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Emmy Award won by Sid Caesar for Your Show of Shows

Emmy Award for Best Actor awarded to Sid Caesar in 1952 for his performance in the television series Your Show of Shows. The award is comprised of a gold metal figure of a winged woman holding the ...
PBS

When Caesar Was King

The biography of TV comedy pioneer Sid Caesar. David Margolick's definitive biography of Sid Caesar, the founding father of television comedy and icon to generations of Americans. Ted reviews ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar — and a roomful of Jewish writers

Sid Caesar once dominated American television so completely that it was hard to imagine Saturday nights without him. In the early 1950s, his live sketch-comedy program “Your Show of Shows” drew tens ...