5 episodes in which Rochester gets the best of his boss on The Jack Benny Show
Gwen Ihnat
look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. Alternately, they can offer up recommendations inspired by a theme. In this installment: In honor of Black History Month, we’re spotlighting five episodes of The Jack Benny Show
that featured Eddie “Rochester” Anderson.
There were Black characters on the air during the early days of radio, as the first mass broadcasting medium swept the country in the 1930s, though many of them were portrayed by white actors in what amounts to aural blackface. The most famous example was the popular program