco, Lucky Strike.
The Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny with Barry Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, Larry Stevens and yours truly, Don Wilson. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the star of our program, a man who has successfully run the gamut of show business from A to Z, Jack Benny.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Hello again, this is Jack Benny talking and down. That was the nicest introduction you've ever given me. And you're absolutely right. My career has covered show business from A disease.
From actor to zombie. From actor to zombie. Mary, that wasn't a nice thing to marry. What's a zombie? A zombie is a man who came to a fork in the road. He went one way and his blood went the other.
What? That's right, Jack. A zombie is a man with hollow eyes, a vacant stare. Although he's really dead, he still walks around. So that's... Mary, how many times have I told you not to mention Fred Allen on this program?
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