Film Forum

In the early 1950s, 20 million people tuned into see the weekly TV extravaganza Your Show of Shows, starring Sid Caesar, a master of physical comedy, “double talk” and pantomime, supported by “second bananas” Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris, and a truly legendary writing staff that included Reiner, Lucille Kallen, Mel Tolkin, Mel Brooks, and Neil Simon (and, later, Woody Allen). This special compilation of some of Caesar's greatest sketches, from Your Show of Shows and the later Caesar’s Hour, will be followed by an onstage conversation with Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Founding Repertory Artistic Director (and Caesar fanatic), and longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick, author of the definitive new biography When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy (Schocken Books). Book signing in lobby following event. Produced by Bruce Goldstein. Edited by William Hohauser.