{"product_id":"jack-bennys-lost-radio-broadcasts-jack-benny-9781629335780","title":"Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One: May 2 - July 27, 1932","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background to invent the workplace situation comedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlights of Volume One include: \u003cbr\u003e - Jack's commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale- the funniest, and most controversial, advertising parodies he would ever perform.\u003cbr\u003e - 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.\u003cbr\u003e - The initial Introduction of Mary Livingstone, the radio fan from Plainfield, New Jersey.\u003cbr\u003e - An introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley that sets the stage for why these historic shows are so important to understand Benny's career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 26 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn Fuller-Seeley is the author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of Radio Comedy (2017) and books on early motion pictures and nickelodeon audiences. She teaches media history at the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jack Benny, Harry Conn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1629335789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629335780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BearManor Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.56d","brand":"Jack Benny","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990858825983,"sku":"9781629335780","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6df7be81-2eec-42ff-b378-eaa95af17fa6.jpg?v=1683307095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jack-bennys-lost-radio-broadcasts-jack-benny-9781629335780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}