Native New Yorker Sid Caesar, one of the "Golden Age of Television's" most successful comedians, passed away Wednesday. He was 91 years old.

The "sketch comic" stood 6' 2" tall, but his imposing figure stood in stark contrast to his hilarious antics. Caesar's credits include Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour.

Actor Rudy De Luca, a close friend and confidant of Caesar's, couldn't speak to the specific cause of death. However, he did mention that Caesar's overall heath was in a decline over the past several years.

Fellow comedic actor, director and writer Mel Brooks had the honor of seeing Caesar before he passed away. He had some very kind words to say about Caesar.

"Sid Caesar was a giant-maybe the best comedian who ever practiced the trade & I was privileged to be one of his writers & one of his friends," Brooks tweeted Wednesday.

In addition to his tweet, Brooks talked with NPR and further elaborated about his experiences working for such a funny man.

"Everybody thinks that Sid waited to be pumped up with intelligence and with material from his writers," Brooks said. "They thought that he was just like -- he'd sit there like a crazy empty balloon and that we would come in and we would pump him up and make, you know, we'd make a human being out of him. His tongue would stick out and he would talk and be funny, you know?

"But, believe it or not, Sid was one of the funniest guys, even away from the writers and the writing room."

Who knows what would've changed in Mel Brooks' career had he not met Sid Caesar. Would he still have made brought "Blazing Saddles" to the big screen? What about Young Frankenstein or Spaceballs?

In addition to Brooks, Sid Caesar also helped launched the careers of Carl Reiner, Neil Simon, and Woody Allen. Like Brooks, they all wrote for him before their illustrious careers really took off.

"Sid was the flame," Reiner said. "Every writer was a moth who wanted to hang around that flame. There wasn't a writer in television who didn't want to be licking around that flame."

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