Your Show of Shows
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Your Show of Shows was a live sketch comedy television series appearing weekly in the United States, from 1950 until June 5, 1954, featuring Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Other featured performers were Howard Morris, Bill Hayes, Judy Johnson, The Hamilton Trio, Marguerite Piazza, et al.
Writers for the show included, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, Danny Simon, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Sam Denoff & Bill Persky and Carl Reiner. Despite common belief, Woody Allen did not write for the show.
It inspired The Dick Van Dyke Show created by Carl Reiner and written by Persky & Denoff, the 1982 film My Favorite Year, produced by Mel Brooks, and the play Laughter on the 23rd Floor written by Neil Simon, .
Most of the kinescopes of the show were discarded by NBC, and so few copies of the show survive. A 1973 theatrical film titled Ten from Your Show of Shows featured ten sketches from the show edited together. Reruns of surviving kinescopes aired on Comedy Central in the early-1990s.
[edit] External links
Your Show of Shows at the Internet Movie Database
