Jack Benny · December 5, 1954 · 28 min · 3,825 words
The transcript of “buys oil paints for Don for Christmas”, an episode of Jack Benny first broadcast December 5, 1954. 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 Jack Benny program transcribed and presented by Lucky Strike, the cigarette that's toasted to taste better. If you want better taste from your cigarette, Lucky Strike is the brand to get. It's toasted to give you the best taste yet. It's the toasted cigarette.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the middle of the Christmas shopping season, and as usual, Jack is going to his favorite department store to purchase gifts for his gang. But before we go Christmas shopping, I'd like to take you to a modest little home in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The home belongs to a department store salesman and his wife.
It's five o'clock in the morning. You were having a bad dream. Oh yeah, that same night, May. I always have it this time of year, Beatrice. About that blue-eyed old man that comes to the store for his Christmas show.
Yeah, all he did this dream was worse. I looked at his hands and instead of fingers he had shoelaces. On one hand the fingernails were plastic tips and on the other hand was metal tips. Why do I always have to dream about him?
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