Captain O'Benny - Master Detective
Jack Benny · October 22, 1944 · 29 min · 3,759 words
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back ten minutes and see what happens before a radio program goes on the air. So now we take you back stage to Jack Benny's dressing room where Jack is relaxing. I sure hate to wake the boss up, but the program goes on in ten minutes.
Just look at him lying there sleeping like a baby. Yep, just like a baby. Maybe I ought to take his thumb out of his mouth again. Oh, it's him. It's him. It's him. Not heady, please.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Hedy. Stop it. Paulette, Paulette, please, you're tickling my ear. Lana, Lana, stop kissing me. You too, Hedy. Hedy, stop. Boss, boss, wake up. You went to sleep to relax.
Huh? What? Oh, it's you, Rochester. Yeah, and don't look so disappointed. What? You were tumbling your sleep again. Oh yes, yes, I, uh, I dreamt that I was making a political speech. That was a political speech?
Yes. Well, with those people on your side, you'll even carry manon from on. What are you talking about? Oh, nothing, boss. You better hurry. You haven't got too much time before the broadcast. Well, the broadcast, the broadcast, always the broadcast, like a ghost that keeps haunting me week after week.
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