What happens
Jack Benny, playing himself on his radio program, talks with Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day and Phil Harris about his new motion picture, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, with Carole Lombard as his leading lady. The banter turns to Benny's tailoring from his father's store, his Hollywood reputation, and Dennis Day's claims about a girl he dates. Benny receives a phone call from Mel Blanc with a joke for Phil Harris, and the show includes a song by Dennis Day and a commercial for Jell-O. The episode aired on November 9, 1941, on NBC.
A radio studio during a live broadcast of the Jack Benny program, with the cast trading jokes at the microphone and Benny's household staff heard by phone.
Characters: Jack Benny, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Rochester, Eddie Anderson
Listen for: The running gag about how many hairs are on a monkey's face, and Benny's mix-up over the Dodgers manager Leo Durocher's visit.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.