{"id":66,"date":"2009-01-05T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:07:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:07:53","slug":"my-comedian-hero-sid-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/my-comedian-hero-sid-caesar\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Caesar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-66-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/sidcae1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/sidcae1.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/sidcae1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sid Caesar<\/strong>: Well, you take a picture like, with Chaplin, \u2018City Lights\u2019. There was a part in that picture where he\u2019s running away from the cops, he\u2019s always running away from the cops and he sees a traffic light, and he sees the traffic light and he goes \u201cah!\u201d He gets an idea. And all the cars are stopped for the traffic light, so he walks through the back of all the cars, and the last car he gets out of is a limousine. Of course, that\u2019s how he got the idea of a blind girl seeing \u2013 thinking that he is a millionaire. I mean, how do you do that? How do you do it? It\u2019s a blind girl, in a silent movie, and she falls in love \u2013 I mean, she knows that this guy is a millionaire. And Chaplin gets out of the car, slams the door, and he sees that she turns around because she heard the door, and she offers him the lilacs that she\u2019s selling. And he looks at her, and it\u2019s immediate love. Immediate! He falls in love \u2013 aah! (laughs) And then he takes his last dime, and he takes it and he gives it to her. And she takes the dime and she gives him the flowers. And he takes the flowers and she takes this cup, and she\u2019s going to walk down to the fountain in the park and rinse it out. So he follows her, and she gets the cup and she rinses it, and then she throws the water in his face! And the whole audience went \u201cah!\u201d because they were in a serious situation, and all of a sudden there\u2019s something that\u2019s funny. Right there. No introduction or nothing, boom. Bang. A switch. And the audience went \u201cah!\u201d, they drew in because they were in a serious situation and you get a thing like this, they didn\u2019t know whether to laugh or not, because they would \u2013 in those days, they were afraid to laugh because they thought that they\u2019d embarrass somebody on the screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/sidcae1.mp4 Sid Caesar: Well, you take a picture like, with Chaplin, \u2018City Lights\u2019. There was a part in that picture where he\u2019s running away from the cops, he\u2019s always running away from the cops and he sees a traffic light, and he sees the traffic light and he goes \u201cah!\u201d He gets an idea. 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