We Salute Sid Caesar - and Caesar's Writers!

Today, the blog shall binge-watch Sid Caesar, starting with his TV debut.



Do we LOVE Sid Caesar, Your Show Of Shows, Caesar's Hour and all the super-talented cast members from those series? Yes!



The gang at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog has watched Ten From Your Show Of Shows, an amazing document of early 1950's sketch comedy, numerous times.













The THIS IS YOUR STORY sketch from 10 From Your Show Of Shows, spoofing This Is Your Life, featuring Howard Morris as the affectionate Uncle Goopy, destroys me every time I see it.



Nobody, not even Victor Borge and P.D.Q. Bach, has taken on classical music quite like the ridiculously talented casts of Your Show Of Shows and Caesar's Hour.



The Caesar's Hour episode with guest star Benny Goodman (which aired on 11-1-1954) is particularly memorable.



After powering through an unrelenting decade-long torrent of comedy, Sid Caesar would be less visible in showbiz for a few years. Post Caesar's Hour, he appeared in this BBC Broadcast which aired on September 9, 1958.



Sid co-starred with 1000 other comedians in Stanley Kramer's Its A Mad Mad Mad Mad World and appeared a slew of commercials, then dropped out of sight through the late 1960's and 1970's. He re-emerged in the early 1980's, including hosting a very good episode of Saturday Night Live in the Dick Ebersol years.



While Sid dropped out of sight, his writers, especially Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks would bring the world The Dick Van Dyke Show, Alan Brady and the 2000 year old man.





When the realization hit of just how truly extraordinary such performer/writers as Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were, then many events and interviews involving the writers who worked hard on their series followed.







Our favorite episode of Serious Jibber Jabber with Conan O'Brien featured Mel Brooks.



For more great comedy featuring Sid Caesar, there's the following playlist which largely consists of complete episodes of Admiral Broadway Revue (1949), as well as another sketch-filled playlist, mostly from Your Show Of Shows and Caesar's Hour.