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TRIBUTE "Television's original genius" has inspired spirited comedy from Steve Allen to David Letterman, from "Laugh-In" to "Monty Python." An ebullient Hungarian DJ from Trenton with an ever-present ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The other day while browsing the mobile version of YouTube, I serendipitously called up old Ernie Kovacs video skits from his various '50s TV shows. For the uninitiated, Kovacs was one of the ...

When Ernie Kovacs was a star, he was called a clown and an oddball, but he's since been heralded as a genius. Comedy pros join NPR's Scott Simon... Comedy Veterans Remember TV Pioneer Ernie Kovacs ...

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 ...

Schlatter's autobiography Still Laughing is a compendium of stories about entertainers he's known and worked with. Ernie in Kovacsland is a treasure chest of memorabilia from Kovacs' shows. This is ...

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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 ...