"YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS" SKETCH SHOW

 In the early 1950s, one of the first sketch shows, Your Show of Shows, was extremely popular in the United States. NBC broadcasted brilliant musical/comedy sketches by Sid Caesar, Imogen Koki, and other great performers once a week.

Top comedy writers such as Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Karl Rainer contributed to the show. From February 25, 1950, to June 5, 1954, the 90-minute program Your Show of Shows aired live on television. The show aired live from New York City's International Theater (also known as the Park Theater) on Columbus Street. After NBC left the theater in 1954, the former theater, as well as several other buildings in the neighborhood, were demolished, and the New York Convention Center was built in their place. Karl Rainer believes that working on his first sketch show, Your Show of Shows, inspired him to create The Dick Van Dyke Show. Based on Your Show of Shows, Mel Brooks directed the 1982 film My Best Year, and Neil Simon wrote the play Laughter on the 23rd Floor. NBC destroyed the majority of the show's tapes, but some were saved. The television play "Ten from Your Show of Shows," which collected ten sketches from the show Your Show of Shows, was released in 1973. The surviving recordings were re-aired on Comedy Central in the early 1990s. Sid Caesar also released The Sid Caesar Collection, a DVD collection of sketches from his personal collection.

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