Milton Berle's Smile Hid A Cruel Mind

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Would there be television, if it weren't for Milton Berle? It’s a legitimate question because, in its heyday, Berle’s Texaco Star Theater was so popular that it doubled the number of TVs in American homes. It also brought Berle to superstardom and all of its traps: Divorces, womanizing, and just throwing his rather large ego around.
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  • @Factinate
    @Factinate6 ай бұрын

    Make sure to like and subscribe if you learned something new 🎓!

  • @allenfreeland6494

    @allenfreeland6494

    6 ай бұрын

    Really nasty but there is always meanness inside these celebrities.Same about Danny Kaye rumors that he was a SOB too.

  • @stj971

    @stj971

    6 ай бұрын

    I learned that whoever does your subtitles can't spell!

  • @stj971

    @stj971

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@allenfreeland6494Bing Crosby also

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    @@stj971 Oh! You mean the captions? Those are notoriously bad. Sometimes they are so funny, they're the best thing about a program. I didn't notice the ones on this video.

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    @@allenfreeland6494 Please - not "always?" Unless you mean that all humans have that imperfection? I wonder if folks here know a celebrity who was a really good person? Recently, I read something very good about George Michael.

  • @crashburn3292
    @crashburn32926 ай бұрын

    Milton Berle, Bing Crosby and Jerry Lewis all had something in common. They were horrific parents.

  • @louisgreen3915

    @louisgreen3915

    6 ай бұрын

    You can put Peter Sellers and Joan Crawford on that list.

  • @Horsefeathers30

    @Horsefeathers30

    6 ай бұрын

    Jerry Lewis

  • @geegeelast7597

    @geegeelast7597

    6 ай бұрын

    I can’t speak for the other two. But Jerry Lewis wasn’t a kind man. Self centered, sort tempered and downright rude.

  • @voxtango1916

    @voxtango1916

    6 ай бұрын

    You forgot Joe Biden*.

  • @lisazinn866

    @lisazinn866

    6 ай бұрын

    Big schlongs?

  • @lovelyandsmartcommentator5130
    @lovelyandsmartcommentator51306 ай бұрын

    As a kid born in 1955, I never thought he was funnny.....he was just STUPID.

  • @dfros1957

    @dfros1957

    6 ай бұрын

    .I was born in 1957. I never found him funny. I also thought he was stupid.

  • @jonathanhansen3709

    @jonathanhansen3709

    6 ай бұрын

    I was born about the same time too, last week of 1954. We were born after the, “Uncle Miltie” period Of his early successes. I personally never thought he was funny, he always seemed to project conceit, like “ look at me, I’m the star’”. Reminded me a lot of someone else, Chevy Chase, another individual who built a whole career from an early success on SNL, but turned out to be a real jerk. I remember watching a run-in on a talk show Berle had with Richard Pryor, someone truly wittier and more spontaneous than him. You could see how unnerved Berle was.

  • @jackiesage4430

    @jackiesage4430

    6 ай бұрын

    I got here in 1956 and never found ANYTHING remotely intertaining about him

  • @GiftSparks

    @GiftSparks

    6 ай бұрын

    Agree- I hated him. Never saw what was funny about him. Or Jerry Lewis for that matter.

  • @lynneyork1371

    @lynneyork1371

    6 ай бұрын

    I was born in ‘45. I too thought he was rude, crude and definitely crass. Most of my family felt the same. We certainly didn’t buy our first TV to watch him.

  • @dave3657
    @dave36576 ай бұрын

    I remember seeing him on talk shows like Johnny Carson. Occasionally he would get a question that he wasn’t expecting or wasn’t prepared for. I noticed he became very dark and angry quickly. But then he seemed to get back into character and threw in a joke or a laugh. But I got the impression that he had a dark side just under the surface.

  • @jessjess23brooks89

    @jessjess23brooks89

    4 ай бұрын

    You should see his disastrous SNL monologue. When his jokes wouldn't land, he'd pull the most hateful face and shift right back into character. Kinda terrifying.

  • @vikingprincess634
    @vikingprincess6346 ай бұрын

    My dad thought he was a freak. I always thought he was overrated.

  • @lska7853

    @lska7853

    6 ай бұрын

    Him and Phillis Diller.

  • @howardfrankfort

    @howardfrankfort

    6 ай бұрын

    People loved that bit at that time

  • @gregoryvanikiotis3214

    @gregoryvanikiotis3214

    5 ай бұрын

    I thought he was a prick

  • @werewolvesofsanger4649
    @werewolvesofsanger46496 ай бұрын

    They say that you should never meet your heroes. I believe it.

  • @glendaeden2501
    @glendaeden25016 ай бұрын

    Berle was a television star at a time when the media was an infant and expectations much lower.

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    @@samanthacrump1976 Would you please rephrase your question? 🤷‍♀

  • @milarazal5058

    @milarazal5058

    6 ай бұрын

    No, expectations were way higher!- and.met.

  • @brettrobinson2901

    @brettrobinson2901

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@samanthacrump1976Huh?

  • @atatterson6992

    @atatterson6992

    6 ай бұрын

    No dude, quite the opposite. You people are so tiresome. So the guy was a busy non-attentive father... sue him. It sure beats the pedo's and gay rapists of today. How the world has fallen

  • @Hndsmstrngr1

    @Hndsmstrngr1

    6 ай бұрын

    Vaudeville was still in the nation's character is a comedic form in medium, that's what he brought to television in its infancy.... broadcast entertainment evolved and he did not and he did not.

  • @stevenleek1254
    @stevenleek12546 ай бұрын

    Even as a child I detested Berle and through he was a pervert. Kids sometimes sense these things, how I don't know.

  • @kevinmckethan1506

    @kevinmckethan1506

    6 ай бұрын

    Like so many career politicians today

  • @IAmJaguarPaw.ThisIsMyForest.

    @IAmJaguarPaw.ThisIsMyForest.

    6 ай бұрын

    Children have not yet learned, nor rehearsed, thoroughly lying to themselves, as adults do, so very well, later in life.

  • @user-hp1ou3nb7t

    @user-hp1ou3nb7t

    5 ай бұрын

    I think kids can sense a bad person but can't explain why that person is bad.

  • @PowerfulOwl-m3g

    @PowerfulOwl-m3g

    5 ай бұрын

    America's Jimmy Saville?

  • @kevinmckethan1506

    @kevinmckethan1506

    5 ай бұрын

    With their multi million dollar payoff fund for sexual harassments

  • @BigMamaDaveX
    @BigMamaDaveX6 ай бұрын

    He may have been an accomplished performer, but that he was a nasty piece of work privately is pretty well known. Similar to Jerry Lewis. Pity.

  • @jeffsmith2022

    @jeffsmith2022

    6 ай бұрын

    So you had personal experiences with the man to make this comment or is it all conjecture on your part?...

  • @hollyfarr7209

    @hollyfarr7209

    5 ай бұрын

    Ah, good comparison.

  • @patsulek1570

    @patsulek1570

    5 ай бұрын

    Hey big mama agree 100%

  • @susanpage8315

    @susanpage8315

    5 ай бұрын

    @@jeffsmith2022 I have friends who worked in radio and had personal experiences with Jerry Lewis. He was extremely rude.

  • @David-yw2lv

    @David-yw2lv

    4 ай бұрын

    Many now bend over backwards to be that way.Madonna is especially hateful and goes out of her way to be.

  • @catherinecastle8576
    @catherinecastle85766 ай бұрын

    Im 67. As a small child we'd just got a tv and my family watched "Uncle Miltie". Even as a child i disliked him. Wasn't easy because the family loved him.. Ugh. Nothing i hear about him surprises me.

  • @zipzonker1576

    @zipzonker1576

    6 ай бұрын

    Also, Red was the best pantomime guy ever. His routine about a guy babysitting an infant while watching a football game was a true classic.

  • @David-yw2lv

    @David-yw2lv

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@zipzonker1576I was a huge Skelton fan.He was a comic genius, but very troubled.

  • @johnogrady2418

    @johnogrady2418

    3 ай бұрын

    I like Red Skelton for the most part but his cutesy routine got tired after awhile.

