Comments on: Imogene Coca : Sid Caesar :: Ginger Rogers : Fred Astaire
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Comments on MetaFilter post Imogene Coca : Sid Caesar :: Ginger Rogers : Fred AstaireTue, 29 Jul 2014 12:17:08 -0800Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:17:08 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Imogene Coca : Sid Caesar :: Ginger Rogers : Fred Astaire
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Imogene Coca was the hilarious counterpart to Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows, the ground-breaking 1950s sketch comedy show. (Here they are in the classic <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgUYtckHxQ">Auto Smashup</a>.) She won an Emmy and a Peabody for her work on the show, had a long career in television, and later made an impact as Aunt Edna in National Lampoon's Vacation, as Ms. Dipesto's mother in Moonlighting, and on the stage. <br /><br />With Sid Caesar: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpn4_QeS7w8">Health Food Restaurant</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR6Xli5vU4A">Mata Hari</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0SG4YhiuYU">The Clock</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIALklGNxA">The Sleep Sketch</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeV9t2pqHWA">Classical Musicians</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ag4yMVX7k">The Cobbler's Daughter</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEF9bPsyiz8">Streetcar named...</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5KKAdFnOwQ">Birthday</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPOams8jA6g">From Here to Obscurity, Part 1</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DMOiaunXEU">Part 2</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwvIqSrbjY">Coney Island pantomime</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aywkIpQs9Vc">pantomime on the Tonight Show in 1977</a>
See Also: <a href="http://howsweetitwas.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/an-imogene-coca-gallery/">Pictures from her career as a pitch woman</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzY6gRmK9bM">as Mary the Good Fairy on Bewitched</a> | <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJzJx3qilzY">performing <i>Repent</i> from <i>On the Twentieth Century</i> in 1982</a> (she was nominated for a Tony in 1978 for this role)
<a href="http://www.sidcaesar.com/imogene.html">Her coworkers at Your Show of Shows remember her</a> | Her <a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134691,00.html">2001 Obituary</a> | <a href="http://www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/imogene-coca">biography</a>post:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:04:06 -0800julenimogenecocacocayourshowofshowssidcaesarcomediennesketchcomedyactresshumorearlytvfunnywomanjulybywomentvcomedyBy: Atom Eyes
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Her entrance as Aunt Edna in National Lampoon's Vacation (on a walker, bursting through a screen door) provoked one of the heartiest laughs I had ever heard from my dad in a movie theater. As a kid, anything my dad thought was funny, <em>I</em> thought was funny. Everything about her portrayal of Aunt Edna is perfect.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5660972Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:17:08 -0800Atom EyesBy: Freedomboy
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<strong>National Treasure</strong>comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661124Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:22:49 -0800FreedomboyBy: Mchelly
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She was one of the greats.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661149Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:36:37 -0800MchellyBy: hal9k
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She died at 92, Sid Caesar at 91, Berle 93, Carl Reiner <em>is</em> 91, and that up and coming youngster, Mel Brooks is only 88 (or some say 2,000) years old.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661156Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:39:09 -0800hal9kBy: still_wears_a_hat
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Her co-stars in On the Twentieth Century included John Cullum, Madeline Kahn and a young and pretty-well-unknown Kevin Kline. When I get my time machine, I'll be seeing that one.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661165Tue, 29 Jul 2014 13:46:36 -0800still_wears_a_hatBy: MoxieProxy
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She was also Jan Brady's "identical Aunt." Anyone remember that episode? As a kid, it felt very mean - for the Brady Bunch.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661294Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:11:23 -0800MoxieProxyBy: MCMikeNamara
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Oh god I hated that episode so much. The moral ends up that Aunt Jenny is a cool badass and they shouldn't be such shallow assholes, but the route to get there is so ick.
I love this post though!comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661480Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:18:35 -0800MCMikeNamaraBy: dougzilla
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I had not seen the "From Here to Obscurity" clip before. It was wonderful.
I love these guys and their humour.comment:www.metafilter.com,2014:site.141437-5661622Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:53:26 -0800dougzilla
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