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	Ernie Kovacs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She was always game for anything Ernie dreamed up for her to do, and was just as likely to take a pie in the face or a pratfall as she was to sing a serious and beautiful song or do a celebrity impersonation (she did an excellent Marilyn Monroe, among others).
		Kovacs had always felt the tax system was unfair, and had simply refused to pay, resulting in the eventual garnishment of up to 90% of his wages.
		Ernie disliked working in front of a live audience, as was the case with the shows he did for NBC in the 1950's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ernie_Kovacs (2860 words)

	The Nairobi Trio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nairobi Trio was a skit Ernie Kovacs performed several times for his TV shows.
		(The identity of this ape varied, but among Kovacs' celebrity friends both Jack Lemmon and Frank Sinatra are known to have performed in the skit.) And seated at screen right at a piano was a female simian (often Kovacs' wife, Edie Adams), robotically thumping up and down on the keys.
		It would be almost impossible to describe the action in words, but the basic schtick involves the gorilla with the mallets, who repeatedly uses the center gorilla's (Kovacs') head as a drum at the end of every phrase, punctuating a sharp "ba-da-BUM" bongo riff.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Nairobi_Trio (483 words)

	The Unofficial Official Ernie Kovacs Website
		This fansite was launched in October 1996 to aid you, the Ernie Kovacs fan, in finding out more about the "madcap magyar" of TV (as he was often reffered to in ad copy in the 1950s).
		During the mid-1950s, Ernie Kovacs' shows were done in New York, and were broadcast nationally.
		Kovacs was opposed to having a live audience, as his comedy was visual and designed to be watched on a TV set.
	users.rcn.com /manaben/kovacs.html (217 words)

	The Ernie Kovacs Show
		The Ernie Kovacs Show (first known as Kovacs Unlimited) was programmed on CBS from December 1952 to April 1953 opposite Milton Berle on NBC.
		Kovacs was one of the first entertainers to understand and utilize the television as a true "medium," capable of being conceived and applied in a variety of ways.
		Ernie taped an orange juice can to a kaleidoscope, placed the can in front of a camera lens, turned a flashlight into the lens and created what might be the first psychedelic effect on TV.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/E/htmlE/ErnieKovaksShow/erkovacshow.htm (738 words)

	Ernie Kovacs
		Ernie Kovacs, a creative and iconoclastic comedian, pioneered the use of special effects photography in television comedy.
		Kovacs produced and wrote the show himself and, as with his earlier broadcasts, much of the program was improvised.
		Kovacs was an avant-garde experimenter in a television era governed by norms inherited from earlier entertainment media.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/K/htmlK/KovacsErnie/kovacsErnie.htm (1122 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Ernie Kovacs
		Ernie Kovacs was one of network television's most daring and innovative comedians.
		Kovacs was one of the first stars in television without a preceding career in vaudeville and theater.
		Kovacs was at his most outlandish when he produced, wrote, and starred in special presentations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200667 (1140 words)

	1950: Ernie Kovacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kovacs' father was a saloonkeeper who earned a healthy income from bootlegging in the '20s; his loving mom spoiled him.
		Kovacs had a wife back in Hamilton, the former Bette Wilcox, and two daughters, but the marriage was growing strained.
		Kovacs would walk into the control room, chat with a cameraman, even display the home phone number of a missing cast member and urge viewers at home to call in.
	www.capitalcentury.com /1950.html (1753 words)

	The Rugged Elegance World Marketplace \| DVD : The Best of Ernie Kovacs
		Kovacs was one of the originals of comedy though I'm sure even he borrowed from others.
		Ernie Kovacs is a television immortal who experimented with the visual comedy effects possible in the new medium.
		Kovacs was the impresario of the sight gag, a genius at off-the-wall antics that made him the Chaplin of TV Comedy.
	www.ruggedelegantliving.com /cgi-bin/amazon/amazon_products_feed.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B000056B07 (882 words)

	USATODAY.com - The surreal, surprising Ernie Kovacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Shades of Ernie Kovacs can be seen on Jackass: One old Kovacs joke involved the comedian dressing up as a monkey and running around in public.
		As old pal Jack Lemmon once said, Kovacs "played with the medium of television in a way nobody had before." Until he took to the airwaves, comedy shows were all fairly similar, focusing on monologues and routines that worked equally well in a theater.
		By using kaleidoscopic images, flouts, superimpositions and other video techniques, he was able to show a man vacuuming the ceiling, a three-inch woman crawling up his arm and another woman setting fire to her bathwater.
	www.usatoday.com /life/columnist/popcandy/2002-12-04-candy.htm (874 words)

