SID CAESAR: The Beauty Pageant [THE COMMUTERS] (CAESAR'S HOUR, Jun 18, 1956)

For more rare material like this, please click here to subscribe to the Sid Caesar channel: / @sidcaesaryourshowofsh...

[@markantrobus8782]

I am 76.. Sid Caesar was very important to me growing up. He and Imogene Coca were intelligence in action. Not just fun. And years later they and their team have not lost any of their power.

[@darrellcooper3924]

How many inspiring comedians cut there teeth watching syd ceaser , who's timeless in any language through out the ages. Let alone Carl Reiner an Mel Brooks

[@JeromeBartlett-yi2ij]

THE BEST WRITERS OF ALL TIME👍😁

[@rubyhunternc]

I watched the show all the time. I'm 77 years old. Loved them all.

[@holahello4428]

I'm 40 and I LOVE it!! I just discovered the Sid Caesar show about 6 months ago.

[@rubyhunternc]

@@holahello4428 Especially the expressions on his face, always cracked me up.

[@suzannebrown2505]

I’m almost 75, and I loved them too, even as a little kid who didn’t really understand the “sexual innuendos” when I was 9 or 10. Caesar’s face was enough to make (almost) anyone laugh! 🥰❤️😁

[@markantrobus8782]

This is Your Life with Howard Morris clinging to Sid Caesar's leg and the From Here to Eternity sequence are indelibly burned into my psyche.

[@stuartblaustein1199]

Thank you Carl Reiner, one of the BEST. RIP. heaven has just become a funnier place.

[@skiprope536]

When TV was TV. The best.

[@ecsyntric]

this a tough topic and is very much still a man's mindset today

[@kaljic1]

Nannette Fabray was sure built!!!

[@sockmonkey22]

❤❤

[@jgsmile1331]

Sid and Carl were gems along with the rest of the cast. When comedy was honest and actually funny to everyone. Those were the best of days.

[@tonygrowley5275]

Dull and childish

[@jgsmile1331]

@@tonygrowley5275 To u maybe but not the rest of us. They are gold.

[@tonygrowley5275]

@@jgsmile1331 I liked the Show of Shows, but this whole work is weak!

[@harlow743]

This funny scit would offend people today....a waste of great comedy...Some don't know that Howard Morris is Ernest T Bass

[@tonygrowley5275]

@@harlow743 Unintelligent people, like you, will laugh at anything.

[@louisglekas8413]

I grew up with these shows. What a treat to see them again.

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

So glad you've found the channel-- and thanks for the comment, Louis! [wgw]

[@poetcomic1]

Carl's Commuter and similar situation bits took shape into The Dick Van Dyke Show.

[@tanyberman]

You did not have to use bad language to get some of the best laughs God bless all of these great entertainers

[@degsbabe]

'Thats the winner ' . She sure was. And this show was a winner too. Full of talent.

[@markdezii]

I absolutely LOVE these shows.

[@Savadorason1]

-YSOS's with Sid, Carl, Imogene, etc. used to make us laugh til we cried, many of those shows were so funny!!! Thanks for getting these YT!!!

[@sanfranciscoprofessor2577]

Carl Reiner, part of some of the greatest golden age comedy.

[@Dobie_Gillis]

I'm sure you have seen "It's a Mad Mad Mad ...World". That movie said it all.

[@christianmoya5268]

Beauty contest starts at 12:29. These women from the 50's ... Wow, what beauties!

[@VidHardt]

Miss West Elm Street is Renée Roy, who was the only winner of a talent award in the (1951) Miss America contest for standup comedy.

[@MIKERICH1]

Carl was a genius creator who entertained our family through 4 generations and will be missed by all. Thanks for that you gave!

[@terrietackett8964]

Carl Reiner....Thank you!! Wish they had shows like this today. The women’s hair, fabulous!!

[@vincentanguoni8938]

It is Caesars show..

