Bob Hope & Milton Berle 1966

Bob Hope makes a surprise guest appearance on The Milton Berle Show (9-30-66) making fun of each other's styles and wind up singing a rousing rendition of "Bosom Buddies." (Please excuse the quality of this video, as it was recorded on Sony's first home video recorder in 1966!)

[@BluebirdFrank]

Two greats who ooze class and talent - sadly missed today

[@SuccessResourcesAustralia]

"Laughter is an instant vacation." - Milton Berle

[@MrMowww1]

Wow i was six years old when this came on these were the days when comedy was clean you could order a bucket of KFC it was great then too.Then the whole family and kids could watch this program of pure entertainment. Special times and the cars were gorgeous too!

[@werksdesign]

That was real comedy by actual comedians. We don't have that kind of entertainment or actors/comedians of that that caliber today and never will from now on.

[@desertshadow72]

Louis CK is better, I laugh more with him and Brian Regan

[@pronemanoldbutyoung5548]

Jonathan L Yes ofc, I lol to Louis CK, Letterman, Ricky Gervais and so on. But Hope and Milton and that generation makes me smile and feel good for a long time. Louis and the present ones dont, they entertainment is only for the moment and then you dont feel it any more.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

@@desertshadow72 What is a Louis CK?

[@scottmiller6495]

Because the young people of today don't want anything like this anymore! And it's horrible and Unforgivable!!!!!

[@jamesfrancismchalejr7944]

Sad,but True

[@wilrobles5392]

Comedy without vulgarities. A breath of fresh air.

[@iconoclastvituperations9587]

@Karl M you can go fuck yourself with the curse words

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

@Karl M That's why clean black comics are rare.

[@rickrick5041]

I want vulgarities

[@ceejay8320]

I doubt either of their breaths were fresh, unless you like booze and stale cigars...

[@rickrick5041]

@@ceejay8320 The censors tested for freshness before each show

[@artroraback8663]

This is a fantastic clip of two of the all time greats! Thanks for sharing this brilliant bit.

[@rebeccacahill1000]

Thumbs down???? Move on ... This is great stuff!!!

[@haggis655]

THAT's ENTERTAINMENT!

[@edwardanthony7283]

These 2 guys are irreplaceable & unfortunately we'll never see clean cut hysteria like this again.

[@theironclads]

Interesting to see Bob & Milton imitate each other's comedic delivery style. Bob had to play it more broadly & energetic when he was copying Berle. Berle had to clam down his persona and take a more clam laid-back manner when he copied Bob.

[@louie99999]

Pure talent

[@tubularbill]

There once was "Hope" in the world....

[@pronemanoldbutyoung5548]

Hope did an awesome Milton Berle

[@KingVikram]

I watch this at least once a week. Too good to forget. Thanks, Vladmir.

[@kevinbergin9971]

0:15 It looks like the 2nd dancer on the right might be starting a workmen's comp. lawsuit.

[@AJKPenguin]

What a great role reversal. : )

[@OaktownABQ]

Legends!

[@cobracobra9175]

Rip Bob . hope born my 1903 died July 27 ,,2003.

[@LYLEWOLD]

Thank you for posting this. It was great.

[@discoveryman59]

Milton Berle WAS a CLASSIC!!!

[@gregwatson8219]

Sad nobody remembers Uncle Miltie.

[@arthurgilmore5023]

Thank You for recording that! I loved the fact it was recorded from a VHS tape. TRACKING!!! This was helpful for me in my Comedy Journey...

[@paulhubbard252]

It's great to hear clever jokes from the best

[@desertshadow72]

Classy and wholesome

[@swirlyimp]

I almost wanted to adjust the rabbit ears.

[@omarokinawa4743]

Miss these Giants

[@reealitychick]

ty luv this video...

[@tarnopol]

Dude, you rule for uploading this.

[@katie5767]

pure talent

[@musicom67]

6:08 - - Ahhh the quirky and uncomfortable 'transition' into the musical number from two guys who can't 'really' sing... 'Rousing Rendition' might be a bit overexaggerated from those two.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Funny and CLEAN!!!

[@matsp888]

Bucky Brown Exactly. A rarity nowadays.

[@jeffdawson2786]

Very sweet. It makes me cry.

[@AJKPenguin]

What a great role reversal. : )

[@lendrury2771]

Milton Schlong

[@edwardanthony7283]

Combined for 193 years.

[@romansroad2007]

1966 that’s the year I was born.

[@Firebrand55]

I liked that VHS tracking distortion! It brought back many memories of trying to edit the notorious VHS tapes. PS This is a VHS or VCR recording from a TV show; there was no home video in 1966

[@GaryKaskel]

In fact, Sony sold the first "home video recorder" starting in 1965, the CV2000 which used 1/2" reel-to-reel tape. The console model had a wooden case with a 9" black and white monitor built in. The technology was crude and used the skip-field method of recording the NTSC signal in which only every other field was recorded, giving the playback a less than live look, but decent resolution. This tape was recorded by Mr. Berle's head writer for his private collection. It was dubbed to a VHS tape in the 1980s and then digitized a few years ago, which is what you see here. The distortion is from the reel-to-reel playback on the original tape. I know, because I did it myself.

