The Magic of Live TV, the first volume from a collection of classic sketches from two television comedy series, highlights live television comedy in its infancy with no cue cards, no teleprompters and no second takes. Includes interviews with writers and stars.

Spotlights legends of stage, screen and radio who became some of television's most enduring and beloved stars, including Lucille Ball, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar and Red Skelton.

Creating the comedy, the third volume from a collection of classic sketches from two television comedy series, reveals how some of live television's classic comedy sketches were developed. Includes interviews with writers and stars.

Travel back to the golden age of comedy, when television was live and there were no cue cards or second takes. Disc three contains 5 comedy sketches from the Sid Caesar collection.

Travel back to the golden age of comedy, when television was live and there were no cue cards or second takes. Disc two contains 5 comedy sketches from the Sid Caesar collection.

Auto smash up: Imogene crashes Sid's car and must relay the story to him. The Professor on mountain climbing: the infamous know-it-all is interviewed on his skills. Shadow waltz: Sid plays a bumbling extra. Mata hari: Spoof on German doubletalk. Street car named???: Sid does a parody of Marlon Brando. Big business: Sid's sandwich is missing from the lunch delivered during a business meeting. A drunk there was: silent movie parody of demon rum.

Contains classic comedy sketches The Small Apartment, in which Sid and Nanette invite several guests over for dinner at their tiny apartment; The Professor on Magic, in which the know-it-all professor shows his skills (or lack thereof) to a group of amateur magicians; Newspaper movie, a spoof on the tough-guy news reporter movies of the forties; 1812 Overture features Sid and Imogene pantomiming the parts of two percussion players during a performance...

The Magic of Live TV, the first volume from a collection of classic sketches from two television comedy series, highlights live television comedy in its infancy with no cue cards, no teleprompters and no second takes. Includes interviews with writers and stars.

A comprehensive collection of the best work of Caesar and his teams, beginning with The Admiral Broadway Review, through Your Show Of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and featuring many interviews and extras, including the 2014 Paley Center For Media Tribute with Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Billy Crystal. Without Sid Caesar, comedy would have been a lot less funny. In 1949, television was an infant technology. No one knew how long or whether it was going...

Show 1 : "This classic show features Don Rickles, Leo Durocher, Olga Connolly, Monti Rock III." -- Container. Show 2 : "Another special evening with Don Rickles, John Byner, Buddy Rich, Cathy Rich." -- Container. Bonus clip: "Released in its entirely for the first time, this rare clip is from an unknown date in 1968." -- Container.