Jack Benny Program: Jack at the Supermarket
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2011
- Rochester beat Jack in gin rummy and has taken the afternoon off to play golf, leaving Jack stuck with the household chores. Jack finds out how Rochester cheated and uses it to his advantage. Don Wilson and Dennis Day come to visit, and Dennis sings a song.
Jack leaves for the supermarket, where he encounters Frank Nelson as a salesman. Jack's stingy stage character is shown when he sees a table of free samples of cake. - Komedie
This show is a time capsule, giving us a look at what a grocery store was like in those days. Clerks ready to help customers, a pay phone on the wall, trading stamps, an in-store butcher, a spring-driven scale, one central cash register, and the low prices are all things of the past.
The low prices weren’t really that cheap, you have to figure in how much you were paid then compared to what things cost! Some things are technically cheaper now!
And no face masks.
In Woodside, Queens in NYC in the 1960s There was a grocery store with only 2 cash registers with a moving roll belt to put groceries on it was 5 blocks away from the Long Island Railroad station and sevrd everyone in the neighborhood.
I can remember when supermarkets were like they were here. In addition, you also had the kids working there who not only bagged your groceries, but would actually carry them out to your car if you wished! The cashiers were almost always middle aged women who had been there for years and would hit those buttons SO hard on those mechanical cash registers. And they never seemed to look at the keys, just the price stickers on the items you were buying because they knew where every key was on the register! And the trading stamps as well. Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps! My parents used to paste them in books!
I sure do miss those days. Now in declining health if I ask for help in the supermarket its usually 'I dunno I'm new here' or 'this isn't my section!' And if you complain to the manager, they attack YOU and protect the employee!
Don't forget the "Hours of Operation" sign: 8am. to 5pm.
People budgeted their time far better back in the day, it would seem, with those hours.
There have been very few comedians with Benny's willingness to be so self deprecating or to let his supporting cast get the laughs rather than his character.
That is so true! When you think how many violinists were on the show and Jack always let them shine while he comes off as a horrible violinist but was an absolute master!
When I see Jack Benny with his subtle, self-deprecating humor, I know everything's all right.
Over 65 years later, still timelessly funny!
"Pardon me but where is the corn department?" "I'm looking at it". Hilarious.
Jack Benny is Immortal
I love Jack Benny. His long reactions always crack me up.
Hello Anna, How are you doing?
You can always tell the early TV shows' debt to radio. Characters will sometimes narrate what they're doing or describe what they're seeing, the way Jack does at a number of points in this episode.
"Oh, there's the phone over there." That sort of thing.
Frank nelson was so underrated.He was hilarious.
12:18 YEEEEESSSS
Frank Nelson will always be one of the Greatest Actors of all time
@@jonathanclary3992 I still hear people trying to imitate Nelson's style and voice. 😅
I always love the long applause when Rochester appears. Everyone loves Rochester! And boy, did he stick it to Big Ben this time. XD
The exchange with Tommy, the boy, demonstrates the true genius of Jack Benny and his writers
I suddenly remembered "eeeeYESSS?" this morning and HAD to hear it, knowing only it was an unctuous sarcastic smiling man on the Jack Benny show and that was it - SO glad THIS was the first episode to come up in my search so I could hear/see "eeeYESSS" and have since learned about Frank Nelson and his role in comedy. Bless him and his characterizations!
Bravo to the writers and Jack Benny!! ❤️
That bit about the aisle between g and i made me laugh out loud. 😅
I was born in 1947...I LOVE JACK BENNY!!!! and its so great to watch him on CZcams.
I love Jack Benny. I was born in 1962 but my viewing preference is circa 1930 to 1965.
Born 1960 Same Years only
Good taste.
I was born 1992, mine is mid 50s to mid 60s
1963 for me.
When I was a kid I knew I was born to late. 50 years later, and I know what I knew then was true!!
You are very wise in your taste! The golden age of hollywood.
over 55 years and still hilarious
Simple humor that will always be funny. Jack Benny , what a sweet man.
