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- Neil Simon’s comedy Laughter on the 23rd Floor is based very closely on his experience as a young television writer for Sid Caesar’s live television variety shows “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour, both live broadcast television sketch comedy shows. It is a fictionalized history of life behind the camera during the early days of television.
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Relation to real life. Laughter on the 23rd Floor is a roman à clef, with the characters in the play based on Neil Simon's co-writers on Your Show of Shows.
- Neil Simon
- 1993
Playwright Neil Simon, a television comedy writer himself, wrote Laughter on the 23rd Floor as a roman a clef: the characters are based on real people but given fictional names.
May 27, 2011 · Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon’s early television career working for Sid Caesar.
Laughter on the 23rd Floor: Synopsis. Playwright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age.
Nov 23, 1993 · All of this will seem familiar to fans of the film “My Favorite Year,” which was based on much the same story (and which also starred Linn-Baker). But “Laughter on the 23rd Floor” is a ...
In this case, the pretence is lighter than ever: it seems to have been compulsory in pre-publicity for Laughter On The 23rd Floor to point out that central character Max Prince is based on Sid Caesar, whose 1950s television series were watersheds in American comic history and spawned writers including Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Woody Allen and ...
Mar 21, 2014 · It’s a coincidence of timing that Bristol Riverside Theatre is producing “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” which opened Thursday night, only weeks after Caesar died last month at age 91.
