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So, who is everyone?

posted 20 years ago by Krog__
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Mostly, who is Mel Brooks and Woody Allen? JC...

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[–] jacktastic082004 20 years ago

Are you for real?

[–] Krog__ 20 years ago

Are you for fake?

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[–] jescci 20 years ago

There may or may not be any direct correlations from chatacter to real person. Max is obviously based on Sid Ceaser. I know Selma Diamond wrote for Your Show Of Shows, so she's probably the Peri Gilpin character. I assume Simon is the new kid - after that I don't know. There doesn't seem to be any Woody Allen character. But his involvement in the show was brief I beleive.

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[–] alexshalom 19 years ago

sp. Sid "Caesar"

[–] TheDonJuanofCinema 17 years ago

okay.
lucas is neil simon.
max is sid caesar.
milt is most likely reiner?
woody allen would def have to be ira.

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[–] quincyg 17 years ago

I thought Ira was based on Mel Brooks?

[–] crazykeyman 16 years ago

I thought Ira was based on Mel Brooks?
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I heard the same thing.

[–] woowoo-6 8 years ago

I don't think these characters are specifically based on any of the real-life writers, though I do believe many of their characterizations and shenanigans are. For instance; there is a youtube clip of the real writers having a round table, along with Sid Ceasar, called Sid Ceasar's Writers, discussing the old days, particularly Mel Brooks' habit of always arriving 45 minutes late each day. He would come in late and repay a certain writer for a coffee and bagel that had been delivered for each writer earlier in the morning; 50 cents, plus a 15 cent tip. One day he came in late, as usual, and the writer said, go see Sid, he paid for your stuff this time. Long story short - Sid had paid the delivery guy 50 cents for the coffee and bagel - and gave him a 25 dollar tip - and that's what Mel now owed Sid. This was Sid's way to teach Mel to show up for work on time! Mel said he was making 150 dollars a week then.