whose anti-Jewish swerve has an unpleasant taste, not zees, sweet like Sid Caesar, but like maror bitter. In “When Caesar Was King: Live From New York,” WSJ,11/15/25, Joseph Epstein writes: On ‘Your ...

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Fred Allen, the consummate radio comedian, called television a “medium,” to which he added that nothing about it is “well-done.” Amusing but also, for the most part, true. Apart from a small number of ...

His comedic DNA is everywhere — The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, the riffs and routines of Johnny Carson and Larry David. His writers included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody ...

The great silent comics—Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Harry Langdon—were compact men, resilient and sprung-wound yet graceful as they coped with menaces like recalcitrant umbrellas, ...

Teachers at nine high schools in northeastern Australia discovered days before an ancient history exam that they had mistakenly taught their students about the wrong Roman ruler — Augustus Caesar ...

Sid Davis − the last surviving journalist who witnessed the swearing-in of President Lyndon Johnson aboard Air Force One amid the tumult of his predecessor John F. Kennedy's assassination − has died.

Prairie Rose is Food & Wine's senior drinks editor. A trained sommelier, cocktail book author, and wine and spirits educator, in addition to Food & Wine she is also the senior editor of Liquor.com. A ...

Mr. Margolick is a former reporter for The Times. “One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years,” Thomas Wolfe wrote in “The Web and the Rock.” That ...

The Imogene Coca Show is a half-hour NBC television series starring Imogene Coca in both situation comedy and variety show formats. The program debuted on October 2, 1954, after the ending of Sid ...

Caesar's Hour is a live, hour-long American sketch comedy television program that aired on NBC from 1954 until 1957. The program starred, among others, Sid Caesar, Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard ...