Quote of the day:

The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.
—Will Rogers

My grandmother, my mother’s mother, Tillie Zellers, saw Jack Benny on a talk show one time.

I remember her telling me this story that Jack had related on that program.

This is Jack Benny telling it as quoted in a biography:

I was living at the Radisson Hotel in Minneapolis and George Burns was following me into the theater there. He closed in Chicago a day early, and one Saturday morning, my closing day, he arrived at the hotel and phoned up from the lobby. Now George could always make me laugh, and I could never make him laugh, so I wracked my brains trying to think of something funny to do. I took off my pajamas and stood on top of the bed absolutely nude…and I put a book on top of my head, held a glass of water in one outstretched hand and a rose in the other. Now, wouldn’t you think that would make a funny picture and George would have to laugh?

Well, he must have suspected something because when I heard a knock on the door and said, ‘Come in,’…he sent the maid in! Now, how do you tell a maid that you’re waiting for George Burns? 

Here are Benny and Burns when they appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour: