In his two most important shows, “Your Show of Shows,” 1950-54, and
“Caesar’s Hour,” 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in
pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered
a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame in their own
right — including Neil Simon and Woody Allen.

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Show of Shows” co-star.

Coca and Caesar performed skits that satirized the everyday — marital
spats, inane advertising, strangers meeting and speaking in clichés, a
parody of the Western “Shane” in which the hero was “Strange.” They