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

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

Caesar and an ensemble cast that included Carl Reiner and Imogene Coca performed movie and musical parodies, domestic skits featuring warring suburbanites, and bits highlighting Caesar’s knack for ...