[@arthurpanaro6586]

Wonderful comedy by a genius.. and other geniuses. ...

[@Paolo7219]

Loved the video. Very funny. I doubt they could do a comedy sketch like this nowadays. That's too bad.

[@emilybacon2654]

When he starts to cry, omg I crack up so hard 😂

[@MrEmanResu]

Closing line: "We'll go to a dark restaurant where no one will see." :-D

[@spinecat]

classic, classic stuff!

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Ten times funnier than SNL.

[@lanikailarsen8098]

Hi the show aired on Saturday Nights and was Live. That's where they got the name SNL.

[@MaskedMan66]

Rest in Peace, Carl Reiner.

[@michaeltroster9059]

MaskedMan66 Rest in peace, the whole crowd. They were funny and they didn’t need vulgarity to do it.

[@carlrae7129]

As a teenager, I would love to watch Your Show of Shows. I’d laugh at those routines and laugh till I cried! Special time for this 81 year old.

[@pepeladdrockperuano]

Unforgettable as Alan Brady in the Dick van Dyke Show.

[@littlegelland]

Forbid, forbad, Fabrayd... Love it!

[@candaceohara9916]

Wow. Thank you for uploading this slice of comedic genius. Just consider that "Your Show of Shows" aired weekly leaving the competition in its wake. Albeit, Sid Caesar's temper was not one of his better attributes as being exceptionally demanding of his writers (e.g. Larry Gelbart, Mel Brooks).

[@gregoryreese7686]

Also carl Reiner,and mel toiken ,

[@VictoriaAlfredSmythe]

thank you

[@leoroys9683]

I like the Rafael joke ''we'd give him his dollar back''

[@RedVynil]

Who's Rafael??

[@assmane999]

Red Vynil I think he means raffle. The joke about how much the raffle winner receives

[@64slugirl]

5/14/2019....Still a winner!

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour: classic TV comedy! Glad you're enjoying the videos. ---kjh

[@leoroys9683]

never get tired of watching these

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Glad you're enjoying them-- and thanks for your comments! [wgw]

[@leoroys9683]

great comedy

[@maxinesaperstein179]

Sid Caesar: Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour / Admiral Broadway Revue m

[@robertmassie6050]

This had to be ad-libbed. This is pure genius!

[@DS-ih8ye]

Fully scripted, though I imagine Howie Morris's mumbling chatter might have been somewhat ad libbed.

[@hawkmaster381]

Howard Morris was a First Sergeant in the US Army.

[@randyacuna3248]

Morris also directed one of the most overlooked, ignored, comedy gems in 1967. Who's minding the mint. A fantastic cast of character actors all in top form in a fun film.

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

In the Small World Department: Carl Reiner was in the same entertainment unit. ---kjh

[@RSEFX]

He was absolutely hilarious. We were huge fans of Morris as kids---and as adults. (One of his greatest roles: Uncle Goofy in the This Is Your LIfe spoof!) Of course Carl Reiner!---ALL OF THEM! What a great talented funny cast they were!!

[@lanikailarsen8098]

He and Carl were in the Army's Entertainment division together in Hawaii during WW2

[@tubularap]

"That's another winner ..." Hahaha

[@georgejetson1025]

#1 & #4 stunning

[@kingdoc3262]

Good then. Good today!

[@carcaperu4041]

"We were not funny, we were just lucky that the American public was stupid." Carl Reiner

[@joeambrose3260]

Couldn't agree more. RIP

[@franksnyder1357]

Love ya mom and dad. Thanks.

[@mitchly]

......and, a complete lack of tattoo's! Brilliant!!!

[@stevej398]

These shows were before my time but are much better than what’s available today. Carl Reiner is one of the reasons. Everything he ever did turned to gold, except for “Meathead!” You will be greatly missed. May you Rest In Peace!

[@harrellkerkhoff8054]

Ernest T. Bass makes an appearance.

[@ms-tw4sj]

" You ain't seen the last of Ernest T. Bass."

