This episode is noteworthy for a nostalgic skit entitled how Jack Benny met George Burns two of the oldest friends in show business. That skit also was the last appearance albeit by voice only of the woman I considered the funniest of her gender Gracie Allen.
Way back in the day comedian Burns meets violinist Benny at a rooming house both were living at. Neither of them are having any great success but Burns persuades Benny to try comedy as a team.
Well see the team of Burns and Benny getting the old vaudeville hook and they part. But some time later Benny visits Burns at the theater and hears him on stage doing the same routine with the landlady's daughter and one listen of the voice and we know. And of course we hear the laughter and applause. Presumably Jack Benny later caught on to the comedy shtick.
I'd like to think Gracie and George taped something special for the show instead of using one of their own priceless dialogs. No one has ever come close to duplicating Gracie Allen's style of nonsensical nonsequiters. She and George are so timeless because they never touched on commentary of real events. It's why they'll be eternally popular.
Dedicated to the greatest of all, Gracie Allen.
Way back in the day comedian Burns meets violinist Benny at a rooming house both were living at. Neither of them are having any great success but Burns persuades Benny to try comedy as a team.
Well see the team of Burns and Benny getting the old vaudeville hook and they part. But some time later Benny visits Burns at the theater and hears him on stage doing the same routine with the landlady's daughter and one listen of the voice and we know. And of course we hear the laughter and applause. Presumably Jack Benny later caught on to the comedy shtick.
I'd like to think Gracie and George taped something special for the show instead of using one of their own priceless dialogs. No one has ever come close to duplicating Gracie Allen's style of nonsensical nonsequiters. She and George are so timeless because they never touched on commentary of real events. It's why they'll be eternally popular.
Dedicated to the greatest of all, Gracie Allen.
