We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

In Berle's 1988 appearance when fielding phone calls Stern purposely asked his producer to only air callers whose questions dealt with Berle's penis. One of the show's writers Rosie Shuster described the rehearsals for the Berle SNL show and the telecast as "watching a comedy train accident in slow motion on a loop. Writers included (Nat Hiken brothers Danny and Neil Simon Leo Fuld and Aaron Ruben).

As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55) he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger; July 12 1908 – March 27 2002) was an American comedian and actor.