Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

<p>This is the hardback version.</p><p>For the first time in almost 90 years we can experience the origins of Jack Benny’s radio comedy genius. Jack Benny’s Lost Radio Broadcasts brought up from Benny’s subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives almost as difficult to access!] finally share scripts of his earliest live radio programs—for which no recordings exist.</p><p><br />See how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background to invent the workplace situation comedy.</p><p><br />In these first shows of 1932 Jack plays a “Broadway Romeo” a genial self-deprecating comedian who is not yet the famously cheap “fall guy” he would become over the next two years. Jack claims that it’s his bandleader George Olsen who’s the tightwad.  </p><p><br />Highlights of Volume One include:<br />•    Jack’s commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale- the funniest and most controversial advertising parodies he would ever perform.<br />•    Jack’s panic as he realizes he has used up every vaudeville routine he’d ever performed on stage and this is a twice-a-week program.<br />•    The initial Introduction of Mary Livingstone the radio fan from Plainfield New Jersey.<br />•    An introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley that sets the stage for why these historic shows are so important to understand Benny’s career.</p><p>These 26 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best.</p><p> </p>