[@zapkvr]

@@GaryKaskel The only other country to adopt the rubbish NTSC standard is Japan. The civilised world would wait for Phillips to invent the PAL system

[@gandalfwiz20007]

Life with Louie brought me here

[@ronaldmcreynolds7345]

8 people so far have no buddies and have never seen a bosom.

[@battalion30]

Came back from Washington D.C. where I visited my money. 1.1 of joke writing.

[@philswaim392]

Wow bob lands a "yo momma"joke

[@Traderjoe]

Where’s the V Hold knob?

[@MrArtist1971]

The humor today is NOT funny.

[@edwardanthony7283]

What a lousy video recorder!

[@tarheelmtl]

This is how it was done Hollywood

[@donrickels5622]

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[@johnlapin3522]

In 1985 while walking north on Madison Avenue in NYC, coming the other way was Milton himself. I was walking and smoking and excellent Romeo y Julieta Double Corona. As he, passed me, he gazed longingly at my cigar. I promptly handed him my second one saying "Have one on me, Mr. Berle". He paused looking at it and replied, "My Doctor says "NO"."

[@jackbuckley7816]

For those who state that Berle's star had fallen by this time, his pinnacle of popularity over, necessitating his need to grab any guest-spot he could get, well, the truth is, Milton didn't have to work during these years. NBC had him signed-up for a multi-million dollar contract wherein he wasn't allowed to do a weekly show on any other network. In short, the comic was paid not to work. Regardless of this, Berle sometimes had to beg NBC to let him appear as a guest on other programs due to his desire to work, despite the fact he already was financially set for life.

[@edwardanthony7283]

Not a bad machine that was about 20 years earlier than the VCR. The audio is great & aside from a flare up the picture's Ok too.

[@gregwatson8219]

Sad u never could put Jay ry and Letterman. like this. Too much. macho history btween them

[@Huckleberry87]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@LINCOLNREALESTATE1]

love this. Two classics. Classy and makes me long for the decent years.

[@zapkvr]

If you haven't seen 8 on the lam, Phyllis Diller is high larious

[@OaktownABQ]

Legends!

[@bh5606]

..ageless..

[@zapkvr]

Bob was British you know. It's where he got all his class

[@SpaceGhost67]

Can you spot the gentile?

[@lafeil]

Great Talents

[@hellomcflyy]

interesting - who recorded this in 1966 ? - enjoying some of the clips you have posted....

[@dawnrenner4042]

Purina commercial little boy with puppies

[@zivaray]

Damn ass tracking

[@cjmacq-vg8um]

WHAT? this is what passed for comedy in 1966? i like it. they did an entire 8 minutes without one "f" word. remarkable. i didn't think that was possible. the "f" word has so degenerated our culture it now appears on t-shirts, bumper stickers and protest signs. its in every comedy routine, song, movie and tv show. it inundates the internet and youtube. i'm glad there was a period in human history that demonstrated a little decorum and common decency. lets bring back a time when the "f" word is redelegated to the gutter where it belongs. (YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW OFTEN I'M ATTACKED FOR SAYING THIS!)

[@omarokinawa4743]

First time my iphone turned to a tv

[@eisenjeisen6262]

Thank you so much and i had a few good laughs

[@desertshadow72]

Busom buddy was the OG BFF

[@alalducente]

thanks for the upload

[@Passport22]

VHS technology

[@andyroy7547]

live anderson))))))))))

[@altonpitts6550]

The only comic that could really nail Hope was Dave Thomas of the Second City comedy troupe back in the day.

[@jamesanthony5681]

Thomas was excellent.

[@Dee_Just_Dee]

How the hell is it that the people anal enough to record such things for posterity are also careless enough to completely fuck up their tapes' tracking?

[@jeanbonhacher6016]

Not sure who’s more boring hope or berle, thank god for laugh machine

[@bobmalack481]

Boring if your an indoctrinated no nothing social media millinal. Those days were class which you know nothing about. Robert at 67.

[@bluetortilla]

Early roasts.

[@biblebloopers946]

Totally not funny

[@dawnrenner4042]

Muppet show old men

[@martin123abcd]

Milton Berle looked really nervous he kept rubbing his hands together

[@BossyGuyMike]

Wow... compared to Henny, Rickles, Berle and the rest of the Martin Celebrity Roasting crew, Bob Hope really wasn't very funny.

[@altonpitts6550]

I believe that's what Milton is attempting to prove with his impersonation of Bob Hope.

[@BossyGuyMike]

@@altonpitts6550 What's funny about that is that in trying to imitate Berle, Hope really just acts like himself, where Berle actually comes off like he's doing Hope.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

Funny, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

[@dawnrenner4042]

Muppet show old men

[@PreachermanPiper]

If this is the best you can do, keep your day job.

[@arjeliomas]

I'm kinda hoping that 5 months on old Doc is as dead as the guys in this video...

[@PreachermanPiper]

Well now aren't you sweet

[@lendrury2771]

These jabronis are corny as hell yawwwnn

[@frisco21]

I never could understand why people thought Bob Hope was funny.

[@missumenimsatanass]

Felt sorry more milt...he went from being IT on TV to just getting guest spots on other shows and specials later on. Even here he was losing his popularity. The show just never got going really that he had gotten during this time. You started seeing him in things you just two-line do unless you just wanted to be in pictures and movies. I loved Milton. WAAAAAY before my time but I still love watching the oldies. So sad how bad the world is now. Things were much simpler in the 50s and early 60s.