Word: jell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Announcer: Don Wilson (for Jack Benny and Jell...
...running for the White House, and I'm not going to take in any roomers." This sort of prattle all over the networks, on programs ranging from Jack Benny's Jell-O half-hour...
...radio performer, Comedian Jack Benny has since October 1937 run a close second to a perverse but inanimate object -the saucy ventriloquist's dummy known as Charlie McCarthy. At the 1939 finish, Charlie (Chase and Sanborn Hour) had an estimated 27,000,000 Sunday-night listeners: Jell-O's Jack Benny, an hour earlier on the same NBC-Red network, 24,000,000. Beginning Jan. 7, Standard Brands pared the Chase and Sanborn program to a half-hour, saving some $7,500 in airtime charges, plus salaries of Hollywood fixtures like Dorothy Lamour, Don Ameche...
Jack Benny was chosen top comedian for the seventh successive time; Fred Allen second; Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's dummy, Charlie McCarthy (the people's choice in many listener surveys), third. Benny's Sunday-night program for Jell-O was voted tops, too, with Information Please second...