SID CAESAR: Der Flying Ace [FOREIGN DOUBLETALK] (CAESAR'S HOUR - VERY rare sketch) 

Only on a show with talent like Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner, could Howie Morris be regarded as a Third Banana! I agree, he had remarkable range--doctors, best friends, stage managers, you name it, he could play it. He was also the only one of the quartet (I'm including Imogene here) who had formal acting training. He was a drama major at NYU for a time. ---kjh

Didn't know about the World War I exhibit at the Air and Space Museum! Do you remember when this was? At one point, they were showing a spoof of "Breaking Through the Sound Barrier" ; Sid and Imogene's version was "Sneaking Through the Sound Barrier." It was very funny, but, alas, is there no longer. Glad you're enjoying the sketches!--kjh

I've only just found out recently that this was actually edited down for reruns-- there was more to the opening that was edited out! I have no idea at this point how much else of the sketch was edited down, but I'm still very grateful to be able to see it in any form. [wgw]

yes, someone routinely chopped out a lot of the Jim Richardson stuff on a lot of the movie parody credits

Nah, maybe 30%. 30% plain English, 20% English with fake German accent ("Das is nisht rain, das is shpit"), and 20% Gibberish (native to the Gibber peoples).

The private videos are just videos that are already uploaded and SCHEDULED to post over the next few weeks. When scheduled videos are included in playlists (which makes life MUCH easier for me in posting the shows and maintaining the playlists), this is how they show up, as "private", because, well, RU-vid is stupid. But rest assured, all those videos are going to be made public over the next few weeks. Thanks for watching! [wgw]

Okay thanks, I didn't get it at first. Good work!

In our house it got all mixed up. My mom spoke Yiddish to my dad and he spoke in a bastardized Yiddish/German..

Yes, this is from CH--the quality of the video is because it was taped from Comedy Central. Agree that it wasn't the best. Even that writing staff didn't always bat a thousand. What's amazing about YSOS is how MUCH of it was good. Watch "On the Docks " which was just uploaded. IT is a classic from CH! --kjh

This actually isn't from Comedy Central-- it's from a commercial video tape you sent me, kjh. :) It was just a very low quality tape. This is actually one of three sketches from that single complete episode of CAESAR'S HOUR you found. (If this was from Comedy Central, you'd see a network logo on the screen.) In any event, I agree that of course not every sketch was a home run. It's worth noting the above, though-- that this was simply one of three sketches that was in a single complete episode that happened to end up on a cheapo VHS release decades ago. This wasn't a sketch that was singled out and repackaged in, e.g., "Best of" home video releases, or-- as far as I know-- the Comedy Central reruns. In any event, I still find the doubletalk itself masterful, even in a lesser sketch. I think the real problem here is the length-- if this were trimmed down by at least 25%, I think it would have been much stronger.

wgw is absolutely right--this isn't from Comedy Central. I had "On The Docks" on my brain. 🙂

While it may not have been the best writing for this team, there are still an awful lot of good laughs. I was unlucky enough to have to sit through an hour of "Two Broke Girls" at a friends house this Friday and I think there are more honest laughs in this 20 minute video than there could possibly be in an entire season of that...thing.

kjh...you are absolutely correct about just how much of YSOS was good/great..but as you point out, even with a murders row hall of fame writing staff which Sid had, the incredible pressure of coming up with the long ball week after week 39 times/season, made it an inhuman/impossible task, to think there was going to be academy award material every step of the way...as for me, I defy anyone to watch Al Dunfy being dragged on stage for the This Is Your Life take off, with Uncle Goopy draped all over Sid, and not laugh till you cry!! :)

Assume you are joking, but in case not, that's Wagner music.

The song they are singing was the theme to the movie "The High and the Mighty" with their gibberish German lyrics added.