Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for March 24, 2025

Benny Kubelsky = Jack Benny

Yeeeessss! Glad you remembered!

For those who don’t know: Benny Kubelsky was Jack Benny’s given name.

Yore supposed to Get paid for being on the telly, not pay for it unless you are advertising. Ya done good getting off that gyp show, Frank.

Benjamin Kubelsky’s one time director of business affairs, the good Professor Anderson once referred to that as take home pay. In reality, Kubelsky was quite generous. And in this case, he would probably be generous to Walt and let him go back to his own home, where he belongs.

Benny Kubelsky? Doesn’t he mean Jack Benny?

Kubelsky is Jack Benny’s real last name

and he’s still 39

Today is “National Chocolate Covered R aisin day”

The Horn Blows At Midnight

So now we’ve got radio personalities inhabiting the Old Comics home.

Maybe a curtain call of cameo characters before a final bow?

Benny Kubelsky a/k/a stage name Jack Benny (1894~1974). Golden Age comic with sidekick beleaguered butler “Rochester” and stage/real life spouse Mary Livingston. Often teamed with “Man of 1000 Voices” Mel Blanc for some hilarious skits.

Mutt traditionally has smoked cigars or pipes, especially when others are yammering on. I think Mutt should pull out a cigar or pipe while the fellow has his discourse with Walt.

This is a guy who died forty years ago talking about a guy who died fifty years ago. Jimbo sure knows how to appeal to a younger audience.

I was listening to Sinatra and Perry Como and Dear, Dear Doris earlier today.

Benny was so cheap that on the show he was once mugged. The guy says “Your Money or your life” after a long paused he repeats it, and Benny said "I’m thinking about It.

The guy with the blue hat looks to be Frank Nelson. He was on the Jack Benny show all the time. Also, on many other shows. I thought he was funny. He acted until he was elderly. I remember one show where he was bent over with age.