[@robertcombs55]

I grew up with this good clean TV; what happened?

[@suzannebrown2505]

My generation, “Baby Boomers”, never really got the hang of raising kids very well. Because of WWll and the Crash and the Depression, when the husbands returned home from the war: poor, with bad memories of the fighting and killing from the war, and wondering if they could get a good job and finish college, they looked at their wives, grabbed their hands, and made a beeline for the bedroom. Since our parents initially had so little, when our dad’s got good jobs, finished college, and got help with housing on the GI Bill, they had a bunch of kids and showered them with everything to make up for what they didn’t have. So, we grew into spoiled hippies with sex, drugs, alcohol, and Rock’nRoll and lots of flowers and sit-ins and rowdy behavior and challenged authority figures and “free love”! Even as we got older and became more responsible(?) and graduated college and got good jobs, homes, and cars, when it came to raising a family, we didn’t do such a good job. We mostly cared about ourselves and, initially, thought about different ways to live (for awhile), like communes and cults, and the kids came along, confused and curious. Later on, as we got older and wiser(?), we returned to life and bought most of the latest toys and computers for our kids, and us. But, mostly, we didn’t give our children what they needed most: enough love and attention from us. Instead, the good schools and all the toys and other things we bought them, showed that we cared about them, didn’t they? No, not really. We gave them some love and attention, but not enough. All the “Things” we gave our kids could never make up for the “Unconditional Love” our kids never had enough of. Since our sons and daughters mostly learn about life from their parents, they picked up quite well on our Lack of what they really needed and wanted and learned to be more independent and relying on Love (in every way) from their boyfriends and girlfriends. Gay was not yet really “Out of the Closet”. And so life went on…..A True Revolution…..so very different from our parents, but more observant, intelligent, and aware of what they wanted and how to go about getting it. Our parents, some of them, learned a valuable(?) lesson from the way their kids turned out. But it was way too late for the changes that started to occur in future generations to come. More adventure. Less patience. More intolerance. More hate. More fear. More desire for danger. More bigotry. Etc……..And on and on and on………….🥺😐………….?!?

[@GhostOfBugsy]

At 3:07 - that's Ernest T Bass from Andy Griffith!

[@RedVynil]

Howard Morris. He did a lot of cartoon voices, too.

[@MaskedMan66]

And Dr. Sivana from "Legends of the Superheroes."

[@cathysmith997]

Ernest T is one of my all time favorites!

[@angelamagruder5911]

So very funny,crazy,if this show would have been showing about time of the honeymooners,it would have given a change in the comedy routines to watch,but it is ok,enjoying them now!!!

[@jessewolf7649]

1956. Same time.

[@michaelchapman4955]

Brilliant improvisational comedy on the new medium of Television in Living Black & White on your Zenith Mahogany Console with an 8'' Screen

[@daniellack3559]

This kinescope appears to be in remarkable condition..we're talking 60 years ago that it was made..would anyone know if it has been technically altered/improved somehow?...thanks...

[@RedVynil]

I can tell you there was a fly on the lens around the time Nannette walked out on the contest stage.

[@vincentconti3633]

@@RedVynil I saw that on another it his shows...now I have to go back...I missed it...would they colorize the fly?

[@MyMelinaaa]

So handsome these men I'm 32 and I wasn't there but if men looked like this now instead of skinny jeans and crap they put on women can use some conservative help dressing too but it would be so nice it's like 'real men' I love it.great show the tAlent is wow nothing like this anymore 😒

[@sockmonkey22]

What a beauty! And talent. Didn’t the Flintstones do a similar plot a few years later? ❤

[@author7027]

Caesar has similarities with De Niro in the face play

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Check out "Streetcar Named ???" from Your Show of Shows on this channel--the similarity is even more pronounced. Even down to the moles on their cheeks! --kjh

[@RedVynil]

Don't insult Sid like that!

