This Friday’s Ernie Kovacs entry is a guest appearance he made on ‘You Bet Your Life’. Kovacs and Groucho are an uneasy fit and this little segment is proof that comedians often sniff around each other, uncertain as to who has the power.in the dynamic. Ernie to his credit shows
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Its Friday so it’s Ernie Kovacs time. Here’s one of his weirdest quasi-music videos–a rendering of a piece of the 1812 Overture which melds the music with some frankly disconcerting images–I’ll let you watch rather than explain them. This is preceded by two of Kovacs beloved blackout sketches one of
It’s Friday which is Ernie Kovacs time as far as we are concerned. Today I offer up his ‘kitchen symphony’, a fascinating and somewhat disturbing exercise in joining the movements of inanimate kitchen objects with the space-pop music of the master Esquival. The video looks amazing–the actual texture of it,
Last Friday I decided that we would end every work week from now on (and forever and I mean it) with a little Ernie Kovacs material from his various 1950s and 60s TV specials. (See also last Monday and Wednesday as well for a little Kovacs catch-up). This is a
I get that Ernie Kovacs isn’t for everyone–he was often referred to as ‘The Olive’, code for ‘acquired taste’. Actually I have a friend whose taste I usually am in agreement with who once said that Kovacs comedy was for him ‘like being told oatmeal is dessert’. Nonetheless I love
On Monday I posted a clip of comedian Ernie Kovacs doing his ‘Percy Dovetonsils, Poet Laureate’ shtick. There are many more Kovacs TV moments that I considered posting but I ran across this very funny and rather atypical Kovacs moment which happened when he was a guest on ‘What’s My
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj2JzNd7wuE One of television’s greatest comedian/innovators was Ernie Kovacs, and one his most famous characters was poet Percy Dovetonsils. A Youtube commenter refers to Percy as a ‘coded gay character’ but I don’t see what’s terribly coded about it. Percy’s lisp, his mincing expressions, the general aura of louche period-gay