Ready for some shopping? In December of 1940, The Jack Benny Program struck out to the department store (The May, Company -- natch ) and found comedy gold! Decades before Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David copied Benny's format of a "show about nothing," audiences were listening to routines yet to be bettered to this day!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCkgj3wqO0