  • @pageharris5693
    @pageharris56936 ай бұрын

    I met him once. Let’s just say he did not leave me with a good impression. Somewhat nasty.

  • @770WT

    @770WT

    6 ай бұрын

    My mother met him once as well and he was very rude .

  • @pooddescrewch8718

    @pooddescrewch8718

    6 ай бұрын

    He was a jerk

  • @brettrobinson2901

    @brettrobinson2901

    6 ай бұрын

    In what way?

  • @kellymac2404

    @kellymac2404

    6 ай бұрын

    me too he was extremely creepy

  • @hildahilpert5018

    @hildahilpert5018

    6 ай бұрын

    Never met him However heard Al Jolson was a jerk too.

  • @mibeatleman6767
    @mibeatleman67676 ай бұрын

    From Moe Howard's memoirs, Moe wrote that when The Three Stooges appeared on Berle's show, Berle intetionally slapped Moe so hard that Moe's teeth had been cracked.

  • @Diogenes-ty9yy
    @Diogenes-ty9yy6 ай бұрын

    I was born in 1949 and still remember my Mom and Dad bought their first television set in 1954 when Dad got a GI bonus. My sister and I watched as the delivery men brought it in, attached the rabbit ears, and turned it on and the first thing I saw was Milton Berle, dressed in drag, and the audience roaring laughter. Then, Dad turned the channel and the next person I saw was Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and his show, "Life Is Worth Living." I don't think that there could ever be a wider gap between 2 TV shows than these 2.

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    5 ай бұрын

    That's where the "transgender" thing got started.

  • @rdred8693

    @rdred8693

    5 ай бұрын

    @@davidlafleche1142 Started in Germany. Weimer nonsense.

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    5 ай бұрын

    @@rdred8693 More recently, TV producers such as the Disney Corporation and Donald Bellisario have pushed "trans."

  • @Dimi374

    @Dimi374

    5 ай бұрын

    My parents were born in 1949 and my Grandfather and his brother were two of the two million Black American military personnel that did not receive their GI bonuses.

  • @joanodom2104

    @joanodom2104

    4 ай бұрын

    The "transgender thing" as you so rudely refer to it, "got started," because one in every thousand births a child is born with genitals of both genders. Educate yourself. You actually have more in common with Berle, the way he was mean to RuPaul.

  • @hifijohn
    @hifijohn6 ай бұрын

    Most show business people were pretty twisted.

  • @lisasaims3007

    @lisasaims3007

    6 ай бұрын

    Were? Still are, private club, it seems.

  • @hifijohn

    @hifijohn

    6 ай бұрын

    @@lisasaims3007 Youre right - were is and always will be.

  • @765kvline

    @765kvline

    6 ай бұрын

    Many of them had "stage mothers" who, as Judy Garland's mom, languished excessive attention on their offspring and built up their egos in order to win roles on Vaudeville, radio, motion pictures and television. These were "unnatural" parents of the first order. They had a lot to do with the bazaar exploits of sons and daughters. Not to mention, many young actors were compelled to enter situations where drugs were used, threats compounded, excessive working demands and large amounts of money corrupted them.

  • @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    3 ай бұрын

    They're carnies.

  • @johnmcclearen

    @johnmcclearen

    3 күн бұрын

    Most people , in general, are pretty twisted.It's only the famous ones who get exposed. We are all human.

  • @richardkaiser9509
    @richardkaiser95096 ай бұрын

    Never thought berle was funny, never!!! Now Jack Benny, the man kept me in stitches!!!😂🎉rekwife

  • @tonym994

    @tonym994

    6 ай бұрын

    I loved Benny. I remember one nite in the '70's, he did a tribute/roast for Berle, that was hilarious! I actually had it on audio tape, and had my friends rolling on the floor. but I told them, you have to SEE this sometime, to see Jack mocking his own text, as if Berle was being unfairly recognized. he'd glance over at Berle, after each accolade, like (he'd take off his thick black glasses as a prop).... who wrote this bull? I actually had seen Berle in person around that time, when my High school class took a feild trip to WBZ-4 NBC, to see him plug his early '70's book, in which he talked of bedding Marylin Monroe, among other things. I cannot honestly say he was very funny, tho. his heyday was when I was in diapers, but even after that, all I can remember is his trademark cigar under his buck teeth. and BTW, folks, he couldn't hold Jerry Lewis's clipboard, regardless of what you think of Jerry. but you do have to give him credit for making TV's fly off the shelves in the '50's. and he admitted that working in drag actually started before his TV days, when he wanted to get laid, and couldn't enter a woman's boarding house overnight. so he threw on a dress, to gain entry,...so to speak, and he eventually made drag big.

  • @PhDrSeuss

    @PhDrSeuss

    5 ай бұрын

    Jack Benny got waaaay more laughs from me than Berle (who rarely got got any).

  • @davidlafleche1142

    @davidlafleche1142

    5 ай бұрын

    One of the funniest things I ever saw was an episode of the Jack Benny Program, guest starring Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. Jack is on trial for "murdering a rooster," so he hires Perry Mason...who screws up, big time.

  • @tonym994

    @tonym994

    5 ай бұрын

    actually, I do remember a pretty funny line he delivered when we went to see him that time. he was describing a meeting in a restaurant or speakeasy, w/ Ben 'Bugsy' Segal, whom he'd met. Segal told him to take his ring that I think Berle complimented . he replied, oh no, I couldn't take.....Seigal interrupted him, and said, "take it." and it was intimidatingly funny.

  • @Jhensy2012

    @Jhensy2012

    5 ай бұрын

    Same with my Dad. Every time Berle came on the TV he'd groan. But he loved the Jack Benny Show!

  • @abqmalenurse
    @abqmalenurse6 ай бұрын

    Something about him always gave me the creeps, even as a child. Beyond that, his jokes were stolen, he was completely full of himself and he just wasn't funny. I never saw the attraction.

  • @gwenking7700

    @gwenking7700

    6 ай бұрын

    I felt the same way. Also Bob Hope gave me bad vibes

  • @paulascott5701

    @paulascott5701

    6 ай бұрын

    You took the words right out of my mouth. As a child I recognized Milton Berle as a world class asshole. Joey Bishop too.

  • @Stublinsky

    @Stublinsky

    6 ай бұрын

    Excellent comment. I felt the same way !

  • @FlamingoKicker

    @FlamingoKicker

    5 ай бұрын

    I think he just happened to be in the right place at the right time and willing to go on the new medium of television when others were hesitant. And he was willing to appear like a goof,

  • @maureenobrien4807

    @maureenobrien4807

    5 ай бұрын

    Read "Thanks For The Memories." ​@@gwenking7700

  • @amazinggrace5692
    @amazinggrace56926 ай бұрын

    More like that uncle we knew to stay away from and never be caught alone with. Major creep vibes.

  • @joeyrossetti13

    @joeyrossetti13

    6 ай бұрын

    nope he was funny who you are talking about is creepy joe biden

  • @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    3 ай бұрын

    Yikes. Sorry for your family.

  • @farmalmta
    @farmalmta6 ай бұрын

    One of the worst things about Berle is that he HAD to have the attention and literally became furious when some other entertainer was having an effect on the audience, riveting their attention. Berle participated in a traveling medicine show, The Hadacol Caravan in 1950 or so, in which he performed his corny comedy schtick. Red Foley-- a very popular Country music artist-- would perform his sad/sentimental hit "Old Shep", causing the audience to have an emotional roller coaster ride. One night Berle couldn't stand how effective the song was on the audience and went out-- unbeknownst to Red Foley singing at the front of the stage-- and did a silent vaudeville pantomime behind him ridiculing the song and the singing. Red Foley had no idea why the audience was laughing and it ruined his act for the night. Hank Williams sent his fiddle player over to Milton Berle, telling him Hank's exact words: "Tell Milton Berle that if he pulls that sh!t while I'm singing tonight, I'll bust this guitar right over his GD head." Milton wisely heeded the warning and never again messed with the Hillbilly Singers on the show.

