When you make Jack giggle and hold in his laugh, you know your one of the best. Mel was ONE OF THE BEST!!

Proof enough that not only was Mel a great voice actor, but also a very talented actor who could get committed to any role they asked of him. Truly one of the greats of all time in show business

@trevorphillipsgtav8500

8 жыл бұрын

He did in fact had a few small roles in movies. He was in the Esther Williams movie called the Neptune's Daughter, and in another movie where he made a cameo appearance in Audre Hephern's movie Breakfast At Tiffany's.

@UrielManX7

5 жыл бұрын

That's why they are called: voice ACTORS. Not enough of them I tell you what, industry is full of bozos that just call themselves voice actors.

@canuck_gamer3359

2 жыл бұрын

Frankly I was surprised to see what a convincing job he did acting live like this. I have always been a huge fan of his and yet I too underestimated him! You have to wonder how often people laughed just watching him do Yosemite Sam's voice and scream lol. It's pretty funny to watch!

I know exactly how the salesman feels.

Mel Blanc was so hysterical.

This is one of the funniest things I've seen on TV. Mel Blanc is just genius in this and Jack Benny trying to keep a straight face only makes it funnier.

Jack Benny made his carrier as a brilliant straight man. The only time I've ever seen him completely break down was around Mel. That was something I always loved about these old shows. You got to see the comedians really enjoying themselves in the moment.

@colinwilliams553

4 жыл бұрын

You're not alone on that.i also love watching these old shows myself.whenever classic shows like I love Lucy or the Honeymooners would come on I watch them to.i'm probably one of the few people of color who sometimes watch these types of shows especially this guy Jack Benny the greatest straight man ever.i didn't find him funny at first, but after doing some research about him,I can see why he so funny with his Long stares, his mannerism and entractions with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Mel Blanc(which at the time did not know the he was the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck) and now, I've become addicted to the old Jack Benny Show and it's a good thing.

Eddie Anderson was also a great underrated actor ... his facial expressions were hilarious especially when mel tells Jack the wallet is 40 dollars....

Mel Blanc:”Why,oh why did the Governor have to give me that pardon ?”

@georgealderson4424

5 жыл бұрын

Just a few little words that say so much

@myaccount2825

3 жыл бұрын

He was so funny! 😂❤️

@marlitobaysauli6185

21 күн бұрын

He loves you a lot may be, just may be

Mel Blanc is great not only as the voice of Bugs Bunny and company but he worked well with Jack Benny.

Many consider Mel Blanc in the top 5 most talented actors of all time. Considering his body of work, I can't argue against that

@jeanpreston8009

3 жыл бұрын

Anybody who researches this issue has to agree. The most all around amazing multi-talent of all time. Not only with the voices, but singing, acting and a great musician as well.😊❤

@superb.6291

Жыл бұрын

Whoever says something else, that person will be considered an ignoramus, Mel Blanc is really quite legendary

@deloysterns

Жыл бұрын

I think this annual bit Mel did on the Jack Benny PGM was among Mel's best work..

"The customer is always right. And this jerk is a customer!" I'm dying XD

Mel Blanc ... More than just a great voice

At 6:10 when he shouts "NOW WHAT?" you can hear looney toons characters coming through

@UndertaleFan424

7 жыл бұрын

That'd be Yosemite Sam.

@ClaireScullyClaireBlue

6 жыл бұрын

He was the voice of most of the male Looney Tunes characters after all.

@scottdinges8755

5 жыл бұрын

Lol sounds like daffy duck😂

@thoof2001

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClaireScullyClaireBlue and quite a few female ones as well; versatility, thy name is Mel!

@Miatacrosser

5 жыл бұрын

@@ClaireScullyClaireBlue I'm scratching my head trying to come up with any female Looney Tunes characters in the golden age of cartoons. Lets see: Granny(Tweety Bird's owner)and Witch Hazel are all I can think of and June Foray did them. After Arthor Q Bryan's death(Elmer Fudd), Mel Blanc and June Foray were Looney Tunes.

Benny and company's commitment to this comic scene is as total and intense as if it were a classic tragedy, and that is why they achieve comedic greatness.

Love Jack Benny, and Mel “Bugs Bunny” Blanc is just too funny!

A great thing about Mel was he looked like "everyman" which made his antics so much funnier. True genius.

