My friend Jeff is urging me to take the money I just got from selling my mother's house and buy this, this being Milton Berle's old joke file. Note that my friend Jeff is not intending to use his own money to purchase this sucker. That's because he knows, as I know, that most of what's in there has got to be dreadful. Berle published two volumes of jokes from this repository plus there was an awkwardly-designed CD-Rom…and all the jokes on the three of them collectively were not as funny as the photo above. Which, as you can see, isn't all that funny.
You know what is funny? Back in the seventies, there was a syndicated version of I've Got a Secret hosted by Steve Allen. On one episode, Berle was the Celebrity Guest and they brought out these huge boxes on stage. His secret was what was in them and the panel, which included Alan Alda, had to guess what was in them. At the end when they hadn't figured it out, Steve asked Milton to tell them and Berle said, "Those boxes contain every joke I ever told on television."
In less than a second, Alda exclaimed, "You mean you've got both jokes in there?"