Jack Benny posts
Washington Post He picked up a pot and flipped it over. And as he did, out dropped a $100 bill, upon which a name was written: “Benny.”
Benny the mystery philanthropist hides $100 bills. So far, he’s given away more than $55,000.
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116 months ago
The Chronic Rift We start off the new year with The Jack Benny Show. Jack, Mary, and the gang are celebrating the change-over from 1938 to 1939. They survey the previous year, which included Howard Hughes flying around the world and “Wrong Way” Corrigan, who le Read more ... ft New York for California, but ended up flying to Ireland. Then before Jack Webb was Sergeant Joe Friday on Dragnet, he was the titular hero of Pat Novak, For Hire. Pat was a sort of un-detective. He ran a boat rental place on the San Francisco Bay, but solved crimes and problems to raise extra cash. Pat’s tough guy, hard-boiled lingo is a far cry from Friday’s “Just the Facts” persona.
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Presenting the Transcription Feature: THE JACK BENNY SHOW AND PAT NOVAK, FOR HIRE
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We start off the new year with The Jack Benny Show. Jack, Mary, and the gang are celebrating the change-over from 1938 to 1939. They survey the previous year, which included Howard Hughes flying around the world and “Wrong Way” Corrigan, who Read more ... left New York for California, but…
123 months ago
The Chronic Rift This time on Presenting the Transcription Feature, here’s a double dose of Jack Benny and the young geniuses of The Quiz Kids. First up on the Jack Benny Program, Jack’s cast matches wits with the visiting Quiz Kids with the usual zany results. Read more ... Then, just a week and a half later, Jack makes a guest appearance on The Quiz Kids. Is he smarter than a 9th grader?
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Presenting the Transcription Feature: THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM & THE QUIZ KIDS
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This time on Presenting the Transcription Feature, here’s a double dose of Jack Benny and the young geniuses of The Quiz Kids. First up on the Jack Benny Program, Jack’s cast matches wits with the visiting Quiz Kids with the usual zany results. Read more ... Then, just a week and a half la…
125 months ago
The Chronic Rift This week we present the final step in the saga of “The Walking Man” contest when winner Florence Hubbard appears on The Jack Benny Program. Those who have been listening closely for the past few weeks will have their attention rewarded as sever Read more ... al old themes and topics are referenced. Then Academy Award-winning actor Ronald Colman and his wife Benita Hume star in their comedy-drama series set at a small Midwestern college, The Halls of Ivy. Colman plays the college’s president, sagely dispensing advice to the undergraduates. Lessons will be learned and heartstrings will be tugged.
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Presenting the Transcription Feature: JACK BENNY and THE HALLS OF IVY
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This week we present the final step in the saga of “The Walking Man” contest when winner Florence Hubbard appears on The Jack Benny Program. Those who have been listening closely for the past few weeks will have their attention rewarded as se Read more ... veral old themes and topics are re…
126 months ago
The Chronic Rift This week we present two episodes centering on possibly the most popular radio contest of the 1940s, “The Walking Man.” TWM was a contest to benefit The American Heart Association and took place on the radio show Truth or Consequences. For eight Read more ... weeks, along with the usual game show shenanigans, listeners were invited to guess the identity of a prominent figure based solely on a rhymed clue and the sound of his walking. Spoilers: It was Jack Benny. Here is the episode of TOC where a listener correctly guesses Benny. Check out the haul of prizes that had accumulated over the preceding weeks. Next listen to the episode of The Jack Benny Program which was broadcast less than 24 hours later. It had had to be almost entirely rewritten overnight because not even Jack’s wife, let alone his writers, knew in advance that he was The Walking Man.
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Presenting the Transcription Feature: TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES and THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM
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This week we present two episodes centering on possibly the most popular radio contest of the 1940s, “The Walking Man.” TWM was a contest to benefit The American Heart Association and took place on the radio show Truth or Consequences. For eigh Read more ... t weeks, along with the usual game sho…
127 months ago
The Chronic Rift This episode of The Jack Benny Program sets the stage for items that will referenced over the next few podcasts. So pay attention as Jack quizzes bandleader Phil Harris about the dubious lyrics of the latter’s theme song, “That’s What I Like A Read more ... bout the South.” Then we take up crime solving with one of the few solo female private eyes of radio’s Golden Age, Candy Matson. Based in San Francisco, she may look like a pinup and have the most sultry voice in radio, but she’s smart, tough, and fast-talking.
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Presenting the Transcription Feature: THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM & CANDY MATSON
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This episode of The Jack Benny Program sets the stage for items that will referenced over the next few podcasts. So pay attention as Jack quizzes bandleader Phil Harris about the dubious lyrics of the latter’s theme song, “That’s What I Like Read more ... About the South.” Then…
127 months ago
Gawker What kind of journalist would forgive serial BuzzFeed plagiarist Benny Johnson?
Benny Johnson’s Comeback Profile Was Written by His Friend
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Today the Washington Post published a lengthy and (mostly) flattering profile of Benny Johnson, the serial plagiarist who was fired from BuzzFeed last summer and now peddles viral conservative content at Independent Journal Review. “D.C. has always Read more ... been the city of second chances, now it just moves at meme speed,” reporter Ben Terris writes. “And no one can ride a meme like Benny Johnson.” BuzzFeed Has Fired Benny Johnson For Widespread Plagiarism BuzzFeed Has Fired Benny Johnson For Widespread Plagiarism BuzzFeed Has Fired Benny Johnson For Widespread Pl BuzzFeed has fired Viral Politics editor Benny Johnson for multiple instances of plagiarism. Read more Read more
130 months ago
Washington Post Not even a plagiarism scandal could stop the 29-year-old king of viral political news.
Benny Johnson got fired at Buzzfeed. You will believe what happened next.
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Benny’s brand of journalism is taking over.
130 months ago
Luis Alvelais Carreón When Jack Benny did a bit where he was acosted by a hold-up man with "Your money or your life!" Benny paused for a time. The robber posed the choice again to which Benny responded: "I'm thinking!" This was a joke referring to a time-honored trope Read more ... about Jews being overly concerned with money. Cheap. Everyone laughed. No one objected. Now, some people are objecting to Trevor Noah's Jewish-referenced joke. What's the REAL reason for this? Whether Noah's jokes were funny or not, the notion that he could use a Jewish reference or not is not the issue. Else, there would be objections to Mexican-referenced, Black-referenced, gay-referenced jokes, etc. I am convinced there is a deeper, more sinister root to the ob jections we are witnessing.
132 months ago
Gawker Congratulations to everyone involved.
Fired BuzzFeed Editor Benny Johnson Hired by Website That Plagiarized Benny Johnson
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Good news! Benny Johnson, who was fired from BuzzFeed last July for systemic plagiarism and later hired by National Review, has a brand new job:
134 months ago