Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows: The Birth of the Television Sketch Comedy Series

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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.