To Brooks himself, Caesar did worse than a punch. After one writing session Brooks said, "I gotta get out." Sid said, "OK," and held him out of a hotel room window, hanging high above the street.

Sid Caesar, who pioneered TV sketch comedy during the 1950s as the star and creative force of "Your Show of Shows," a launch pad for the likes of Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Woody Allen and an ...

True, Sid Caesar, who died Wednesday at 91, was not the most popular, groundbreaking or famous of TV's pioneers. Milton Berle had higher ratings.

YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS -- Pictured: Actor/comedian Sid Caesar (Photo by NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC via Getty Images—2012 NBCUniversal, Inc. Comedy is hard. And when it comes to the ...

Carl Reiner noted that Sid’s “ability to double-talk every language known to man was impeccable.” In one sketch Caesar imitated four different languages with almost no real words.

H A R T F O R D, Conn., June 2 -- Imogene Coca, the elfin actress andsatiric comedienne who co-starred with Sid Caesar on television'sclassic Your Show of Shows in the 1950s, died today. She was92 ...

Caesar rarely performs anymore. He is little known to people under 50, though that may change with a three-part video and DVD of his work, “The Sid Caesar Collection,” just released.