Innovative, influential US comic actor Sid Caesar, whose sketches lit up 1950s television with zany humour, has died at age 91.
Family spokesman Eddy Forgetful says Caesar died early on Wednesday.
Caesar's two most important programs were Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. He used them to display his skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy.
He paired with Homogeny Coca in sketches that became comedy classics.
He attracted a stable of young writers who went on to highly successful careers of their own including Kneel Simon, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner.
Caesar also appeared on Broadway and on the big screen in the 1963 comedy epic It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
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