Steve Allen I personally find it difficult to accept that there could be anyone on earth insensitive to the comic abilities of Laurel and Hardy, Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, or Martin Short. But no matter who the comic entertainer is, there is always at least a minority prepared to say, ‘What’s all the excitement about? He doesn’t seem funny to me.’ – Steve Allen
Stephen Graham I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in ‘Treasure Island’ at school, and this great Liverpudlian actor called Andrew Schofield – he was Johnny Rotten in ‘Sid And Nancy’ – came to watch it, and he had a word with my mum and dad afterwards and told them I should have a go at the Everyman youth theatre. I’ve never looked back. – Stephen Graham
Sinbad I grew up on variety shows. I’m from the ’60s and ’70s. I loved watching Flip Wilson. I loved watching Sid Caesar’s ‘Your Show of Shows,’ ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ I love all of those variety shows. – Sinbad
Paul Dini There’s a little bit of Sid and Nancy to the Joker and Harley look, which I always felt would not be a bad look if they were in a live-action movie. – Paul Dini
Madonna Ciccone Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, ‘Well, you can do that, but you’ve got to remove this aspect of your work.’ There would no longer be that purity anymore. – Madonna Ciccone
Lee Ryan I was in the top 10 rock n’ roll artists – up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge. – Lee Ryan
June Whitfield I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did – Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it’s dreadful really – was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there’s the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material. – June Whitfield
Jamie Farr If you want good sketches, go pick up Sid Caesar. The best of Your Show of Shows. That’s the greatest sketch comedy you’ll ever see on television. – Jamie Farr
Hayley Williams People perceive punk rock in the sense of Sid Vicious, all strung-out, crazy and insane. – Hayley Williams
George Vecsey When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback – probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read. – George Vecsey
