Benny Rubin
Elmer Pintar
the Joe Besser shorts.....
Elmer Pintar
D. Kirkpatrick
Pin...@webtv.net (Elmer Pintar) wrote:
> What did you think of this guy? I thought he was hilarious in one of
> the Joe Besser shorts.....
Benny Rubin was a regular on a variety of radio programs where he honed
his voice skills not unlike Mel Blanc and others. He had some short
subjects of his own though to the best of my knowledge never as a star or
featured player.
Like Besser he showed up on TV programs such as Abbott and Costello and
variety TV programs such as Jack Benny.
Rubin's specialty was foreign accents and he had a whole repetoire.
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Jim Neibaur
"Curly was the funniest, Moe was a businessman, and Shemp wasn't a very good
actor."
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SRydzewski
TV), songwriter, singer, etc. I've seen a few of his early 1930's RKO-Pathe
shorts and found him very funny. One of my favorite Rubin appearances was on a
Munsters episode where an unemployed Herman goes from job to job including one
in Benny Rubin's Chinese Laundry. Hilarious stuff!
Steve Rydzewski (Phila)
Ron Bauerly
Jim Neibaur wrote:
> Rubin on the Howard brothers:
>
> "Curly was the funniest, Moe was a businessman, and Shemp wasn't a very good
> actor."
>
> JN
Yes and don't forget to "consider the source."
Joe DeRita is quoted in the Scrapbook as saying he never found The Stooges
funny.
I believe Shemp had the best acting talent of The Stooges and for me makes me
laugh the most. Though I should say that as a kid I loved curly vastly more
than any of the others. I watched "Scrambled Brains" again lsat night and it
still breaks me up every time. The Mama doll scene with Emil as a doctor
examining Shemp's heart
works for me every time..
Ron Bauerly
Jim Neibaur
>Jim Neibaur wrote:
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I agree. But the post was going on about how funny Benny Rubin was, and rather
than state "he was an s.o.b." I put down what he said about the Stooges. Of
course he was wrong.
A better Benny Rubin story:
A friend of mine was interviewing Rubin who was telling about his career and
the various people with whom he worked (Jack Benny, et al). My friend asked
about his films with The Three Stooges, whereupon Rubin replied, "Stooges,
stooges, stooges, everyone asks me about those fucking Stooges!" and changed
the subject. It was eerily similar to the reaction I got from Christine
McIntyre in a similar context (except McIntyre hung up on me when I brought up
the Stooges -- and she had been really sweet and nice up until that point).
Rubin was a dialect comic who was relegated to small-time status at the close
of Vaudeville and Burlesque. He remained active a long time, but was generally
an unlikeable, opinionated schmuck by most accounts.