RIP Sid Caesar

[Steak Snabler]

Dead at 91:

http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/sid-caesar-master-of-tv-comedy-dies-at-91-1201100019/

The day after Shirley Temple. The 1940s will never be the same ...

 

[Batman]

Your funeral of funerals?

 

[The Big Ragu]

RIP.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

These things happen in threes. I'm trying to figure out who else I'd be surprised to find out was still alive.

 

[Steak Snabler]

It is already three if you count Ralph Kiner.

 

[Machine Head]

Giant talent.

RIP

 

[Bob Cook]

It's a Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead, Dead World.

 

[Armchair_QB]

"Suck it!"

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Physical-culture freak who'd take offense at the slightest slight.

The Zeppo Marx of his day, in that regard . . . though granted a broader chance to display his considerable comedic talents.

Not too many left from the front line of IAMMMMW . . . aside from Mickey Rooney, of course . . .

 

[doctorx]

Made Danny Zuko a track star. RIP

 

[imjustagirl]

If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Let's keep it clean, people. Let's keep it clean.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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

 

[steveu]

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

 

[hondo]

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

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

 

[Liut]

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

 

[Gold]

Your funeral of funerals?

Well played

 

[Steak Snabler]

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 ...

 

[Smallpotatoes]

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 mother****er!"
That's my Sid Caesar story.