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Favorite sketches/characters

posted 16 years ago by leeall
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One of my all-time favorite skits of any television show is the parody of This is Your Life.

Howard Morris was brilliant as Uncle Goopy.

I was reminded of it last night and went to You Tube to see it
and just could not stop laughing (laughing now)

[–] NewtonFigg 15 years ago

I agree about the This is Your Life parody but, if you never saw the original, would you get it? Like Sid as the Russian Arthur Godfrey. If you're under 50, you probably have no idea who Arthur Godfrey was. Inexplicably, he was the biggest thing on TV since sliced bread, which just goes to prove H.L. Mencken right when he said "Noone ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public". Some of Sid's parodies make the original irrelevant. You don't have to have seen Your Hit Parade to fall off your chair when you see Sid and Nanette in "The Shadow Waltz". If that's not on youtube, somebody please put it up.

[–] lynxx55 13 years ago

I always liked the foreign movie parodies. Sid Caesar did not speak the languages, but it sure sounded right.

From Japan: "Ugetsu, U dirty rat!"

[–] NewtonFigg 13 years ago

Interestingly enough, the title of one of his Japanese movie is U-Betchu. Someone has recently ripped that off.

[–] Satan2016 (23334) 5 years ago

Good quality youtube, still hilarious: https://youtu.be/BQBlEnsylI0