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"The 2,000 Year Old Man" is one of those acts that have influenced a whole generation of comedians, whether they know it or not.

A Shtick With a Thousand Lives MEL BROOKS and Carl Reiner have been cracking each other up for nearly 60 years.

Here are my picks for the 15 most influential prime-time network series in the history of television.

Little Me is a fizzy and cheerful musical written in 1962. It was designed as a vehicle for the multi-talented Sid Caesar and written by two men destined to leave an enormous mark on Broadway, Neil Simon and Cy Coleman .

Choosing America's Funniest Joke : In a noisy, cramped back room at Factor's Deli in Los Angeles, eight comedy legends put down their pastrami sandwiches long enough to help Reader's Digest choose America's 10 funniest jokes.

After two years of research and interviews, Mike Sacks is convinced there definitely is a connection between being Jewish and comedy and humor writing.

Larry Gelbart, 81, a celebrated writer and producer whose socially innovative TV series "M*A*S*H" helped demonstrate that the half-hour comedy could win huge ratings while addressing contemporary issues such as war and gender relations, died Friday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif.

A Funny Thing Happened... When I was a kid, my mom used to complain that there was nothing on TV half as funny as Sid Caesar's "Your Show of Shows" used to be.

Not many people can begin a family anecdote with, "One time, my grandfather said to Louis Armstrong at Seder " Comedian and uber-mensch Billy Crystal lays claim to that and more in his unabashedly schmaltzy and riotous one-man show "700 Sundays," an evening of reminiscences and home movies about his often unconventional Eisenhower-era upbringing in ...

The brilliant TV and film writer Larry Gelbart was a friend. Not one of those friends who you hung out with or lived nearby but one of those people who made you feel important even if you didn't think so yourself.

Writer Larry Gelbart, who developed the hit television show "M*A*S*H" that uncovered a rich wellspring of comedy and pathos in war, died of cancer on Friday at age 81.

Larry Gelbart died at his Beverly Hills home this morning after a long battle with cancer , he was 81.

A legendary comedy player of TV "Golden Age" and occasional films, Sid Caesar and his "Your Show of Shows" set the standard on which all future TV sketch comedy was judged and from which all TV sketch comedy has.... A legendary comedy player of TV "Golden Age" and occasional films, Sid Caesar and his "Your Show of Shows" set the standard on which ...

O h, for those wonderful years of live variety shows on our television screens. We sure could use a good belly laugh of comedy, not at anyone's expense, just clean comedy for the entire family.

Way back in 1975, during the debut of " Saturday Night Live ," Chevy Chase helped set the show's irreverent tone in his first "Weekend Update" segment with a risqu joke about the U.S. Postal Service .

Monday, July 27 at 10:00 PM "Satire and Parody: Sock it to Me" Americans have always loved to make fun of the world around them using the slings and arrows of parody and satire.

The funny man's long career will be recalled. July 22, 2009 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will pay tribute to funny man Mel Brooks on Friday.

Bruno and Baby Sacha Baron Cohen was on the show yesterday. It was theatre. Cohen as Bruno, Stern and Robin as his straight man and woman.

In the early 1950s, American popular culture pulsed with an unprecedented energy, much of which emanated from New York.

Who's Melville Crump? How could any car buff ask such a question? Played by Sid Caesar, Crump was a dentist on the opening leg of his vacation with his wife - Monica - when they were passed on an unnamed California mountain road by Smiler Grogan .