This was a pretty unusual pre-filmed episode of "The Jack Benny Program," jumping right into the unusual show-length sketch premise that Jack and Gisele MacKenzie (her particularly for no evident reason) have found themselves at the only populated building in a ghost town while trying to find their way back from a show, and relive the events in the town's wild-west past.
It's not so much a parody of a Western as a Western framework around Jack's familiar character and the personality-based gags in inspires in the context, providing a great opportunity to play up his supposed extreme cowardice for laughs. In fact, a lot of the material, and the voice Jack uses, recall pleasantly the "Buck Benny" sketches that he did frequently on the radio (and which were made into a film) in the 1930s.
The the laugh highlight of this episode is based on Jack's misfiring gun, and it's a perfect example of the way he could use a gag, then us it to set up a great running gag for double laughs within the course of one episode. That's followed by a great sequence involving a poker game.
One of the weirder premises for a Jack Benny episode and almost seem to fit with even the rest of his heterogenous episodes but very funny all the same.
It's not so much a parody of a Western as a Western framework around Jack's familiar character and the personality-based gags in inspires in the context, providing a great opportunity to play up his supposed extreme cowardice for laughs. In fact, a lot of the material, and the voice Jack uses, recall pleasantly the "Buck Benny" sketches that he did frequently on the radio (and which were made into a film) in the 1930s.
The the laugh highlight of this episode is based on Jack's misfiring gun, and it's a perfect example of the way he could use a gag, then us it to set up a great running gag for double laughs within the course of one episode. That's followed by a great sequence involving a poker game.
One of the weirder premises for a Jack Benny episode and almost seem to fit with even the rest of his heterogenous episodes but very funny all the same.
