Sid Caesar Collection - Creating the Comedy

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Summary: Why Caesar Ruled
Review: "Creating The Comedy" from the Sid Caesar Collection is a must see video for fans of TV or comedy. It's an excellent introduction to the early days of TV for younger genertions. This video takes one through a week of creating a 1 1/2 hour live TV program. It's just not done like this anymore. For older generations, this video is a great reminder of how good TV could really be. Caesar's comedy and programs were literate, inventive, funny, and just great fun. In the "Fur Coat" sketch one had the opportunity to see a remarkable bit of live TV with a three minute closeup of Sid's face as he listens to his wife and furiously blinks his eyes in horror and cries. By the end of the bit real tears and sweat are coursing down his face. You'll not likely see that again. The "Beethoven" (sic) skit is awesomely clever and inventive. A classic you'll never see duplicated in today's dumbed-down world. And for movie fans, there is a great parody of "From Here To Eternity" with its romantic beach scene, except Sid is Burt Lancaster and Imogene Coca is Deborah Kerr, and instead of gentle Pacific waves, buckets of water are being tossed at the beached lovers. In addition to the wonderful comedy, the video contains priceless comments from the writers of this material. Neil Simon, Woody Allen, Carl Reiner and a host of other writers detail how a script was developed over the course of a week, and how specific bits were added to the final creation. This video is both a joy to watch and to listen.

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Summary: Here it is! The ENTIRE "From Here to Obscurity" Sketch!
Review: This third volume in the Sid Caesar Collection continues to preserve the work of the most talented performer of the live television era. Aided and abetted by the terrific ensemble cast of Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, Caesar put together two of the funniest shows of Television's Golden Age, "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour." "Creating the Comedy" includes the immortal sketch "From Here to Obscurity," as well as "The Cobbler's Daughter" and "Argument to Beethoven's 5th." You will also find the "Commuters" in "The Fur Coat" and Progress Hornsby in "People to People." These sketches, personally selected by Caesar, have been digitally remastered from the original kinescopes and you have the added joy of having the cast members and writers introducing the sketches. Milton Berle was Mr. Television, but Sid Caesar was Mr. Comedy. I have waited decades for these treasures to be available, my appetite whetted by seeing that infamous "From Here to Obscurity" clip of Sid and Imogene getting hit by all that water. Now I have actually seen the entire sketch!

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Summary: Here it is! The ENTIRE "From Here to Obscurity" Sketch!
Review: This third volume in the Sid Caesar Collection continues to preserve the work of the most talented performer of the live television era. Aided and abetted by the terrific ensemble cast of Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, Caesar put together two of the funniest shows of Television's Golden Age, "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour." "Creating the Comedy" includes the immortal sketch "From Here to Obscurity," as well as "The Cobbler's Daughter" and "Argument to Beethoven's 5th." You will also find the "Commuters" in "The Fur Coat" and Progress Hornsby in "People to People." These sketches, personally selected by Caesar, have been digitally remastered from the original kinescopes and you have the added joy of having the cast members and writers introducing the sketches. Milton Berle was Mr. Television, but Sid Caesar was Mr. Comedy. I have waited decades for these treasures to be available, my appetite whetted by seeing that infamous "From Here to Obscurity" clip of Sid and Imogene getting hit by all that water. Now I have actually seen the entire sketch!