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Sid Caesar
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Your Show of Shows
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- ISBN 9781476671499
- Weight: 336g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Dec 2020
- Publisher: McFarland & Co Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. Then, in 1950, a new comedy-variety show debuted on NBC--Your Show of Shows. Its gifted and mercurial star, Sid Caesar, talented ensemble cast and superb writing staff--including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Lucille Kallen and Mel Tolkin--would create comedy designed for the new medium and provide a template for successful shows that followed. With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.
Karen Harvey is a retired professor of history whose previous publications include a monograph and essays on Catholics in 18th-century Ireland and numerous journal articles on the Scots-Irish in colonial America. She lives in Manhattan.