[@vincentconti3633]

@@RedVynil exactly.... It's the other way around really!!!

[@blaineselkirk9946]

RIP Carl Reiner

[@vxenon67]

my my how times have changed on bathing suits.

[@bobcrestwood740]

No, they had bikinis back then, but the censors wouldn't allow them on television. This was the first decade of television, and they kept the content very conservative, especially on a prime-time family-oriented show like this one.

[@howardstrougo2897]

CARL REINER KNOWS NOW THERE IS NO SUCH AS DEATH

[@hhworthen]

At 4:15 we get an explanation of the 2008 market crash.

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

😁 Very nice! ---kjh

[@MichaelHattem]

Reiner was good.

[@judybest6991]

6/19/2019 I just subscribed .

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Great! There's lots more to see, particularly from Your Show of Shows. Views are also up, which is refreshing. Caesar, Coca, Fabray, Reiner and the whole crew of YSOS and Caesar's Hour are absolutely addictive. Enjoy! --- kjh

[@daniellack3559]

What I find interesting is that Sid who was a big guy and reputedly very strong, (we all know the story of him holding Mel Brooks out the window of a Chicago Hotel), is not as tall as Carl Reiner...I guess I never realized that....

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

You can thank Max Liebman, the producer/director of Your Show of Shows, for that. He had a theory, based on who-knows-what, that the Second Banana should be taller than the principal comic. A related story about Sid's strength: in a sketch from YSOS, Carl and Howie Morris are trying to prevent Sid from going somewhere. First, Carl leaps on Sid's back, followed by Howie, who leaps on his. Sid then walks off-stage carrying close to 300 pounds of Second and Third Banana on his back. ---kjh

[@daniellack3559]

I admire your encyclopedic knowledge of Sid/YSOS/C/H....and I'm certain regarding Sid's strength you recall one of the most well known sketches "This is Your Life", where Howie, playing the deranged Uncle Goopy, grabs Sid's (Al Dunphy) leg and Sid walks around the stage carrying him on his leg! :)

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

Thanks! I'm writing a book on Sid and YSOS, so feel fairly comfortable talking about those episodes! And, yes, I love that part from "This is Your Story," which, by the way, wasn't scripted. Howie Morris just decided to cling to Sid's leg like a crazed limpet. If you look closely, Carl seems a bit startled and Sid gives him, after a second, a kind of "I've got this" look and then heads toward the chairs carrying Howie. Amazingly--and sometimes appallingly--all those stories about Sid's strength are pretty much true (and corroborated by others besides Mel Brooks)! --kjh

[@daniellack3559]

Sid Caesar: Your Show of Shows / Caesar's Hour / Admiral Broadway Revue KJH...It is my understanding that at one point (not sure precisely when) Sid was being paid an astronomical sum of $25000/episode (just incredible for that time) {and I know the tax rate then was 90% for top earners}..but nevertheless for 39 weekly episodes that closes in on a $million/yr...is this actually true or an exaggeration handed down over the years..because I believe Uncle Miltie worked under a special 30 year contract with NBC for $100000/yr...quite a difference....

[@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250]

The $25,000/episode (probably in '53-'54) seems to be correct from what I've read. It *was* a lot of money, but as you point out, the IRS took a hefty chunk. In the sketch "Invitation to a Murder," the characters are excited to find out they're going to split a million dollars or so, until Sid's character points out that the government's going to take 10 cents on the dollar. His delivery of the line seems heart-felt! At least one NBC exec complained about high salaries for their stars, a not-so-veiled reference to Sid's. Which seems almost churlish--it wasn't as if they weren't getting their money's worth! --kjh

[@RSEFX]

She comes in singing Dum dum dum de double D...Slipped that in.

[@robkunkel8833]

Who is Sid Caesar’s wife in that home scene? She is very pretty. “Hungarian Foot Soldier” lol Nanette Fabre? Sid was kind of doing a Jackie Gleason “Honeymooners” thing.

