"How do you chronicle a career as vast, influential and dynamic as #MelBrooks’? By making an epic, two-part #documentary that spans nearly four hours, of course. And the right man to tackle that job is #JuddApatow, who has made a habit of beautifully capturing the lives and legacies of iconic #comedians in #documentaries about #GaryShandling, #George Carlin and, now, Mel Brooks.

“The 99-Year-Old Man” finds #Apatow sitting across from the 99-year-old #Brooks, digging deep into his early life as a young man suffering PTSD and making a move into #comedy #writing with greats like #SidCaesar and #CarlReiner. The #film covers quite literally everything..."

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/judd-apatow-mel-brooks-hbo-documentary-interview/

"[A]s David Margolick recounts in his new #biography, “When Caesar Was King: How #SidCaesar Reinvented #American #Comedy,” Caesar’s fame proved surprisingly fleeting. Caesar died in 2014 at 91. But well before then, his name had faded, even as his influence endured.

In a recent public conversation held as part of #NewYork #Jewish Week’s “Folio” series, Margolick — a longtime #journalist and #author — reflected on Caesar’s rise, his Jewish sensibility, the brutal pressures of early #television, and why the man who changed comedy so profoundly all but vanished from popular memory."

https://www.jta.org/2025/12/26/culture/before-snl-there-was-sid-caesar-and-a-roomful-of-jewish-writers

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Argument to #Beethoven’s Fifth

“No cue cards, no teleprompters, and no second takes--legendary funnyman Sid Caesar pioneered live television sketch comedy with his 1950s sitcoms Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. This classic sketch is "Argument to Beethoven's 5th," #SidCaesar and #NanetteFabray play a married couple in an argument with pantomimed action and the dialogue is classic music.”

https://youtu.be/EEhF-7suDsM?si=JYp8rQuhQQt5MzH0 (5:52)
#MusicTheatre #wordless #mime

Today in 1950 — #YourShowOfShows debuted on NBC.

#SidCaesar and #ImogeneCoca starred in this live, 90-minute sketch comedy series, along w/ #CarlReiner and a writing staff that included #MelBrooks and #NeilSimon.

#OnThisDay #ClassicTV #1950s #1950sTV #Nostalgia