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    6 ай бұрын

    Lucille Ball was the exact same way.

  • @geegeelast7597

    @geegeelast7597

    6 ай бұрын

    @@chynnadoll3277wow! I had absolutely no clue.

  • @BalotelliFan713

    @BalotelliFan713

    6 ай бұрын

    And this is why Hank Williams is a God

  • @breckrichardson390

    @breckrichardson390

    5 ай бұрын

    @chynnadoll3277, no she wasn't. She didn't perform spontaneously like that and would only perform with a script that was provided to her that she would rehearse to perfection.

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    5 ай бұрын

    @@breckrichardson390 : Again, we can agree to disagree.

  • @welcome_to_the_collapse
    @welcome_to_the_collapse6 ай бұрын

    He was no George Burns, that's for sure.

  • @cecileroy557

    @cecileroy557

    6 ай бұрын

    George Burns was such a character! ❤

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    6 ай бұрын

    George Burns wasn't funny either.

  • @welcome_to_the_collapse

    @welcome_to_the_collapse

    6 ай бұрын

    @@chynnadoll3277 Fair enough. But how about Jack Benny, then?

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    6 ай бұрын

    @@welcome_to_the_collapse : Lol, I know I’m in the minority here, but Bob Hope, Jack Benny, and Lucille Ball were simply not funny to me, ever. They seemed to try too hard, imo. I think Lucille Ball annoyed me the most; coveting constant attention at any cost. “Ricky, I wanna be in the show!” really got on my nerves. But I love the Three Stooges (at least the ones with Curly), MadTV, SCTV, and South Park. Go figure *shrug*.

  • @breckrichardson390

    @breckrichardson390

    5 ай бұрын

    @chynnadoll3277, George Burns was quite funny and much loved, having one of the longest careers in the history of show business

  • @lisagerman2111
    @lisagerman21116 ай бұрын

    Buster Brown shoes - oh boy, does that bring back memories :)

  • @CQ-369

    @CQ-369

    4 ай бұрын

    And his little dog "Tige". We're old. 😊

  • @rvnmedic1968

    @rvnmedic1968

    3 ай бұрын

    When I was about 5 years old, my Mother took me and my brother to a BB shoe store. I hated clothes shopping and shoes were in that list. But, I remember my brother and I putting our feet into an X-ray machine over and over again to see our bones! X-ray of fluoroscopic? Don't know. 😆

  • @moldyoldie7888

    @moldyoldie7888

    Ай бұрын

    Smilin' Ed McConnell. Froggy the Gremlin. Hiya kids, hiya, hiya hiya! Ah Ah Ah!

  • @Hummingbirds2023
    @Hummingbirds20236 ай бұрын

    I have heard a lot of nasty things about him, he and Jerry Lewis are on the same level, really nasty cruel people. Especially to their families.

  • @Dobbin1010
    @Dobbin10106 ай бұрын

    He called our home in ‘66 when our great aunt died. She was his seamstress for decades and traveled the world. He was very warm and we were impressed how he sounded like just a regular guy.

  • @fredkruse9444

    @fredkruse9444

    6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for providing a real-life event contadictory in tone to most of the comments. Most people are some combination of good and bad.

  • @atatterson6992

    @atatterson6992

    6 ай бұрын

    Thank you for that. So many people make a living on trying to trash people. Those, are trash people. The man was an industry giant, he was busy and his son obviously took it personal. Nowadays, if this is the best you got to trash someone, well he was a saint compared to the pedos and womanizers of today... please, save it. He should be revered for insisting on having the black boys... but they just skim over that. Seems people just don't like America or Americana any more. They should move to South Africa,.

  • @malkaz9167

    @malkaz9167

    5 ай бұрын

    @@fredkruse9444 If there is a combination of good and bad, all we are hoping for is that there is more good than bad.

  • @cocoono11

    @cocoono11

    5 ай бұрын

    Some of the funniest are the busiest so they are entitled to good days and bad. He entertained to the delight of many. And many entertainers are not at all like their acts. If we knew everything about everyone we would be without. ✌️

  • @malkaz9167

    @malkaz9167

    5 ай бұрын

    Dobbin…Thank you for saying that. I thought he was a terrific comedian way back when, and it hurts my hurt to know so much negative things about him.

  • @blazefairchild465
    @blazefairchild4656 ай бұрын

    I always thought he had a very creepy face. He gave me the chills .

  • @Plethorality

    @Plethorality

    6 ай бұрын

    It never occured to me that he was funny. I thought that he was always playing, "the baddie".

  • @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter

    @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter

    4 ай бұрын

    His mouth. Creepy teeth & ghoulish lips.

  • @jimcarter6669
    @jimcarter66696 ай бұрын

    I always thought he was kind of wierd. As a child even. But I think the worst is Jimmy Saville.

  • @davidpage3893

    @davidpage3893

    4 ай бұрын

    Jimmy Saville was a sick depraved pervert.

  • @MaiRaven3
    @MaiRaven36 ай бұрын

    Always found him creepy. Not even going to watching this…too creepy.

  • @mademsoisellerhapsody

    @mademsoisellerhapsody

    6 ай бұрын

    Samd

  • @lazyhomebody1356

    @lazyhomebody1356

    6 ай бұрын

    Lol, I just used "creepy" to describe him a few days ago. Yep

  • @kellymac2404

    @kellymac2404

    6 ай бұрын

    he was

  • @hell0hkitty
    @hell0hkitty6 ай бұрын

    berle and j. lewis: creeps.

  • @thedrewdog

    @thedrewdog

    4 ай бұрын

    I third that. Lewis' best role and performance was in King of Comedy, and that was only because he played HIMSELF - a ego maniacal miserable old man.

  • @AK-47ISTHEWAY

    @AK-47ISTHEWAY

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@thedrewdogAgreed. That movie was great.

  • @brianew
    @brianew5 ай бұрын

    I must have missed the part where they reveal Milt's 'cruel mind'

  • @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter

    @DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter

    4 ай бұрын

    Yeah! Click-bait.

  • @11cabadger
    @11cabadger6 ай бұрын

    I've avoided anything related to Milton Berle most of my life. Never thought he was funny and he always seemed like a pretty dark character. This was a good affirmation. Thanks. On a personal note, as a kid I heard my aunt and uncle arguing about Uncle Milty to Sid Caesar. Soon all the adults were yelling. Suddenly, Mr. Samples (a family friend) asked me what I thought. They all suddenly turned to me. I was never one for broad humor but Sid Caesar seemed like a much nicer man. That didn't seem to be the answer they wanted to hear. I said, "Ed Sullivan."

  • @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    6 ай бұрын

    Good for you.🤣

  • @shewho333

    @shewho333

    6 ай бұрын

    I met Sid Caesar as a kid. He was a very nice man to me.

  • @hildahilpert5018

    @hildahilpert5018

    6 ай бұрын

    Seems like a lot of comedians are jerks,not all but a lot.Peter Cushing who appeared on British television and the famous Hammer horror movies was a very nice man from all accounts, so was Vincent Price and several others.

  • @hildahilpert5018

    @hildahilpert5018

    6 ай бұрын

    Speaking of comedians take BobHope You used to visit military bases and do shows.In the early 60s my dad was stationed on Okinawa.Well Hope showed up for a show.Well momma said the first words out of his mouth was Where,s the Officers club?.when he got off the plane.Hiw she heard this don't know.Whether he said it on a live feed of his arrival, and did not know they were still broadcasting have no idea.Or she could have heard it from my dad.Who either was present or knew someone who greeted Bob Hope.In any case momma could stand him after that remark.

  • @11cabadger

    @11cabadger

    6 ай бұрын

    @@hildahilpert5018 i wonder if it was a joke. It sounds like his kinda schtick. You started your comment with an old vaudevillian setup: Take my wife [pause] please. Yeah, I don't think it's funny either. Thanks for sharing

  • @steveww1507
    @steveww15075 ай бұрын

    Love how we pass judgment on people we never knew and are no longer around to defend them self

  • @Purple_haze81000

    @Purple_haze81000

    4 ай бұрын

    So you don’t read history books?!?! I guess you need to hear him defend showing his dick and tell racist jokes. Let me guess it’s okay since it is the 50’s. Doesn’t make it right.

