Jack Benny truly was an anti-comedian, wringing the biggest laughs out of doing nothing at all. It's staggering to think that he and just a pair of writers wrung 30+ years of scripts out of a pretty limited character and a small cast -- even when a performer had to be replaced, which was rare, Benny never strayed far from what was already working [Dennis Day was the best, but one eager-beaver tenor singer was about as good as the next].
Here's an archive of the radio portion of the series -- the television version only lasted a mere 15 years, but what it lost in visuals ["the radio had better pictures"] it made up for with seeing a master's sense of timing at work, but the radio program is the prime material.
[Noteworthy for Orson Welles nuthuggers like me: Welles replaced an ill Benny as host/foil/victim for bulk of the March 1943 shows.]
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