The Independent - London, March 29th, 2002
"MR TELEVISION", "Mr Tuesday Night", "Uncle Miltie", "The Thief of Bad Gags" - Milton Berle was called all of these, and many less printable things by rival comedians from whom he appropriated material. After learning his trade in vaudeville, musical comedy, revue, night-clubs and films, the brash funny man became, in the late Forties and early Fifties, American television's first comedy superstar.
As a child, Milton Berlinger, encouraged by his relentless mother ("Mom made Gypsy Rose Lee's mother look like Mother Teresa"), performed in vaudeville and acted in many silent films. In a 1920 rev...
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