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Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows The Birth of the Television Sketch Comedy Series

Harvey, Karen J.
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781476671499
Publisert
2020-12-25
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
336 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Harvey, Karen J.

Biografisk notat

Karen Harvey is a retired professor of history whose previous publications include a monograph and essays on Catholics in 18th-century Ireland and numerous journal articles on the Scots-Irish in colonial America. She lives in Manhattan.

Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows The Birth of the Television Sketch Comedy Series

Harvey, Karen J.
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
Harvey, Karen J.
Heftet / 2020 / Engelsk
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In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. Then, in 1950, a new comedy-variety show debuted on NBC--Your Show of Shows. Its gifted and mercurial star, Sid Caesar, talented ensemble cast and superb writing staff--including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Lucille Kallen and Mel Tolkin--would create comedy designed for the new medium and provide a template for successful shows that followed. With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.

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With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Sid Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I—“Ladies and Gentlemen, the star of The Admiral Broadway Revue, Sid Caesar”
1. Origins
2. The Admiral Broadway Revue: Broadway Right into Your Home
Part II—“Ladies and Gentlemen, the star of Your Show of Shows, Sid Caesar”
3. Brought to You in Living Black and White: Television in the ’50s
4. The Writers’ Room: Comedy in a Pressure Cooker
5. Scripts Versus Performance: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
6. The Sketches: “Show Me the Brilliance”
7. Jewishness and Your Show of Shows: White Bread or Rye?
Part III—Rendering Unto Caesar
8. Caesar as Physical Comedian
9. Caesar as Comic Actor
Part IV—The End of Your Show of Shows
10. “Well, this was it”
Afterword
Appendix: Comedy Sketch Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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In the early days of television, "comedy" often meant stale vaudeville routines and stand-up. Then, in 1950, a new comedy-variety show debuted on NBC--Your Show of Shows. Its gifted and mercurial star, Sid Caesar, talented ensemble cast and superb writing staff--including Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Lucille Kallen and Mel Tolkin--would create comedy designed for the new medium and provide a template for successful shows that followed. With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.

Les mer
With rare illustrations and the most complete sketch guide yet compiled, this book highlights Sid Caesar's reputation as a brilliant comic actor and describes the writing and production of the weekly live broadcast that kept 60 million TV viewers home on Saturday nights.
Les mer
Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part I—“Ladies and Gentlemen, the star of The Admiral Broadway Revue, Sid Caesar”
1. Origins
2. The Admiral Broadway Revue: Broadway Right into Your Home
Part II—“Ladies and Gentlemen, the star of Your Show of Shows, Sid Caesar”
3. Brought to You in Living Black and White: Television in the ’50s
4. The Writers’ Room: Comedy in a Pressure Cooker
5. Scripts Versus Performance: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
6. The Sketches: “Show Me the Brilliance”
7. Jewishness and Your Show of Shows: White Bread or Rye?
Part III—Rendering Unto Caesar
8. Caesar as Physical Comedian
9. Caesar as Comic Actor
Part IV—The End of Your Show of Shows
10. “Well, this was it”
Afterword
Appendix: Comedy Sketch Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781476671499
Publisert
2020-12-25
Utgiver
McFarland & Co Inc
Vekt
336 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Harvey, Karen J.

Biografisk notat

Karen Harvey is a retired professor of history whose previous publications include a monograph and essays on Catholics in 18th-century Ireland and numerous journal articles on the Scots-Irish in colonial America. She lives in Manhattan.

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