For heavens sake, those old Texaco Star Theatres should be out as complete shows on DVD ... THIS WAS THE START OF TELEVISION! Uncle Miltie and all his guests need to be remembered ... nothing like live TV.

@uslines

Жыл бұрын

TST was one of the greatest "variety" programs, as was Ed Sullivan. SOS was possibly the greatest comedy show. Thanks to Sid and his magnificent cast and writers. Not forgetting the Honeymooners with JG & company. Fact is the 1950s was a golden age in many respects. My opinion of course.

Dean is magic, they really worked so well as a team , their live acts show two masters of their craft at work.

I'm 75 and remember those early shows. Berle, Cid Ceasar, Imogen Coco...all the greats. We watched them on our little black and white TV that had a round screen about 9 inches in diameter. We kids laid on the floor to watch the TV and my dad would say, "Don't sit too close, it'll ruin your eyes."

Their timing was incredible !

Classic comedy from 3 masters that will live as long as people can appreciate live comedy. Thank you.

Probably their earliest complete surviving TV appearance. Their TV debut was June 1948 on Ed Sullivan's first broadcast which was within a few days of Berle's NBC TV premiere. Today, Jimmy Fallon hosts the Tonight Show in the same studio that Berle's show once broadcast from.

@jfuzz9083

Жыл бұрын

He shouldn't be allowed to trod the same boards!

UNBELIEVABLE,dean holds the framework of the act together allowing jerry loose with his machine gun outbursts,stepping in to give jerry chance to re-load.pure gold artistry.

@zander1020

Жыл бұрын

@@susantunbridge4612 goodneess me,watching this early,ur an avid fan,nice one.

That was so funny!! Incredible that they could do that in one take.

I love the physicality and how hard they hit each other! It's been cracking me up watching all these Martin and Lewis sketches, and now seeing Milton Berle doing it... what a hoot! I'm surprised how hard they grab each other sometimes. It really makes the joke so much more hilarious how committed they are.

Bought Jerry's book Dean and Me cant wait to get mailed to me! Jerry said Dean was his Big brother (9 years GAP) Jerry wasn't making much progress with his act! (Lipsync with Opera sort of a Mime) Until he met Dean. Their jokes weren't rehearsed or scripted it just came naturally to them. They just clicked! America just came from WW2 - Chaplin was Old- Marx Bro & 3 stooges were the thing of the past! Then came 2 good looking men- A ladies man of a crooner and an energetic goofball. They took the world by Storm!

Oh jerry jerry ❤❤❤❤

This is classic. I remember Johnny Carson had Berle as a guest on the Tonight Show around 1988 to promote his "Second Time Around" video series of his old shows. He showed part of this clip on Carson's show - it cut off after Berle pulled Jerry by the mouth and dragged him off. The Carson audience was laughing hysterically as if it just happened. I remember Carson laughing himself and commenting "It's amazing how timeless this is - you still get a belly laugh out of it." Thanks for posting the full segment!

Love you Dean and Jerry 😍😍

Thank you for posting this. It helped me get thru a hard time! Thank you to the people who make us laugh 😍😍

From what I understand was that Lewis would go over what Martin needed to do or say in the car on the way to where they were going to perform and go over it once. Martin would breeze right through it.

I never missed show it came on Thursday night. I watched with my parents. I was just a kid. Dean and Jerry as a team. Melton Berle.

Classic physical comedy.

Dean's comedic timing is often overlooked by Jerry's high energy. When you look at these old clips, it's Dean that's keeping them together and on track. I don't think either of them gets or got the just credit they deserved as a team and as individuals.

@jerrylewisthekid5479

3 жыл бұрын

Jerry Lewis said to death. Without Dean Martin he would have been nobody. He's always been honest with Dean.

Jerry was so gorgeous

JERRY WAS SO ADORABLE

To keep the content clean and be that funny that takes some talent! These three guys are comedy legends!

@alonenjersey

10 ай бұрын

And this was all Live. No retakes.

That was funny! It makes today’s “comedy” look anemic.

When JERRY PLAYED IN THE MOVIE. ROCK A BYE BABY. HE WZ. THE HANSOM. P ERSON IN THE MOVIE. OH HE WZ HOTTT. THATS Y I ALWAYS LOVED JERRY LEWIS. HE WZ ALWAYS FUNNNY OMG.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Incredible Video .. Funny ..

