Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Sid Caesar in "The Hickenloopers: Poker Game"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back to the 1950s and watch Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca as The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Caesar and Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper. In this sketch, Sid Caesar forgets that he had a date with his wife and joins his friends (including Carl Reiner and Howard Morris) in Reiner's apartment for an evening of poker.

This week's sketch is a tribute on Caesar's centenary. The comedian was born 100 years ago on September 8, 1922.

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. We're grateful to a Sid Caesar super fan who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them with a poster who made them available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "Superstitions - Tea Leaves"

Over the years we've posted many classic comedy sketches from Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. From time to time we come across a sketch that we missed or that was posted recently by a collector.

On this Throwback Thursday we're sharing a very rare undated out of print sketch which was posted by KJH, a fan of Sid Caesar who found the rare VHS/Betamax tape and transferred them digitally so it cold be made available on YouTube's Sid Caesar Channel. 

In the sketch, Caesar joins Coca for tea in a restaurant that includes a tea leaves reading with the tea. While they're waiting to be served, the subject of superstitions comes up.

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: The Hickenloopers (Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca) in "Going Out Saturday Night"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back 67 years to 1951 and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.

In this sketch, Doris Hickenlooper (Imogene Coca) wants to go out to dinner and a movie Saturday Night. Charlie (Sid Caesar) goes along with the plan but traffic and parking get in the way.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Sid Caesar in The Hickenloopers -- "The Boarder"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back to the 1950s and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper. In this sketch, Sid Caesar comes home from work to find a strange man sitting in his favorite chair. It's Howard Morris, playing the role of the boarder that Imogene Coca brought into their apartment to live with them for $16 a month.

Sid's reactions upon entering his home and finding another man there are priceless.

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. We're grateful to a Sid Caesar super fan who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them with a poster who made them available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: The First Sid Caesar-Imogene Coca Pantomime Ever

On this Throwback Thursday we're turning the clock back 72 years to the first pantomime performed by Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca on The Admiral Broadway Revue. The hour-long series was directed by Max Liebman, hosted by Sid Caesar, and also starred Imogene Coca. Liebman, Caesar, and Coca went on to work on NBC's Your Show of Shows , which debuted February 25, 1950.

The series was sponsored by TV-set manufacturer Admiral, a competitor of NBC's parent company RCA and of DuMont, both of which manufactured TV sets. Cancellation of the series resulted from demand for Admiral's TV sets exceeding the company's manufacturing capacity. Admiral's executives chose to shift the money spent on the program into an increase in manufacturing capabilities.

Its final episode aired June 3, 1949. This Caesar-Coca pantomime appeared on May 27, 1949.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "Chinese Dinner"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back to the 1950s and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper. In this sketch, Sid Caesar plays a husband who picks up a Chinese dinner on the way home from work, unaware that his wife has spent the whole day in the kitchen cooking a steak dinner for them.

Carl Reiner joins in the fun as their neighbor, who performs some impressive sleight-of-mouth with Chinese food. 

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. We're grateful to a Sid Caesar super fan who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them with a poster who made them available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase - Sid Caesar in "The Garbage Sketch" on Your Show of Shows

It's Throwback Thursday again, and today we're turning the clock back more than 60 years to revisit the antics of Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris in a performance of The Garbage Sketch, which plays out in a courtroom scene.

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. It's from Your Show of Shows, a TV show that was aired from 1950 to 1954.

We're grateful to a Sid Caesar super fan who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them with a poster who made them available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Hickenloopers: The Scented Letter"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back to the 1950s and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.
In this sketch, Sid Caesar plays a husband returning from work to find his wife angry with him because she found a lavender scented letter in the mail addressed to him.

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. We're grateful to a Sid Caesar super fan who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them with a poster who made them available on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Cigar Fight"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back 70 years to 1950 and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.

In this sketch, Sid Caesar as Charlie and Imogene Coca as Doris get into a marriage-challenging argument over Charlie's addiction to cigars and his table manners. Carl Reiner makes an appearance as Sid's neighbor.
 
Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Violin Recital"

Pantomime was always one of Sid Caesar's specialties, and so was satirizing classical performances of all kinds.

With Imogene Coca as his partner in pantomime, In this clip, Sid went through all of the paces in giving a violin recital while Imogene accompanied him on her virtual piano. 

The musical composition was Czardas by Vittorio Monti. During the pantomime performance everything that could go wrong did go wrong, including a few broken violins and Sid stabbing himself with the bow. 

This video is a very rare one and we don't have an exact date, but it was performed on Your Show of Shows which ran from 1950 to 1954, so it's a Thursday throwback of at least 65 years.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar as a Performing Seal on Your Show of Shows

One of Sid Caesar's many talents was mastering the art of pantomime. His weekly TV program, Your Show of Shows, was the venue for Sid to display this talent. We have posted episodes of Sid pantomiming a piano concerto and a woman getting dressed.

Lets turn the clock back 67 years to April 1952 when Sid appeared in pantomime on Your Show of Shows as a performing seal with Imogene Coca as his trainer.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar in "The Truck Driver and the Lady"

A lot of the guest hosts on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows participated in sketches. In this sketch the guest host is Paul Douglas, who had a successful career as an actor and announcer. 

No stranger to comedy, he starred with Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday on Broadway. Here he is Imogene Coca's lawyer defending her in a traffic case involving Sid as a truck driver. 

Carl Reiner is the judge and Howie Morris a hapless witness. When Douglas swings his cane in a stirring summation, watch for Carl and Sid's masterful reactions. 

No date is available for this sketch, which has only been released on very rare out of print VHS/Betamax tapes. We're grateful to the anonymous devoted collectors of Sid Caesar originals who found these tapes, had them transferred digitally, and shared them on YouTube.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Hickenloopers: Life Begins at 7:45"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back 69 years to 1950 and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.

In this sketch, Sid Caesar plays a frustrated husband trying to get his wife (Imogene Coca) to get ready for an evening at the theater.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Hickenloopers: The Phone Messages"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back 67 years to 1951 and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.

In this sketch, Doris Hickenlooper (Imogene Coca) gets into trouble with Charlie when she proves incapable of writing down his phone messages.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Good Investment"

It's Throwback Thursday again and today we get another chance to go back 67 years to 1951 and another episode of The Hickenloopers on Your Show of Shows.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca starred in many episodes of the hilarious marital tribulations of Doris and Charlie Hickenlooper.

In this sketch, Doris Hickenlooper (Imogene Coca) invests $2200 of their savings in the stock market. Charlie (Sid Caesar) castigates her for squandering his life savings. The stock rises and falls and so do their emotions as they watch the roller coaster value of Consolidated U&M change by the minute.

Although the skit was performed in 1951 on Your Show of Shows, well before digital technology ruled Wall Street, it shows that investing hasn't really changed that much as we watch the stock market rise and fall in its current roller coaster ride.

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers.

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Drummer"

In the early 1950s, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca were big hits in the weekly 90 minute variety show called Your Show of Shows. We have been posting skits from this show and from its successor Caesar's Hour. In the 1960s Caesar was a host of The Hollywood Palace, where he repeated some of the most popular skits.

On this Throwback Thursday we're turning back the clock to the early 1950s when Sid and Imogene did their At the Theatre skit in which they played a couple attending a Broadway show. They were delighted to be seated in the front row, until they found out that it was in the orchestra pit and their seats were right next to the drummer, played by actor Jackie Cooper.

Some years later they reprised this skit on The Hollywood Palace, where the drummer was played by famed drummer Buddy Rich. Here is the original video from Your Show of Shows.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca in "The Sewing Machine Girl"

Silent film parodies were an important part of Your Show of Shows, the 90 minute weekly live TV show pioneered by Sid Caesar in the early 1950s. These parodies were also tributes to the acting skills needed to convey plot and emotion in the absence of spoken words.

Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris all had a special talent to bring these early films to life in hilarious takeoffs. This video, The Sewing Machine Girl has the classic elements of this genre: The mean shop owner, the poor overworked, underpaid girl, and her beleaguered co-worker who emerges as her hero.

This is a rare sketch just made available to a mass audience as one of the "Ten from Your Show of Shows" now available as part of the five DVD set Sid Caesar: The Works.

Enjoy!

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