And This Blog Loves Ernie Kovacs

Who's the individual cited most often here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog? The unimaginably imaginative Ernie Kovacs.

Here's an excerpt from Ernie's first version of The Silent Show.



Ernie's Howdy Doody sendup, The Howdy Deedy Show, features hard-drinking host Miklos Molnar.



LOVE "The Kapusta Kid in Outer Space," seen here on the NBC Morning Show that aired on December 19, 1955.



Ernie's NBC shows still exist, largely thanks to the tireless efforts of the late, great Edie Adams.



Edie, who married Ernie in 1954, was the intrepid co-star and musical guest throughout the NBC years and up through the unorthodox ABC game show, Take A Good Look. Her rendition of Davy Crockett, King Of The Wild Frontier in the style of Marilyn Monroe never fails to get me ROFL.



Here's The Ernie Kovacs Show from July 2, 1956


And July 16, 1956



And July 30, 1956


And August 6 1956



And September 3, 1956



Too bad Kovacs' 1954 DuMont Network programs remain lost kinescopes. At least Ernie Kovacs' 1961 ABC specials exist; these express Ernie's unique sensibility, much along the lines of an animator or experimental filmmaker and very different from the approach of his TV comedy contemporaries (Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle).



Cheers to Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams!