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 ...

Ernie in Kovacsland is a treasure chest of memorabilia from Kovacs' shows. This is FRESH AIR. Today our TV critic David Bianculli isn't looking at television. Instead, he's looking at two new ...

Television trailblazer Ernie Kovacs -- shown here in a 1956 sketch from "The Ernie Kovacs Show" with leggy wife Edie Adams (right) -- gets the royal DVD treatment and is the focus of an April 12 ...

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 ...

Ernie Kovacs was a big exception—maybe the big exception. He began as a morning host but soon his surrealist sense of humor and tricky visuals—he’d tilt sets and camera angles to make ...