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Milton Berle
Birthday:
12 July 1908
Birth Name:
Milton Berlinger
Height:
178 cm
Biography
[about versatility in entertainers] There are a lot of comedians who do everything good and nothing great. [Sammy Davis Jr.] as an entertainer does everything good and nothing great. Because there is no Sammy Davis. Sammy is doing Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstine, Billy Daniels, [Frank Sinatra].
[about versatility in entertainers] There are a lot of comedians who do everything good and nothing great. [Sammy Davis Jr.] as an entertainer does everything good and nothing great. Because there is no Sammy Davis. Sammy is doing Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstine, Billy Daniels, [Frank Sinatra].
[on Bob Hope] Bob is a joke man. Bob will buy the motion picture rights to Critic's Choice (1963) and then add quite a few dozen one-liners. I think it is a fear of not being able to wait--and not hearing your laugh a second.
[on Bob Hope] Bob is a joke man. Bob will buy the motion picture rights to Critic's Choice (1963) and then add quite a few dozen one-liners. I think it is a fear of not being able to wait--and not hearing your laugh a second.
[his definition of a comic]. . . a comic is a guy who depends solely on the joke, and we have thousands of them. The comedian can get a laugh opening a door in the funny way that he does it and his attitude--that's a comic versus a comedian. Now a "funnyman" can get a laugh before opening his mouth--looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen....
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[his definition of a comic]. . . a comic is a guy who depends solely on the joke, and we have thousands of them. The comedian can get a laugh opening a door in the funny way that he does it and his attitude--that's a comic versus a comedian. Now a "funnyman" can get a laugh before opening his mouth--looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen--they LOOKED funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape. There is a great line between the comic, the comedian, the funnyman, the buffoon and the clown. I don't maybe do everything well--but I know the difference.
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[on his early television show] The first year I was on, '48 or '49, I didn't even have a writer. I just remembered what I did for the last 20 years 'cause we couldn't afford a writer--there wasn't any money. So it was a pretty difficult thing and the facilities were difficult.
[on his early television show] The first year I was on, '48 or '49, I didn't even have a writer. I just remembered what I did for the last 20 years 'cause we couldn't afford a writer--there wasn't any money. So it was a pretty difficult thing and the facilities were difficult.
I have a file of four million jokes . . . I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.
I have a file of four million jokes . . . I have them cross-indexed. Whatever subject you want, I have a joke on it.
[on his beginning as a comic] I had copied my style from a great comic, Ted Healy. I patterned myself after Healy, with the hat turned up in front and the collegiate look. I was the brash, flippant wise guy, smart-ass type.
[on his beginning as a comic] I had copied my style from a great comic, Ted Healy. I patterned myself after Healy, with the hat turned up in front and the collegiate look. I was the brash, flippant wise guy, smart-ass type.
You show the emotion so you get the audience going the other way.
You show the emotion so you get the audience going the other way.
Don't burn, just singe.
Don't burn, just singe.
You get a lot of awards when you're a star, and lots of them are irrelevant.
You get a lot of awards when you're a star, and lots of them are irrelevant.
[how to tell a joke] Delivery, not stressing the punchline, timing.
[how to tell a joke] Delivery, not stressing the punchline, timing.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has bigger boobs than his wife!
Arnold Schwarzenegger has bigger boobs than his wife!
[to Arnold Schwarzenegger] You being funny with your accent is twice as big a deal as me being funny. They expect me to be funny!
[to Arnold Schwarzenegger] You being funny with your accent is twice as big a deal as me being funny. They expect me to be funny!
Don't tell jokes only the band laughs at.
Don't tell jokes only the band laughs at.
[on all the chatter at the 1965 Academy Awards about one romantic twosome in the audience] When I took out Woodrow Wilson's daughter, they didn't make such a fuss.
[on all the chatter at the 1965 Academy Awards about one romantic twosome in the audience] When I took out Woodrow Wilson's daughter, they didn't make such a fuss.
I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
If evolution works, why do mothers only have two hands.
If evolution works, why do mothers only have two hands.
An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.
An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.
Milton Berle
Milton Berle was born Milton Berlinger on July 12, 1908, in New York City. He was educated at New York Professional Children's School and began performing at age 5. His first stage appearance was in "Florodora" in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He appeared at the Palace Theater in New York in 1931, then in nightclubs and theaters. He appeared in the Broadway musicals "Saluta", "See My Lawyer" and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1943". His television debut was on experimental scanning-wheel television in Chicago in 1929. By 1934, he was on radio, was heard regularly on "The Rudy Vallee Hour", and attracted publicity as a regular on "The Gillette Original Community Sing".
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