# Celebrities who were universally beloved by their peers

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-who-were-universally-beloved-by-their-peers/735125/55 "2015-10-21T04:26:09Z")

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> [@Kamino\_Neko](#):
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> (And where the character was a terrible violinist, the man was quite competent, though I doubt that has nearly as much to do with how well-liked he was.)

> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Here are Jack Benny and Isaac Stern having some fun with violins: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_EofKXc-EOo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EofKXc-EOo). Quoth Wiki, “…Benny was a fairly good violinist who achieved the illusion of a bad one, not by deliberately playing poorly, but by striving to play pieces that were too difficult for his skill level.”

I don’t entirely agree with wiki. On his tv shows he occasionally messes up simple stuff intentionally such as his theme, “Love in Bloom”.

But “fairly good”, “quite competent”? I don’t think I could go quite that far. He certainly wasn’t good enough to get into a major orchestra.

From an earlier post of mine:

> [@Any recordings of Jack Benny playing the violin seriously?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-recordings-of-jack-benny-playing-the-violin-seriously/479526/4):
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> He performed excerpts from Sarasate’s “Ziegeunerweisen” when he hosted an episode of “Hollywood Palace”. The arrangement is a duet for him and his violin teacher as opposed to the original for solo violin. He’s playing as well as he can without his usual shtick of hilariously bad technique and intonation. The music starts at about 3:28, and you can hear him play a couple of somewhat challenging bars solo starting at about 7:10.
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> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJLGSIqt28](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJLGSIqt28)

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