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Dec 5, 2017 · As former SNL writer Alan Zweibel wrote in his own account of dealing with Berle’s dick in this SNL anthology:
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Nov 28, 2009 · Milton Berle’s “Anaconda” November 28, 2009 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment. Alan Zweibel. (Dave Pape) Alan Zweibel is a writer and producer who was among the original writers on Saturday...
Apr 13, 2020 · We spoke by phone with perhaps the only comedy writer to have been flashed by both Fawcett and the legendarily endowed Milton Berle. Vanity Fair: While writing for stand-up’s old guard, what...
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Mendel Berlinger was born in 1908 and grew up on W. 118th Street in Harlem. His parents were as far from show business as they could be: His father sold paint and his mother was a store detective. Berlinger didn’t like the sound of his name so, at the tender age of 16, he changed it to a more show biz-friendly moniker: Milton Berle. Like a fortune-...
Berle’s first foray into show business occurred when he was just five years old. Young Berle entered the kid’s division of a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest and took home the trophy—a tin cup. This minor success led Berle to be a child model for Buster Brown shoes and, with the help of his pushy stage mother Sarah, he then struck gold: a role in ...
It wasn’t much of a stretch for young Berle to play the role of “little boy” in his first motion picture. However, he almost went ballistic when he found out what he had to do in the film. The movie, The Perils of Pauline, had big plans for the five-year-old Berle. The director told little Miltie that Pauline would save him—but only after he fell f...
Berle was more than terrified about his crash landing from a moving locomotive, but he was about to learn a valuable lesson about movie-making—all is not what it seems. Of course, Berle would have a double who would fall from the train for him. When Berle asked to meet the person who would play him in this dangerous stunt, the director just pointed...
With his mother’s insistence, Berle bounced around from silent film to silent film and then ended up enrolled in the Professional Children’s School: a kind of prep school for entertainers. From what he learned at this school, Berle found a new home: Vaudeville. He started at the tender age of 12 and by 16 he was already appearing as a master of cer...
Berle’s father hadn’t been much of a provider, so his mother saw something in young Milton that maybe others didn’t see: a meal ticket for her family. Sarah Berle—she actually took his fake name—left her husband back at home with the other kids, and took young Milton on the road from Vaudeville show to Vaudeville show. Sarah, however, didn’t stop a...
Berle soon found himself on Broadway in Florodora. In the show, he was performing a dance number in a line with a group of boys and keeping perfect timing with the other members. But Berle’s mother had an outrageous idea. She told Berle to purposefully keep one of his feet out of step with the other kids on stage. The audience went crazy with laugh...
We'll forgive you if you don't know that much about Al Jolson, but when Berle was a kid, no one was more famous. That made one of little Milton's talents extremely valuable; he mastered a great (and probably super cute) impression of him. Sarah Berle wanted the world to see it, so she came up with a scheme. The mother and son attended a Jolson perf...
Being a preteen amongst Vaudeville performers was a highly irregular upbringing. Sure his mom was there to protect him, but those Vaudevillians were a pretty rough bunch. Berle’s rites of passage weren’t like other kids. They were a whole lot more scandalous. In fact, he claims to have lost his virginity at the tender age of 12—and with a chorus gi...
Vaudeville, and his insistent mother, led Berle to his true calling: stand-up comedy. In this milieu, Berle certainly shined. He played nightclubs and bars and seemed to be willing to do anything for laughter and applause. But while audiences knew him for his hilarious antics, his fellow comedians knew him for something much more sinister. Getty Im...
Apr 14, 2019 · He became close to writer Alan Zweibel, who had spent years writing for Borscht Belt comics. One day, the two were talking in Berle's dressing room and Zweibel mentioned that he had...
May 13, 2024 · The Milton Berle Show called it quits at the end of the 1955-56 season. ... Alan Zweibel, one of the writers on SNL, was a big fan of Berle’s and was thrilled to be working with him. The two ...
Mar 25, 2023 · Milton Berle aka "Mr. Television" was the king of the medium's golden age. ... forget — especially Gilda Radner and writer Alan Zweibel. ... vibed with was Zweibel, who'd written jokes for Berle ...
