Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announcing that in a poll of 10,000 of its readers (25% of them servicemen) they had voted Comic Hope the radio and film star who "most consistently violates" Christian principles. Runners-up: Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor. Least disapproved: Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred Allen, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen...
...middle of their act, Charlie suddenly reared up, turned to Bergen and said: "Who the hell ever told you you were a good ventriloquist?" Bergen blushed, fidgeted, tried to put his hand over Charlie's mouth. "Don't shush me," Charlie continued. "I'll mow-w-w-w you down. You better go back to the farm and leave me alone. I'll get by, but you're all through, brother, all through." Charlie then turned on the customers and told them they were a disgrace to civilization. Bergen put him on a chair...
Backstage later Bergen was saying: "I just had to get that off my chest." But he was a hit and he stayed on, until Manhattan's lofty Rainbow Room bought Charlie's raillery. In keeping with this swank setting, McCarthy appeared in top hat & tails. Then Rudy Vallee put him on the air. Bergen had finally found his proper medium of communication: the microphone. Previously, many of Charlie's asides and much of their patter had been lost to the audience. Swift give-and-take (mostly give) is the essence of McCarthy's humor. Now everybody...
...Made Whom? The McCarthy Bergen relationship has often caught the eye of psychologists who analyze it in such terms as split personality, inferiority complex, the subconscious expressing itself...
None of their analyses has satisfied Bergen...