The Independent - London, June 6th, 2001
ZANY, SAUCER-EYED and elastic-faced, Imogene Coca was a diminutive comedienne and actress whose performances with Sid Caesar in the television series Your Show of Shows in the early Fifties have become the stuff of legend. Coca could satirise anyone, from housewife to society matron, movie star to opera diva or ballerina, and her clowning was an acknowledged inspiration for many that followed. Both Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin have said that Coca was a strong influence on their work, Tomlin remarking some years ago, "I was so attracted to her comic striptease routine that I copied it - stole...
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