OT: Sid Caesar

Marilyn

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Jun 1, 2001, 2:05:24 PM6/1/01

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There will be a feature on 20/20 tonight about the comic legacy of Sid
Caesar. (ABC, 10:00 eastern)
Thought some of you would be interested. Especially some of you old farts.
:)

Alan Page

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Jun 1, 2001, 2:13:17 PM6/1/01

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"Marilyn" wrote...

> Thought some of you would be interested. Especially some of you old farts.

Takes one to know one.

--
Alan

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Donz5

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Jun 1, 2001, 5:04:43 PM6/1/01

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Marilyn" maril...@home.com wrote:

Showtime aired a fine documentary on Sid last week. Check your local listings
for future broadcasts. Not to be missed.

JMurphy811

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Jun 4, 2001, 1:07:09 AM6/4/01

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pretty amazing that imogene coca ended up dying at the same time that they
showed that on 20/20. (Unless ABC already knew about it and that's why they
did it.)

Jim Cim

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Jun 4, 2001, 2:41:28 PM6/4/01

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In article <EPQR6.44200$v5.36...@news1.rdc1.ct.home.com>, "Marilyn"
<maril...@home.com> wrote:

That's me .......... and I did.
I once heard Mel Brooks tell a story about Sid that had me rolling on
the floor. To the best of my limited memory it was that Sid got angry at a
cab driver for giving Sid the finger, or something. Sid went over to the
cabbies window and said, "Do you remember your birth?" and then repeated it
when the guy didn't undertand. Then Sid said, ""We are going to relive that
moment" ...... and he reached through that little trangular air-vent window
they used to have on older model cars ...... grabbed the guy by his shirt
...... and tried to pull him through that little tiny window.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ............. That man is a legend.

Jim Cim
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jimcim/

Julian the Apostate

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Jun 13, 2001, 6:03:57 AM6/13/01

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On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 18:05:24 GMT, "Marilyn" <maril...@home.com>
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[Note: I am 37 yo.]

I have seen a few clips of this show and cannot see why it is
considered so great. When you think of all the writers destined to
true greatness [Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, et al], you
cannot really understand how THOSE people wrote such banal things.
Perhaps I have not seen enough of it....perhaps I did not live at that
time, etc.

In any case, people 30 or 40 years from now will look at Saturday
Night Live and other such shows and wonder what we saw funny in them.

Maybe you had to be there...

Dave Sikula

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Jun 13, 2001, 9:18:50 PM6/13/01

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>===== Original Message From Julian the Apostate <zen...@yahoo.com> =====

>I have seen a few clips of this show and cannot see why it is
>considered so great. When you think of all the writers destined to
>true greatness [Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, et al], you
>cannot really understand how THOSE people wrote such banal things.
>Perhaps I have not seen enough of it....perhaps I did not live at that
>time, etc.
>
>In any case, people 30 or 40 years from now will look at Saturday
>Night Live and other such shows and wonder what we saw funny in them.

I look at SNL -now- and wonder why people apparently think it's funny.

That said, some of Caesar's sketches don't age as well as others, but his
batting average is staggeringly high.

And then there's Ernie Kovacs, who's -still- amazing.

--"frequent Wahoo contributor" Dave Sikula

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Dgmri

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Jun 15, 2001, 12:55:54 AM6/15/01

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Christ, you couldn't say PREGNANT on TV in the fifties. Considering the
constraints they had, they did a pretty good job. Watch the collection called
TEN FROM YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS. It was pretty good, as I recall.
"Excelsior"