Search - The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writers Room on DVD

MPAA Rating: NR Movie Release: 2000 DVD Release: 08/31/2000 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 5 mins Studio: Creative Light Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Comedy, Film, TV & Radio, Biography, Film & Television History, Sketch Comedy

As the producer and star of two of the most popular television comedy shows of the 1950's -- Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour -- Sid Caesar gave some of the great men of American comedy their start as writers, including Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. The Sid Caesar Collection: Inside the Writer's Room offers a look into how the show's classic sketches were created and how this team of top writers learned to work together. Along with interviews with the members of Caesar's stellar writing staff, this video includes some of the best loved sketches from Caesar's shows, including The German General, in which Sid shows off his gift for accented double-talk; Aggravation Boulevard, a parody of Sunset Boulevard; a pantomime routine, Boy At His First Dance, and a comic song and dance routine, What Is Jazz?, featuring Chita Rivera and Jack Cole. The video also features the stock company from Caesar's shows, including Imogene Coca, Nannette Fabray, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Sid Caesar

Part of The Sid Caesar Collection, Inside the Writer's Room comes to DVD from Creative Light Entertainment presented with a standard full-frame transfer in the original black-and-white with a Dolby Digital soundtrack. The disc includes a bonus sketch of Caesar singing a song he wrote for his wife, Florence, in "Nan's Birthday." Mel Brooks gives a brief interview in which he reveals the origin of the film "My Favorite Year." The DVD also includes the original playbill-style program from a performance of "Aggravation Blvd.," along with Caesar's NATPE Man of the Year 2000 acceptance speech and the bonus sketch "The Four Englishmen." Other special features include photo galleries, closed captions, and biographies for the writers and cast members. Highly recommended for fans of classic television comedy. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide