Jack Benny was one of the most beloved comedians of the 20th century, a master of timing, self-deprecating humor and the long pause that could make an audience roar with laughter. His legacy spans ...

When Eddie Carroll steps out on stage, he is not imitating comedian Jack Benny. He is Jack Benny. With an uncanny physical resemblance and a dead-on voice, Carroll truly fills the shoes of one of ...

After Jack Benny died a few days after Christmas in 1974, David Spangler, a 35-year-old Chicago textbook author, received condolence calls from his friends, so certain were they of his sadness over ...

Bob Hope was the wisecracker. Milton Berle was a clown. George Burns and Gracie Allen were farceurs of domestic life. And Jack Benny was the “Everyman” comedian. For nearly half-a-century, Benny kept ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: February 14th, 1894, 122 years ago today ... the day Benjamin Kubelski was born in Chicago. He learned to play the violin as a boy, and grew up to ...

The last time on From the Archives that we checked in on Jack Benny, it was towards the end of his career, in 1973. While he was getting on in years, his oft-complimented timing was still just as ...

A city that remains ever loyal to its icons will offer a birthday present to one of its more notable famous sons on Saturday, Feb. 14, when the Waukegan Historical Society unveils a historic marker at ...

Eddie Carroll, an actor who for decades gave voice to Jiminy Cricket in Disney projects and impersonated Jack Benny in a noted one-man stage show, has died. He was 76. Carroll died Tuesday from a ...

Well! How do ya like that?! These 18 half-hour episodes have been locked away for years in the UCLA film vaults, ever since Jack Benny donated them. UCLA made up for the delay by remastering the old ...

So, who’s the cheapskate now? CBS has shelved about 25 recently unearthed episodes of “The Jack Benny Show” — because it doesn’t want the hassle of paying for licensing, etc. Benny’s stock-in-trade ...