Now 60+ and STILL hilarious. I think Jack's comedy is ETERNAL!
Year 9999: almost everyone: oh! Time to post more jack benny!
Frank Nelson was always delightfully droll and sarcastic!!!!!!!!!
The world was blessed to have entertainment like this. Brings back memories to me when I was a kid watching the show.
When the shopping cart just rolls out after Jack was all prepared to struggle with it again, is one of the small things on his show that were so funny!
Joe Postove "Would you mind?" @ 11:20 LMAO X-D
Watched that part as I read this. Lol
The stuck shopping cart lives on even today , 2022. LOL !!!.
This is comedy. Take note. It will last forever because it's hysterically FUNNY. Benny was a genius.
How have I never heard of Jack Benny until now? This show is awesome.
Hopefully you've found his radio performances.
He was around since the 1920s
You never heard of Jack Benny? DUDE! The guy is like a national treasure! That's like saying you never heard of people like Orson Welles or Johnny Carson or Betty White or people on that level! I remember when he was still alive and doing the occasional television special. He usually always had his best friend George Burns on his specials. I hope you at least have heard of George Burns!
You're too young to remember.
@@jazzbo13💯
The Jack Benny Show is the Best! Love all the actors in the cast!
The "free cake" skit still cracks me up - this episode is a riot!
Frank Nelson AND Benny Rubin in the same sketch! Wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SymphonyBrahms Yes!
Can we add Mel Blanc at 23:10?
Sure sounded like him barking.
Ah, Trading stamps! I still remember my mother making me paste all those stamps into books. I'm sure most people today watching this episode has no idea what wonderful things you could find in an S&H Greenstamp book!
I remember Plaid stamps, (A&P), Blue stamps, (Grand Union), Green stamps, (Acme) Those were the days.
There was an S&H redemption center near where I live up until 35 years ago. It sounds like it's a long time in the past but I remember clearly going with my wife to get the Tiffany-style lamp she had been saving for since mid-1983. We'd gotten a few other items, beach ⛱ chairs and a folding table in the years since we'd been married in 1976. The physical building is still there and I will notice it sometimes.
But their free catalogs, month by month, and year by year, always offered the same things all the time, hardly any variety. I had to go to the White Front store to get clothes for my Barbie (I called her Barbette ) Francine, and Skipper in 1970. For my Ken ( Kevin Twinkle) doll I got him a suit and a golf bag - all clothes sold separately .
@@danielklein9855 Top Value stamps
Look at them stamp lickers, ain’t they champs?
Drool, slurp, slobber...licking them stamps.
Licking them green stamps, licking them blue
Eating that paper, licking that glue!
Them Lully-guggle stamp lickers ain’t they a rage?
Putting them sticky stamps on that page.
Wanna be a stamp licker, don’t need a ticket...
Get yourself a stamp, juice up & lick it!!
- Mason Williams
I love Jack and the way he handled certain things. It's probably no wonder why his show lasted so long, he was able to identify with the public.
I love the Jack Benny Show, and this is one of the very best!
Jack - " How long have you been playing the violin ? "
Kid - " Two years "
Jack - " Do you play like me ? "
Kid - " I used to. "
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@@stuart2010ification it's gone
The Yeeeeesss guy is the great Frank Nelson
Funny funny man .
Frank Nelson always adds a wonderful extra zip to everything he's ever starred in. Jack Benny is Stellar, as always in this episode. EVERY Show of Jack's was great. PERFECT. RIP Mr. B. xxxxxxxx
TheInvincibleViolet Omg My faves are Jack Mel Blanc and Frank Nelson! he's way too hysterical!
Frank Nelson : one of the funniest yet underrated comedian during that era.
There was only one Jack Benny. Its nice the shows can be seen on the web. For the folks to young to remember, Mr. Benny, was a real Hollywood star.
@jacke sutton pilsner coltrane Copy that, forever, in this, the 125th anniversary of his birth, and the 45th anniversary of his passing.
