Series · NBC · 1950
Pass it on
Your Show of Shows
54Watch it awake.
Live sketches, done once, and a house can sit through the smart hour.
The review
Done once. That is the part worth keeping from Your Show of Shows. Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, live, ninety minutes, sketches and parody. A writers' room later became famous. On the night, the sketch had to work then, in front of whoever had the set on.
A house could sit with it. There is no family plot and no purse waiting in the corner. The pleasure is smart people making a parody you can recognize, and then the hour moves on. I would put it on for the craft and say the craft was live. What lasted was the room of writers more than any sketch you can replay. The work itself was spent that night.
Journal
Keep Your Show of Shows in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 8Industry
The work is a live sketch, done once, and that is the whole job.
- 3Household
Two comics on a stage, not a marriage, a parent, or a child.
- 4Piety
Parody can needle a vanity, and the hour mostly wants the next sketch.
- 6Courage
Ninety live minutes, with no second take, is the risk they take.
- 5Republic
A new television country sat down together for a weekly live satire.
- 5Temperance
Ninety minutes pulls you toward the next sketch, then the night ends.
- 6Truth
A parody only lands if the thing it mocks is still recognizable.
- 6Stewardship
The sketches were spent that night; the writers' room is what the years kept.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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