Comedy-Variety

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Presents

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“You had to have your wits about you. It was a little bit like summer stock…I think the thing that made it the golden age of television is most of us were from Broadway.” - Jayne Meadows, Actress

Interviewees discuss television's "Golden Age" of comedies.

Highlights

Jayne Meadows on the challenges of working in live television

05:00

Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour

16:37

Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Morey Amsterdam Show

10:05

Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny

04:12

Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for NBC Television starting in 1948

05:16

Howard Morris on co-starring on Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows, and Caesar's Hour, along with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner

16:48

Who talked about this topic

Paul Bogart

Paul Bogart briefly on being a stage manager on Your Show of Shows

01:12

Hume Cronyn

Hume Cronyn on appearing in the series The Marriage with wife Jessica Tandy

08:53

Jamie Farr

Jamie Farr on Sherwood Schwartz writing for The Red Skelton Show

01:19

Larry Gelbart

Larry Gelbart on the rigorous work ethic and camaraderie of the writers of Caesar's Hour

02:04

Sheila Kuehl

Sheila Kuehl on playing "Jackie Erwin" on The Stu Erwin Show aka Trouble With Father

11:14

Norman Lear

Norman Lear on the challenges of working all day and night in the days of live television

04:50

Stewart MacGregory

Stewart MacGregory on being stage coordinator for NBC Television starting in 1948

05:16

Chuck McCann with Emerson College

Chuck McCann on live television in the 1950s

03:10

Barney McNulty

Barney McNulty on doing cue cards for The Ed Wynn Show

28:30

Barry McNulty on doing cue cards for I Love Lucy with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz

04:21

Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows on the challenges of working in live television

05:00

Jayne Meadows on her sister Audrey Meadows as "Alice Kramden" on The Honeymooners

05:39

Howard Morris

Howard Morris on co-starring on Admiral Broadway Revue, Your Show of Shows, and Caesar's Hour, along with Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, and Carl Reiner

16:48

Don Pike

Don Pike on being technical director for Lights Out and Your Hit Parade

04:31

Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour

16:37

Gene Reynolds

Gene Reynolds on the M*A*S*H episode "Point of View"

01:26

Gene Reynolds on killing off "Henry Blake" on M*A*S*H

04:53

Hazel Shermet

Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Morey Amsterdam Show

10:05

Hazel Shermet on appearing on The Fred Allen Show

02:57

Hazel Shermet on doing Songs You've Never Heard for WOR

03:17

Johnny Stearns

Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny

04:12

Mary Kay Stearns

Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns on the challenges of acting in live television; on sets and locations on Mary Kay and Johnny

04:12

Gale Storm

Gale Storm on how My Little Margie impacted television

01:43

Mel Tolkin

Mel Tolkin on writing for Your Show of Shows

08:55

Mel Tolkin on classic sketches from Caesar's Hour featuring Sid Caesar

07:54

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