@@juliaflo3172 what 125th he is only 39
And a real gentleman. Loved his relationship with Rochester outside of the show.
I was born in 1977 never knew about Jack Benny Burns and Allen and many older shows music etc. Thanks for the downloads on CZcams I get to see god quality Tv good clean fun
@@nm202 When he made appearances on the Tonight Show, Jack Benny was afraid that Fred Allen was being forgotten - there were two or three different times he would ask the audience, "Do you remember Fred Allen?" And at least half of the audience was applauding for him, now people are forgetting Jack? In the late 1970s, a radio station was still playing reruns of those early Jack Benny shows ...
Born August 4, 1933 and remember many of those radio shows. George and Gracie and Mr. Benny were my parents favorites. I liked the Adventure of Sam Spade, Jerry of the Circus, and so many more. But we listened to what pops had on. I feel that TV and the internet has killed all pure imagination. The days when salt and pepper, and perhaps tobasco were the condiments to adorn the table with, along with a butter dish, sugar bowl and creamer.
I sure do miss the talent we used to have. The programming, the personalities, the writers and scripts just don't exist anymore.
werksdesign Who writes the junk comedy shows and lousy boring movies today omg???
Mr.JoeIM, I do too. We have very few nowadays but with the way OUR COUNTRY and society/mobs whin and pitch their fits over the disease of “politico correctness mobs” and the “cancel culture mobs”, our CLEAN, DECENT, FUNNY comedians, script writers, cower to these black hearted evil mobs. I, listening eyes, am thrilled to admit that I have NOT one speck of that disease of “political correctness OR cancel culture” in me. You don’t like it, DEAL WITH IT😊. wado, listening eyes.
What I love about Jack Benny is that he would do ANYTHING for a laugh. Dennis was incredible in this show, as always.
Jack could do anything and be anything. His natural talent and Vaudeville experience helped to make him a legend.
Jack and Rochester were a great pair.
The Jack Benny show was great.
There is no comparison of the shows of today.
It proves that comedians don't have to be raunchy and rude to be funny.
Shows like this and all others of that same era are good clean fun and I prefer over anything on today.
It is 2019 and Jack's reactions to Frank Nelson still crack me up....
Now it's 2022 and this show, these jokes, Jack Benny and all the other actors, their humor and jokes are still fresh and funny 😘❤️
I am looking at this in 2022 and it is still funny.
Jack is so cheap! I love it!
That what makes jack benny's funny. He's cheap.
Jack Benny was the biggest star in the history of radio. TV, movies, vaudeville- he was a star in all of them.
He also has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for each.
Like Will Rogers was a big personality of the Rodeo, Stage, Lecture, Film, Radio and Newspapers.
Lena Horne has two stars. She was miserable being the first black woman and very lonely.
William Anderson Bob Hope
I loved watching reruns of this with my mom
LMAO! I knew Frank Nelson would be somewhere in this program. He is such a riot and is always harassing Jack Benny.
Chad Quick they should have put in Mel blanc too omg!
Jack: "Where's the corn department?". Frank: "I'm looking at it". That guy was awesome. Yeeesss? Yeeessss!
indeed he celebrated his 39th bday 41 times
This is the greatest show ever.
I like when Don kicks his foot when he's mad. So funny!
This is still hysterically funny after almost 60 years! Thanks so much for posting!!!
I remember one radio show, Rochester got caught denting cans with a hammer, so they could get them at a reduction; it went ok, then he tried to dent a bottle of milk lol
do you wear a chinese kimono when you play cards
TheProtigiousNerd TV
no, a bunnyhug. it works.
TheProtigiousNerd TV
or cleavage works lol (you can distract AND hide your cards!!) (only works on SOME girls, tho!)
Gravydog316 Omg Rochester's a riot too!
TheProtigiousNerd TV Yes
The first time I saw this episode, the moment Jack stared at the FREE sign, I just exploded with laughter. Only Jack could do a joke like that.