These old shows are worth their weight in gold! So much fun, laughter, and not any obnoxiousness or swearing like today.

You can hear his characters coming out...Bugs, Yosemite Sam...

Mel Blanc you can hear the cartoon character voice in it. The poor store clerk couldn't take it anymore so he probably says Mom your little boy is going to be with you in the great beyond in the sky. Even Jack Benny couldn't keep a straight face as Mel Blanc was crying from being severely tormented. They sure don't make those TV shows anymore like they used to? I love those era TV shows no foul words, no sexuality, no anti Jewish/America hate crimes, no Justin Bieber, no Miley Cyrus, no Lady Gaga,etc. Just a clean conversation, clean jokes, family oriented, pro Americans, and simple hilarious comedy.

I came here because of an NPR interview with a TV critic who also teaches a course in the history of TV. He talked about how every Christmas, he would show this special to his students. He described how the students would be shocked at the end of this sketch because they saw it as a level of dark comedy they do not associate with any time before the 1990s, and they also agreed that no one could get away with that today.

Now what? NOOOOOOOW WHAAAAT?!!!

I love Mel Blanc! I remember when we were kids my brother and I watching Warner Brother cartoons every Saturday morning! We loved all the characters as much Bugs Bunny, or Bugs as my brother called him.

Jack Benny cracks me up 😄😄😄😄😊👏👏👏👏👏👍👍 Mel Blanc was a talented comedy partner for many of that era 👍👍

6:09 That slow panning to the camera Jack does with the start of a Grinch-style grin! Why can't we have classic & clean anymore?

The Magnificent Mel Blanc.

Retail in a nutshell

6:10 Never go full Yosemite Sam.

Customer service staff are worth their (our) weight in gold. People may think that customers are nice friendly people and some are but.....

This is a riot! Gotta luv Mel Blanc!

the young people today dont know the GOOD entertainment they are missing....these old radio and tv shows were the best.....

@keion10x

4 жыл бұрын

Yup. I love the classics. And Mel is my favorite. I hear almost all the looney tunes in his regular voice

Let's not forget Frank Nelson in this... "You're not the only Jack in the world."

Jack and Mel were best friends. You have to love Jack trying not to laugh. Live tv was fun when I grew up watching Jack live. RIP Jack and Mel..

Look at Benny! He's bursting himself at BLANC's performance.

I have never laughed so hard in my life before I saw this. Mel was truly a genius in comedy, both behind the mic and on camera x.........D

Mel Blanc.....Im dying lol

I haven’t laughed this good in years.

My young sons at first scoffed at watching ANYTHING in BLACK&WHITE. Well... I "forced" them to watch an episode of the JACK BENNY SHOW with me and they BURST with laughter and ASKED to see more too!

6:08 "Now what? NOOOOW WHAAAAAT?!!"😂 Damn he sounded like 1 of his Looney Tunes characters right there and at 6:32 yo!😆

@makenziegray763

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was Yosemite Sam right there ha ha.

This show is a GREAT example of the closeness of comedy and tragedy. In the end, poor Mel shoots himself, then Jack helps himself to the cash register!!

two of the funniest men on earth... Lord love em....

They said that Jack was a great audience. The two people who could always crack him up were Bob Hope and Mel Blanc, both of whom knew how to drop in a little ad-lib that would tickle Jack.

@cbranalli

5 жыл бұрын

NickThomas i've read that nobody could crack up Jack like his lifelong buddy Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns - not the other fellow by that name).

@Steve-fe4lq

4 жыл бұрын

And George Burns could always get Benny to laugh.

@michaelj.r457

3 жыл бұрын

That's what Bob Hope said in his eulogy of Jack.

Humor that makes you ROFL and that is clean.

Mel Blanc genius!...

6:30 How I feel when a client wants me to make 1001 dumb little changes.