  • @unglueme
    @unglueme6 ай бұрын

    I know two people who met him, so I will repeat what they told me as best as I can remember, since this was 20-30 years ago that these people (who just happened to be brother and sister, but met Milton for different reasons and in different cities and circumstances) told me their stories. 1) My friend Rochelle was at some kind of convention having to do with entertainment -- I really don't remember what exactly -- and this is in Boston, MA in the late 70s or early 80s, when my cute friend Rochelle, who had a cable TV talk show, ran into Berle. She said he kept hitting on her over and over, and she tried to be polite -- she has since passed, but she was a very funny outgoing little girl type, so she probably made HIM laugh -- but he kept coming back and hitting on her, several times, and it really got her mad, though I guess she just tried to get as far away from him as she could when he wouldn't get the message! 2) Rochelle's brother Ed was a standup comic and comedy writer who moved from Boston to the west coast by the early 1990s and had some success as a comedy writer there. So he became part of the Friar's Club like most comedians did (I don't know if they still do). And Berle was the head of the Friar's Club, so Ed interacted with him when they had roasts/events. So Ed knew EVERYONE in the industry, and the ONLY two people he could not get along with and really disliked were Milton Berle, and the second happened to be Judy Tenuta (lol). But mainly Milton.... It seemed he was saying that Milton was rude and/or rubbed him the wrong way, and maybe being such an obvious egomaniac wasn't too pleasant either.

  • @TyrionRedHealing.-zq2ri
    @TyrionRedHealing.-zq2ri6 ай бұрын

    yeah that uncle you dont want to leave your kids with

  • @oluhamilton2121

    @oluhamilton2121

    6 ай бұрын

    The uncle you wish you never had.

  • @oluhamilton2121

    @oluhamilton2121

    6 ай бұрын

    On SNL he actually announced ORNETTE COLEMAN as a musical guest.

  • @Hndsmstrngr1

    @Hndsmstrngr1

    6 ай бұрын

    Coleman would have been great to see if he could have appeared

  • @David-yw2lv

    @David-yw2lv

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@oluhamilton2121Whoever that is

  • @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    @user-iv5gy3rc2b

    3 ай бұрын

    Sorry to hear you had uncles like that.

  • @trudigoodman4825
    @trudigoodman48256 ай бұрын

    I have a friend who was doing a paper in High School about Comics. He somehow got ahold of Milton Berles's phone number. He called Berle and asked if he would speak with him about Comedy. Berle graciously spoke to my friend for 2 hours. My friend says that he was a sweet guy. Very kind. My friend sent Milton Berle a copy of his paper. Berle was very flattering and told him to keep writing. My friend is a writer. His story about Berle contradicts. what you have here as info. It would have been good if you had included more of the positive things about this man.He wasn't anymore twisted than any other comic of the time. It took years for Sid Caesar to be sober and the fine person that he became.

  • @DistrustHumanz

    @DistrustHumanz

    6 ай бұрын

    You don't seem to understand how times have changed. When an entertainment career is based on a false image, the public will now call BS. They want something genuine; they want what has been presented to them. The general public has tired of emotionally investing in an entertainment figure, only to have that figure turn out to be something less much later. It gives everyone a sense of betrayal. In this internet age, most stars of the past would never make it today due to being unable to hide their true selves.

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    trudigoodman, I appreciate your sharing this nice story. Do you know how old Berle was at that time? I don't agree with the idea of including both sides of a celebrity in these videos. Most videos here are too long, anyway. I believe the creators assume that their audience has already heard about what a "great guy" the subject is, or least there are plenty of other sources for that side; so they want to present the other side, offering a different view that is not as well known. The title lets you know this is not likely to be the positive

  • @Dhruv_Dogra

    @Dhruv_Dogra

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@shadowlouiseexactly. Every content creator is expected to add some new content which may be positive or negative. As long as it is accurate, it is valid...

  • @jamessilver6429

    @jamessilver6429

    6 ай бұрын

    I saw him in a restaurant when I was in my early teens.i asked for his autograph while he was eating, he obliged with an attitude. can't really blame him.

  • @tenofivelips

    @tenofivelips

    6 ай бұрын

    How wonderful for your friend. Thanks for sharing.

  • @georgebrown2175
    @georgebrown21756 ай бұрын

    A friend of mine said he delivered something to a fancy hotel in New York City. Milton answered the back door and handed my friend fifteen cents as a tip.

  • @AK-47ISTHEWAY

    @AK-47ISTHEWAY

    4 ай бұрын

    Well, fifteen cents was a lot of money back in the old days. It's amazing how inflation works.

  • @georgebrown2175

    @georgebrown2175

    4 ай бұрын

    @@AK-47ISTHEWAY 15cents in 1968 was still cheap for a tip from televisions first household name.

  • @fokkerd3red618
    @fokkerd3red6186 ай бұрын

    He made his greatest impression on television in its infancy and it's a good thing he did, because that's about all he's remembered for. He'd be washed and hung out to dry with his act today.

  • @765kvline

    @765kvline

    6 ай бұрын

    I think it is wise to say that since television was such a novel technology, even watching televised nuclear tests, were prominent viewing. Naturally, in the early years nearly everything was tried to see if it was "true" to a popular audience. Also, if you examine the early years of radio, you see the same pioneering evolution. Motion pictures with sound were also novel and marked the end of some popular performers of the silent days and initiated popularity of other prominent stars. Technology is amazing in a cultural way.

  • @zipzonker1576

    @zipzonker1576

    6 ай бұрын

    Like all other funny people.

  • @v-town1980

    @v-town1980

    6 ай бұрын

    Yeah, the woke clowns would be in tears over his act😂

  • @LonnellRich

    @LonnellRich

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@v-town1980woke? Funny😅😅

  • @rationalwatcher7739
    @rationalwatcher77396 ай бұрын

    @ 0:44 "..and flaunting his notable large..." Okay, here we go.. Uncle Milty's Puge Henis.

  • @OthO67

    @OthO67

    5 ай бұрын

    I read through a lot of comments until I finally arrived at this one. I thought Milt’s large penis would be the talk of the thread. 🤣

  • @C.O._Jones
    @C.O._Jones6 ай бұрын

    RuPaul could dish it out, but couldn’t take it, eh?

  • @Jade_902

    @Jade_902

    5 ай бұрын

    RuPaul is a disgusting creep

  • @jenniferruip4688
    @jenniferruip46885 ай бұрын

    My grandma used to talk about him, Milton Berle. She loved Liberace too. Her and grandpap lived in a different world.

  • @johnmcclearen

    @johnmcclearen

    3 күн бұрын

    A Better World.

  • @tevman69
    @tevman696 ай бұрын

    Never thought much of him when I was young, and at 74, that hasn’t changed either.

  • @morob466
    @morob4666 ай бұрын

    Hats off to Berle for using his privilege to demand the African American tap group be allowed to perform on his show. I’ll always remember that about him.

  • @TheCoolTube

    @TheCoolTube

    6 ай бұрын

    Very few people are ALL bad. I'm sure there were many positive things about him ... They're just not as interesting to most people.

  • @jcbulldog533

    @jcbulldog533

    6 ай бұрын

    No one apparently ever likes to mention anything positive about someone who is no longer here to defend themselves it's always nasty scandalous thing's!!!

  • @clinttorres2508

    @clinttorres2508

    6 ай бұрын

    Having blacks tap dance on his show made him a good guy? Simpletons🤣

  • @atatterson6992

    @atatterson6992

    6 ай бұрын

    Funny how all these freaks gloss right over that. So many angry, hateful, unhappy people these days. Just can't let people enjoy their memories, sad.

  • @user-pg7cx9wo1m

    @user-pg7cx9wo1m

    5 ай бұрын

    Very good

  • @33Donner77
    @33Donner776 ай бұрын

    Nobody is perfect, and nobody stays young forever.

