How Long to Read Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One

How Long Does it Take to Read Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 32 minutes to read Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One by Jack Benny

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For the first time in almost 90 years, we can experience the origins of Jack Benny's radio comedy genius. Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts, brought up from Benny's subterranean vault [or the UCLA archives, almost as difficult to access!] finally share scripts of his earliest live radio programs--for which no recordings exist. See how the soon-to-be-king of radio comedy moved from his vaudeville stand-up comedy background to invent the workplace situation comedy. In these first shows of 1932, Jack plays a "Broadway Romeo," a genial, self-deprecating comedian, who is not yet the famously cheap "fall guy" he would become over the next two years. Jack claims that it's his bandleader, George Olsen, who's the tightwad. Highlights of Volume One include: - Jack's commercials for Canada Dry Ginger Ale- the funniest, and most controversial, advertising parodies he would ever perform. - Jack's panic as he realizes he has used up every vaudeville routine he'd ever performed on stage, and this is a twice-a-week program. - The initial Introduction of Mary Livingstone, the radio fan from Plainfield, New Jersey. - An introduction by Kathy Fuller-Seeley that sets the stage for why these historic shows are so important to understand Benny's career. These 26 hilarious radio scripts offer Jack Benny at his early creative best. Kathryn Fuller-Seeley is the author of Jack Benny and the Golden Age of Radio Comedy (2017) and books on early motion pictures and nickelodeon audiences. She teaches media history at the University of Texas at Austin.

How long is Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One?

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One by Jack Benny is 266 pages long, and a total of 68,096 words.

This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 83% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 12 minutes to read Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One aloud.

What Reading Level is Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One?

Jack Benny's Lost Radio Broadcasts Volume One is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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