The two hundred and fifteenth TV show: #7 Your Show of Shows
It's weird that when I went to try out some clips of this shows before diving into a full episode, one of the sketches was for This Is Your Life, a show I'll cover soon as well... and was one of Sid Caesar's favourites, the over the top emotions doing all the work rather than relying just on punchlines. It's friendly fare, keeping a good mood in there, even if the jokes are occassionally dated - I guess you can't avoid that.
The musical interludes, accompanied with different types of dancers, are more apart of the variety genre than really stealing the show here, with the ballet in particular feeling a bit out of place. I guess it's a necessity of the live shows, but the comedy is such a big part of why you're here that the interruptions still feel off. Add to that the small gags like a proud continuation of the Gongman introduction sequence and so much of this just becomes that much more enjoyable. It holds up surprisingly well, considering the show is about seventy years old now.