Milton Berle (by Mitch Sisskind)

Young lady, does the name Milton Berle
Have any particular significance for you? 
Does the name Milton Berle ring a bell?
I thought not, so I've got news for you.
Milton Berle in the early 1950s almost
Single-handedly multiplied the number 
Of American television sets from only
500,000 to 26 million of the boob tubes;
Without Milton Berle there would be 
No television as we know it, let alone
The TikToc, FlipTop, or what have you.
Alas, the wheel of life is ever turning.
You know nothing of Milton Berle. 
How about Cosmo Iacavazzi?

Comments

[David Lehman]

Delightful. True, too. Mr Texaco: "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star." Legendarily well-hung. At the restaurant Sinatra said he was going to the men's room and invited others at the table to join him. "I don't have to go but I'll pull out with you," said Milty. This eas before he and Frank got into a fistfight with some pugnacious guest(s).

[mitch sisskind]

"We are the men of Texaco we [???] from Maine to Mexico..."

When Berle was interviewed on Howard Stern show Stern pranked
Berle by refusing to ask about anything except Berle's penis.

[jim c]

Milton, we have need of thee now.