Jerry Lester

It's the Silver Jubilee on NBC.

Next, it's The Big Show, with stars including Sophie Tucker, June Valley, Jerry Lester, Ann Sheridan, Morton Downey, and your charming hostess, Tallulah Bankhead.

Then enjoy Murtha Music with Phil Harris and Alice Faye.

Later, Theater Guild On the Air presents Age of Innocence, costarring Claudette Colbert and MacDonald Carey.

Yes, the floor show is wonderful.

The Goobards' music is so exciting, and this Jerry Lester, such a funny comedian.

And the atmosphere is nice and cozy and-

Please, pl- would you all be quiet? I'm going over the check.

Hmm.

The Kubel music is so exciting, and this Jerry Lester, such a funny comedian.

Hmm.

And the atmosphere is nice and cozy and-

It was the one he did...

Jerry Lester was the other.

The two of them traded off, um, uh, Broadway Open House.

Was that the name of the show, or...?

ago, The Tonight Show began.

What I remember was before Steve Allen, Jerry Lester had that time with Dagmar.

Well, that had been much earlier.

That had been 1951, 1952.

right before Steve Allen.

No, no, there was a gap of a few years there.

And Jerry Lester, it was not a Tonight Show at all.

It was just a regular straight variety show.