The Best of Sid Caesar

Before there was Leno or even Carson television comedy began with Sid Caesar. Called comedic "royalty" (USA Today) Sid's Emmyewinning Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour invented "a hipper style of TV comedy that influenced everything up to and including Saturday Night Live" (TV Guide). Turn back the clock and join Sid for eight of his most memorable and remarkable sketches plus extras that include bonus sketches interviews with one of the most impressive comedy-writer lineups television has ever known (including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen). Return to the golden age of comedy that shaped a half century of laughter with THE BEST OF SID CAESAR. Featuring: The Commuters in "7 Dwarves Bet" / the Professor in "Boardrooms of Hollywood" / Five-Dollar Date / Sid Plays Sax with Benny Goodman / the Clock / a Fella Needs a Girl / the Haircuts: "So Rare" and "Flippin'" / This Is Your Story DVD Bonus Features: Exclusive Footage from Sid's 1999 Friar's Club Roast; Bonus Musical Sketch with Performances By Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa; Interview with Actor/Writer Carl Reiner; Side-by-Side Comparison of the Restoration Process; Bonus Sketch: "Airplane Movies"; Writer and Cast Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection.