Not quite Karajan

Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

While doing some research on variety shows of yesteryear, Englishman in New York stumbled across Sid Caesar's account of Beethoven's Fifth. Nanette Fabray plays the comic's foil in a terrific piece of knockabout humour. Almost as funny, in short, as Morecambe & Wise meet Andre Preview.

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