On a recent rebroadcast of a 1973 episode, it was fun to see Jack Benny call Bob Hope an S.O.B. (although he didn't abbreviate it, of course). Benny always seemed like one of the least raunchy comedians of all time, but those who were close to him had a story or two about how dirty he could sometimes get (the best part of the otherwise repetitive The Aristocrats, in which comedians try
to come up with the filthiest variations they can about a family of entertainers,
is a deleted scene which mentions that Benny had devised an especially dirty version of the joke). Benny repeats the epithet, which again gets bleeped, and then Carson repeats it and guest Rich Little throws it in, too (his reasoning was that everyone else got to do it).
I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!
Hewwo.
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KC-7
7 years ago
Johnny said, "Gee, what a night for lip readers."
January 17, 1973 episode. SOB started with outtakes from "Jack Benny's First Farewell Special" which had Bob and Johnny. Later in Tonight Show episode, Rich Little comes out and does a bit imitating Jack Benny doing the news and lets SOB rip. It is funny stuff. And there is a 11 year-old girl sitting on the couch taking it all in. She did enjoy Rich's Spiro Agnew impression.
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