RIP Sid Caesar

And, after the slaughter is over, we're gonna come back here and ring that victory bell. Like we always wanted to

 

The head of Big Picture Studios in Silent Movie, an underrated classic. The scene where they play pong with the EKG monitor is hysterical.

 

Hope there's a victory bell to ring in the great beyond.

 

Battled addiction and was later able to keep the demons at bay. RIP.

 

Well played

 

The roster of young comics who wrote for Sid Caesar either on TV or radio included:

Carl Reiner
Mel Brooks
Woody Allen
Neil Simon
Larry Gelbart

That's a pretty good "comedy tree" right there ...

 

Sometime in the mid-90's I was eating dinner in a pizza shop and they had Larry King Live on their TV. Sid Caesar was one of the guests talking about surviving a heart attack.
There was an old guy in the corner of the shop, muttering all sorts of profanity to himself. When Larry King introduced Sid Caesar, the old guy yelled "Sid Caesar! That motherfucker!"
That's my Sid Caesar story.