The "Me Generation" was not to
his liking, either, especially when it
came to caustic comics. "There was
no respect, no sense of tradition,"
says Caesar of the up-and-coming
comics who went too far. "They
acted like they invented it all."
The inventive comedian with the
trademark slow burn felt burned in
an era when "you're on TV for one
or two years and you're a TV star."
The comet-like comics he viewed
left a trail of dust and ashes.
Certainly, there were stars who lit up
their own constellations, like Jerry
Seinfeld, says Caesar. "I enjoyed him."
But the master of comedy soon
grew tired of Seinfeld's so-called
mastery of his own domain. "He
became a one-note character."
On that note, Caesar can settle
back into a different fiefdom of fun
— his own. With the release of his
collected tapes — with more to
come each year, culled from the 450
hours available — Caesar chuckles at
the prospects of younger audiences
"discovering" him.
"They've never seen this comedy
before; they'll be shocked that there's
no dirty language," says the comedian
who's been married to the same
woman for almost 60 years. (He met
his wife, Florence, as he perfected his
craft as a jack-of-all-trades in the
Catskills.)
But isn't all of comedy a common
language after all is said and done?
Sure, that's what new viewers will
discover, says Caesar. "They'll laugh
at things [on the tapes] that happen
to them in their own lives."
In his own life, Caesar still stays in
touch with the quick-witted kibitzers
who were the stallions in his stable of
writers, such as Mel Brooks and Neil
Simon, whose Broadway comedy,
Laughter on the 23rd Floor, was the sto-
ried saga of the Caesar writers' room.
With The Sid Caesar Collection, Sid
Caesar provides a room with a view
of what made audiences laugh for so
long and so hard so long ago.
Without argument, Sid Caesar is still
one of the masters of the universe —
that comedic universe of Yonkers and
beyond, where planets and punch
lines collide in the night and the Man
in the Moon is forever smiling. ❑

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