@georgealderson4424

5 жыл бұрын

Been there Dan and management are nowhere around

Priceless comedy and acting by Mel lol

Jack Benny had a series of hilarious Christmas shopping shows when he was one of the biggest draws on NBC Radio, starring in "The Lucky Strike Program". If you get the chance, listen to these classics. Most can be found on You Tube if you search for them. In many ways, I find the radio performances superior to the TV shows. This particular TV bit came directly from his 1948 radio shopping show, in which he bought a wallet for Don Wilson. The first classic shopping show was in 1946, in which he bought Don a pair of shoelaces for Christmas. It's a two-part story. The next week, Jack goes back to the store to return the laces for another kind. In each shopping show, the gag is basically the same. One year, it's shoelaces. Jack vacillates between buying laces with plastic tips and metal tips, driving clerk Mel Blanc nuts. With the wallet, he's constantly changing the card. One year it's cufflinks, and Jack changes the engraving over and over. Another show, and Jack is buying Don golf tees - does he buy wood tees or plastic tees? On yet another show, Jack decides upon a gopher trap as a Christmas Gift; should he get one that kills the gopher or one that merely traps it? When choosing a box of dates for Don, does he purchase a box with nuts or without? Watercolor paints or oil paints? Jack surrounded himself with an amazing supporting cast, and was always willing to give the biggest laughs to them. In the end, that strategy only served to make his star shine all that much brighter.

@billsmith5985

8 жыл бұрын

Try www.dumb.com/oldtimeradio/allshows.html for the shows.

This is probably my favorite of all the Benny/Blanc skits. Flawless,

I loved this skit for at least 20 years when I found the whole episode on vhs and then dvd

Sounded like Yosemite Sam

just heard an old radio broadcast of a Jack Benny Xmas show several years prior to that, Mel Blanc did a similar routine, where he went crazy about Jack buying shoelaces and changing his mind over metal or plastic tips.

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

The ending where he shoots himself was originally done in the 1948 "Christmas Shopping" radio episode. In later versions, he reappears. In the 1953 edition, he shoots himself again, but wails, "NOW look what you've done!!! You made me so nervous, I MISSED!!!!!!".

*Applauds Mel Blanc* He got Jack Benny to crack up!! :-} Always loved when that happened to ole Jack. Yeppers.

when he says "oh clerk" at around 2:28, diud anyone else expect to hear "EEE-YESSSSSSSS"? lol :)

@MrEsMysteriesMagicks

3 жыл бұрын

That was an actor named Frank Nelson who used to say that, not Mel Blanc. Nelson was also a semi-regular on the Benny program.

Priceless! With these shows you laugh out loud. Today, you're searching for humor, wondering where the hell it is.

@bobbywimsy6741

5 жыл бұрын

RMPsumma Well you're right of course, but listening for sanity and rationality in Ole Bonespurs(Trump)- even sentence coherency- can elicit bursts of involuntary laughter- and tears.

@mmjhcb

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobbywimsy6741 How did President Trump get into the picture? Has no bearing on my comment whatsoever!

Rochester...."Would be tough to get a rhyme for a dollar ninety-eight!" 🤣🤣🤣

OMG YAAAS! I remember watching this when I was 11 back when I was first discovering who Mel Blanc was and I thought this was the funniest thing I had ever seen.

Going off stage and blowing your brains out was an old gag dating back to Vaudeville. Couldn't get away with it today. I think TV stations trim that last part out now.

Priceless!! Don't know how Jack made it through the whole sketch without pounding on the floor laughing.

@jammanastic

4 жыл бұрын

GLEN BANKS he couldn’t hold it in at 7:55 xD

@bighuge1060

3 жыл бұрын

Mel Blanc really got Jack in the funny bone. I'm enjoying these videos of the two together.

That's just to show you, good humor is timeless.

His primal scream at 6:32! Hilarious and terrifying at the same time! 🤯 And 6:08. 🤣

@AlainHubert

3 жыл бұрын

@6:08 I heard a bit of Yosemite Sam in there... lol!

Really miss people like that wish them was here a day like today to keep us laughing and not worring

Funny skit..🤣🤣🤣 Jack was awesome

The Jack Benny Show. Mel joined Jack Benny in 1939 (on radio) because Benny heard him do the Warners cartoon voices, Mel was on the show immediately and they immediatley became good friends, not to mention Mel did other radio shows too. This is the clip where the store clerk (Mel Blanc) gets tortured because Jack Benny asks him to change the card, then in the end, instead Benny asks to change the wallet and the clerk kills himself.

There is no looney tunes without Mel Blanc.

I have this on a multi-disc DVD set. This is one is on my list of shows and movies I watch every year..