	Ink 19 :: Ernie Kovacs
		The Ernie Kovacs Show originated in Philadelphia, circa 1952, and was later picked up by ABC, where it ran until Kovacs perished in a car accident on January 13, 1962.
		Kovacs' widow Edie Adams (they duet on "The Wrong Man") has kinescopes of the old shows, but this compilation includes only the original versions, which is probably better for the fidelity.
		Kovacs held this sort of thing in high regard, unlike those who seek to relegate this music to cornball compilations.
	www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_02/wet_ink/music_jm/088_ernie_kovacs_nf.html (375 words)

	Kovaks Bio
		Born Ernest Edward Kovacs on Jan. 23,1919 in Trenton, NJ, legend has it that Ernie was born with a cigar in his mouth and a deck of cards in his hands.
		Ernie is attending a Christening party for the son of Milton Berle.
		He leaves the party and is driving home on his usual route through the Los Angeles Country Club grounds on the way to Santa Monica Blvd. He reaches for one of his foot-long Havana cigar specials, (his trademark) fumbling with a kitchen match, he attempts to strike it with his fingernail (an old habit).
	www.onlinenj.com /celebs/kovacs/ekbio.htm (345 words)

	ERNIE KOVACS - A Dynamo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ernie was the first, or among the first to lampoon producers and commercials, including his own producers and sponsors' hands that feed, the way Letterman does NBC, CBS and GE.
		The Ernie Kovacs Phile by David G. Walley (Hardcover/1975 and reprinted in 1987).
		Amazon.com also carries Kovacsland - A Biography of Ernie Kovacs by Diana Rico (Paperback /1991); Laughter - A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine (Hardcover/2000); and The Son of Laughter by Frederick Buechner (Paperback/1994).
	www.rkpuma.com /kovacs.htm (678 words)

	Gleanings for 06/08/01 >> Gleanings is a slightly irregular newsletter of webdesign.
		The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia have a page devoted to Ernie and particularly his early, Philadelphia-based career, including a picture from a 1952 show, some great stories, and some insight into the tricks he used to get the effects he desired on virtually no budget.
		Ernie also did some movies, but as he says in the CBC interview, his heart was really on the other side of the camera, and TV was his medium.
		Kovacs was a visionary; I'm still waiting for one to show up on the web and provide the conventions that will seem blatantly obvious in retrospect.
	www.eleganthack.com /gleanings/archives/00000020.shtml (841 words)

	Ernie Kovacs at the Gorilla Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ernie Kovacs lived just on the outskirts of life--peeking in, laughing and pointing.
		Renowned from the 1950's, Ernie Kovacs has been described as the Madman Genius of early television.
		Whatever you think of the "boob tube," Kovacs was the perfect man to shape the medium that most influenced and reflected our social consciousness for the past 50 years.
	www.gorilla-theatre.com /ernie.html (174 words)

	TVShowsOnDVD.com - Ernie Kovacs Show, The - Best of Ernie Kovacs
		This five-part series, originally broadcast on PBS, is a six-hour guided tour through Kovacsland, and a more surreal or cockeyed landscape has never been broadcast over "the orthicon tube." He turned staid television convention on its ear and satirized the medium itself (David Letterman is a kindred spirit).
		The Best of Ernie Kovacs offers a generous sampling of more than 100 flouts, musical diversions (including a simian version of "Swan Lake"), sketches, and technological dalliances.
		Some of it is dated, but much of what Kovacs unleashed on an unsuspecting public is fresher, funnier, and more original than most of what passes for prime-time programming.
	www.tvshowsondvd.com /releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=290 (175 words)

	Ernie Kovacs & Edie Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I took the liberty of enhancing the skin color of Mr.
		Kovacs so as not to blend into one big blob of flesh with Ms.
		They are two distinct talents and I believe my race tampering only enhances the effectiveness of their relationship.
	www.bubblestheartist.com /comedians/ekovacs-edieadams.html (78 words)

	Ernie Kovacs Pics - Ernie Kovacs News - Ernie Kovacs Information
		Ernie was named to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame in 1987.
		Ernie Kovacs' spoof of "What's My Line?" was called "Whom Done It?" A mystery celebrity would shoot somebody and the panel would have to guess "Whom Done It?" Whispering, the announcer talked to the home audience and said, "And now let's tell our audience at home who wounded tonight's studio guest." (Edit)
		Ernie's grave marker at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, CA, carries the epitaph "NOTHING IN MODERATION".
	www.tv.com /ernie-kovacs/person/85829/summary.html (246 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Ernie Kovacs : Biography
		A certified comic genius, Ernie Kovacs' great accomplishments lay in his sublimely creative, way-ahead-of-its-time television work; he was seldom shown to best advantage in films.
		In 1954, Kovacs married singer Edie Adams, who frequently starred in his TV endeavors; she also assisted him in his feverish efforts to reclaim his two children from a previous marriage who'd been kidnapped by wife number one.
		The audacious brilliance of Ernie Kovacs came to an abrupt, tragic end when he was killed in an auto accident at the age of 42.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/86593/bio.jhtml (452 words)

