Jack Benny's Script
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2011 8:37 am
I recently acquired what is for me a Holy Grail of OTR: the actual script Jack Benny used in one of his radio shows.
He has pencilled in several changes, and you can still see what had been there before. The changes definitely make the show funnier!
The title page is marked "PROGRAM #2 - REVISED SCRIPT". Several entire paragraphs are crossed out, and I am assuming these parts were dropped when the rehearsal ran overtime. Does anyone know if that's how they did it? And does anyone have any idea why the name of one of the characters was changed from Ryan to Jones?
I've posted the first three pages of the script at http://danhughes.net/radio/jackscript.htm .
---Dan Hughes, http://radiofun.info
He has pencilled in several changes, and you can still see what had been there before. The changes definitely make the show funnier!
The title page is marked "PROGRAM #2 - REVISED SCRIPT". Several entire paragraphs are crossed out, and I am assuming these parts were dropped when the rehearsal ran overtime. Does anyone know if that's how they did it? And does anyone have any idea why the name of one of the characters was changed from Ryan to Jones?
I've posted the first three pages of the script at http://danhughes.net/radio/jackscript.htm .
---Dan Hughes, http://radiofun.info