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The Jack Benny Program JB The 20th Anniversary Banquet

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Georgie Jessel reveals Jack Benny's birth with 32 teeth—all uppers—in a wildly exaggerated life story.

Jack Benny rehearses for his 20th-anniversary radio testimonial dinner, with comedic interruptions from Rochester, Mary, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, and Georgie Jessel. Georgie presents a mock-biographical speech that humorously exaggerates Jack's life and career, blending nostalgia with classic Benny-style jokes.

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A tribute dinner that keeps turning Jack Benny into the joke.

A testimonial dinner marks Jack Benny's 20 years in radio, and the humor keeps folding his own image back into the occasion without draining the warmth.

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A testimonial-dinner radio date with Jack Benny at the center.

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