Although he’s well remembered by the comedy cognoscenti, comedian Sid Caesar—who died last week at 91 after a long illness—was one of those performers who should’ve been a bigger star, on par with someone like his acolyte, Mel Brooks. Brooks got his start on Caesar’s genre-defining series Your Show Of Shows, and the two remained friends and collaborators throughout the rest of Caesar’s life. Last night on Conan, Brooks offered a fond, and typically funny, remembrance of his friend, beginning with how he tried to convince him to give up TV for movies.