In 'When Caesar Was King,' David Margolick chronicles the unlikely rise to stardom of a Yonkers-born son of Jewish immigrants ...

In mid-century America, no one quite knew what TV would be. Sid Caesar made the medium into something new and remarkable—until the medium unmade him.

Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died early Wednesday. He was ...

A TV legend is being honored in his hometown of Yonkers. The block of Main Street between Riverdale and Hawthorne avenues is now Sid Caesar Way. Caesar went to Yonkers High School and began his career ...

There are a number of things I miss about the “good old days” among them: drive-in dates as a teen, my jump shot, staying up late, 45 rpm records, the smell of burning leaves, etc. I could go on but ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sid Caesar, who pioneered TV sketch comedy during the 1950s as the star and creative force of "Your Show of Shows," a launch pad for the likes of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and ...

June 1 -- Sid Caesar made America turn on, tune in and damn near die laughing. TV comedy started with Caesar's Your Show of Shows on Saturday nights in the 1950s. Mel Brooks learned to write comedy ...

On Saturday nights in Joseph Epstein’s home his family would watch the Rome-com of Sid Caesar, whose root was Ziser, not a ...

Caesar's Hour is a live, hour-long American sketch comedy television program that aired on NBC from 1954 until 1957. The program starred, among others, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard ...

LOS ANGELES - Sid Caesar, the TV comedy pioneer whose rubber-faced expressions and mimicry built on the work of his dazzling team of writers that included Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, died Wednesday.