“Milton used to pull his penis out in front of everybody.
Warning: This article contains spoilers forSaturday Night.
“Milton used to pull his penis out in front of everybody,” the filmmaker says.
J.K. Simmons as Milton Berle in ‘Saturday Night’.Sony Pictures
“I personally know multiple people that Milton’s pulled his dick out in front of.
Oh yeah, Milton pulled his dick out in front of me.
I didn’t get Me Too’d, I got Me 22ed.
Milton Berle in 1979.Disney/Getty
He was huge!'
And it happened to Alan Zweibel, and it happened to other people atSNL.”
To make matters worse, Berle gained another audience member completely by accident: Gilda Radner.
Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase in ‘Saturday Night’.Sony
“The movie is about one generation ripping television out of the hands of the other.
How do you personify that?”
Milton Berle represents everything that television was.
He’s the ghost of television past.
He will appear later onSNLand do the worst episode of all time.
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Smith appreciates Reitman for pinpointing Berle as a fitting antagonist for Chase.
“He was very proud of his ‘situation’ and willing to show it.
Today, we have people not surviving that kind of behavior, appropriately.
So it is fascinating that he was known for doing this.”
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Indeed, Reitman saw Berle as a logical foil for Chase.
“And we had this great opening line for him: ‘Sorry, tripped over my penis.’
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“We’re not egregiously rewriting history,” he says.
“It’s not as though Milton Berle was a guy who was a saint.
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