Therein lay Benny’s triumph: He won total acceptance from the American public and did so by embodying a Jewish stereotype from which the sting of prejudice had been leached. Far from being a self-hating whipping boy for anti-Semites, he turned himself into WASP America’s Jewish uncle, preposterous yet lovable.
Friday, September 15, 2017
The king of comedy …
… Jack Benny’s Comic Program | commentary. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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