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In the 1950s, Sid Caesar was the most influential, highly paid, and wildly talented comedian in America. He was watched every week by more than twenty million people on Your Show of Shows, a variety show filled with hilarious sketches and film spoofs. Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen were among the many comedians who worked with Caesar and were inspired by him. The new biography When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Invented Comedy, is a deeply researched and widely acclaimed new biography by longtime New York Times and Vanity Fair writer David Margolick, following Caesar from his early days in Yonkers to his triumphant rise in a New York City that barely exists, in a distinctly Jewish-American success story. Margolick will talk about his book in a conversation with festival curator David Schwartz, in a program interspersed with a rich selection of some of Caesar’s side-splittingly funny and brilliant sketches.
The program will be followed by a book signing.
