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Jack Benny
Birthdate:
February 14, 1894
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois

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  • Will 'Jay Leno' experiment change NBC and primetime TV?

    ...Comedy, when it's done well, appeals to everybody," Leno says. "I didn't know anybody who didn't like Jack Benny when I was a kid. Kids liked him. Adults like him because he was funny." Leno's ratings will probably not......

  • Joey Bishop Dead at 89

    ...Hotel in Las Vegas. Time magazine referred to Bishop as that swinging, fun-loving group's "top banana." Jack Benny called him "one of the funniest men I've ever seen." And Danny Thomas was so impressed with Bishop......

  • Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84

    ...that I am a barbarian, whose deepest cultural debts are to Laurel and Hardy Buster Keaton , Fred Allen , Jack Benny , Charlie Chaplin and so on," he wrote in 1972. "They made me hilarious during the Great Depression and......

  • Tony Bennett Swings Through Six Decades on NBC

    ...he says. "I am very moved by the fact that at my age I am still singing. I learned from George Burns and Jack Benny that if you are hot, don't quit." In the special's first duet, Barbra Streisand joins him, setting......

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