Sid Caesar was my favorite growing up, and doing these fake languages was my favorite act of his. On his show of shows, he could do these for minutes on end and my stomach always hurt from laughing so hard. I will never forget him. Thanks for posting this.
+truckereleven You really should look up Stanley Unwin, he would speak a gibberish form of English so amazingly well that people wouldn't notice and would just sit there listening for a while thinking they're understanding things here and there and not even realising he was speaking gibberish for quite a while. It can take people 5 minutes before they realise, if that. You can then play him to people and watch them.
I,too, grew up with Your Show of Shows. Cid was a genius and he was matched by Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, all extremely talented. Hawaiian entertainer Frank De Lima also does languages & I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't watch SofS too.
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He could actually only speak English and some Yiddish. That was all made up from learning accents.
Sid Caesar was my favorite growing up, and doing these fake languages was my favorite act of his. On his show of shows, he could do these for minutes on end and my stomach always hurt from laughing so hard. I will never forget him. Thanks for posting this.
+truckereleven You really should look up Stanley Unwin, he would speak a gibberish form of English so amazingly well that people wouldn't notice and would just sit there listening for a while thinking they're understanding things here and there and not even realising he was speaking gibberish for quite a while. It can take people 5 minutes before they realise, if that. You can then play him to people and watch them.
Search "Sid Caesar: This is Your Story" for a belly laugh.
It's like an IQ test for humor; if you don't laugh at Uncle Goopy, just resign yourself to being a humorless person.
I,too, grew up with Your Show of Shows. Cid was a genius and he was matched by Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris, all extremely talented. Hawaiian entertainer Frank De Lima also does languages & I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't watch SofS too.
He was supremely talented. His Japanese was amazing.
It's like scat singing! Wonderful!
No day care, except the TV set back in the day, that's why I'm like I'm like I'm not.
Classic
una mamaleone...seven dollars!
OH MY this brings back memories from my child hood. What talent.
Can you do double-talk then BeamMeUpSir?
RENÉ DESCARTES AHAHAH
first off i don't think it's technically DOUBLE talk. but mostly i didn't know BOB HOPE was jewish!
He wasn't.
I got da money!!!
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