  • @rvnmedic1968
    @rvnmedic19686 ай бұрын

    I was born in 1947, so I watched what my parents did (except for the Soupy Sales Show). I was beginning to think that Hope and Berl were corny and stopped watching their shows. This marked the transition (the end) of slapstick humor to (the beginning) of great comedy. Standup or in the movies, you could detect the difference easily. I admired Bob Hope for flying into fire base zones with his entourage and his risqué jokes. I never saw him in person over there but respected him for doing it. Good, balanced summary of his life. Cheers, Bob

  • @marilyntaylor9577

    @marilyntaylor9577

    6 ай бұрын

    1947 too, always thought Berle was pretty cheesy. I liked Red Skelton (a fellow Hoosier).

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    I recently watched a video about Bob Hope. He was a disgusting specimen, too. I guess if you want to keep your illusions about a famous person, you should avoid watching videos about them -- UNLESS it's someone you never liked.

  • @merricat3025

    @merricat3025

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@shadowlouisethey are people just like the rest of us. No one can survive living on a pedestal

  • @shadowlouise

    @shadowlouise

    6 ай бұрын

    @@merricat3025 ? OK. But your comment doesn't seem connected to mine. 🤷‍♀

  • @RaptorFromWeegee

    @RaptorFromWeegee

    6 ай бұрын

    @@shadowlouise Bob Hope was hilarious, I loved that growling/purring sound he made every time I saw a hot dame! The reason its funny is cause we, in the audience, are thinking the same stuff he is. That is to say, we'd all like to plow the hot dame too.

  • @lindabrittner5062
    @lindabrittner50626 ай бұрын

    He had a big "ego," lol.😂

  • @Factinate

    @Factinate

    6 ай бұрын

    😅

  • @marilynbrown5274

    @marilynbrown5274

    6 ай бұрын

    What comedian doesn't? Comedians can be very mean..in their "humor."@@Factinate

  • @OthO67

    @OthO67

    5 ай бұрын

    @@marilynbrown5274 Actually they’re being facetious and referring to Milt’s big penis.

  • @lindabrittner5062

    @lindabrittner5062

    5 ай бұрын

    @marilynbrown5274 ummmm...I was making an innuendo because he is storied to have a giant dick, hence, "a big ego." It was a joke. A play on words. I think 16 thumbs up replies got the drift.

  • @leonardbakers

    @leonardbakers

    29 күн бұрын

    ⁠they're talking about Berle's enormous shlong that was legendary in his day. He would take it out proudly and show it like Lyndon John did.

  • @sstaners1234
    @sstaners12346 ай бұрын

    The one thing that I remember most about him was his stint (one off show) on SNL. He frequently talked over cast members, interrupted them with jokes he thought were better, and came off as arrogant. Lorne Micheals was hesitant to have him on but, the network pushed for it.

  • @powell4661

    @powell4661

    6 ай бұрын

    I remember his SNL appearance as pretty good.

  • @Djm8520
    @Djm85206 ай бұрын

    Milton’s reputation as a TV pioneer is very secure. I never thought he was funny, but 10’s of millions did! A Lifetime Ban from SNL is a badge of honor. BTW, Don Rickles would host SNL and use the same biting observational style of comedy and was a huge hit!

  • @cynthiaadkins-zj9ut

    @cynthiaadkins-zj9ut

    5 ай бұрын

    Don Rickles was another person who was never funny or even remotely entertaining.

  • @Djm8520

    @Djm8520

    5 ай бұрын

    @@cynthiaadkins-zj9ut And here you are at your sad, little keyboard, maligning people who actually accomplished something in their lives, and have a lasting legacy! Sucks to be you!

  • @abc-bu7nr

    @abc-bu7nr

    5 ай бұрын

    The cast loved Rickles whose stage persona was just that. An act. Berle was a condescending jerk on & off stage

  • @Djm8520

    @Djm8520

    5 ай бұрын

    @@abc-bu7nr You met Berle, did you?! Under what circumstances?

  • @jazzmanchgo

    @jazzmanchgo

    5 ай бұрын

    @@cynthiaadkins-zj9ut He was brilliant at what he did, but what he did didn't usually appeal to me. His reputation, though, was as a genuinely kind-hearted and good man off stage.

  • @walterbehr415
    @walterbehr4156 ай бұрын

    From what I have been told, the contest for who had the largest “member” was with Forrest Tucker. It occurred in the dressing room on the Mike Douglas Show. I know a then young producer who told me the story.

  • @OthO67

    @OthO67

    5 ай бұрын

    I heard Milt pulled out just enough to win. 😂

  • @jazzmanchgo

    @jazzmanchgo

    5 ай бұрын

    In a biography of Jackie Gleason, Berle is quoted as saying it was Gleason who made that comment. I don't remember who the other "contestamt" was. but it wasn't Jackie.

  • @GaiaMisery
    @GaiaMisery5 ай бұрын

    Found this channel by mistake, glad I did. Great content , great info, none annoying voice, not over produced. Subbed for life . Peace and love

  • @stillhere1425
    @stillhere14256 ай бұрын

    Do we have to play judge, jury, and executioner here? Berle was bad and good, as most of us are. I would never write a book trying to humiliate my elderly father . Better a has-been than a never was, Billy. Hope the money was worth it.

  • @kirkullrich4550

    @kirkullrich4550

    6 ай бұрын

    These stories are popping up everywhere on you tube. Gossip and I’ll fate over someone that’s long passed away

  • @TheReal1953
    @TheReal19536 ай бұрын

    I heard this story....I don't know if it's true or not. Supposedly, Berle was a huge cinema fan and had an extensive, archived collection. Due to the careless handling and distribution of celluloid films nationwide, many films combusted(yes, caught fire) or were worn out from overplaying. Rather than have these films lost forever, Berle donated or let them copy some of his collection.

  • @robertthomas906
    @robertthomas9066 ай бұрын

    He had a 97% Nielson rating for his show but in 1949 there were only about 3 shows on tv.

  • @Melinda8162

    @Melinda8162

    6 ай бұрын

    😀😁 So true! How about Jackie Gleason and the other guy? Would that be Jack Benny??

  • @RaptorFromWeegee

    @RaptorFromWeegee

    6 ай бұрын

    I don't think, in 1948, Gleason or Benny even had TV shows. There was pretty much nothing on, so big ratings came easy. Howdy Doody was one of the few other hit shows, as an afternoon kids show. Its lead-in was literally a test pattern cause they had tons of TV space with nothing to put on it. Once a week they had boxing from St Nicholas Arena, sometimes roller derby. Then there wwere puppet shows, silent movies in terrible condition, and talking heads shows that just plain sucked. Sometimes they'd run into the secretarial pool, grab a girl, rush her into a studio, throw some makeup on her, and tell her just to start talking. She's say, "whaddo I say?" They'd say, "Just talk about what you had for breakfast that morning". They'd call it a cooking show!

  • @Hummingbirds2023

    @Hummingbirds2023

    6 ай бұрын

    LMAO

  • @David-yw2lv

    @David-yw2lv

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@Melinda8162Benny pretended to be a cheap jerk,but obviously not for real.

  • @Melinda8162

    @Melinda8162

    4 ай бұрын

    @@David-yw2lv And he was ‘eternally 39 yrs. old’! 😁

  • @badad0166
    @badad01666 ай бұрын

    9:02 * "friend" was supposed to have been Jackie Gleason, in a golf course change room, (according to a Gleason biography I read once). As a child I witnessed MB do a remote from the lobby of the King Edward in Toronto. Probably for the Jerry Lewis telethon. He was solo, talking to Jerry through the camera. The cue card guy got so mesmerized by the effortless delivery, he forgot to change cards and MB had to improv his way out of the bit. I was so mesmerised I didn't notice. My dad had to point out why Milton was swearing a blue streak at the guy after the TV lights went out.

  • @dan6m
    @dan6m6 ай бұрын

    I've always found him to be cringe-y. Your revelations about his "show-biz mom" explains why he turned out that way.

  • @helenwheels3341

    @helenwheels3341

    5 ай бұрын

    Always the mother's fault

  • @anncarlin8767
    @anncarlin87676 ай бұрын

    I'm a true baby-boomer (46) and I can remember my parents were not fond of Berle either and he certainly had no influence on when we got our first tv.

