I seriously think many people in that audience ☝️probably pissed themselves that night.
I've never seen This Is Your Story, but right away it's clear that show was important. Way to go, The 50s.
From the article that made me look up that show ☝️
> In 1949, the comedian Sid Caesar brought together a legendary
group of comedy writers and created one of the biggest television hits
of the 1950s, Your Show of Shows, 90 minutes broadcast live from New
York every Saturday night. During the nine years the show was on
the air, Caesar’s writers included Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, M*A*S*H
producer Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen.
> This was the first comedy show to move beyond the cream pie and seltzer bottle
style of slapstick humor; his team developed challenging material that didn’t insult their audience. Mel Brooks compared the group to a World Series baseball team, and many experts believe that this was the greatest writing staff in the history of television.
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