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Here's an endearing 1992 bio "Jack Benny Comedy in Bloom", narrated by Tom Smothers. The talking heads all worked with him and the affection they felt for him feels very genuine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b51SKLTZNY

I was asked about this one, but out of my depth. Perhaps Al Alt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K3mNNhPGKc

IMPORTANT NEWS (MGM 1936) with Chic Sale, James Stewart and everybody's favorite, Billy Dooley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTLkU9CKvKY

Patsy Kelly in possibly her first film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfAqC-WXuwE&t=338s

Jay C. Flippen is mostly remembered as a stellar character actor from the late 1940's through 1970, but he was in vaudeville from the early 1920's and had a unique style. Here is THE HAM WHAT AM, a Vitaphone Variety from 1928:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I68kv3UNWuM

A product of it's time, apparently Freeman & Gosden do the voices here as well

https://archive.org/details/amosnandyrasslingmatch

An Educational Kinogram from 1925. Included here as his filmed output otherwise was during the sound era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPPZcDnkmk

A nice Vitaphone Variety from 1930 directed by Bryan Foy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfN9mbANGw

A Vitaphone Variety from 1931

https://archive.org/details/GeorgeJesse ... anArtChoir

you can thank me later.

The first, AN OBSTINATE CORK (1902), from a flip-book, has been around for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5eOtrOXqCE The second, DESSERT AT DAN LENO'S HOUSE (also 1902) starts about 3 minutes into the mini-doc from the Dan Leno Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwX0mHfcib4 as a bonus...