Emmy Award won by Sid Caesar for Your Show of Shows
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content: 1952
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content: Emmy Award for Best Actor awarded to Sid Caesar in 1952 for his performance in the television series Your Show of Shows. The award is comprised of a gold metal figure of a winged woman holding the globe atop a circular base. This was the first of two Emmy Awards Caesar won out of eleven total nominations.
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content: Comedian Sid Caesar (1922-2014) was an influential and acclaimed comedian best known for his pioneering work on television, especially Your Show of Shows, a comedy variety show which aired from 1950-1954. Caesar helped to create the vocabulary and style of television comedy in his work as a writer and performer. Caesar's sketch comedy was topical and relatable, poking fun at everyday life and relationships, satirizing newsworthy events and personalities, and parodying popular culture. Recurring characters on Your Show of Shows included bickering newlyweds The Hickenloopers, frustrated suburbanites The Commuters, and Caesar's German Professor, used to mock the pretentiousness of media experts and satirize intellectual fads. He helped nurture the careers of a generation of comedians who he employed as writers and actors, including Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Imogene Coca, Neil Simon, Larry Gelbart, and Woody Allen.
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content: Television
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content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Comedy
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content: Comedians
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Trophies
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content: Gift of Sid Caesar
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0172.05
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content: 1989.0172
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content: 1989.0172.05
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content: Award
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: engraved (base production method/technique)
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content: overall: 15 in x 20 in; 38.1 cm x 50.8 cm