  • @ericsonhazeltine5064

    @ericsonhazeltine5064

    6 ай бұрын

    Same here

  • @SewardWriter

    @SewardWriter

    6 ай бұрын

    No, 46 is the young end of gen X. We grew up in the '90s!

  • @laraoneal7284

    @laraoneal7284

    6 ай бұрын

    @@SewardWriter. Born in 1946 not 46 years old.

  • @SewardWriter

    @SewardWriter

    6 ай бұрын

    @@laraoneal7284 Ahh, gotcha. Never mind. :)

  • @anncarlin8767

    @anncarlin8767

    6 ай бұрын

    @@SewardWriter 1946 not 46 years LOL shows gen X indepth thinking capabilities !

  • @ginamilite1256
    @ginamilite12566 ай бұрын

    It seems to me that many or most Hollywood stars have something really strange and twisted things about themselves or had dark secrets

  • @gradywilson9213

    @gradywilson9213

    6 ай бұрын

    I have spent a great deal of time around performers, generally behind the camera. I assure you most are hard to like, self focused , and arrogant. Many will do anything for a couple of lines in a film. I am now retired, trying to think of someone who was the exception only Jay Leno comes to mind.

  • @ginamilite1256

    @ginamilite1256

    6 ай бұрын

    @@gradywilson9213 thankyou Grady for your insight sadly i guess it is true that business does something to people's souls in time

  • @merricat3025

    @merricat3025

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@gradywilson9213 I hate Jay Leno.

  • @gradywilson9213

    @gradywilson9213

    6 ай бұрын

    @@merricat3025 In order to make that statement one has to know the person. Jay cut his pay in half in order to keep the Tonight Show crew intact, some positions were going to be laid off, essentially Jay paid them from his own pocket.

  • @lindaburchell-fp6sk
    @lindaburchell-fp6sk6 ай бұрын

    Give the guy a break. He survived his driving mother.

  • @alexisbelcher3967
    @alexisbelcher39676 ай бұрын

    You said nothing about his real self only spoke of his reel self, click bait stuff 😮

  • @minahpoohbear7579
    @minahpoohbear75796 ай бұрын

    I never thought of him as being "funny". Mainstream humor was different back then.

  • @sharksport01

    @sharksport01

    6 ай бұрын

    Same with Robin Williams and Jim Carey.

  • @charlespomroy231

    @charlespomroy231

    6 ай бұрын

    He was popular cause there was only 1 channel on TV so what choice did we have

  • @TrudyPatootie

    @TrudyPatootie

    6 ай бұрын

    *Milton Berle was as funny a Jerry Lewis...In other words ugh!* *I'm 76 and trust me I know what I'm talking about. Corny stupid humor with* *many writers behind them.*

  • @765kvline

    @765kvline

    6 ай бұрын

    Times change; people's humor changes.

  • @Zog696

    @Zog696

    6 ай бұрын

    Berle might not be so funny by today’s standards but neither are today’s late night comedian s (regime comedians), whose Woke propaganda masquerades as humour.

  • @timothykuring3016
    @timothykuring30166 ай бұрын

    I always saw that stuff in them and I didn't like them. People Like Milton Berle, Bob Hope, and all the others with reputations of being nasty. You could just see it in them, and Berle came across as a major creep. It was always a little nauseating to watch him. I was never surprised to find that the actors I liked had fairly good reputations. And I was never surprised to learn that the ones I disliked had bad reputations and mean and abusive. I don't think they could really hide their true character that well.

  • @timothykuring3016

    @timothykuring3016

    6 ай бұрын

    My reactions could be very different from other people's reactions. My uncle thought Doris day was a real sweetheart. I thought she was a scary creep. She looked like she would badly fake being nice while she was sticking a knife in your back.

  • @timothykuring3016

    @timothykuring3016

    6 ай бұрын

    Lucille Ball seemed like a borderline dangerous bad clown.

  • @Bevity

    @Bevity

    6 ай бұрын

    Exactly! I sensed the bad people since I was a little kid. I never liked any of them. Adults all liked them.

  • @johnbrowne2170

    @johnbrowne2170

    6 ай бұрын

    Bing Crosby was an awful person as well.

  • @peterkelley7160
    @peterkelley71606 ай бұрын

    Uncle Miltie's humor usually scraped the bottom of the Berle . And, as crummy as that joke was , it wouldn't have stopped Miltie from stealing it .

  • @sailorbychoice1
    @sailorbychoice16 ай бұрын

    Uncle Milty became popular on TV when, according to other actors like Betty White (who became popular at about the same time on TV) People would have watched paint dry on this new fangled thing in their living rooms. He became popular not because any talent he himself had, but he happened to be on a new medium anyone would watch~ at a time when there were about ten shows per week to watch. (I think he was a terrible performer and a lousy human being).

  • @Boudica234
    @Boudica2346 ай бұрын

    Don't forget Milton's triumphant appearance in Ratt's video for Round and Around (his nephew who was Ratt's manager asked his uncle for a favor by appearing in the video). His appearance helped propel that video and band into stardom.

  • @BUlrich-dw7xi

    @BUlrich-dw7xi

    6 ай бұрын

    NOT TRUE,-THE SONGS ARE WHAT MADE RATT,-NO ONE GAVE A PLUCK He was in that video,, 🙄

  • @Boudica234

    @Boudica234

    6 ай бұрын

    @BUlrich-dw7xi You're wrong. He made that video and it def helped the band. One of the best videos of the 80's-because of Uncle Milty.

  • @BUlrich-dw7xi

    @BUlrich-dw7xi

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Boudica234 Not hardly and ratt SUCKS ANYway,derrrr 🤪🤪🙄🙄🙄🙄

  • @BUlrich-dw7xi

    @BUlrich-dw7xi

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Boudica234 and berle is a F'n DORK.

  • @bennylevine387

    @bennylevine387

    6 ай бұрын

    @@BUlrich-dw7xi I think you're both right. Milton did do a favor for his relative and having a TV legend on your video makes you maybe look a little better when you're a young band. But the overall effect Milton Berle had on the Ratt legacy is pretty negligible. Kids who are into Ratt in '83 definitely know Milton Berle, but he wasn't exactly at his peak by this time.

  • @donthepainter480
    @donthepainter4806 ай бұрын

    Great information, one thing that you skipped over was Berle's performance in, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which I thought was excellent and restrained.

  • @Factinate

    @Factinate

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad you liked it

  • @deborahharris6274

    @deborahharris6274

    6 ай бұрын

    He was hilarious in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World. He was a very good comedic actor.

  • @dianegargano175

    @dianegargano175

    6 ай бұрын

    I love that movie! Great actors in it!!

  • @billgrandone3552

    @billgrandone3552

    6 ай бұрын

    Paired with Edie Adams (the wife of the late Ernie Kovacs killed in a car accident shortly before the movie was made) Berle did a great performance in that movie. The scene where they were both trapped in the basement of a hardware store and blew up the store and the next door Chinese restaurant with dynamite to escape was hilarious.

  • @ohwell94

    @ohwell94

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@billgrandone3552that was Sid Ceaser Perle played the son in laws of Ethel Merman

  • @ricardocantoral7672
    @ricardocantoral76726 ай бұрын

    I heard that the obnoxious title character in the teleplay The Comedian was based on Milton.

  • @Horsefeathers30
    @Horsefeathers306 ай бұрын

    I see all these old actors come on the Johnny Carson shows in the 70s, and they are rude and mean. Rickles Milton, Bette D. Johnny was a master at handling those egos- even though he wasn't very nice to Ed

  • @john-brady
    @john-brady6 ай бұрын

    That smile - that mouth, it totally creeped me out as a toddler back in the 50’s. Watch that mouth move about - it should have been banned in all 48 states… It was my greatest fear that he was as creepy as he seemed - at least to me - obviously not to millions of others…

  • @guyfaux3978
    @guyfaux39786 ай бұрын

    His competition in his time slot was Bishop Sheen, with whom he had a friendly rivalry-- according to Sheen, at any rate.

