Continuing our Friday Ernie Kovacs posts, here’s Kovacs most famous routine–The Nairobi Trio performing ‘Solfeggio’. Even if you’ve seen this before–and chances are that you have–it remains weirdly delightful and beyond definition. As always with Kovacs, the ‘meta’ of it all is also fascinating–how did he describe this routine to the props/sets/costume people and the other actors? What on earth did the crew make of it while they were shooting it? And the network executives–what could there response have been? This is the Kovacs sketch that most people who don’t know Kovacs have knowledge of–in that sense it’s a bit like ‘A Night At The Opera’ (the Marx Brothers movie for people who don’t really know them) or ‘Singing In The Rain’ (the musical for people who don’t watch musicals) or Motown (music for people who don’t know anything about music) or Buddha/Eastern religious stuff (religion for people who have no clue as to what–if anything–they believe). More Kovacs next Friday. Meanwhile, enjoy the apes!