Bob Hope starts the show with a pretty adept impersonation of Milton Berle's act. Milton Berle follows with an impressive Bob Hope interpretation. Overall this is a great collection of footage from Berle's final series. It was produced by the people responsible for The Hollywood Palace (one of which was William Harbach - you can find an interview with him elsewhere on this site), recorded on the same stage with the same crew. The true creative mind behind this underrated program was Bill Dana. To my mind, this latter-day Berle program was far above...
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Kliph Nesteroff: There seems to have been a hierarchy of comedian hangouts in Manhattan during the nineteen forties and fifties. There was Hanson's Drugstore and the B-G Coffee Shop, then the next step up you have the Stage Delicatessen and the Carnegie Deli...Will Jordan: The next step up was Lindy's. You would go to them, but it would cost more and you had a different people. You had people like Berle and some of the people from the Stage would...
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