Frank Nelson's character is great!
Yyyyeeeessss
frank nelson....one of the funniest
Larry David clearly inspired by Jack Benny. Both the best!
Yeeeeeeeesssss
I love Jack Benny and I'm only 27!
When Frank implied that Jack go to " H " was another one of many hilarious bits.
omg he's nuts! I adore him! I love how he sometimes cracksup! look at Don now too! they're all nuts
Hello Sandra, How are you doing?
THANK YOU for uploading this. LAUGHED a LOT! Those were much better days in the U.S.
Pre-misery you mean....
Frank Nelson at 16:37 : "YYYYEEEEESSSSS!!!! Oh, it's you again!" Really is funny, can't get over how much he resembles another one of Jack's supporting players, Mel Blanc, the very same voice behind most of the Looney Tunes characters, and who's also in a sketch with Jack, as the Mexican: "Si (yes)." "What's your name?" "Sigh" (short for Simon) LOL
Benny Rubin was always so funny whenever he was in a sketch. Great cast so good
vic vega Benny Rubin's the bus driver on I love Lucy's The Tour! he looks sounds and acts just like Mel Blanc! wait til u see!
It's 2023 and that is still the experience everyone has with getting shopping carts stuck.
I loved this show. I went through a phase around like... 3 years ago when I was obsessed with all things Jack Benny. I'm also a violinist so I thought it was so cool that he played too.
I read about 3 books on him, I was so obsessed, I always look back and never not laugh at his antics and everything. ^_^
Allyson Andrews When I turned 39, I declared it my: "Jack Benny Year". 2 years on, and I'm still 39 ... that's right, 39. ;)
+jazzpoet1974 lol. I'm 20... I mean... 19. 19 is funnier than 20.
I'm.....20.5
Allyson Andrews
lol me too! when's your bday?? mine's 09-19-95
+Sarah Brandy Peters (Gravydog316) I was born in '72, the 12th of December :)
You know that the show is going to be even funnier when Frank Nelson appears! lol I love Jack Benny!
Excellent episode of the Jack Benny Show !
Well done Jack Benny.
I love these old shows! I am glad I get to learn about them today through youtube.
I can see why Kelsey grammer and johnny carson so loved him
FREE You know he is going to do it, yet it's the funniest part.
Michael Hartman Funny how the whole cast is crazy funny lol!!!
"Hey, mister, where do I get the frozen foods?"
"Go to the shelf between G and I."
"That's the silli... why didn't you just tell me to go to H?"
"Remember, you said it, I didn't!!"
+MarjaMariachi call me stupid, but I dont get it..
CLASSIC, LOL X-D
+MichaelcohenLyingPOS I was born in '72 but I, myself, still get it: Frank Nelson was just giving Jack a hard time, that's all. Still pretty dead-on hilarious in my book :)
+MichaelcohenLyingPOS Actually, I'm not too big on the Marx Bros., but I DO love Popeye, Betty Boop, Munsters, Addams Family, AND especially Looney Tunes and Carol Burnett. In fact, I don't know exactly when it was, but when I was growing up, I do remember Jack, with his wife Mary, Rochester, and Don Wilson, as these cartoon mice in a 1959 Looney Tunes short called "The Mouse that Jack Built". By the end of that episode, Jack wakes up in a live-action sequence and realizes it was all just a dream, LOL It is SO funny if you saw it :)
+MichaelcohenLyingPOS I like You Bet Your Life, but the Marx movies are just ok, imo. I'm more of a 3 Stooges chick. (even if my dad & brothers think they are juvenile ha ha)
Reasons I love Jack:
1. He never was older than 39.
2. His relationship with Don, Rochester and Mary are classic.
3. He played a nifty violin.
4. A car named Maxwell?
5. Guest Stars legendary.
I agree and it's good to be able to see this and many other shows... Good clean fun
lol @ 5:55: "You cheated!" "Don't be a sore loser!"
