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4 unusual facts about Your Show of Shows


My Favorite Year

Other writers from Your Show of Shows had also made their own use of their experiences.

Mel Brooks, executive producer of the film, was a writer for the Sid Caesar variety program Your Show of Shows, early in his career.

Your Show of Shows

:For the 1929 movie, see The Show of Shows.

Your Show of Shows also inspired the 1982 movie My Favorite Year, produced by Mel Brooks, and the play Laughter on the 23rd Floor written by Neil Simon.


Television comedy

Sketch comedy was pioneered by Sid Caesar, whose Your Show of Shows debuted in 1950 and established many conventions of the genre.

The Imogene Coca Show

The program debuted on October 2, 1954, after the ending of Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, on which Coca had been a popular regular performer.


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