Is it possible to count the number of people Jack Benny helped over his lifetime? His violin concerts raised money for pension funds for mu...

Fred Allen wasn’t finished with radio in 1949 when his show for Ford went off the air. In 1950, there were guest appearances on other NBC sh...

You are not reading this. You are dead. Why? Criswell says so. Well, he predicted the Earth would be gone on August 18, 1999. Criswell...

Today, if there was an America’s Prettiest Teacher contest, it would reviled and denounced on social media as sexist and objectifying. In th...

Muriel Landers was nicknamed “the fastest ton in the West.” People weren’t too subtle back then. (Though considering the rudeness and cruden...

It’s a bit of an overstatement to say everything Jack Benny touched turned to ratings, but there was a time when he sure helped. And we’re n...

George Fenneman was more important to the success of You Bet Your Life than people realise and his absence may explain why revivals of the ...

Henry Morgan hated hyperbole. Morgan infuriated ad agencies or/and sponsors by making his commercials anything but hyper sales pitches. If ...

Plugola on radio comedy shows was good for everyone, it seems. A company got a free plug. Audiences got laughs. Writers got freebie gifts in...

George O’Hanlon is known today only as George Jetson and it’s a shame. O’Hanlon’s original fame came from a series of funny one-reelers rele...

Jack Benny, Comedian was also Jack Benny, Patron of the Arts. He and his violin appeared at countless benefit concerts and it’d probably b...

Inside jokes got on the air periodically on the Jack Benny radio show. Some are decipherable; laughter from the band greeted Jack reading a ...