{"id":21334,"date":"2016-10-19T04:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T08:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21334"},"modified":"2022-10-17T05:39:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:39:52","slug":"october-1955-sid-caesar-with-one-of-live-tvs-most-famous-saves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=21334","title":{"rendered":"October 1955&#8230;Sid Caesar, With One Of Live TV&#8217;s Most Famous &#8220;Saves&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/October-1955...Sid-Caesar-With-One-Of-Live-TVs-Most-Famous-Saves-61-years.jpg\"><br \/>\nOctober 1955&#8230;Sid Caesar, With One Of Live TV&#8217;s Most Famous &#8220;Saves&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sid Caesar made television history on &#8220;Caesar&#8217;s Hour&#8221; with this improvised bit of comic genius, which has become one of the most famous &#8220;saves&#8221; in the history of live television.<\/p>\n<p>During this 13 minute sketch of &#8220;Gallipacci&#8221; (a take off on the famous opera Pagliacci), Sid was supposed to paint a teardrop on his cheek, but then, the mascara pencil broke (at 8:30 in) at the beginning of his nonsense rendition of &#8220;Just One of Those Things&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Not breaking his stride, Sid proceeds to pick up one of Nanette&#8217;s lip brushes and paints an unscripted tic-tac-toe board on his face. This aired October 10, 1955, live from The Century Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Some unverified sources report that &#8216;Cirque du Soleil&#8217; has credited Sid Caesar as the origin of the made up gibberish the show&#8217;s performers use as a way to make any nationality at home with the narration and performance of their presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar was the master of this, and as you&#8217;ll see, Nanette Fabray (who took over for Coca), Carl Reiner and Howard Morris have studied hard at their masters knee. This is cued to start a minute before the &#8220;save&#8221;, but I think you&#8217;ll enjoy watching the whole thing from the start, as the made up lyrics are sung to the comically paired with melodies we all know. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sid Caesar - &quot;Gallipacci&quot; with Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OW7GoIl0T8?start=487&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 1955&#8230;Sid Caesar, With One Of Live TV&#8217;s Most Famous &#8220;Saves&#8221; Sid Caesar made television history on &#8220;Caesar&#8217;s Hour&#8221; with this improvised bit of comic genius, which has become one of the most famous &#8220;saves&#8221; in the history of live television. During this 13 minute sketch of &#8220;Gallipacci&#8221; (a take off on the famous opera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[787,723,725],"class_list":["post-21334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-net","tag-performers","tag-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21334"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72815,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions\/72815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}