A Blast from the PastThis is part of a Jack Benny radio show from 1951. For those of you who aren't old enough to remember him, Jack Benny was one of most popular radio and TV personalities ever. He became a national figure with The Jack Benny Show in 1932. Even after the end of his radio show, he continued in TV and the movies. His last movie role was to be in Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys" but due to his failing health he was replaced by George Burns.Standard for Jack Benny was jokes surrounding how he was so vain he wouldn't admit his real age and was 39 until the day he died, jokes surrounding his violin playing, and jokes about him being incredibly cheap. The reason why I considered this clip important because it was a snippet of another time way before "The Diseasing of America" when it was obvious to all of America that, without moral judgment, people ate and drank too much simply because they wanted to. The Step groups and Marty Mann with her N.C.A. (now the N.C.A.D.D.) have changed all that and only created a worse problem. I wonder if a modern listener will recognize that the joke is on Jack more than on the other cast members.
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