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How The Gang Spent Thanksgiving

Jack Benny · November 28, 1948 · 29 min · 3,745 words

The transcript of “How The Gang Spent Thanksgiving”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast November 28, 1948. 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 Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Rochester, understand you're truly gone well ladies and gentlemen last Thursday was thanksgiving so let's go back and show you how jack benny's gang spent the day our scene opens in jack's home in Beverly Hills nine and day I am the one

thanksgiving comes and goes but I'm never done Rochester I'm working all the time I'm nothing but a one man assembly line Not in the day. Rochester. Hey, my. Al Charles. I've got to be on one knee.

I'm scrubbing the floor. Rochester, you've been singing all day today. Well, I'm happy, boss. Here it is Thanksgiving. I could have been born to Turkey. Oh, you wouldn't have liked that, huh? No, I couldn't stand being an oven, almond, dressing people peeping in at me here a few minutes.

Oh. And when you ain't got no head, you can't tell them to close the door. I know. I know. Say Rochester, I'm going to miss Livingston's house for a Thanksgiving party. So will you help me get dressed?

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