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Sid Caesar on the camraderie and mutual respect between the cast and crew of Your Show of Shows (and how quickly scene changes were made in "live TV") 01:14
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on skipping a rehearsal to relieve tensions when less experienced crew fill-ins were used during a strike on Your Show of Shows 01:22
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on accidentally being dressed in the wrong costume in a sketch during the "live" performance 02:16
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on the Your Show of Shows ensemble: Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris 00:35
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on a sketch idea for Your Show of Shows which originated with Imogene Coca 00:20
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on how Your Show of Show's parody of From Here to Eternity ("From Here to Obscurity") became the source of a lawsuit 01:17
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Performer Sid Caesar on how Your Show of Show's parody of From Here to Eternity became the source of a lawsuit (and how it related to the Gaslight parody done on The Jack Benny Program) 01:17
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Jack Benny Program, The
Performer Sid Caesar on the first sketch he did that used split screen on Your Show of Shows 01:35
Interview: Sid Caesar | Topic: Technological Innovation
Sid Caesar on skipping a rehearsal to relieve tensions when less experienced crew fill-ins were used during a strike on Your Show of Shows in the 1950s 01:21
Interview: Sid Caesar | Topic: Industry Strikes
Sid Caesar on accidentally being dressed in the wrong costume in a sketch "live" on Your Show of Shows 02:16
Interview: Sid Caesar | Topic: Bloopers
Sid Caesar on how Your Show of Show's parody of From Here to Eternity ("From Here to Obscurity") became the source of a lawsuit 01:17
Interview: Sid Caesar | Topic: Comedy
On Your Show of Shows movie parodies of The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle and The Lost Weekend; on TV standards & practices in the 1950s; on the rehearsal schedule; on forgetting guest star Basil Rathbone's name while introducing him 08:52
Interview: Sid Caesar
On the writing talent on Your Show of Shows (and Caesar's Hour); on classic characters and sketches from Your Show of Shows ("The Professor," "The Hickenloopers") 10:58
Interview: Sid Caesar
On pantomimes; on opera parodies; on foreign film parodies with foreign language double-talk (such as The Bicycle Thief); on parodies of Shane, On the Waterfront, and High Noon 08:59
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on the Your Show of Show husband-and-wife sketch "The Hickenloopers" and his philosophy of truth and believability behind comedy 02:19
Interview: Sid Caesar | Genre: Comedy Series
Sid Caesar on forgetting Basil Rathbone's name while introducing him as the guest star on Your Show of Shows (and Rathbone "returning the favor" at the curtain call) 00:43
Interview: Sid Caesar | Person: Basil Rathbone
Sid Caesar on the writing talent of Larry Gelbart and his sketch idea of hip musician "Progress Hornsby" on Caesar's Hour 01:31
Interview: Sid Caesar | Person: Larry Gelbart
Sid Caesar on forgetting Basil Rathbone's name while introducing him as the guest star on Your Show of Shows 00:45
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on the writing talent of Larry Gelbart and his sketch idea of hip musician Progress Hornsby on Your Show of Shows 01:31
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on one of the Your Show of Shows The Hickenloopers sketches wherein the wife slowly reveals to the husband that she has crashed the car 01:21
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on the opera parodies (with Italian double-talk) he did on Your Show of Shows 01:24
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on the Your Show of Shows foreign film parodies, including one on The Bicycle Thief 01:12
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on his comedic influences and the importance of being prepared when your break comes along 01:02
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on a painful gaffe on live TV during a Your Show of Shows parody of High Noon 01:42
Interview: Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar on the Your Show of Shows parody of the movie The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle 01:30
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on the Your Show of Shows parody of the movie The Lost Weekend 00:50
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows
Sid Caesar on standards and practices in 1950s TV 00:54
Interview: Sid Caesar | Show: Your Show of Shows