[T]he funniest man America has produced to date. — Mel Brooks, describing Sid Caesar in 1982. LITTLE ROCK There must be whole generations by now whose reaction to the name Sid Caesar might be summed ...

Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died early Wednesday. He was ...

Sid Caesar once dominated American television so completely that it was hard to imagine Saturday nights without him. In the early 1950s, his live sketch-comedy program “Your Show of Shows” drew tens ...

The comedian was one of early network TV's biggest stars, and he didn't do smut or smarmy remarks. Caesar did skits: grown-up, gentle comedy for... Sid Caesar, Who Got Laughs Without Politics Or ...

If you’ve laughed at something on TV lately, you can thank Sid Caesar. That may be a slight exaggeration, but Caesar, who has died at the age of 91, was present for the birth of TV as a mass-medium ...

LOS ANGELES - Sid Caesar, the TV comedy pioneer whose rubber-faced expressions and mimicry built on the work of his dazzling team of writers that included Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, died Wednesday.

whose anti-Jewish swerve has an unpleasant taste, not zees, sweet like Sid Caesar, but like maror bitter. In “When Caesar Was King: Live From New York,” WSJ,11/15/25, Joseph Epstein writes: On ‘Your ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sid Caesar, who pioneered TV sketch comedy during the 1950s as the star and creative force of "Your Show of Shows," a launch pad for the likes of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and ...

Comedy icon Mel Brooks shared the secret sauce to a long life a few months ahead of turning 100. He revealed that he and his ...

Sid Caesar, the TV comedy pioneer whose rubber-faced expressions and mimicry built on the work of his dazzling team of writers that included Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, died Wednesday. He was 91.