His comedy was universal and was absolutely brilliant, no matter the ethnicity of the audience, he cracked everyone up!! I miss him much. One of a kind!

A Champ among Champs... A Legend among Legends.. The One .. the Only .. Red Buttons!

Thank you, Ira Goldberg for these marvelous videos! Red Buttons was a genius, this performance even more impressive considering we were still fresh off 9/11. He actually made something "bawdy" classy without using any vulgar language.

Slays the crowd in the first 4 words.

red buttons was briljant, great sharp humor combined with a great timing, mimic. The way he works with the audience, waiting for a reaction, allowing them the time to think about the joke, he was probably one of the best, i can watch these old video recordings over and over again and he still puts a smile on my face, we miss him!

Thank you for posting! Now this is comedy! I laughed out loud until I cried🤣

Wow!! Love this guy!! He’s flawless.

Red Buttons was always one of my favorites because he was real even way back during the Dean Martin celebrity roast.

Impeccable timing and delivery. The magic is in analogies everyone understood. Hollywood never knew what to do with Red Buttons although he won an Oscar. There's brilliance here.

completely hysterical. Red was such a brilliant comedic mind with PERFECT timing. thanks for sharing.

Red Buttons was BRILLIANT in his comedic routines…still watch those roasts..have always wondered what the backstory is re that dance n move he would do with Dean..help this Jamsican get the 411 on that story…tonx…loved him n Foster Brooks

Those were the masters of real comedy! No one today could EVER pull off this humor! The only “comedic” sentences they know are filled with swearing! That’s not comedy, ANYONE can do THAT! Those days the timing was always perfect, the writers could right ! Too bad we can’t enjoy that humor anymore

Beyond brilliant!

Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Jack Benny, Don Rickles, George Burns, Henny Youngerman, Groucho Marx, the great Jewish-American comedians. RIP all of you.

I LOVED THIS! One of a long list of comedians who made laugh stomach-hurting hard, and thanks to video, he still does! He had a PhD in comedy timing!!

I miss my grandpa. Don missed his hair. Don was a super nice man. On behalf of grandpa, thank you. He did it all to make you laugh. He sure kept me laughing. I cried for years after he passed. Excuse me, something is caught in my eyes. -JMN

This was real comedy. Not the crap that exists now.

Hysterical! The best.

Hi he made me laugh with tears 😂 God bless him

Holy Shit!!!! This is gold

When he said the most often asked question was if Milton had a big “thing”, he should’ve said “it was so big, it got its OWN dinner” 🤣🤣

"I wouldn't give this spot to a leopard" is such a good one.

I LOVE RED BUTTONS

And Milton never got a dinner

Milton would have loved it.

Wow - the Greatest Generation of “Shtick” Comedians {Benny, Burns, Hope, Gleason, Skelton, Berle} et al, is Gone!! What a 100 + Years of Genius!!!

classic talk: classic Talker!

He could also do dramatic acting . One of my favorite movie's is the Five Pennie's !! Check it out !! I'm talking about Red Button's ..

Red Buttons makes us laugh from the belly!

Milton Berle big plick!

Only Red Buttons could get away with this.

Uncle miltie

We could only be so lucky dying.

Ira, aleichem shalom. L'Chaim.

That evil grin Red had when he said Milton molested him as a child made dr pepper shoot out of my nose. Im gonna have a hard...scratch that...a difficult time getting the image of Miltons thing out of my mind. Thats a scary image.

Buttons--total deadpan.

If there was a Mt. Rushmore of comedians there would be four faces if they were my choice. 1. Milton Berle, known as Mr. TV. 2. Red Buttons, the tiny red haired Jew. 3. Richard Pryor, my favorite all time funny man. 4. Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth.

Why isn't Joe Biden at this event?

Expensive wrapping for banalities and vulgarities