UNLOCKED - #492 - The Eddie Anderson Story

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When he emerged on radio, he was celebrated as a pioneering black star in a white entertainment landscape. By the time of the Civil Rights Movement, he was regarded by many a symbol of black subservience. In this solo documentary episode Cohost Will considers the career and thorny legacy of Eddie Anderson, the actor and comedian who played "Rochester" on The Jack Benny Show. "Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy" by Katherine H. Fuller-Seeley - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520295056/jack-benny-and-the-golden-age-of-american-radio-comedy This episode first appeared on the Michael & Us Patreon. For an extra episode every week, join us at https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Will here with a solo documentary episode about a significant figure in the history of American popular culture.
0:08.6	Much of what I know about this subject is thanks to the research of Catherine Fuller Seeley in her excellent book,
0:14.9	Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy. I highly recommend it.
0:19.9	I'd like to begin with a clip from the March 28th,
0:22.9	1937 episode of The Jello Program starring Jack Benny. Jack, the star comedian, is on a train with
0:31.0	his co-stars traveling from Chicago to California when they encounter a porter.
0:35.9	How'd you sleep, Mary? I was up past the night, writing an Easter poem.
0:39.4	Do you want to hear it?
0:40.0	Not now, Mary.
0:41.1	A dear old Easter.
0:42.0	A porter, porter.
0:43.5	Yes?
0:44.4	What time do we get to Albuquerque?
0:46.8	Who?
0:49.1	Albuquerque.
0:50.0	I don't know.
0:50.8	Do we stop there?
0:52.9	Well, certainly we stop there.
0:54.7	My, my.
0:59.8	Hmm.
1:00.9	I better go up and tell the engineer about that.
1:03.7	Yeah.
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