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Jack Benny

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Posted by petew on January 22, 2002 at 15:00:55

In Reply to: Harrison Ford's Golden Globe Award is so Appropriate posted by Lasermeister on January 21, 2002 at 14:56:55:

agree with your observations

I recall watching the Jack Benny TV show. You have to have seen it to get this but if not, imagine the Johny Carson show where he comes out to do the monologue:

he starts and his side-kick, let's say Ed, comes out and observes how tired Jack looks and how he should take a vacation. Jack is warmed by this kindhearted gesture and begins to melt, but excuses that he couldn't leave the show with all the work and who could he get to "stand in" for him.

well little does Jack know but he's been set-up. Ed brings out a dummy that looks exactly like Jack and stands it next to him on center stage. The dummy is posed in the classic Jack Benny stance, with one arm across his chest supporting the elbow of his other arm, which is up with his hand on his cheek. If you've ever seen Jack Benny you've seen this pose.

Jack is taken aback, flattered, but beginning to suspect something. He compliments the gesture but dismisses it by saying, kindly and good-naturedly, but with just the vague hint of unease, perhaps even a slight contempt, that a dummy certainly couldn't replace him.

At this moment Ed flips a switch on the back of the dummy, and the dummy Jack turns his head to the side while extending the forearm and hand that once was on it's cheek--another classic Jack Benny pose and gesture.

Jack goes berzerk. Ed leaves the stage with the dummy slowly alternating between poses while Jack dances around the dummy trying to hold eye contact while it swivels it's head, all the while complaining and critiquing it with a frothing insanity that only Jack Benny can muster.

It is a classic moment in comedy, and the dummy is by far the best actor.

Long live the Harrison Fords, the Kevin Costners, etal. Without them, how would we recognize the great artists?

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