Believe it or not but Martin and Lewis had a radio show 1949-1952 on NBC . It sounds great but their comedy was phyisical and had to be seen. Jerry's outrageous mugging and Dean's cool persona was very funny. They hosted episodes of the Colgate Comedy Hour on NBC 1950-1955. They also made movies for Paramount 1949 "My Friend Irma" was their first movie. ( MFI was an old time radio show on CBS.) The movies were very successful 1949-1956. Pardners was their last movie together. They broke up the act after 1956 and were still popular. Dean became a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack and made movies. Some Came Running, Rio Bravo and other features such as the Matt Helm series in the late 1960s proved that Dean could make it on his own without playing the straight man to Jerry's monkey." Oh yeah , Dean was still singing and in 1964 , knocked the Beatles out the charts with his recording Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes. He was also the star of the "Dean Martin Show" Jerry on NBC 1965-1974 and Celebrity Roasts." Jerry had a TV show on ABC Sept. -Dec.1963 and NBC Sept.1967-May 1969. Jerry had greater success in the movies as directors of his own movies for Paramount 1957-1964. I think he made movies for Columbia Pictures un the late 1960s. Jerry was the host of the Muscular Dystrophy fund on TV from 1966 until 2010. He raised millions for research and brought in a lot of Vegas lounge acts and this was in the days before cable TV. Nothing was on TV back in the day except old movies or test patterns. For years we knew summer was over and it was almost time for school when the Jerry Lewis MD Telethon was on TV. There's a few episodes posted on KZread. Check them out. That was life between 1969 -1980. Dean passed away on Christmas day 1995 and Jerry past away in August 2017. I ' ve read Shawn. Levy's biography about Jerry Lewis and Rat Pack Confidential a history of Sinatra's clan hey days in Las Vegas ca.1960-1964. I'm looking forward to new biographies about Jerry and Dean since Jerry passed away.

@elliestar88

4 жыл бұрын

I'd love to get a real biopic on the pair that spans through at least Dean's passing. I know there was a made for tv special in 2002, but it wasn't very well casted in my opinion and it didn't feel authentic.

@shawnmalone9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@elliestar88 👌

@shawnmalone9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@elliestar88 Hey , Read" The Chairman: Frank Sinatra" by James Kaplan. There's a lot of stuff about Dean Martin too in this book. It's a heavy read but I think you're gonna like it.

@elliestar88

4 жыл бұрын

@@shawnmalone9711 I'll put it on my kindle to read list

@shawnmalone9711

4 жыл бұрын

@@elliestar88 👌

Yes, I agree, Mary M, Jerry was gorgeous!

@daniellebourgade8701

5 жыл бұрын

Cute, attractive and sexy.....😍

America never seen a team like this before: a cool handsome guy and a goofy crazy guy. I love this clip cuz it shows the beginning of something great. No offense to Milton and Dean, but Jerry stole this clip.

"LOOK AT THIS CHEST" got me dying

LEGENDS💪

good one. very good.

Either Milton didn't remember correctly, or his writers didn't. Martin & Lewis appeared on the first "Toast Of The Town" (later The Ed Sullivan Show) in June, 1948. Their appearance on the TST wasn't their TV debut.

@gsmoviememories9254

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and that was also the debut episode of Toast of the Town.

@jfuzz9083

Жыл бұрын

All that remains of that Sullivan show is a photo of Ed and his guests standing on the stage ... but thank goodness the Berle appearance is around. But why on earth haven't those old Texaco Star Theatres been released on DVD ... Please, do not let them be lost to the ages!

@randolphveale9198

Жыл бұрын

Toast of the Town was their debut on TV

The best! Live and in black and white 10 in round screen Zenith🙂

Haaahaaa...love those two characters

Anyone have the full appearance/s of them on here? Thanks for posting!

It was pretty cute for the most part until they started kicking his ass and then it was next level funny

Born in '46, I was too young for Martin & Lewis. I was 10 y/o when they broke up, barely remembering it. But MORE then that --------neither parent , mostly my Dad------ever liked the 2 of them. Their brand of comedy never clicked with either parent. Now, Dad liked Dean, & always did. But Jerry Lewis totally turned him off --------my Mom feeling the same. -----------------------------------WolfSky9, 73 y/o

JERRY LEWIS 16 DE MARZO DE 1926 20 DE AGOSTO DE 2017 91 AÑOS.

In welcher Stadt lag dieses Texaco Star Theater?

😂😂😂😂 I laughed way to hard at this but I don’t care.

passed away , sorry!😯

Classic

'Nothing is going to happen between us. We'll always be friends.' Ironic. They had not got the double-act balance right yet. Jerry is hogging center stage, with Berle stooging as much as Dino. Threesome crosstalk is tricky. When the straight man began to emerge as a personality, Lewis got rid of him. He did Dino a favor.

@Donazify

4 жыл бұрын

And they still were friends until Dean's death.

Hilarious stuff

The dude was sitting on a glass table!!

DEAN MARTIN 07 DE JUNIO DE 1917 25 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1995 78 AÑOS

Ok, got it.

Dorky opening theme.

@Ray-fi4oc

7 жыл бұрын

I actually felt a bit of second-hand embarrassment for the people who had to sing that.

@sandee3073

Жыл бұрын

God it was hideous.

Lengendarulegendary

clean certainly was until the smut that's on tv

Does Milton call Jerry a “Jew from the zoo” at 5:45 ?

@bethangriffiths5206

4 жыл бұрын

He says, "I remember you from the zoo"

What anut

funny how they go on about good clean humor and no blue jokes, then proceed to act out bullying and physically abusing each other. ahh the good ol days.

And I used to think Cheech and Chong were dumb, gee whiz.

Not funny, just screaming.

@CamCamVA

6 ай бұрын

I agree….