Sid Ceasar is dead at age 91.

WHO????

If you grew up in the 1950s and '60s, you don't have to ask. Along with "Uncle Milty" (Milton Berle) and Red Skelton, Sid was truly "Mister Television". He was one of the very small handful of pioneers who made TV such an essential part of American life.

Unless you have grey hair, you probably don't understand.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/showbiz/sid-caesar-dead/

Anybody else remember him?

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1970 240Z

Most of the hair I have left is gray so of course I remember him. A true comic genius.

You guys still have hair???

I seem to recall that Sid's female foil was Imogene Coca - right?

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Jim Arnett
Richardson, Texas
HLS30-15320 12/1970 (original owner)
ZCON 2015 Gold Cup - Street Modified class

Correct.
I couldn't STAND Imogene Coca, but Sid cracked me up.

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1970 240Z

Sid Caesar was a man of many languages. He could speak what sounded like an unfamiliar, but recognizable tongue and if you listened carefully, English came out of it.

The 50's were good television times. Families watched clever, clean and creative entertainment together. Multiple tv sets in a home was unheard of. We knew a television set in the bedroom made you sterile. And, sit too close...never!

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2007 350Z Grand Touring Roadster "OURZ"

One of the last from that golden era of TV comedy...they don't make comedians like that anymore...

Frank - one more to add to your list on the 1st post would have to be Jackie Gleason on the Texaco Hour. As Jim H. and Alan said - truly a golden period for family entertainment. I miss them all.

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Jim Arnett
Richardson, Texas
HLS30-15320 12/1970 (original owner)
ZCON 2015 Gold Cup - Street Modified class

I miss "families". Remember them?

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1970 240Z

And speaking of families...
and most of all "I Remember Mama".
A great tv show with Peggy Wood and an even better movie with Barbara Bel Geddes.

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2007 350Z Grand Touring Roadster "OURZ"

Ja, ja ~ I remember Momma.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikrM5zjA2d8

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1970 240Z

["Sid Caesar was a man of many languages. He could speak what sounded like an unfamiliar, but recognizable tongue and if you listened carefully, English came out of it"].

Like so many early TV pioneers, Sid was Jewish. Raised in NYC, he was fascinated by people from all over the world. He worked at his father's deli restaurant in multicultural Yonkers and grew up listening to the intonations and cadences of various languages. From that young experience he developed his own "double talk".

http://youtu.be/2SqEmkwADmY

He also sang a 'double talk' song, which I'm unable to find. Just as well ~ it used to make me laugh so hard I couldn't breathe.

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1970 240Z