Maybe they should rename Jeeves to Rodney, as he didn’t get no respect either….. 🙂
epilitimus
Feb 23 2018 at 12:31 am
There used to be a radio program…I want to say Benny hill or Bob Hope, something like that…the butler’s name was Rochester I think, he had a gravely voice. Used to listen to it when I was a kid. There was a radio station that you could only get a night, it was out of Reno I think (about 300 mi from me, other side of the Sierra Nevada), that had all the old radio programs, Gunsmoke, Green Lantern, etc.
SgtCpt
Feb 23 2018 at 12:35 am
The Jack Benny Show! I used to listen to the old radio shows on tape while on long drives. Much better entertainment then bad music.
MasterDiver
Feb 23 2018 at 7:56 am
The old Jack Benny radio shows are aired several times a week on Sirius/XM. Still funny as all get out, and no politics, other than the obvious references to FDR or Truman, and all for fun. And to think I’m old enough to have heard some of them live!
Zar Belk!
Interventor
Feb 23 2018 at 12:42 am
Jack Benny. Radio, TV and movies. Johnny Carson copied Benny’s timing and takes.
Lon Mead
Feb 23 2018 at 2:09 am
George Carlin was such an admirer of Benny that one night, on the “Tonight Show”, Carlin came out for his set, and for two minutes, said nothing. A couple of facial expressions, but no words. By the end, the audience (and Carson) we’re laughing so hard they had to cut to commercial. When Carson asked Carlin about it, Carlin’s reply was, “I’ve always wanted to try that. Jack Benny was one of my heroes, and Benny could get a laugh from people doing that on the RADIO.”
Stephanie Osborn
Feb 23 2018 at 12:47 am
Jack Benny.
Lon Mead
Feb 23 2018 at 1:56 am
(Jack is pasting items in hi scrapbook)
JB – This glue doesn’t seem to be sticking. Oh, Rochester!
R – Yes, boss?
JB – This glue doesn’t seem to be sticking; are you sure it’s fresh?
R – Fresh? Why, just this morning it was 25-to-1 at Santa Anita!
Old Codger
Feb 23 2018 at 1:53 pm
Ba dum pum ssshhhh
gruundehn
Feb 23 2018 at 5:43 pm
Jack Benny, Benny Hill chose the name Benny to honor Jack.
The “Gentleman’s Gentleman” from the Magnum PI series was called Jonathan Quayle Higgins III… brilliantly played by John Hillerman, born & raised in Texas. For some reason, Jeeves and his protests remind me of Higgins.
Speaking of which, Hillerman passed away in Nov 2017 at the age of 84. RIP…
NotYetInACamp
Feb 23 2018 at 11:45 am
An excellent actor doing a great job as “Robin Masters” gentleman on Magnum PI. And then the story arc where Magnum thought that Higgins was Robin Masters. Jeeves there could take some notes by downloading that show as well as Rochester’s performances on The Jack Benny Show, even if only programed to acquire the humor aspect.
why do I keep hearing the robot with Marvin’s voice from “the hitchhiker’s guide”?
Lon Mead
Feb 23 2018 at 4:55 am
“I’m not getting you down at all, am I?”
JBubba57
Feb 23 2018 at 10:42 am
No, I don’t hear the whine, personally. More like the little weird baby-adult on Family Guy, Stewie.
Neal White
Feb 23 2018 at 10:07 am
The actor who played Rochester won the part when, still in the waiting room, Benny called out “Oh, Rochester” and he answered “Yes Please”
Lon Mead
Feb 23 2018 at 10:49 am
Fun fact: early during WWII, Anderson bought a warehouse in the Central Avenue district of Los Angeles and started the Pacific Parachute Company, which made parachutes for the U.S. Navy.
CaptDMO
Feb 23 2018 at 10:13 am
Kill switch?
Has somebody been reading my rants concerning mandatory
“Big, Red, OH 5HIT!, palm buttons?
TomD
Feb 23 2018 at 12:24 pm
Wayne M, concur on Higgins. Did you see “Rogue One?” Jeeves also reminds me of the droid in that movie.
GRUNT GI
Feb 23 2018 at 1:48 pm
Wait a minute…Sam singing? I thought Skye was their songbird…maybe a duet?
That could be interesting.
NotYetInACamp
Feb 23 2018 at 11:37 pm
I think that might be Skye.
