The Milton Berle Show, Volume 1
Volume 1 of The Milton Berle Show! His comedy was once described by Time Magazine as “the acme of hysterical vulgarity” and, for more than seventy years, Milton Berle never lost his taste for good old-fashioned bust-a-gut laughs. But it took the veteran performer the better part of two decades to find a radio format that genuinely suited him and, when he did, the result was “The Milton Berle Show”, a 1947-48 NBC series that stands today as one of the bright spots of postwar radio.
The series takes a satirical approach that pokes as much fun at Berle’s boorish stage persona as it does the targets of the satire. Each show salutes some current pop-culture phenomenon in broadly played topical sketches that feature the antics of Arnold Stang, comic harridan Pert Kelton, and character actor Jack Albertson.