  • @hildahilpert5018

    @hildahilpert5018

    6 ай бұрын

    Oh yes I remember Archbishop Fulton J.Sheen.He later got promoted from bishop to Archbishop.I understand not just us Catholics watched him.

  • @lisalapoint7022

    @lisalapoint7022

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@hildahilpert5018 Actually, Bishop Sheens program garnered higher ratings.

  • @johnbrowne2170

    @johnbrowne2170

    6 ай бұрын

    That's when people respected some in the Roman Catholic Church.

  • @JacindaH
    @JacindaH6 ай бұрын

    Milton Berle was literally the god father of television comedy. He's the reason there was a Saturday night live. This is a hit piece with no dark secret. He put black America on television for Pete's sake.

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    6 ай бұрын

    Christ my Savior had nothing to do with it, I can assure you. And SNL hasn't been funny since Chris Farley died.

  • @JacindaH

    @JacindaH

    5 ай бұрын

    @@chynnadoll3277 I apologize and I fixed it

  • @chynnadoll3277

    @chynnadoll3277

    5 ай бұрын

    @@JacindaH : Awww, that was so thoughtful and kind!! Thank you so much!! God bless❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @plicketyplunk
    @plicketyplunk6 ай бұрын

    There was something about him that unsettled me. I refused to watch him although my mum used to enjoy him. I also did not like Bob Hope. Nope, no road movies for me thank you.

  • @carrotstick1970

    @carrotstick1970

    6 ай бұрын

    There is a book about Bob Hope called “Thanks for the Memories that was written by Kathy O’Brian also known as Brice Taylor, and the author tells of a truly horrific ongoing experience with him and reveals the absolutely systematically wicked undercurrent in Hollywood.

  • @plicketyplunk

    @plicketyplunk

    6 ай бұрын

    @@carrotstick1970 Thank you for that recommendation. I had never heard of it before. Will check it out if only to validate my feelings. Usually when I tell someone my age I never liked Hope there is talk of tarring, feathering, and revoking my Tim Horton's coffee card😊

  • @cecileroy557

    @cecileroy557

    6 ай бұрын

    I still love The Road movies!!

  • @plicketyplunk

    @plicketyplunk

    6 ай бұрын

    @@cecileroy557 I can't even remember how many there were. My mum always watched them on TV. I used to kid her saying they were going to run out of places to go. Nice memory.😊

  • @free..to..air..
    @free..to..air..6 ай бұрын

    Outside of the states..nobody had ever heard of him

  • @marilynbrown5274

    @marilynbrown5274

    6 ай бұрын

    Well. most of Americans never heard of European Stars.

  • @johnmcclearen

    @johnmcclearen

    3 күн бұрын

    That's because most Europeans who knew who he was are dead just like he is. I'm a Boomer and I always liked him and his comedy.

  • @deemariedubois4916
    @deemariedubois49166 ай бұрын

    Milton’s show was before my time but watched a few re-runs…didn’t work for me. Milton was a bit of a creep. Kinda made my skin crawl.

  • @David-yw2lv

    @David-yw2lv

    4 ай бұрын

    It was not popular with critics either.

  • @TheCartmaninc
    @TheCartmaninc6 ай бұрын

    i never thought he or bob hope were funny

  • @guynorth3277

    @guynorth3277

    6 ай бұрын

    Bob Hope was in a different class, Mr. Hope would produce a show that brought a lot of talent to many people.

  • @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    6 ай бұрын

    Because they really weren’t!

  • @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    @user-fq8rs7rz3i

    6 ай бұрын

    @@guynorth3277 I quite liked the ‘Road’ movies, but the weren’t great.

  • @chrisflood9205

    @chrisflood9205

    6 ай бұрын

    you got that right jerry lewis too

  • @josephpaul4548

    @josephpaul4548

    5 ай бұрын

    Hope had excellent comedic timing and paid his dues in vaudeville for a decade before breaking through in the late 30s.​ I loved the Road pictures, The Princess and the Pirate, My Favorite Spy, Blonde, Brunette, etc. @guynorth3277

  • @cecileroy557
    @cecileroy5576 ай бұрын

    I remember watching him on TV when I was a kid. Looking back I realize he lacked something which other comedians like Jack Benny of Red Skelton etc. had - the inability to make people love him or trust him. Kids have a pretty good radar and if I had won a contest to spend some time with Uncle Milty - I would have refused.

  • @user-lr4sg2ms7i

    @user-lr4sg2ms7i

    6 ай бұрын

    Jack Benny was hilarious. He was one of a kind. His deadpan expressions were priceless. Finicky & cheap...so funny! I thought Red Skelton was kind of corny, but something that endeared him to me was his laughing at himself during a comedy routine. He would start to bust up & practically ruin his skit. Also, when Red signed off for the night, he was so sincere & exuded warmth. I always felt that both Jack & Red were genuine, good people. That's something Berle lacked.

  • @zipzonker1576

    @zipzonker1576

    6 ай бұрын

    Red Skelton was funny and seemed like a genuinely sweet guy. I’ve never read anything about him that suggested otherwise.

  • @stevespatola763

    @stevespatola763

    5 ай бұрын

    I.met Red Skelton in an elevator in Reno's John Ascuaha's Nugget. I had my 4 year old daughter with me. He was gracious and charming. Just as I thought when I watched his Tuesday night shows so ma y years before.

  • @johnmcgrath6192
    @johnmcgrath61925 ай бұрын

    My aunt ran parties for the media, cultural and intellectual NYC elite of the 50s, 60s. 70s. At a party she pulled Milton Berle out into the hall and told him, "Either you get out of here right now, or I take you around to everyone you insulted and you apologize." He aploogized to everyone. People were afraid of his power. My aunt did not care if she lost clients and was never afraid to make celebrities tow the line as guests. Which is precisely why everyone wanted to hire her and pay her big money.

  • @okay5045
    @okay50455 ай бұрын

    You guys would never be able to handle Don Rickles

  • @jazzmanchgo
    @jazzmanchgo5 ай бұрын

    That "friend" of his who said "Just take out enough to win" was Jackie Gleason.

  • @hoibsh21
    @hoibsh216 ай бұрын

    He was perfect as Louie the Lilac on Batman in the 60s, anyone remember that?

  • @user-hp1ou3nb7t

    @user-hp1ou3nb7t

    5 ай бұрын

    Definitely one of the better villains created for the actor in the series, not from the comic books.

  • @PitchToTheRhino1

    @PitchToTheRhino1

    5 ай бұрын

    yeah, it was TOO good. Too easy for him to be the evil bad guy in charge. I knew Frank Gorshin had to work at being the Riddler, and he won an award for his performance. But Berle? Louie the Lilac was always just beneath the surface.

  • @stephenr3910
    @stephenr39106 ай бұрын

    My mother lived in a 2 family house until she was a teen. They didn't have a TV, but the downstairs neighbors did. They let my mother and aunt watch Milton Berle every week even when there was company. My father said he never got why Berle was so popular.

  • @jamesmooney8933
    @jamesmooney89336 ай бұрын

    In the 50's, TV reception was bad. Sometimes, you would only get one or two stations. Also rating system was bad. So in the early 50's, he may have been the only thing you could watch.

  • @exuno1107
    @exuno11076 ай бұрын

    I always hated Uncle Milty and never found him funny, original or engaging. Thankfully, I only suffered one of his performances.

  • @mplsmark222

    @mplsmark222

    6 ай бұрын

    I can say the same about Jackie Gleason, I’ll never understand how people could find his characters funny when they were abusive, threatening and always launching into a rage. Why is threatening to hit his wife funny?

  • @5ken7

    @5ken7

    6 ай бұрын

    @@mplsmark222 it was an empty threat; ralph would never have hit alice, and the audience knew that. that said, i'll never understand why so many people today think fictional characters should be entirely virtuous --- that doesn't make for interesting/entertaining movies, tv, etc.

  • @mplsmark222

    @mplsmark222

    6 ай бұрын

    @@5ken7 I grew up with an abusive father that was capable of fits of rage, threatening to kill our pets ect. So when I see that behavior, I don’t think it’s funny.

