Late Night with Conan O'Brien - Milton Berle Charges the Set

[@Bimshwel]

OH I thought the title said "changes the set." I was expecting a bizarre story of Milton Berle rearranging the furniture.

[@bgva82]

Same.

[@jamesdrynan]

Berle was a vaudevillian whose star rose and fell on television from 1948 to 1953. His ego and self-image were the downfall in his later years. The times changed but he didn't and he must have suffered because of it.

[@jx14aby]

He was a world-class a hole.

[@bluebear1985]

That explains why the original SNL cast didn't exactly have favourable opinions about him from when he came to host in April 1979. His style of comedy was very wrong for that type of show.

[@johnwhite5485]

@@bluebear1985 I don’t remember much about that episode and why it was so controversial. I do, however, remember laughing my ass off at Berle’s opening monologue. Most memorable was on old retirees in FL: “They were so old; the average age was deceased.”

[@bmla88]

And yet, people still know who he is unlike you.

[@TontoEpstein]

That first commenter had no idea what he was talking about. As usual, it sounds like somebody cribbed some BS that some other clown might have plastered on Wikipedia.

[@dlxmarks]

Sounds like Milton Berle had the same inexplicable clout at NBC New York that Bob Hope had at NBC Burbank when he would crash _The Tonight Show_ to Johnny Carson's annoyance. Those guys were legends but that didn't mean they could just do what they wanted decades after their prime.

[@RichV20]

Bob Hope was still sort of a lovable legend in the early 90s whereas Milton Berle didn't have that same love and was loathed, especially after his disastorous SNL hosting gig in the late 70s.

[@ErisRising]

@@RichV20 Problem is that there was one person at NBC who hated Hope, and that was Carson. He thought that Hope was a terrible guest who could only do his scripted material, which led to stale, rehearsed-sounding interviews. Unfortunately for him, Hope was the single individual talent at NBC who had more pull than he did, so Carson had to suffer through it till retirement.

[@greenblood64]

Milton Berle was hilarious!

[@DavidMcdonald-df8tb]

Yet they did do what they wanted ❤

[@edwardklintworth2004]

They earned it, there would not be an NBC if not for Berle and Hope.

[@vestibulate]

Berle was one of the great monsters of show business. There should have been a magazine devoted to their celebration, edited by Forrest J. Ackerman. Featured would be Mickey Rooney, Joan Crawford, Frank Sinatra, Jerry Lewis, Wallace Beery, Lou Costello- and many more manipulative, devious, and downright abusive characters.

[@jamesbevan9939]

What did Lou Costello do?

[@jinroh516]

...and that is why Conan O'Brien is a good host

[@Choomanama]

you the man conan

[@AloneIranKing]

Thousands of you and Fallon or Kimmel can't be Milton's pinky nail.

[@shmookins]

Why didn't they tape it and show it during broadcasting where 99.999% of the viewers see the show?

[@arianprofit]

Conan’s my favorite ever. Lol

[@doppleganger4827]

Everyone will scream OSCAR! when they hear the mesmerizing line "FUCK THIS!" I would have Al Pacino play Milton Berle in that...either him or Mr. Peanut.

[@Studeb]

Pavarotti: HEY! :D

[@edwardklintworth2004]

They earned the right, there would not be an NBC if not for people like Milton Berle and Bob Hope.

[@hutch1197]

Did he earn the right to whip his dick out in front of his co-workers every chance he got?

[@joanndavidson2769]

Uncle Arthur, Bewitched, surprise visits.

[@joanndavidson2769]

Hargrave surprise visits Donny & Marie Osmond.

[@joanndavidson2769]

Milton Berle looks like an Arthur Phillips. Uncle Arthur's family (Hargrave) & Phillips (Syrian).

[@bradunderwood2502]

0:53 😂

[@bradunderwood2502]

Goddamn that’s a great story lmao

[@doppleganger4827]

Exactly.

[@michauxbôts]

Berle should've come back out dressed in drag (he used to do drag) . . . . . :°`×≈

[@ralphjenkinsak]

John: milton berle used to fight conan o'brien?

[@MiikaMettiainen]

Nice impression at 1:58!

[@dancebandleader]

Must have used Josh Groban's barber.

[@KingGrizzlebeard]

Hahh !

[@BruellwuerfelTV]

0:16 wtf

[@romant142]

Picked his nose.

[@eddypuentes6155]

0:16

[@makthnife]

????

[@MiikaMettiainen]

I mean impersonation

[@hooba1971]

THAT GUY IS FK UGHLY WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS NOSE??? DID HE USED A WRONG CHINESE PLASTIC SURGERY , MAYBE A BROTHER FROM oWEN wILSON

[@jeremyc9593]

Who's The Boss will be back in a moment, so stick around.

[@princesstamika]

This story should be put to film.