Jack Benny and Bob Hope, the two most popular radio comedians, made their TV debuts that year.

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It should be said that there were others who had the same polished timing, notably Jack Benny.

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The temple's longtime rabbi, Edgar Magnin, had presided over the funerals of comedy greats Jack Benny and George Jessel.

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This is Mr. Obama's version of Jack Benny's old "your money or your life" routine, except without the punch line.

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Steve Harvey can be scathing in a palms-down, slightly fey style of irritated disbelief reminiscent, in this one respect, of Jack Benny.

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The invitation list might not have changed much from 1944, but it was still impressive: Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston, Glen Campbell, Clint Eastwood, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, George Hamilton and Sammy Davis Jr.

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And the only free-market choice I could make at this point to bring way down my own astronomical medical costs would be the choice that was so famously given to Jack Benny: Your money or your life.

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In 1974, U.S. comedian Jack Benny died.

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It's "the old Jack Benny thing, " Justice Scalia said, invoking the joke where a robber holds up the famously stingy comedian and says, " 'Your money or your life, ' and, you know, he says, 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking, ' " Justice Scalia said.

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