Today is the centenary of Ernie Kovacs’s birth. I recall watching his short-lived program on television back in the early 60s. It was brilliant. There was nothing else on television like it.
Today is the centenary of Ernie Kovacs’s birth. I recall watching his short-lived program on television back in the early 60s. It was brilliant. There was nothing else on television like it.
He was a very funny man. I doubt the Song of the Nairobi Trio would go over very well today. Pity.
I think his humor had very much the same sort of anarchy as that of the Marx Brothers. Sadly, humor is either dead or dying.
“Sadly, humor is either dead or dying.â€
Sight gags, raunch and political correctness.
His wife, Edie Adams could sing and act and was a babe. He died prematurely in a car accident in the early 60’s.
You’re on a roll. How about Syd Caesar and Martha Rae or Steve Allen, the original Tonight Show host and the Men of the Street?
Hi, Ho Steverino..
What, me?
After Kovacs’s death to support herself and her children she went back to work, beginning with a series of very memorable ads for Muriel cigars. Like nearly everything else they’re on Youtube.
Her most memorable movie role is probably playing Sid Caesar’s wife in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which sort of hid her light under a bushel.