- Jack Benny: What is your suggestion?
- Tennessee Ernie Ford: Well, uh, you play the violin, and I play the violin, and I thought maybe that you and I...
- Jack Benny: Wait a minute! You play the violin?
- Tennessee Ernie Ford: Oh, yes, sir. Of course, I don't play it like you do.
- Jack Benny: Oh, Ernie, you're just being modest.
- Tennessee Ernie Ford: I thought I was braggin'.