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Your Show of Shows: This Is Your Story

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by Mike Durrett
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This Is Your Story is the hilarious sketch from Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.

This Is Your Story is the hilarious sketch from Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows.

Image courtesy Like Television.

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On April 3, 1953, Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows presented a send-up of Ralph Edwards' cheesy and maudlin celebrity-stalking reality series, This Is Your Life. In the sketch, This Is Your Story, Caesar is the honoree who wants no part of the festivities, until he's reunited with his long lost Uncle Goopy, played with hysterical emotional fervor by series' regular Howard Morris. Also featuring Carl Reiner and Louis Nye, the kinescope is available for viewing online at Like Television.

Review:

This amazing piece of live television is the funniest TV sketch I've ever witnessed. Its success is more a testament to the fine improvisational performers than the cleverness of the writers (Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, et al.) As a lifelong student of comedy, I am in awe of This Is Your Story.

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