Your Show of Shows

...has been in show business for more than 50 years as a writer, performer, producer and director. He got his start working on Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows," created "The Dick Van Dyke Show," and appeared in films as diverse as "The...

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...has been a major figure in U.S. comedy since the early days of television, when he wrote and performed skits for comedian Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows." He created and co-starred in "The Dick Van Dyke Show" in the 1960s, had a great hit...

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...laugh without using a straight line," said Carl Reiner, the writer, producer, director and humorist who worked with Gelbart dating back to "Your Show of Shows" in the 1950s. "One word would be all he needed to take off on to give you a...

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...Gelbart was part of a team of television writers that included Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and others who wrote for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. Gelbart went on to develop and write the television version of...

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...working for Bob Hope, Jack Paar and Red Buttons. In 1950 Gelbart moved to New York to write for Caesar's television comedy series Your Show of Shows. Of the other young writers there, three - Mel Brooks, Neil Simon and Woody Allen - were...

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...years and joined a renowned stable of comedy writers -- including Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Neil Simon -- who worked for Sid Caesar on "Your Show of Shows" or "Caesar's Hour." Brooks, who once praised Mr. Gelbart as "the fastest of the...

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...Bob Hope's show and jump-started his own television career as a TV writer for the star. Gelbart went on to write skits for the live comedy "Your Show of Shows" in 1953, winning two Emmys for his work. "'Your Show of Shows' was successful,...

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...core of legendary writers (along with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Neil Simon and Woody Allen) discovered by Sid Caesar. (Gelbart wrote not for "Your Show of Shows," but "Caesar's Hour," the Imogene Coca-less follow-up show.) • Co-wrote the...

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...score of "The Producers" in 2002. Starting his career in the early days of television, Brooks worked with Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner on "Your Show of Shows" and later, with Buck Henry, created the popular series "Get Smart." His film output...

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...Ann Warren. Film historian Leonard Maltin will be the host. Reiner, who was a regular on Sid Caesar's seminal 1950-54 NBC comedy series, "Your Show of Shows," immediately became friends with Brooks, who was one of the writers. "Whenever...

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