Mark Steyn writes:
Sid Caesar took his leave yesterday, at the age of 91. Like our weekend subject Jack Paar, he had one brief dazzling moment, and a temperament that made the possibility of a second act ever more remote. It’s depressing to reflect that just about the last thing anyone remembers him in was Grease, in which he was entirely unfunny. But that dazzling moment had an amazing after-glow: it occurred to me just now that I could easily mark Caesar’s passing simply by re-running for a week old interviews I’ve done over the years with various writers all of whom got their start working for Sid on Your Show Of Shows.
As to why Caesar himself never got a shaft of that after-glow, here’s my favorite Sid story…
