(Luis Gomez Photos) Laughter on the 23rd Floor closes February 18: “Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows,” this Neil Simon favorite depicts the harried writing staff as they frantically...

Burnett. The network signed her to a 10-year contract in the early 1960s, including an option to run her own hour-long variety series. When she told the network she wanted to put it in motion, though, they balked. “They came back and said, ‘You know...

You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Incl... More Brooklyn, one building at a time. Given that our office is next door, there’s no excuse for having taken a week...

You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Given that our office is next door, there’s no excuse for having taken a week since the opening to post some photos of the new On... More “Bored me after the first minute....” “I don't think...

You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. Given that our office is next door, there’s no excuse for having taken a week since the opening to post some photos of the new On... More “If this is a five-room apartment with an internal...

The film, set during World War One, has been recognised in the Feature Film category alongside Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dolphin Tale and animated family movie Rio. TV series Hawaii Five-O and The Glades have received nods for Dramatic Series,...

Angst burbles between the laughs. It’s only eight years after the slaughter of World War II, and now these guys see their country, whether native or adopted, on a witch hunt. Even younger generations who have no familiarity with Sid Caesar will catch...

Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" is an autobiographical comedy inspired by Simon's early days as a writer on "Your Show of Shows," Sid Caesar's television comedy-variety show that ran from 1950 to 1954. Set in Manhattan in 1953 in the writers' room...

1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows. Caesar’s team included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. It may have been the...

1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows. Caesar’s team included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon. It may have been the...

“Show of Shows” on NBC, easily the most sophisticated and funniest comedy show on television at the time. And what a team of writers – Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, just to name the more famous of the group. Throw them all...

In an odd bit of casting, Adolph Green—screenwriter of many MGM musicals, plays Leo Silver, producer of Comedy Cavalcade. Mel Brooks’s company Brooksfilm, produced My Favorite Year. The story is loosely based on Brooks’s experiences as a young writer...

Actor Alan Feinstein is 70. Singer Sal Valentino of The Beau Brummels is 69. Actress Heather Thomas is 54. Singer Aimee Mann is 51. Bassist David Steele of Fine Young Cannibals is 51. Singer Marc Gordon of Levert is 47. Singer Neko Case is 41. Actor...

“I got there when it was finishing up,” he says. “Luckily, I caught the tail end of it.”Though he was much younger than the comics of earlier generations, he got to know Alan King and latched onto such comic legends as Jackie Mason and Sid Caesar as...

American Cinematheque is ringing in the New Year with some wild and crazy comedy classics. The Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre is serving up a 70-millimeter print of Stanley Kramer’s lengthy, wacky all-star 1963 comedy, “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad...

(If Picasso and Sinatra are any indication, all artists should look to recreate themselves mid-career.) But when it comes to production, there is no one like Woody Allen. Starting with his first stand up in Greenwich Village in 1961 (he wrote for The...

But way back in 1963 Lewis had a cameo appearance in probably the largest assemblage of comedic talents ever to step foot on a movie set. No I'm not talking about Cleopatra. I'm talking about. The film, about several strangers' zany pursuit of $350,000...

These comic geniuses of television’s golden age all served as the inspiration for Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor, opening at Kelsey Theatre January 27, 2012. Produced by Maurer Productions OnStage (MPO), the company who...

Without music, Woody Allen's bespectacled head might have exploded by now. Long before he was a writer for Sid Caesar, long before he was the acclaimed director of Annie Hall, the twitchy ball of angst born Allan Stewart Konigsberg was a jazz fan. And...