Welcome back to Boris Karloff month! The Jack Benny Program. On the episode of January 19, 1947, Boris Karloff appeared in a sketch titled "I Stand Condemned". This was the second time Benny performed the sketch (the first was with Peter Lorre) but Karloff is simply wonderful in this rendition. The sketch features Benny as a condemned man who relates how a chance encounter with Karloff (or, "the fickle finger of fate", if you will) set him on the path of ruin. What follows is basically a satire of Inner Sanctum Mysteries. "Why must I always die in the end?" Karloff wonders. Most of the comedy shows I've featured with Karloff would have simply appear as himself and play the part of a generic 'boogeyman'. This episode has an actual plot for him to satirize! You can hear it at archive.org by clicking here!
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