  • @5ken7

    @5ken7

    6 ай бұрын

    @@mplsmark222 fair enough, though i do think context is important; ralph kramden wasn't an abuser, he was a blow-hard.

  • @TerryThomas-vl6xe

    @TerryThomas-vl6xe

    6 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@mplsmark222 it’s not the threat that was being emphasized, it was his frustration ! Haven’t you ever day dreamed about knocking someone’s block off ? He was a tea kettle comic. As the show would move on progressing , things that frustrate him would hit him and little by little , as life was screwing him over ever so subtlety his water temp would rise and rise and rise and like a Jack n the Box you know it’s coming , you know he has just about had enough . Enough Enough of his wife, Enough of his job Enough of his home life , Enough of the passengers who rubbed him the wrong way or just cuz they do dumb shit , Enough of his mother in Law , Enough of his upstairs buddy Ed Norton , and it all arrives to his head at the same time and he can’t hang any longer n like a stick of dynamite thats been lit , or a hand Grenada with its pin pulled , or like I mentioned earlier , a tea kettle that it’s water is about to expand beyond the kettles limits he explodes or you could say he starts to hiss n whistle and loudly . To 90 % of the people on earth ? That’s funny ! I have a brother that the madder he gets , the funnier he gets . I don’t know why losing his temper is so funny but it is . I think 1 reason could be his losing of his temper is an act we all feel like doing , but they actually do it for us so we don’t have to !

  • @linjicakonikon7666
    @linjicakonikon76666 ай бұрын

    I remember one actor told about being in a back stage dressing room and hesitantly asking Berle if the rumours were true about the size of his male appendage. Berle said"See for your self" and unzipped and laid it on the table. The actor said it looked like a boa constrictor.

  • @juniamcc35

    @juniamcc35

    6 ай бұрын

    Now THIS is interesting! 😄

  • @josephpaul4548

    @josephpaul4548

    5 ай бұрын

    Berle's legendary member had a dark side: it was narcissistic, egomaniacal, and often wore a dress. But to its eternal credit, it always tipped its cap and stood at attention when a lady entered the room.

  • @Daria_Morgandorfer.
    @Daria_Morgandorfer.6 ай бұрын

    I never liked Milton berele i thought he was a moron..i liked George burns and Gracie Allen and Red Skeleton and Rodney Dangerfield..and sid Ceasar..and imogine coca .and im a younger person of 40 but watch this stuff as a kid on tv land and with my grandparents..and yuck my cousin was a actress in the 40s and had a stage mom but his mom was worst than my aunt and berle always struck me as a spoiled man child and mamas boy and creepy

  • @cecileroy557

    @cecileroy557

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes - I loved the people you mentioned and I'm 73 - so I grew up with them. Milton Berle - it was never one of my favorites.

  • @CarolStJohn-ev9ry
    @CarolStJohn-ev9ry6 ай бұрын

    When I was a little kid he was constantly on the tv, I thought he was creepy.

  • @kimdodd6677
    @kimdodd66776 ай бұрын

    As a child I always felt a creepy feeling when watching him dark not nice

  • @boebender
    @boebender6 ай бұрын

    RuPaul put him in his place!! I remember watching and cheered RuPaul’s bravery.

  • @PhDrSeuss

    @PhDrSeuss

    6 ай бұрын

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  • @danabyrd2377

    @danabyrd2377

    6 ай бұрын

    I saw that!!! RuPaul said that he needs to change his diaper!!!! Lol On live TV!!!

  • @lzcontrol

    @lzcontrol

    6 ай бұрын

    That's beyond ghey.

  • @rhone793

    @rhone793

    6 ай бұрын

    He deserves to be put in his place, but this comment was just cruel. Don’t sink to his level.

  • @znayJ

    @znayJ

    6 ай бұрын

    RuPaul was blackballed after that but I loved it

  • @user-sm8by9wj2n
    @user-sm8by9wj2n6 ай бұрын

    Never liked the guy. 🤢 Shivered me timbers! (Not sure why except that he creeped me out) 🤮

  • @user-xq5vx7rs4w
    @user-xq5vx7rs4w6 ай бұрын

    Jerry Lewis gets the crown for being a monster.

  • @2150dalek
    @2150dalek6 ай бұрын

    Uncle Miltey seemed no more darker than other Hollywood performers. Today's actors are a tough act to follow as far as that goes. He had guts to wear women's clothing for laughs long before Flip Wilson. Sad to hear he was struggling to remain relevant during changing times. Look at Madonna and you'll see he's not the only one with that issue. Being on the Hollywood stage must be an addictive drug in itself. I couldn't do it. RIP Uncle Miltey, you must have entertained enough folks in your day.

  • @jamesoncross7494
    @jamesoncross74946 ай бұрын

    He looks like a real-life Joker.

  • @PhDrSeuss
    @PhDrSeuss5 ай бұрын

    Til this day i still don't see whats comical about him. I've nothing against him but there's something about him I never liked. I've seen him on tv and even then he didn't make me laugh. It's good knowing that I'm not the only one who feels that way. To be honest, the only time he even got a laugh out of me was when I was watching "Its A Mad Mad Mad World." I thank him for helping/sponsoring The 4 StepBrothers. 😊

  • @truenokill
    @truenokill6 ай бұрын

    Talking about berle as a child and showing footage of him as adult was jarring.

  • @junethorndale
    @junethorndale6 ай бұрын

    The only thing I ever liked on Berle show was Elvis

  • @TheFakeyCakeMaker
    @TheFakeyCakeMaker6 ай бұрын

    Never heard of him but thanks for the info such an interesting story.

  • @geofromnj7377
    @geofromnj73776 ай бұрын

    Only two people thought Milton Berle was "Mr. Television". Berle and his publicist.

  • @stepanbandera5206
    @stepanbandera52066 ай бұрын

    It's Louie the Lilac! I'd recognize that guy anywhere!

  • @Mike___Honcho
    @Mike___Honcho6 ай бұрын

    milton was more attractive in a dress than his mother and that ain't sayin' much.

  • @JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf
    @JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf5 ай бұрын

    He was great in the round and round video! RATT N ROLL!

  • @aboxofbroken8tracks983
    @aboxofbroken8tracks9835 ай бұрын

    Why is every host who went badly on SNL said to have been "banned for life"? All that is necessary is to not ask them back.

  • @ATXviIIIe
    @ATXviIIIe6 ай бұрын

    He may have not been my cup of tea but not sure his behavior rises to the level of “cruel” as an overall description of his life.

  • @knutini
    @knutini6 ай бұрын

    He would’ve been a great Joker. (The Batman character)

  • @rosscampbell1173

    @rosscampbell1173

    6 ай бұрын

    Sorry but Cesar Romero was a great joker.

  • @lazyhomebody1356

    @lazyhomebody1356

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes he would have!

  • @jonathanhansen3709

    @jonathanhansen3709

    6 ай бұрын

    @@rosscampbell1173 and Cesar Romero, by all accounts was a likable person.

  • @PhDrSeuss

    @PhDrSeuss

    6 ай бұрын

    Nah, they chose right when they chose Ceasar Romero. That's how Joker became my favorite (as a kid). Don't think I would have watched it if Berle was playing Joker.

  • @wolfmantiptip6218

    @wolfmantiptip6218

    6 ай бұрын

    Berle was on Batman , wasn't he ? ..........

  • @cleverlydevisedmyth
    @cleverlydevisedmyth6 ай бұрын

    I did love on the 1993 MTV video awards where Milton told Rupaul that he used to wear women's clothes but he stopped: "Because it was a drag" and Rupaul sarcastically clapped and said "yay, you've still got it, Uncle Miltie" LOL so lame haha

  • @Bad-Bru
    @Bad-Bru6 ай бұрын

    WOW FACTINATE!!! UR GETTING 130-40+THOUSAND VIEWS RITE OFF ON UR VIDEOS?!?! THATS GREAT!! U GUYS DESERVE IT. PEOPLE DESERVE IT. AND I THANKU

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