I had forgotten they used to have to weigh and price the produce at the store. I loved the smell of the fresh ground coffee. Jack was great.
This is one of the funniest Jack Benny Program shows I've ever seen. Thanks much for sharing it with us.
Jack Benny he was so,funny ..👍
Hello Mary, How are you doing?
This is so witty ! Really funny! Valuable lessons for today's comedy writers!
kathy O'Neill The funny thing is the whole cast is a riot not like today's crap dorky comedy shows! sNL Roseanne Kevin can wait Man with a Plan and all the rest! Pew
@@sandralee9155 Not to offend anybody reading this, but you might want to include both Will and Grace and Nickelodeon's Henry Danger to that list. Say on Will and Grace for instance, they're all going into a department store and one of them goes, "Oh I just couldn't get enough of the farty smell of towels!" when checking out the bath towels. OMG, like who cares???? I sometimes notice THE EXACT SAME THING on my own towels when I'm done taking a bath, but why make light out something that's so gross???? (And, for the record, it isn't at all a question of being politically correct neither on my part here. It's just downright gross. Plus, it's one thing not to take yourself so seriously when being politically incorrect, but taking it to extremes is getting to be way too much in today's society nowadays.)
And on Henry Danger, which I just happened to catch bits-n-pieces of a recent episode my 10-y.o. cousin was watching, it shows Kid Danger and Captain Man taking on some goofy, off-the-wall villain called "the Playground Pooper". OH MY GOD, HAVE THEY TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY LOST THEIR MINDS AT NICKELODEON???? It's not at all a question of political correctness here, but do they honestly expect little kids to fully understand the limits of free speech???? (And there's absolutely no need to go on kid gloves here, neither. Nobody wants clean-cut entertainment anymore. Nowadays, It just gets misconstrued and dragged down as being PC way too much, when that's not even at all the case, neither. The people at Nickelodeon and behind that show are total idiots, PERIOD.)
Unfortunately, today's writers think they're just fine. They'd never get it watching this. And the crap will continue.
He just took all of the cake 🎂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Just reading your comment made me laugh.😅😂
Love to this day the Jack Benny Show w Rochester n Dennis Day!!! It brings me a blast from the past on two levels-1) I actually remember when grocery stores looked like that, and 2) I had a red n yellow plastic grocery store set up table size for my Barbie Dolls n it also had that same style of shelves, cash register, products n carts!!! Thanks for the afternoon of fun!!!
"Where's the corn department?"
*"I'M LOOKING AT IT."*
I just love Frank Nelson. XD
Norman Abbott, the director of this JB show and nephew of Bud Abbott JUST died on July 9, 2016, two days short of his 94th birthday! He must nearly be the last adult link to the show, I would think?
Joe Postove I don't know, but Ann-Margret probably is. She guested on the show either in '63 or '64, even if she wasn't a series regular. Everyone else, sad to say, is gone.
Oops, and I forgot to mention, so is Carol Burnett. I just saw the episode showing her and Jack where they fantasize they're Jane and Tarzan. And boy, can she belt it out with that Tarzan yell like you wouldn't believe, Jack can't come any where as close 😀😁😃😄
@@NeluThat70sKid Where ya been the last three years, Kid? 😎😎😎😎
@@MrJoeybabe25 Waiting for Jack's show to come out on DVD, so I wouldn't take up too much space on my TiVO with reruns of his show, along with Munsters, the Carol Burnett Show, Laugh-In, and other classic old-school goodies from that era. Really can't help it if I'm a day late and a dollar short if that's what you're wondering.
@@NeluThat70sKid It is really a crime that Jack Benny is not on DVD. Was there a more important comedic figure in the 20th Century.
How soon we forget. 😣
Great fun from 1961! This episode originally aired on January 22 in that year, and I watched it on January 25, 2023 - just over 61 years later. The humor is clean and timeless!
Never really seen much TV from this time period. This was a lot funnier than I expected it to be.
