Classic Comedy of Old Time Radio · Ronald Ecklebarger
The Jack Benny Show - "Back from New York"
·30 min·2 clips
Jack Benny envisions birds nesting on his limbs as a tree planted in his honor.
As heard by us
A tidy burst of radio-era squabbling, with Jack Benny at his most rattled.
This Jack Benny outing leans on the familiar engine of suspicion, bad advice, and people talking one another into a worse mood. Back in Hollywood, the banter and bickering are in full swing, and the episode keeps turning small slights into outsized, theatrical hurt pride, which…
Why you'd press play
For when you want Jack Benny and the gang turning a Fred Allen misunderstanding into a full-room pileup.
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