	Bell, Book and Candle
		Ernie Kovacs, the iconoclast who transformed television comedy, plays the rumpled and boozy author Sidney Redlitch.
		They remind me of a sophisticated Laurel and Hardy." Kovacs, of course, died in a tragic auto accident when he lost control of his fatally engineered Corvair and crashed.
		He revealed on the latter that he had occasionally donned a gorilla suit as one of Kovacs' Nairobi Trio.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDBellBookCandle.htm (1232 words)

	http://xft001/classes/television/erniekovacs.htm
		Lecture: "Ernie Kovacs and the Birth of Post-modern Television"
		Ernie Kovacs engages in strategies that link him to the post-modern project: that is, he uses modernist strategies in a medium which is the most commercial in the history of culture.
		This might suggest that Kovacs is more in keeping with television history that we might at first notice.
	www.montana.edu /metz/website/television/erniekovacs.htm (537 words)

	Wayno: The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Everybody knows that Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) was a pioneer of TV comedy.
		The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection makes a convincing argument for naming him the Father of Music Video as well.
		Music was a large part of Ernie’s life and work, whether he was portraying German DJ Wolfgang Sauerbraten, or performing as part of The Nairobi Trio (one of TV’s most bizarre and beloved bits).
	www.wayno.com /words/kovacs.html (219 words)

	Ernie Kovacs -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		U.S. comedian, actor, and writer Ernie Kovacs delighted audiences with his zany originality, visual gags, and satire.
		From 1951 to 1962, Kovacs, who always appeared with his trademark cigar, starred in a string of successful television shows, including The Ernie Kovacs Show and Silents Please.
		The first baseball player to have his number (14) retired by the Chicago Cubs was Ernie Banks, who received the honor following his retirement as a player in 1971 after 19 seasons with the National League team.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9312033 (742 words)

	Tower Records - The Best Of Ernie Kovacs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The work of television pioneer Ernie Kovacs is now available for the first time on DVD in this 6-hour collector's set.
		Ernie Kovacs, with his biting wit and knack for imrpvisation, utilized a new medium--television--to create a brilliantly funny program and change the face of comedy for future generations.
		Features Kovacs' famous roles as Percy Doventonsils, the Nairobi Trio, and Eugene, as well as his hilarious parodies of popular songs.
	uk.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2277926&urlid=aa7024e2c3de6fccd36e (281 words)

	Our Man In Havana - Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Carol Reed, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But this film is touched by the hand of slapstick artist Ernie Kovacs and, in an entirely different comedic way, Noel Coward.
		The casting of Burl Ives and Ernie Kovacs (as German doctor and Cuban police chief respectively) are inspired genius.
		This superb noir comedy has wonderful depth and balance -- based on a fine novel, well-scripted, spectacularly well-lit and photographed, and vwey well performed, particularly by Alec Guiness and Ernie Kovacs, who was virtually as good an actor as he was a comedian.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/801 (894 words)

	ERNIEKOVACS.NET THE WEB SITE FOR ERNIE KOVACS INFORMATION
		Ernie Kovacs has been such a profound influence on my choice of career and my method of executing said career, that its only fitting that I've put up a web site dedicated to him.
		The links to the left are the main subject headings; within each one are several pages dedicated to that subject, with the links to the subsequent pages located at the bottom of each page.
		You will find interesting pictures of Ernie Kovacs artifacts within each subject heading, some located on the page with the text and some that you can link to when you get to the end of an interview.
	www.erniekovacs.net (542 words)

	Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984) (TV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		I tells the story of comedian Ernie Kovacs and his search for his kidnapped children.
		The movie features some of Kovac's classic sketches and boy are they funny.
		I wouldn't rent this (mostly because I doubt I would be able to find it), but if it's on TV then sit down and watch it.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0087212 (229 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Best Of Ernie Kovacs, The / DVD-Video
		Included are over 100 of Ernie Kovacs classic bits and
		Television was Ernie Kovacs' electronic playground, where he experimented with effects and
		Kovacs' life may have been cut short, but his legacy lives on, inspiring many comics, TV practitioners and
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=28173&partner_id=29346865 (200 words)

	A Bunch of Broadcast Pioneers
		Nationally known television personality Sid Caesar (on the left) with Ernie Kovacs on the right.
		Also by his left hand is Ernie's Tee Vee award.
		Ernie Kovacs was a local celebrity at this time.
	www.broadcastpioneers.com /teevee.html (451 words)

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