SID CAESAR: Invitation to Murder (YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS, No date available)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- A murder mystery spoof, clearly inspired heavily by Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". This sketch is perhaps the least successful of all the ones I've seen on Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. It has plenty of funny moments, but basically falls flat, showing that not every single sketch they performed was an out-of-the-ballpark home run. Only most of them were.
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A combination of "And Then There Were None", "House on Haunted Hill" and "Clue". Funnily enough 2/3 of those movies were made after this sketch was aired... Thank you for uploading these treasures!
Fun fact! This was from the same night as the more well-known Health Food Restaurant Hickenlooper sketch! Nov 21st, 1953.
-Mel Tolkin’s granddaughter & fan of the channel.
If you know enough fun facts about the era you should write a book!
One guy with a big laugh is heard really good.
I'm just now discovering these classic sketch shows. I have a lot to catch up on. I love Monty Python, and all the modern sketch, so this is exciting to discover. Love all the skits I've seen so far.
Totally seeing Clue inspiration from this- thanks for posting any/all Show of Shows skits! Love them!!!
Glad you're enjoying them--truly classic TV comedy! --kjh
Wonderful "take-off" of those great 30's Dark old House movies.
All through this wonderful sketch, I couldn't stop thinking about Neil Simon's "Murder by Death" several decades after this but so similar. I believe he was also on the show's writing staff, and seems to have a penchant for murder mysteries (he also wrote "The Cheap Detective"). I couldn't help wondering if his imprint was on this.
Boy,oh,boy that was crazy insanely ridiculous,ha,ha,ha!😀😁😂😃😄😅😆🤗🙄
Either Mel Brooks wrote the sketch, or you can really see the influence Sid had on Mel.
Agreed. What an amazing experience it must have been as a young writer to be immersed in this show! I wouldn't have relished living through the forties, but I'm definitely jealous of the opportunity he had to meet, and then become, one of the legends of comedy writing.
And on Neil Simon, who wrote two detective comedies. One of them, "Murder by Death" is so similar to this. And Carl Reiner later co-wrote and directed "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid."