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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP70: Christmas Shopping With Jack Benny—How One Man Changed The Entertainment Industry
Description: In Breaking Walls Episode 70, we’re celebrating the month of December by spotlighting The Jack Benny Program. Jack Benny was the highest rated comedian of his era. Beginning on radio in 1932, he was a radio mainstay until 1958. The programs’ Christmas shows are some of their most famous.
Highlights:
• Jack’s beginnings in Waukegan, IL
• How Jack began playing the violin.
• His transition to comedy
• How Ed Sullivan changed Jack’s career in 1932
• How Jack Benny saved Jell-O
• The secret to Jack’s comedic success
• How Jack Benny was a situation comedy pioneer
• What Bugs Bunny and Bing Crosby have in common
• How Jack Benny us...