Useless But Compelling Facts - June 2008
Many of you will remember (or look up) an extraordinary comic who played the violin, had a butler-friend named Rochester, and who—until the day he died—stated his age as 39. The comic was Jack Benny, who started in Vaudeville, remained lifelong friends with Zeppo Marx (whose birth name was actually Herbert Marks), and brought audiences to tears with facial expressions, comic timing and comedy—in Vaudeville, on radio and television—for decades. But Jack Benny wasn’t his real name; so this month we want you to not only tell us what his real name was, but also describe just how he got to be “Jack Benny.” Know the answer? Send it to me.
