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Sid Caesar Biography

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American comic actor and writer, best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows, which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour, both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. He also acted in movies; he played Coach Calhoun in Grease (1978) and its sequel Grease 2 (1982) and appeared in the films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Silent Movie (1976), History of the World, Part I (1981), and Cannonball Run II (1984).

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If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Comedy, Happiness, Hard, Laughing, Laughter, Same

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon. And people looked at me and said, 'Gee, that's like Uncle David', or 'That's like a friend of mine'. And they related through that. I didn't make fun of them. I made fun of me.

Buffoon, Friend, Fun, Looked, People, Uncles

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

Empowerment, Ifs, Psychics, Stand

If I don't believe it, I don't care.

Believe, Care, Ifs

After all those years of doing a live, hour-and-a-half show every week, I've got nothing more I need to prove.

Half, Needs, Nothing, Prove, Week, Years

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

Bad, Evil, Excellence, Gonna, Hope

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Beautiful, Brother, Jazz, Music, Policeman, Woman

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Dull, Funny, Invariably, Stories, Story

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

Humour, People, Thing, Witty

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Goals, Good Life, Inspirational, Lived, Positivity, Thing

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Creativity, Funny, Guy, Three, Wheel, Work

Every language has its own music.

Language, Music

Everybody wants to have a goal - I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal, I gotta get to that goal. I can finally get to that goal. Then you get to that goal, and then you gotta get to another goal. But in between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed - and if you don't, you're a fool.

Enjoyed, Fool, Goal, Thing, Want

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Language, Minutes, Song

The things I see now on TV and in movies are so outlandish. Kids doing rude things with pies! And the language that they use! It's being outrageous for the sake of being outrageous. I can't watch it. It turns me off.

Kids, Pie, Rude, Turns, Use

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Curlicue, Humor, Integrity, Laughter, Take, Truth

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

Buffoon, Comedy, Fun, Made, Played

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter. '

Come, Laughter, People, Thank, Thank You