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Comedic Writings, 1931-1998 (continued)
Gags/Jokes/One-Liners, 1937-1996 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 11/1-3 Cantor, Eddie, 1937 November-1939 January
BOX-FOLDER 11/4-9, 12/3 Hope, Bob, 1938-1947
BOX-FOLDER 12/4 Miscellaneous, undated
BOX-FOLDER 12/5 Youngman, Henny, undated
Collected Material
BOX-FOLDER 13/1 Bittman Comedy Service, 1996 February-March
BOX-FOLDER 2-3, 14/1 Blackouts, Bits, and Scenes, undated
BOX-FOLDER 14/2 Carroll Sketches, undated
BOX-FOLDER 14/3 Comedy Sketches, undated
BOX-FOLDER 14/4 Emcee: The Entertainer's Magazine, 1953 Spring
Berle on cover
BOX-FOLDER 15/1 Four Thousand Stories and Gags, undated
BOX-FOLDER 15/2-4,16/1 Fun-Master Blackouts, undated
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 16/2, 17 Fun-Master The Comedians, 1950-1956
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 18-21 Fun-Master Gag Files, undated
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 22-23 Fun-Master Giant Classified Encyclopedia of Gags, undated
BOX-FOLDER 24 Fun-Master Humor-Dor for Emcees, undated
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 25/1-2 Gags and One Liners, A-Z, undated
BOX-FOLDER 247/1 Stories and Gags, undated
Bound volume
BOX-FOLDER 25/3-4 Gags and One Liners, 2505-5000, undated
BOX-FOLDER 25/5 Gags Gang, 1973 June
BOX-FOLDER 25/6-7 Jokes Unlimited, Vols III-IX, undated
BOX-FOLDER 25/8-26/1 M #1 Gags and One-Liners, undated
BOX-FOLDER 26/2 Master of Ceremonies, Book Number 4, undated
BOX-FOLDER 26/3 Orben's Current Comedy, Vol. 1, 1958 November-1959 October
Routines, 1933-1991
Scripts for routines performed by Berle and his regular comedic partners.
Arranged alphabetically by file name.
BOX-FOLDER 27/1 Berle-Benson, undated
Includes "The Man in the Box"/"The Heckler" with Sidney Spitzer
BOX-FOLDER 27/2 Cracker Boys, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/3 Doctor, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/4 Frick and Frack, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/5 Henny Youngman Heckle Bit, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/6 Hookah, 1973
Written by Howard Albrecht and Sol Weinstein
BOX-FOLDER 27/7 Laying Off Under Presidents, undated
Written by Solly Violinsky
BOX-FOLDER 27/8 Memoirs of Milton, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/9 The Professor, undated
With Sid Caesar
BOX-FOLDER 27/10 Raye and Berle, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/11 The Sketch, undated
BOX-FOLDER 185/4 Styles and Berle, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/12 Slappy White Glove Bit, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/13 Slapsie Maxies Second Show, 1945, November 29
BOX-FOLDER 27/14 Soap Opera Junkie, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/15 Unidentified, undated
BOX-FOLDER 27/16 Vaudeville and Nightclubs, 1933-1956, undated
Bound volume
Includes Berle vaudeville performances in Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Atlantic City, and Philadelphia; Berle nightclub monologues from Chez Paree, the International Casino, Grossinger's, Carnival, the Copacabana, Sands Hotel, and Rolling Rock Country Club; songs, parodies, and medleys; routines; and jokes
BOX-FOLDER 27/17 Westbury Show, 1991, October 11-13
BOX-FOLDER 27/18 When I Was Seventeen, undated
Rundowns, 1931-1997
Lists of act elements or performance orders.
Arranged alphabetically by event name.
BOX-FOLDER 27/19, 185/5, 248/3, 282 Rundowns/Running Order, 1931, 1953, 1960, 1991-1997, undated
Includes:
  • Atlantic City Show
  • Berle-Youngman Show
  • Buddy Ebsen Dinner
  • Charles Busch's Dressing Up!
  • Florida Tour
  • Geraldo Rivera Show
  • Lyndon Johnson Dinner
  • Martha Raye
  • Metropolitan Theatre
  • New York
  • RKO Broadcastin Program
  • Tommy Lasorda Roast
Sketches and Scenes, 1939-1989
Scripts and outlines for comedic bits purchased or submitted on spec.
Arranged by subject.
BOX-FOLDER 28/1-3 Standard Sketches, undated
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 29/1-56, 30/1-13 Authors, A-Z, 1939, 1947-1955, 1989, undated
BOX-FOLDER 30/14-21 Subjects, A-Z, undated
BOX 31-132 Scripts, 1930-1996
Scripts from Berle's radio and television programs, films, stand-alone television programs, radio and television guest appearances, nightclub acts, and theatrical productions.
Arranged in six subseries: Berle Shows, Berle Performances, Produced by Berle, Radio Scripts (non-Berle), and Submitted Scripts (Berle/non-Berle)
Berle Shows, 1936-1967
Bound and typescript versions of scripts from Berle's radio and television programs.
Arranged first by performance media (Radio or Television), then chronologically by show air or production date
Radio
BOX-FOLDER 31-34, 35/1 Gillette Show, 1936, May 13-1937 September
Typescripts
Some episodes annotated
BOX-FOLDER 35/2-4, 36, 37/1 Gillette Show, 1936-1937, June 27
Bound volumes
BOX-FOLDER 37/2-8 Stop Me If You've Heard This One, 1939, 1940, undated
Typescripts
BOX-FOLDER 37/9 Stop Me If You've Heard This One, 1939 December-1940 February
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 38-39/1-6 Three Ring Time, 1941 September-1942, February 6
Typescripts
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 39/7-40/2 Three Ring Time, 1941, September 12-1942, April 28
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 40/3-7 Campbell Soups, 1943
Typescripts
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 41/1-2 Campbell Soups, 1943 March-June
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 41/3 Full Speed Ahead, 1943 September and November
Typescript
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 41/4-9, 42, 43/1-3 Ever Sharp Show aka Let Yourself Go, 1944-1945
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 43/4-6, 44, 45/1 Ever Sharp Show aka Let Yourself Go, 1944-1945
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 45/2 Kiss and Make Up, 1946 July-August
Bound volume
BOX-FOLDER 45/3 Philip Morris Show, undated
Typescript
BOX-FOLDER 45/4-47/2 Philip Morris Show, 1947, March 11- 1948, April 13
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 47/1-49/1 Texaco Star Theatre, 1948 September-1949 June
Bound volumes
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 49/2 Unidentified, undated
Television
BOX-FOLDER 49/3-54 Texaco Star Theatre, 1949 May-1954 May
Typescripts
Annotated
BOX-FOLDER 55-66/1 Texaco Star Theatre, 1948 September-1953 June
Bound volumes
Annotated
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