TMC
08-12-2025, 01:48 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2025/08/06/a-meeting-of-three-giants/
Now, we all know that Here’s Lucy (https://web.archive.org/web/20140331140354/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3131686-heres-lucy-and-the-lucy-show-lucy-without-desi/?view=getnewpost) isn’t a great sitcom — it’s second only to Life With Lucy (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125326fw_/http://www.jumptheshark.com/l/lifewithlucy.htm) as the iconic redhead’s weakest foray into the genre (https://comforttv.blogspot.com/2017/10/in-defense-of-heres-lucy.html) that she had once mastered — but “Lucy Visits Jack Benny” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0600031/) is one of this show’s better samples (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thelucypodcast/episodes/Heres-Lucy-S1-Ep2-Lucy-Visits-Jack-Benny-e2vcghq), largely because it unites two of the funniest people who ever lived. And there’s even a cameo (https://everythinglucy.youns.com/heres-lucy/heres-lucy-episode-02.html) at the end by the Great One, Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFCtU3sA7Y), making it a rare meeting of three of the most formative entertainers in sitcom history.
Now, we all know that Here’s Lucy (https://web.archive.org/web/20140331140354/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/3131686-heres-lucy-and-the-lucy-show-lucy-without-desi/?view=getnewpost) isn’t a great sitcom — it’s second only to Life With Lucy (https://web.archive.org/web/20061031125326fw_/http://www.jumptheshark.com/l/lifewithlucy.htm) as the iconic redhead’s weakest foray into the genre (https://comforttv.blogspot.com/2017/10/in-defense-of-heres-lucy.html) that she had once mastered — but “Lucy Visits Jack Benny” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0600031/) is one of this show’s better samples (https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/thelucypodcast/episodes/Heres-Lucy-S1-Ep2-Lucy-Visits-Jack-Benny-e2vcghq), largely because it unites two of the funniest people who ever lived. And there’s even a cameo (https://everythinglucy.youns.com/heres-lucy/heres-lucy-episode-02.html) at the end by the Great One, Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFCtU3sA7Y), making it a rare meeting of three of the most formative entertainers in sitcom history.