I was doing some research last night into the 1950s variety programs “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour” when I came across this incredible sketch by Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray. Amazing to think that Caesar performed original comedy every week in front of a studio audience with no cue cards and no second takes.

Sid Caesar (Museum of Broadcast Communications)

Spotted in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, this weekend.

UPDATE: I think I ought to explain that when I cycled past this shop at the weekend, I first thought that it was offering “Kung Fu Insurance.”

With all the fuss over the New Yorker front cover and the McCain cartoon it’s refreshing to see something that sends up all of the candidates so effectively…and without causing offense.

Interesting though that while JibJab riffs on McCain as a warmongering, cancer-ridden geriatric, liable to have a heart attack any minute, the best it can come up with for Obama is a Disneyfied, unicorn-riding wuss.

(Via Ben Smith)

Time for Some Campaignin’ (Jib Jab)

I can think of at least one EiNY reader who might like this.

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