Sid Caesar's "The Professor" Joins The Interview! | The Dick Cavett Show

[@TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favourite Sid Caesar movie or TV show?

[@Ryan-on5on]

The ever-brilliant sketch television genius, Sid Ceasar! It's a crime how woefully underrated this innovator is today. His name should be as widely known and appreciated as '50s peers like Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Dezi Arnaz, Art Carney, and Jackie Gleason. If only Caesar had the fortune of establishing a strong movie career like his friend, protege, and fellow "Your Show of Shows" writer Mel Brooks. Brooks has remarked before that Caesar's inability to harness his prodigious creative energies and entertainment talent for the medium of film prevented him from producing a legacy with a much longer shelf life than programs one had to watch live and, after the initial airing, would likely never see again. Perhaps if Ceasar's television career had blossomed in a later, more mature TV era of mass syndication, cable specials, and re-run programming, his legacy would have been far better secured. Alas, I am grateful the magic of the Internet permits ready access to the surviving early work of this legend to someone like me who, due to the situational misfortune of being born decades after Ceasar's golden years, never got to experience his splendid programs when they first aired.

[@RoryVanucchi]

Sid a genius.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar did The Professor routine at the first Comic Relief fundraiser in 1985 for the American homeless (UK's Comic Relief near same time was for fundraising to lessen African famine)

[@ellisvillalovos7736]

Sadly we still have does problems one day we will not

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@@ellisvillalovos7736 Agreed 100%!!!! Really with the states of both comedy and homelessness right now, we need both the fundraisers and humour!

[@Joez86]

Cid was a legend - a great talent.

[@ellisvillalovos7736]

Priceless

[@stephenbelcher]

Ace

[@tedberwick3186]

Ty

[@ronimation]

Joaquin Phoenix could play Sid in a biopic.

[@Burps___]

Can you re-post any and all Peter Bogdanovich interviews with Mr. Cavett. Thank you

[@nolifenoboxing]

Do you guys have the sugar ray Robinson appearance on this show

[@Gannooch]

I do have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like all the other Dick Cavett interviews

[@bondfool]

Not Sid’s most convincing hairpiece.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

LOL! Sid was a member of the Friars, so I bet he'd have laughed at that

[@MrSejanus27]

Look closer. It's an epic combover.

[@Gypsyqueen-lt7tq]

Thank you; yes, that's what I always thought. Granted, my own "ol'man" always combed over the same receding hair for decades, so I've always forgiven Sid and his peers their little vanity in that regard. Thanks so much for com.

[@georgewilson1184]

I dont know how anyone can lock in on what that guy is doing or saying with Florence Henderson sitting there Mama Mia

[@jadezee6316]

people thought he was funny in his day.....when there wasn't much to choose from...

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@Death Adder Sid Caesar was one the first TV comedians along with Milton Berle. Where Berle was over-the-top goofy, Caesar was goofy-but-intelligent. It's a shame his shows weren't in syndication when either of us were born (I'm from mid-70s). Every one of his writers became famous--Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Woody Allen, just to name a few.

[@January.]

His humor is highbrow. I thoroughly enjoy his humor, intellect, and genteel manners.

[@georgewilson1184]

Florence Henderson sitting there is stealing the show without doing or saying anything at all !!!!!!

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@@January. Yes! His spoofs of (now-)classic movies and books were genius. Also though he didn't know the languages, he nailed cadences of many accents too.

[@djhrecordhound4391]

@@georgewilson1184 Both Florence Henderson and Shirley Jones were a LOT wilder than we knew back then, so yeah, distraction for sure! 😉