A Benny for Your Thoughts

I've always been a fan of Jack Benny, ever since a kid (when I probably picked it up watching his TV show with my grandmother who loved him).  I particularly like his radio show, but I enjoy his TV program as well, which happily runs with back-to-back episodes on the Antenna network (channel 1258 in Los Angeles on Spectrum) every Saturday night. But I've even enjoyed a few of the movies he starred in, despite him using them as butts of jokes.  (To Be or Not To Be is, in fact, very good, which Mel Brooks remade several decades later.)

The TV program has two sides to it.  One is that the episode will be a slice-of-life story that supposedly comes from his daily life.  And the other is doing comedy sketch with a guest star, like the episode I posted last week here with Humphrey Bogart.  I tend to prefer the former, since they're so unique in centering around his well-honed persona and also uses his regular cast of characters, though the other shows can be fun.   And to be clear, the slice-of-life stories periodically incorporate a guest star.

That's the case here, with uncommon guest starts Peter, Paul & Mary.  They not only get to sing a song near the beginning, , but also participate in some fun banter afterwards and then take part in a story about Jack's daily life that they fit into.