Recording of Jack and Mary from 1928

[marknyc]

If you're like me and have a "Jack Benny" subscription on YouTube, you may have already heard this, but if not, prepare to be fascinated!

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It's the audio of a Vitaphone short entitled "Bright Moments" from 1928. Unfortunately the visual portion has been lost.

Whenever I see/hear vaudeville skits that were turned into early sound shorts, it strikes me that radio not only killed vaudeville, but it also revolutionized comedy. The Jell-o show of 1938 has more in common with today's comedy than it did with Vaudeville of the 1920s.

[Mister Kitzel]

The pacing is so much slower than what would be considered normal ten years later.

"The four Marx Brothers of the Apocalypse"--? Was there ever any other kind?