Sid Caesar ... Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and comedian.

Sid Caesar. Actor: Grease. Comedian, saxophonist, composer, actor and musician, he performed within the orchestras of Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields and Claude Thornhill as saxophonist.

Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922, Yonkers, New York, U.S.—died February 12, 2014, Beverly Hills, California) was an American comedian who pioneered the television variety show format with the …

Caesar is an outsize but impenetrable character, and his best work was preserved on kinescope, filmed directly from television monitors, creating watery relics that do not invite repeat viewing...

A collections of all the available complete shows (and some partials) of Sid Caesar's three major regular series: The Admiral Broadway Revue [1949], Your Show of Shows [1950-54], and...

Nov 10, 2025 · At the tributes, everyone hailed Sid Caesar as one of the great comics, yet no one knew what to do with him. Healthy at last, Caesar was also tame—perhaps he needed gluttony and drink …

Nov 10, 2025 · When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedy is a lively and thoroughly engrossing account of who Caesar was, why he was so important, and how he …

Isaac Sidney Caesar was an American comic actor and comedian. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series...

5 days ago · Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar — and a roomful of Jewish writers In television’s early days, Caesar translated Jewish humor into a language America didn’t yet know it understood.

Son of a Yonkers restaurant owner, Sid Caesar learned firsthand the variety of dialects and accents he would later be known to mimic as a comedian. But his first performing interest was as a musician.