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In the very early days of television, there was nobody bigger than Sid Caesar. On Saturday nights in the early 1950s, Caesar’s program, Your Show of Shows, prompted millions of Americans to buy this new-fangled device called a television set.  Your Show of Shows, a rollicking variety that combined satire (mostly unfamiliar to American audiences)

In the history of television, Sid Caesar goes so far back he might as well be Julius Caesar.He was guesting on Milton Berle’s Texaco Star Theater in 1948 and headlining the Admiral Broadway Revue with Imogene Coca in 1949. In other words, he dates back to when sponsors owned shows. That was not such a