One only Jack.There will never another Jack. He was on radio for many years then he got this TV program. Love ya Jack❤
Hello Theresa, How are you doing?
Entirely original and fresh every week! Best shows ever
Hello Catherine, How are you doing?
I have a confession... Sometimes I randomly yell "Rochester!". My family thinks I'm crazy. :P
Arabella Dawn I think you’re awesome.
Yes,Boss?
Hello Rebecca, How are you doing?
Miss OR Mrs. J Bastian, Eddie”Rochester” Anderson, Dennis Day and Phil Harris made the Jack Benny Radio Show funnier, they added to the humor😊. Just as Eddie “Rochester” Anderson and Dennis Day added more humor to Jack’s Television Shows😊.
It is a great name for a dog, so at least someone would come running when you call.
love this episode
njtom07974 my fave
Rochester...the dude was AMAZING! And look at Jack! That outfit predates Carol Burnett by YEARS!
I loved the episode on Burns and Allen, where Jack Benny stole George joke. In the skit George got so mad at Jack😍😁🤣
That's a great one.
Hello Jenny. I love everything Jack Benny. ❤ thank you for sharing 🙏🎉❤
Good TV... Good entertainment! I love Jack Benny the whole cast. I even listen to the radio shows on a Sunday evening program called the
Watching this program, helps one laugh 😆 during these troubled times 😷.
Just watched this episode for the first time this morning on Antenna TV hilarious
5pounds of apples 25 cents! My Lord. I remember days like that growing up. I'm not that old but I do remember produce being very cheap.
Frank Nelson cracks me up.
Jack Benny always great always funny rip to an all time legend
Love anne
The days of 50s sitcoms are long gone but thanks to the Internet and antenna tv they will live on forever lots of love anne ox
One of my favorite sitcoms is hazel god bless antenna tv for all the memories a baby boomer could want love anne
Thank you Jenny for posting. I have only just started watching JB and well, a grin from ear to ear. Brilliant stuff! Cheers
Wow im 29 i jus saw this show on t.v, its def. A new favorite.
In ten years you'll be as old as Jack.
DITTO, SAME HERE. Can't get enough of Jack's oh-so-polite but befuddled and over-the-top brand of humor, and I was only 39 four years ago :)
+Franklin Mac lol!
It's hard to think of two funnier people when they get together than Frank Nelson and Jack Benny.
Maybe just Jack Benny + Mel Blanc
vigil12348 Jack was funny playing off anyone. His appearances on Carson are usually hilarious. I think JB is very special among the old time comics in that he is one of the very few who can make me still laugh out loud. His radio shows (which I have probably heard most of) have great years and not so great (the war years were not super for Benny) but most of them hold up very well after the last one aired over 60 years ago. His television show was more than a victory lap, although he had made his reputational bones on radio, Jack Benny on TV was appointment TV. John F; Kennedy was once asked what he did for leisure, and he said he tries to read for pleasure and catch The Jack Benny Show whenever he can.
Joe Postove Amen!!!
"Yesssssss!!!!!!!!!" 😁😄😁😄😁😄
Jack Nelson and Lucille Ball also had a nice chemistry.
My reactions to parts: Go to H....(me: wha?....OHHHH *laugh really hard*--that took me too long)......the cans falling were priceless too..
Hope Sears go to Hell but you can’t say that on tv back then. I believe
Thank you Jack Benny, Benny Rubin, Dennis Day, Frank Nelson, And Don Wilson so much and RIP Felles
Poor Jack! Everything happens to him! 😂
Jack was the original Rodney Dangerfield.
Sometimes I wish I could live in those simpler times. Pre-microwave, but I think I could handle it.
MisterNewOutlook same
I lived in those Good ole days without color t.v....played outside....no cell phone or tablets...the Neighborhood kids enjoyed playing baseball,hide and seek,jack rocks, making cool aid, sitting at the table with family,what a good time to be born despite the obstacles......there were many but nothing compared to today's generation.....