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The Big Game

Jack Benny · December 5, 1937 · 29 min · 3,802 words

The transcript of “The Big Game”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast December 5, 1937. 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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The JLLO program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston and Phil Harris in his orchestra. The orchestra opens the program with Overnight from Thin Ice. The right dinner can make a success of almost any day and the right dessert can make a success of any dinner.

And I believe the right dessert is JLLO, where everybody likes JLLO is so attractive, so tempting, so downright delicious. So the gelatin dessert brings you Jell-O's extra-rich fruit flavor. No other can top it for bright, luscious colors and rich, satisfying fruit goodness.

And you can serve Jell-O in so many different ways. Serve it plain, a glowing mold of colorful Jell-O decorated with fluffy whipped cream. Or use one of the attractive recipes which are on every Jell-O package.

They're all easy to make and inexpensive, and you'll like them. Just be sure to get genuine Jell-O, for there is only one Jell-O. with all the big red letters on the box. They spell jello.

That was overnight from thin ice played by Phil Harris and his horse. For now, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you a rag, a bone, and a hank of gray hair. Jack Benny. Well, you know again, this is Jack Benny, the silver fox talking.

And Don, that was a nice literary introduction you gave me. I didn't know you were so familiar with Shakespeare. Why Shakespeare didn't write that to Jack, you know, a rag of bone? Jack, the name, Don.

Well anyway Shakespeare didn't write it Jack you know a rag a bowl and a hank of hair was written by Rudyard Kipling. Oh did Kipling whip that one up? Yes but adding the word grey was my own idea. Well ain't you the one. But I didn't mind that done I'm quite proud of

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