SID CAESAR: The Bavarian Clock (YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, Sep 26, 1953)
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- Another very well remembered classic sketch. In this one, the four principals (Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris) play the mechanical figurines in a giant Bavarian clock that was the pride of the town.
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No one has the patients to appreciate the true brilliance of a sketch like this today. It takes such incredible talent to pull it off and they all did it effortlessly. The timing, the facial expressions and the choreography. It's just a timeless classic.
If you look at the script for this sketch, it's only a bare outline. It makes you appreciate what the four did to fill in that wonderful physical comedy--on maybe a day of rehearsal, two at most. ---kjh
@@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250 Such consummate professionals.
Probably the greatest sketch ever televised.
What a classic. If nothing else, worth watching to see Carl Reiner and Sid Caesar in lederhosen.
There isn't a comedian alive today who can come close to this.
Not only is the mime great (as always), he also came up with the idea for the sketch. ---kjh
I agree with all previous comments about how uproarious this is - and the genius of the actors - but no one has mentioned Imogene Coca, and her screamingly funny deadpan!
There is more comedic talent in this one sketch than in the last 50 years of television
No argument here. Caesar, Coca, Reiner, and Morris? Hands down the best comedy quartet ever. And, if you see the script for this pantomime, you realize how much they added on their own! ---kjh
@@sidcaesaryourshowofshowsca2250 I was referring to the writers as well- Mel Brooks, Buck Henry, et. al..thanks for posting this!
@@danbernstein4694 Yes, a real Murderers Row there as well. What an amazing group of writers--Mel Brooks, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Tony Webster, Danny and Neil Simon. And Sid should be added to the list. He was editor, idea man, and collaborator on his monologues and the Professor sketches. His writing credit on the scrawl that began each episode was more than just star puffery. Glad you're enjoying the sketches! ---kjh
How can something performed “live” 70 YEARS AGO be as funny today as it was then? Noel Coward had the answer: TALENT! Talent is timeless and this sketch proves it. I laughed so hard I almost fell out of my chair. This is comedic perfection beyond description.
My parents always talked about how great this show was and I would give anything for it to come out on DVD one day.
It's a shame that complete shows on video (as opposed to individual sketches) are rare; after all, there were 160 episodes! You can see over 130 of them--but only at the Paley Center for Media in New York. And those episodes contain sketches just as funny as the ones we can see. ---kjh
Somewhere you may be able to find a DVD titled Ten From the Show of Shows. 10 of its best skits including this one
Absolutely brilliant!
Saw this classic routine on PBS last night - they make it look effortless, it’s pure comic genius.
And turn these out in quantity LIVE week after week. Unbelievable.
@@poetcomic1 It is astonishing; the skill and improvisatory brilliance is like nothing else. My grandparents had great stories about seeing the Marx Brothers on stage prior to their cinematic success (vaudeville mostly, would love to time travel for a day to Harlem NY to experience ;)
God, they were all brilliant. Definitely my favorite year. Nothing like this since!!!
Wish they had worked their brilliance for the LORD!
St John 3:16!❤️✝️❤️
Truly creative genius and great talent. A brilliant moment in time that will never again be duplicated. Sid and his cast were true comedic actors whom did not need low humor or smut to get a laugh. All original and live performances of true comedy. Greatly missed.
And really, many sketch comedy actors owe their beginning to shows like this. Some, like Billy Crystal, even have the grace to acknowledge that.
Thia actually brought me to tears. If only we could live these times again.
Shaking my head in amazement at the talent, the comedy genius in this sketch. I kept laughing at the music because I KNEW something was around the corner comedically ... and it appeared! Thanks for posting this!!!
Incredible just incredible
We always watched this every Saturday night and it was live live. And the writers: Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbert, Woody Allen! Geniuses.
Beyond brilliant
My parents absolutely loved this sketch.
This was very enjoyable. I've been getting some much needed laughs from these Sid Caesar skits. They were pure genius.
Yes, we need all the laughs we can get right now. Thank heaven Sid and Company can always provide them! Glad you're enjoying the sketches 😊. ---kjh
There will never be another as brilliant as Sid Caesar!
I enjoyed this as a kid and the only close parallels were the team of Carol Burnet, Korman, Conway et al
The fact all four of them were able to keep a straight face thru the entire sketch........😂
As a bavarian having grown up in a very small town near the city of Kempten: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempten
we had a clock with such figures coming out as well, obviously not as masterful as this one!
One hopes yours didn't malfunction as hilariously! --kjh
The city of Covington, Kentucky has a clock like this as well. The clock is in the Mainstrasse Village neighborhood, which, as you might guess by the name, has a strong German heritage.
This is brilliant.
This reminds me of the SNL skit with the amusement park ride that gets stuck, and the animatronic 'dolls' have fixed smiles and hint at going homicidal
Glad I looked this up after hearing about it on Keegan- Michael Key's podcast The History Of Sketch Comedy!
I am Bavarian ❤😂
How does this sketch, as of today, have two thumbs down?
Haters gonna hate
rival clock-makers.
In the old days of black and white TV in the 1950's there was no video recording, they had motion picture cameras with film that had to be developed in darkrooms for these treasured archives. So TV shows like this were live skits with no retake, like live theater, if something went wrong just improvise and go on! Because of this here is nothing as funny as live theater comedy especially with these great live theater performers like Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca.
100% live, all right! [wgw]
As young as I was when I first saw this skit live on tv, I was expecting the Sid Caesar robot to get sick and tired
of the water on his face, and club the Imogene Coca robot on the head. Then the other robots would go berserk
with their tools on each other too.
Yeah, I kept waiting for that, especially when he hesitated for awhile
I saw this live when I was 6 years old. So wonderful to see it again. The humor was so clean. Not like the sleaze 6 year olds watch today.
Narrated by Ed Herlihy.