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Book Review | A Hard-Drinking, Fast-Talking TV Giant
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Book Review | A Hard-Drinking, Fast-Talking TV Giant
When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy By David Margolick Schocken Books, 400 pp. In the middle of the 20th century, Sid Caesar, a Jewish comedian, introduced a new kind of comedy to the then-infant TV industry and an audience of enthusiastic critics and weekly viewers. He replaced traditional vaudeville acts, which featured one-liners, pratfalls and slapstick, with longer situation- and character-based routines, satires…
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