As we bumble toward the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, it is safe to assume that a dwindling, if not already severely dwindled, number of Americans know the name Ernie Kovacs, madcap ...

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The Ernie Kovacs Show is an American comedy show hosted by comedian Ernie Kovacs, first shown in Philadelphia during the early 50s, then nationally. The show appeared in many versions and formats, ...

New Jersey native Ernie Kovacs literally turned television upside down in the '50 and '60s. A new book, “Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius,” ...

Fifty years after his death, Ernie Kovacs is de rigueur. Mainstream, even. His angular, imaginative approach to humor was impossible to imitate, but his influence on television-specifically television ...

His mother, the actress Edie Adams, had been married to Kovacs, the actor and writer whose conceptual comedy on television in the ’50s and early ’60s was years ahead of its time. Kovacs died in a car ...

2:31 p.m. July 21, 2023: An earlier version of this article referred to the UCLA Film & Television Archive as the UCLA Library Film & Television Archive. It also said an eight-minute piece on the life ...