[@RSEFX]

@@robkunkel8833 Nanette Fabray. She was great, very funny, very attractive. I believe she is still alive , or was, a/o 2015. I should check that. But her facial features hadn't changed much after all that time. Also same weight, hair etc. Some people change so much after x-number of years that they become unrecognizable as to who they once were, She's a real exception.

[@jrbleau]

@@RSEFX She died in 2018 aged 97.

[@RSEFX]

@@jrbleau Thanks. I kept meaning to look her up on the imdb. Since the video I saw as of her (which was posted in 2015) wasn't dated, possibly what I saw was from an earlier time. All I know is that in the video she looked a lot younger than I expected.

[@HeavenWithouttheE]

Carl Reiner was handsome!!

[@vincentanguoni8938]

Gleason and the Honeymooners did a skit similar a few years later

[@2ears1mouth43]

Is that Ernest T. Bass?

[@williamrichards6386]

2ears 1mouth yes

[@ms-tw4sj]

" You ain't seen the last of Ernest T. Bass"

[@dianesue4629]

Howard Morris, yes

[@andrearosenberg6180]

Very funny.

[@harlow743]

the BLONDE at 14:25

[@user-ms9up2mc4i]

Me thinks the Kamala would fit right in here.

[@weirdbeard63]

Full bodied women who didn't shave down there. Wish I had a time machine......

[@harlow743]

Nanette Fabray did a fantastic job replacing Emma Gene Coca

[@adamc1966]

First girl was the best :)

[@taepark5330]

A real gentleman had to relinquish judgeship if a family member enter a contest.

[@OckGal]

17:25 lol!

[@rolfh]

I’m a bona fide dirty old man. And a lover of old comedy but this made me cringe. Times change. Thanks sid and carl comic geniuses wish you were still working.

[@RozarSmacco]

Easily the winner appears at 14:24

[@georgejetson1025]

Oh ya👍

[@MarkRBlackwell]

Isn't contestant #1 Ms. Torso from Hitchock's Rear Window?

[@bradfromthevalley]

one to the devil greatest tricks grades, and slippery slopes.....lopes

[@author7027]

fucking shit . the show is superb but what women they look. though not the prettiest faces , they somehow look better in this than many nowaday contestents. their standards are old but there is something in it.

[@barrychambers4047]

Back when men were bullies, threatening to beat their women up. No wonder our generation was so f-up!

[@BonJody]

Did Sid ever do anything with Don Rickles?

[@multitieredinvestor5246]

Entertainment!

[@62scotty1]

What can one say?

[@ukrandr]

They were right the first time. Prettier than second girl.

[@VictorKPanda]

They sure wore a lot today it’s micro bikinis and cleft suits tomorrow it’s paint ons....

[@mr.barkyvonschnauzer1710]

The Hungarian foot soldier won lol

[@mattb.4333]

Al Bundy's dad.

[@MrJffranco5777]

5:01...the moment you know you stepped into a pile of s....!

[@assmane999]

It’s funny but I found the threats of domestic violence made me uncomfortable even though it was just a joke

[@curbozer5006]

"To the Moon, Alice."....implied violence towards women was one of the social signs that things had to change in the culture of America...At least this topic can be openly discussed nowadays.

[@joeambrose3260]

@@curbozer5006 How about " Pow ! Right in the kisser "

[@YULgal]

If you'd ever seen "The Honeymooners", you'd know that Alice ALWAYS gets the last word & has the upper hand. 🙄

[@jessicarinaldi7742]

Hungaria

[@jolenaagapisou3803]

I wonder what these beauties look like now, if they’re still alive, they’d be in their 70’s or 80’s

[@harlow743]

Rotten

[@richardsimon9454]

Jj

[@joeambrose3260]

With respect, not too phunny

[@Hithere-ek4qt]

This might have been funny 70 years ago, but today it just sounds pretty stupid.

[@jackyandell2489]

I think you meant to say your stupid