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September 7, 2027 will mark 100 years from the day when electronic television made its first appearance on Earth.  To generate interest in the Centennial,  this website and accompanying podcast are going to Count Down the Top 100 Milestones from the First 100 Years of Television over 100 weeks until September 7, 2027.
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It looks like CBS is getting with the program.

Just a week after posting Centennial Countdown # 77: Gibberish, the esteemed  program CBS Sunday Morning aired a segment about Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows – the groundbreaking comedy and variety show that set the template for sketch comedy on television for decades to follow. 

From the CBS Sunday Morning YouTube channel: 

Comic Sid Caesar (1922-2014) was a master of humor, slapstick and accents, whose 1950s series Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour rewrote the rules of comedy in the new medium of television. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with David Margolick, author of the biography When Caesar Was King, and with comedian Robert Klein, about the unique gifts of Caesar (whose reputation has been eclipsed by the writers he hired, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen and Neil Simon); and how the hard work of seemingly effortless laughs took its toll on the comedian.

And here, the complete segment: 

And, while we’re at it: while scrolling through the CBS Sunday Morning YouTube Channel, we also found this longer segment from 2001 with extensive footage of Sid Caesar himself and still more footage from the original 1950s shows:

It is gratifying to see an institution like CBS Sunday Morning validate the work we’re doing here (however unwittingly).

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