Thank you- two of my faves! Jack Benny and Mel Blanc!

i love mel blank

one of the funniest bits in history

NOW you can see where my FAVORITE cartoon character of ALL TIME, Bugs Bunny got his ideas to "torture" other characters, such as Mugsy, the cartoon gangster Bugs locked in a trunk and bumped up and down the stairs while doing a Coppers voice the trunked gangster couldn't see. So severely was the gangster "tortured " he begged the police to arrest him. NOBODY IS AS FUNNY AS MEL!!

6:10 There's that classic Mel Blanc scream! That man is such a legend!

This is the best episode of the Jack Benny Show. Try to see the entire show. Very Funny.

Didn't Bea Benadaret do a woman hen's voice on an old Foghorn cartoon in which he's snagged by Prissy as her husband- "Yeah, ole Square Britches herself " ? LOL !!!!!

Pure gold!

His whimpering cries remind me of De Niro in Goodfellas after her finds out they whacked Tommy... that scene always makes me laugh.

@jeanpreston8009

3 жыл бұрын

He must've copied it from Mel, who was the best at everything he did.😊

7:57 Jack is cracking up :)

I only saw the end of this bit in another video. Nice to see the whole thing. Poor Mel. LOL!

THAT DUDE JUST WHACKED HIMSELF AND EVERYONE'S LAUGHING! Goes to prove how time changes us and that comedy and cartoons have artistic license not ascribed to other forms of theatrical formats. Tripping I am!

Jack Benny and Mel Blanc at their very best.

I felt so bad for Mel blanc poor thing

@jeanpreston8009

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Been there, done that.😟

Two great comedians

@aidennewell4034

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Diana, How are you doing?

He cracked up Jack. Jack had to put his hand over his mouth.

Mel and Jack were great friends. Notice Mel making Jack laugh?

at 7:40 mark of the video Mel Blanc is so funny that Jack Benny is having trouble trying to keep from laughing you notice he raises his hand to cover his mouth..

It could never be done today.

Jack Benny could also be the greatest of straight men. Mel Blanc really carries most of these scenes, and Jack's reactions, or lack of reaction, makes it even more funny. Jack had the best ensemble cast in the business.

I work in customer service. I have had customers like this.

@shelleymagnussen1959

7 жыл бұрын

Me too. I worked at a cable Co. This fellow rep had a stressful call, tyring to tell this gentleman that the power for the cable box came from the electrical cord, not the cable. She went round nd round trying to comince this impossible customer. I think I would have suggested to the man that the power cord is attached for a reason.

@deloysterns

6 жыл бұрын

I worked in a Supermarket can totally relate to this classic..Mel is simply brilliant in this.Some of his all time best work.

@bobbywimsy6741

5 жыл бұрын

Scott Ferrell Q We all in a sense, work, or should, as citizens, so what to do about the present who changes every other minute? A collective primal scream a la Mel Blanc...

I've had customers like that :D

According to the Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator, $40.00 in 1960, when this show first aired, would be worth $322.48 in 2015.

@chriskelly509

8 жыл бұрын

lol

@Sakja

7 жыл бұрын

That's how much I paid for my last wallet.

@GFunk4YoTrunk88

4 жыл бұрын

Useful information. Thanks mate

8:00 Jack Benny is trying so hard to keep himself in character but is cracking up too much due to Blanc's hysterical acting.

Wow he actually broke Jack that's rare

This reminds me of a John Cleese sketch in a bookshop, waiting on a customer played by Marty Feldman.

Damn that was funny as heck

December 18, 1960 episode.

@craigtalbott731

3 жыл бұрын

His near-fatal automobile collision was only 37 days after this broadcast.

I love Jack's reactions.

@aidennewell4034

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Anna How are you doing?

Wish somebody would set this to Looney Tunes clips, or better yet, animate it with LT characters.

Watching Mel Blanc lose it is delightful. That and Benny trying NOT laugh complete the performance.

This one made me laugh until I cried.

When Eddie Anderson started to lose his hearing the network wanted to fire him. Jack Benny refused to let that happen. Shades of Harvey Korman when Benny had to fight to not laugh. Blanc was Benny's Tim Conway I guess.

my how times have changed, today they'd call security and have you arrested.

@georgealderson4424

5 жыл бұрын

Quite right too

At 7:50 Jack completely loses it.

Wonderful comedy