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Success Story: from "the borscht belt" to Your Show
of Shows— with assists from three mad men and C \ t*l one wonderful guy— as related • by sid caesar
Family portrait in the Caesar manner — Sid, F lor en ceand Michele, known as Shellie. Strictly I a boo at home is show "shop talk."
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When I'm doing a comedy sketch, I always try to put myself in the place of the fellow who is earning an average salary and living a fairly simple life. He's the fellow I speak to. He's the man, for instance, who recognizes a familiar situation .when I portray the troubles of Joe Smith trying to get a television set for his apartment. He's completely confused by the different claims of his friends. He's run ragged, going from store to store, listening to technical talk he doesn't understand. He runs into delays and extra charges he didn't anticipate. He has a big battle with his landlord over putting up the aerial Finally the set is installed and ready. The guy gets into his robe and slippers He fixes a little snack, draws up a comfortable chair, turns down the lights in the room, clicks on the dials and-bang! 1 he set blows up in his face! That's famili It-S the fect,y ludicrous s.tuat.on
to all of us with one sort of thing or another-an automobile, a ballpoint pen . . . anything. '
I couldn't project the silliness of these familiar situations if I weren't guilty myself. I could have won the prize for ridiculous behavior when I had that first tiff with my wife, (Continued on page 100)
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