Move over American Idol and make way for “That’s Classic!”  I recently shot a classical music, comedy contest at the legendary “Carolines on Broadway” in NYC that I am creating into a one-hour program. For the WNET production, we teamed up with the country’s most listened-to classical music radio station, WQXR, which hosted the classical comedy contest.  Believe it or not, classical music and comedy do mix and quite well.  If you are old enough to remember Victor Borge you will know what I mean.  If you aren’t, you should check out my newest show when it airs in December on NY’s public television stations.  The program features eight classical music comedians who braved Carolines stage and a packed house to compete for a very nice trophy, a customary PBS tote bag and the opportunity to perform at the NY Comedy Festival.  And while you probably won’t know the names of the contestants, you might know the judges: Comedian Robert Klein, Peter Schickele of PDQ Bach fame, Opera Diva Deborah Voigt and Charles Hamlen of IMG Artists (classical music management company).  I was doubtful about the whole thing myself until I had the pleasure of a fun shoot and an interesting edit creating “That’s Classic!”  You can see a video of the finalists at: www.wqxr.org/comedy but you will have to watch “That’s Classic!” on Fri, Dec. 9 at 10:30pm on WNET’s Thirteen or on Sat, Dec. 10 at 5:30pm on WLIW21 to find out who takes home the tote bag.