Following up on their 3-DVD release last year, NewVideo is preparing a June 27th release of The Best of Sid Caesar, with footage from 1950's Your Show Of Shows and 1954's Caesar's Hour as well. Here is the artwork and details:
Return to the golden age of comedy with
the legendary Sid Caesar!
Sid Caesar practically invented television comedy - his Emmy winning Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour made America laugh for over 50 years. Now the best sketches from these ground-breaking series have been assembled onto one DVD, packed with bonuses, and priced to move at $12.95 SRP.
THE BEST OF SID CAESAR features eight of the most memorable and remarkable sketches plus priceless extras including sketches, interviews with one of the most impressive comedy-writer lineups television has ever known including (including Mel Brooks and Woody Allen), and rare footage from Sid's Friar’s Club Roast.
- New "impulse buy" single at $12.95 SRP
- DVD includes the best of television pioneer Sid Caesar's classic comedy sketches as they were originally performed: live, without cue cards, and no second takes.
- Featuring the comic genius of Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris.
- Featuring: The Commuters in "7 Dwarves Bet" / The Professor in "Boardrooms of Hollywood" / Five-Dollar Date / Sid Plays Sax with Benny Goodman / The Clock / A Fella Needs a Girl / The Haircuts: "So Rare" and "Flippin' " / This Is Your Story.
- Special Features:
- Exclusive Footage from Sid’s 1999 Friar's Club Roast
- Bonus Musical Sketch with Performances by Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa
- Interview with Actor/Writer Carl Reiner
- Side-by-side Comparison of the Restoration Process
- Bonus Sketch: "Airplane Movies"
- Cast and Writer Biographies
$12.95 srp U.S., $16.95 srp Canada, B&W, Single DVD, Approx. 75 mins.
  
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