Stupid Potato

Transcripts › Jack Benny

gets held up - the $85,000 bet

Jack Benny · October 28, 1945 · 29 min · 3,393 words

The transcript of “gets held up - the $85,000 bet”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast October 28, 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.

Machine transcript (may contain errors).

Transcript

The Jack Benny program To the commitment to a sense Yes, Sir. Lucky Strike means fine tobacco So free and easy on the draw Well, Lucky Strike means fine tobacco The finer, the lighter, the naturally milder Lucky Strike tobacco.

Year after year, the makers of Lucky Strike consistently select and buy this fine Lucky Strike tobacco to give you real deep down smoking enjoyment. Remember, in a cigarette, it's the tobacco that counts. And Lucky Strike means fine tobacco.

So smoke that smoke, a fine tobacco Lucky Strike. So round, so firm, so fully packed. So free and easy on the draw. and five thousand dollars on the winter challenge me

thought i would like to take you back about six days It's Monday afternoon, Jack is in the library of his home, talking with his press agent, Steve Bradley. But Steve, I don't know what do you...

I'm telling you, Benny, if you don't go for this publicity stunt, you want to have your head examined. All right, all right, Steve. What is it? Quiet, Polly. Steve, what is it? I'm just going to be slapped on the front page of every newspaper in the country by tomorrow afternoon.

The whole world will be talking about Jack, Benny. Why, you couldn't have gotten this much publicity if you had married Margaret O'Brien. All right, Steve, tell me. What is this big o... Hello, hello, hello.

Holly, quiet. Steve, you haven't told me what this is all about for heaven's sake. What is this big story? Baby, this is so big, it's even too big for me to tell you. What time is it?

4.30. 4.30, turn on that radio. First Ken Johnson's on. I gave him the story and I think he's gonna break it today. Turn on the radio, Rochester. Yes, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Earth's Ken Johnson in Hollywood.

Read the full transcript with Potato Plus

75 more paragraphs, about 27 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.

Potato Plus opens soon: join the list

All Jack Benny transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive