My Friend Irma - Title UnKnown

Dependable, level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis - plus Joan
Banks during Lewis' illness in early 1949 and Mary Shipp later)
began each weekly radio program by narrating a misadventure of
her innocent, bewildered roommate Irma, a scatterbrained
stenographer from Minnesota. The two central characters were in
their mid-20s. Irma had her 25th birthday in one episode; she was
born on May 5. After the two met in the first episode, they lived
together in an apartment rented from their Irish landlady Mrs.
O'Reilly (Jane Morgan, Gloria Gordon).

Irma's boyfriend Al  (John Brown) was a deadbeat, barely on
the right side of the law, who had not held a job in years. Only
someone like Irma could love Al, whose nickname for Irma was
"Chicken". Al had many crazy get-rich-quick-schemes  that
never worked. Al planned to marry Irma at some future date so she
could support him. Professor Kropotkin (Hans Conried)), the
Russian violinist at the Princess Burlesque theater, lived
upstairs. He greeted Jane and Irma with remarks like "My two
little bunnies with one being an Easter bunny and the other being
Bugs Bunny." The Professor insulted Mrs. O'Reilly, complained
about his room, and reluctantly became O'Reilly's love interest
in an effort to make her forget his back rent. In 1953, Conried
left the program and was replaced by Kenny Delmar as his cousin
Maestro Wanderkin.

Irma worked for the lawyer Mr. Clyde (Alan Reed). She had such an
odd filing system that once when Clyde fired her, he had to hire
her back again because he couldn't find anything. Useless at
dictation, Irma mangled whatever Clyde dictated. Asked how long
she had been with Clyde, Irma said, "When I first went to work
with him he had curly black hair, then it got grey, and now it's
snow white. I guess I've been with with him about six
months." 


Irma became less intelligent and even more ditzy as the program
evolved. She also developed a tendency to whine or cry whenever
something went wrong, which was usually at least once every
episode. Jane had a romantic inclination for her boss,
millionaire Richard Rhinelander III (Leif Erickson). Another
actor in the show was Bea Benaderet.