Your Show of Shows

…Holofcener on songs for television’s Your Show of Shows and the musical Mr. Wonderful (1956). With the composer-lyricist Sheldon Harnick he had his greatest successes: Fiorello! (1959, Pulitzer Prize) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick’s other musicals included The Body Beautiful (1958), Tenderloin (1960), the admired She…

…to the landmark comedy series Your Show of Shows (1950–54) as part of a writing staff that included Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Larry Gelbart. In 1967 he won an Emmy Award for being a cowriter of the variety show The Sid Cesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special.…

…Broadway Revue were resurrected in Your Show of Shows, which debuted the following year.

…Star Theatre, for example, was Your Show of Shows (NBC, 1950–54), an urbane comedy-variety program produced by Broadway legend Max Liebman and starring an ensemble of versatile character actor-comics that included Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, and Howard Morris. A variety of acts punctuated this 90-minute program, including excerpts

…of the recurring sketches on Your Show of Shows, such as “The Hickenloopers,” which featured Caesar and Coca as bickering spouses, were really little domestic sitcoms lodged into a variety show. The Honeymooners (CBS, 1955–56), one of the most beloved sitcoms in TV history, began in 1951 as a sketch…

…the popular television comedy series Your Show of Shows, which starred Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. After the show ended, Reiner went to work on Caesar’s Hour (1954–57), a sketch comedy program. In addition to acting on the show, for which he won two Emmy Awards, he served as a…