She does chameleon into looking like Sam regularly in her life, and with her efficient tattoo removal, with hair shades hard to tell in the dark, the songbird will look very much like Sam.
In that household, I have to wonder if “Kill Switch” actually authorizes… (You know how they want to keep a human involved in the decision loop on sentry robots.)
Merle
Maybe they should rename Jeeves to Rodney, as he didn’t get no respect either….. 🙂
epilitimus
There used to be a radio program…I want to say Benny hill or Bob Hope, something like that…the butler’s name was Rochester I think, he had a gravely voice. Used to listen to it when I was a kid. There was a radio station that you could only get a night, it was out of Reno I think (about 300 mi from me, other side of the Sierra Nevada), that had all the old radio programs, Gunsmoke, Green Lantern, etc.
SgtCpt
The Jack Benny Show! I used to listen to the old radio shows on tape while on long drives. Much better entertainment then bad music.
MasterDiver
The old Jack Benny radio shows are aired several times a week on Sirius/XM. Still funny as all get out, and no politics, other than the obvious references to FDR or Truman, and all for fun. And to think I’m old enough to have heard some of them live!
Zar Belk!
Interventor
Jack Benny. Radio, TV and movies. Johnny Carson copied Benny’s timing and takes.
Lon Mead
George Carlin was such an admirer of Benny that one night, on the “Tonight Show”, Carlin came out for his set, and for two minutes, said nothing. A couple of facial expressions, but no words. By the end, the audience (and Carson) we’re laughing so hard they had to cut to commercial. When Carson asked Carlin about it, Carlin’s reply was, “I’ve always wanted to try that. Jack Benny was one of my heroes, and Benny could get a laugh from people doing that on the RADIO.”
Stephanie Osborn
Jack Benny.
Lon Mead
(Jack is pasting items in hi scrapbook)
JB – This glue doesn’t seem to be sticking. Oh, Rochester!
R – Yes, boss?
JB – This glue doesn’t seem to be sticking; are you sure it’s fresh?
R – Fresh? Why, just this morning it was 25-to-1 at Santa Anita!
Old Codger
Ba dum pum ssshhhh
gruundehn
Jack Benny, Benny Hill chose the name Benny to honor Jack.
cmblake6
Merle, you got that right.
WayneM
The “Gentleman’s Gentleman” from the Magnum PI series was called Jonathan Quayle Higgins III… brilliantly played by John Hillerman, born & raised in Texas. For some reason, Jeeves and his protests remind me of Higgins.
Speaking of which, Hillerman passed away in Nov 2017 at the age of 84. RIP…
NotYetInACamp
An excellent actor doing a great job as “Robin Masters” gentleman on Magnum PI. And then the story arc where Magnum thought that Higgins was Robin Masters. Jeeves there could take some notes by downloading that show as well as Rochester’s performances on The Jack Benny Show, even if only programed to acquire the humor aspect.
warhorse
why do I keep hearing the robot with Marvin’s voice from “the hitchhiker’s guide”?
Lon Mead
“I’m not getting you down at all, am I?”
JBubba57
No, I don’t hear the whine, personally. More like the little weird baby-adult on Family Guy, Stewie.
Neal White
The actor who played Rochester won the part when, still in the waiting room, Benny called out “Oh, Rochester” and he answered “Yes Please”
Lon Mead
Fun fact: early during WWII, Anderson bought a warehouse in the Central Avenue district of Los Angeles and started the Pacific Parachute Company, which made parachutes for the U.S. Navy.
CaptDMO
Kill switch?
Has somebody been reading my rants concerning mandatory
“Big, Red, OH 5HIT!, palm buttons?
TomD
Wayne M, concur on Higgins. Did you see “Rogue One?” Jeeves also reminds me of the droid in that movie.
GRUNT GI
Wait a minute…Sam singing? I thought Skye was their songbird…maybe a duet?
That could be interesting.
NotYetInACamp
I think that might be Skye.
She does chameleon into looking like Sam regularly in her life, and with her efficient tattoo removal, with hair shades hard to tell in the dark, the songbird will look very much like Sam.
Dr. Mauser
In that household, I have to wonder if “Kill Switch” actually authorizes… (You know how they want to keep a human involved in the decision loop on sentry robots.)
Morgul Lord
Methinks they’ve created their own little C3PO