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Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Many individuals and shows, such as Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jim Henson, Max Headroom, Chevy Chase, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Dave Garroway, Uncle Floyd, and many others have credited Kovacs as an influence. Chevy Chase thanked Kovacs during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live.
Some of Kovacs's unusual behaviors include having pet marmosets and wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show.
When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio announcer and doing a mid-morning television series for NBC, Kovacs claimed to dislike eating breakfast alone while his wife, Edie Adams, was sleeping after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and make breakfast for them both, then take Kovacs to the WABC studios.
While Kovacs and Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series during 1957, his talent was not recognized formally until after his death. The 1962 Emmy for Outstanding Electronic Camera Work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Broadcasting (later to become the Museum of Television & Radio and now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs's work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs. The Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic, William Henry III, wrote for the museum's booklet: "Kovacs was more than another wide-eyed, self-ingratiating clown. He was television's first significant video artist."
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- Poem for Edith Adams
- A Day at the Races
- Cowboy
- The Night Before Christmas on New York’s Fashionable East Side
- At Home
- Ode to a Hangman’s Noose
- Side Two Closing
- "Roughing It" Interview
- Ode to a Worm’s Eye View
- Ode to an Emotional Italian Knight
- Ode to Whistler’s Mother
- Thoughts While Falling Off the Empire State Building
- Side One Closing
- Ode to Sam, the Taller of the Two Monkeys
- Ode to a House Fly
- Some Pertinent Thoughts of Julius Caesar While He Was Being Assassinated
- Happy Birthday to a Bookworm
- Ode to the Happier Days of the Roman Coliseum
- Lament From a Germ’s Eye Viewpoint
- Ode to Mona Lisa
- Intro
- Ode to Stanley’s Pussycat
- Mr. Question Man
- Mack The Knife (Theme From "The Threepenny Opera") Percy Dovetonsils: (a) Happy Birthday To A Bookworm (b) Cowboy
- Strangely Believe Its
- Oddities In The News; Closing "I've Had It... Arrivederci"
- Perry Ragout
- Uncle Buddy
- World's Strongest Man; Man's Best Friend
- Percy Dovetonsils: (a) Ode To Stanley's Pussycat (b) Ode To An Emotional Italian Knight