Mother's Day gags: Jack Benny (May 14, 1950)

“Mother's Day gags” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 14, 1950. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

On Mother's Day, Jack Benny hosts his cast on the radio program, and the group trades jokes and banter as the broadcast unfolds. Dennis Day, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Don Wilson join the good-natured teasing, and a series of visitors drops in during the show. Among them is a man named Savoni, who asks for money. The episode, from the Jack Benny series, aired on May 14, 1950, with Benny in the lead alongside Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris.

A radio studio during a Mother's Day broadcast of the Jack Benny program.

Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Vivian Blaine, Mr. Hawkins

Listen for: Dennis Day's Mother's Day song and the running gags about Jack Benny's cast and visitors.

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.