Whenever a clip of Ernie Kovacs pops up in a TV special about show ... as in another bit where he hears a gong every time he lifts a hat. The production back then wasn’t slick; the sound dips ...

a 1971 tribute to the comedian released this month by Rhino Home Video, we are told that Ernie Kovacs ... The hat, get rid of that hat. It`s ridiculous.” One of Kovacs` most celebrated illusions ...

comedian Ernie Kovacs, has died. She was 81. Adams died Wednesday in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia and cancer, publicist Henri Bollinger said. A graduate of Juilliard School of Music ...

“Ernie Kovacs knew exactly what to do with television ... his influential spoofing of TV (which seems so old hat now) gradually gave way to a dazzling talent for classically constructed sight ...

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 ...

Josh Mills is proud to run the estate of Ernie Kovacs, a man he’s never met who was married to his mother. The zany, mustachioed ‘50s star who is hailed as “the Godfather of Monty Python ...

But there are different ways to know someone, and in many ways, Mills knows Kovacs better than almost anyone else today. “Ernie was always around when I was growing up,” says Mills ...

BIOGRAPHY: ERNIE KOVACS: PLEASE STAND BY. Tomorrow, 8 p. m., A & E. 3 Stars THE BEST PARTS of tomorrow’s A & E “Biography” on Ernie Kovacs are the parts where we see the TV pioneer himself ...

These days, you mention Ernie Kovacs with a lot of ifs, ands and buts. If you grew up in the 1950s you`d remember him and realize how David Letterman`s ”let`s take the camera backstage” antics ...

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 ...