Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar — and a roomful of Jewish writers

In a recent public conversation, David Margolick — a longtime journalist and author — reflected on Caesar’s rise, his Jewish ...
The Times of Israel

How Sid Caesar and a roomful of forgotten Jewish writers transformed television forever

JTA — 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 ...
The Forward

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar — and a roomful of Jewish writers

(JTA) — 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” ...
The New Yorker

The Comic Genius Who Pushed Television Further Than It Could Go

The great silent comics—Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon—were compact men, resilient and sprung-wound yet graceful as they coped with menaces like recalcitrant umbrellas, ...