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Gets Mad And Goes Home

Jack Benny · December 3, 1944 · 29 min · 3,876 words

The transcript of “Gets Mad And Goes Home”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast December 3, 1944. 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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And now, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you a man whose name for years has been the epitome of show business. A man who went from Walkiegan to Vaudeville. From Vaudeville to radio. From Broadway to pictures.

From pictures to Broadway. And now, since he has no place else to go, would you please let him come into your home for just a half hour? Thank you. Jack Benny! Thank you. Thank you.

Well, again, this is Jack Benny talking, and kids, you're absolutely right. I have been in show business a long time. When I was playing the Palace Theater in New York, Nelson Eddie didn't even have the recipe for short-term bread.

In fact, when I first started in show business, Charlie McCarthy was taking his physical to get into Sequoia. Why was in front of an audience? I was in front of an audience. Hey, wait a minute Jackson, don't overdo it.

If you want to know something, I was in show business before you was. What? I was in front of an audience when I was two days old. Two days old? Phil, that's ridiculous. Certainly, what could you do when you were two days old?

I don't know, but people kept paying admission to see me. Oh, Phil. Stop making up such nonsense. I ain't making nothing up. I was a NICU baby baiter. You're what? Oh, I mean I was a NICU baiter baby.

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