February 12, 2014 – 3:49 PM EDT
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With a deceptively simple philosophy of humor, the comedian told People in 1989 that “not taken seriously”.
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“I laugh at myself and call a dummy ,” Caesar said then. The comedian had been making people laugh since the time of the Great Depression in the United States, when imitating the accents of customers visiting the cafe of his Russian Jewish parents in his hometown of Yonkers, New York.
Caesar learned to play the saxophone in the so-called “Borscht Belt” of Catskill Mountains (named for the borscht , a beetroot soup [beets], which was the favorite of customers Hotels in the region). In addition, he honed his talent for comedy to be Tummler of that hotel, an emcee who kept guests entertained region.
was in the Catskills he met his wife Florence Levy , whose uncle was the Avon Lodge, where Caesar hotel owner worked.
Caesar caused a sensation on American television, which was in his earlier stage. For eight years, from 1950, he delighted viewers with comedy, pantomime and sátira.Your Show of Shows, Caesar program that colaborada with the script, produced stellar comedy writers as Carl Reiner Mel Brooks , Woody Allen and Neil Simon .
weekly exhausted comedian, who succumbed to barbiturates and alcohol. “I rested,” said People in 1982. “I got rid.”
With the support of his family, Caesar managed to compose your life. He became a fan of healthy living and participated in films like It’s a Mad , Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) and Grease (1978).
When he was 60, the comedian told People your life were better. “Things do not happen immediately, but little by little each day.”
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