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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...