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Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous. Westerns and Cliffhangers on Videotape and DVD. Watch Earthsea Online Free HD. Watch 1,150 quality movies online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries showcasing the talent of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul.

Nationality. American. Years active. 19. Genres. Character comedy, surreal comedy, improvisational comedy, prop comedy, spoof, sketch. Spouse. Bette Lee Wilcox (m. 1. Edie Adams (m. 1.

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Ernest Edward "Ernie" Kovacs (January 2. January 1. 3, 1. 96. American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs's visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Many individuals and shows, such as Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Rowan and Martin's Laugh- In, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jim Henson, Max Headroom,[1]Chevy Chase,[2][3]Conan O’Brien,[4]Jimmy Kimmel, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Dave Garroway,[5]Uncle Floyd, and many others[6][7] have credited Ernie as an influence.

Chevy Chase thanked Kovacs during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live.[8][2]Some of Kovacs's unusual behaviors include having pet marmosets and wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show.[9][1. When working at WABC (AM) as a morning- drive radio announcer and doing a mid- morning television series for NBC, Kovacs claimed to dislike eating breakfast alone while his wife, Edie Adams, was sleeping after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and make breakfast for them both, then take Ernie to the WABC studios.[1. While Kovacs and Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series during 1. The 1. 96. 2 Emmy for outstanding electronic camera work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident.[1.

A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.[1. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television.[1. In 1. 98. 6, the Museum of Broadcasting (later to become the Museum of Television & Radio and now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs's work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning television critic, William Henry III, wrote for the museum's booklet: "Kovacs was more than another wide- eyed, self- ingratiating clown. He was television's first significant video artist."[2. Early life and career[edit]Kovacs's father Andrew emigrated from Hungary at age 1. He worked as a policeman, restaurateur, and bootlegger; the last so successfully that he moved his wife Mary, and sons Tom and Ernie, into a 2.

Trenton.[2. 1][2. Though a poor student, Kovacs was influenced by his Trenton Central High School drama teacher, Harold Van Kirk, and received an acting scholarship to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1. Mr. Van Kirk's help. The end of Prohibition and the Depression resulted in difficult financial times for the family. When Kovacs began drama school, all he could afford was a fifth floor walk- up apartment on West 7. Street in New York City.[2.

During this time, he watched many "Grade B" movies; admission was only ten cents. Many of these movies influenced his comedy routines later.[2. A 1. 93. 8 local newspaper photograph shows Kovacs as a member of the Prospect Players, not yet wearing his trademark mustache.[2. Like any aspiring actor, Kovacs used his class vacation time to pursue roles in summer stock companies. While working in Vermont during 1. Watch The Berlin File Online Free 2016. During the next year and a half, his comedic talents developed as he entertained both doctors and patients with his antics during stays at several hospitals.[2. While hospitalized, Kovacs developed a lifelong love of classical music by the gift of a radio, which he kept tuned to WQXR.

By the time he was released, his parents had separated, and Kovacs went back to Trenton, living with his mother in a two- room apartment over a store. He began work as a cigar salesman, which resulted in a lifelong cigar- smoking habit.[2. Kovacs's first paid entertainment work was during 1. Trenton's radio station WTTM. He spent the next nine years with WTTM, becoming the station's director of Special Events; in this job he did things like trying to see what it was like to be run over by a train (leaving the tracks at the last minute) and broadcasting from the cockpit of a plane for which he took flying lessons.

Kovacs was also involved with local theater; a local newspaper published a photograph of him and the news that he was doing some directing for the Trenton Players Guild in early 1. The Trentonian, a local weekly newspaper, offered Kovacs a column in June 1. Watch Cyrano De Bergerac Online Cyrano De Bergerac Full Movie Online. Kovacs Unlimited".[2. Start in television[edit].

Kovacs and Gertrude on Three to Get Ready, 1. Gertrude was one of the donations of Kovacs's viewers when he asked them to bring anything they no longer wanted to the WPTZ- TV lobby. Both Gertrude and Kovacs's close associate Andy Mc.

Kay relocated to New York with Kovacs in 1. The mask Mc. Kay is wearing was fashioned out of masking tape. Arriving at NBC's Philadelphia affiliate, WPTZ, for an audition wearing a barrel and shorts got Kovacs his first television job in January 1. His first show was Pick Your Ideal, a fashion and promotional program for the Ideal Manufacturing Company. Before long, Kovacs was also the host of Deadline For Dinner and Now You're Cooking, shows featuring advice from local chefs.[3.

When Kovacs's guest chef did not arrive in time for the show, he offered a recipe for "Eggs Scavok" (Kovacs spelled backward).[3. Hosting these shows soon resulted in his becoming host of a program named Three to Get Ready, named for WPTZ's channel 3 spot on television dials.[2. Premiering in November 1. Three to Get Ready was innovative, because it was the first regularly scheduled early morning (7–9am) show in a major television market, predating NBC's Today by more than a year. Prior to this, it had been assumed that few people would watch television at such an early hour.[3. While the show was advertised as early morning news and weather, Kovacs provided this and more in an original manner.

When rain was in the weather forecast, Kovacs would get on a ladder and pour water down on the staff member reading the report.[3. Goats were auditioned for a local theater performance and tiny women appeared to walk up his arm.[3. Kovacs also went outside of the studio for some of his skits, running through a downtown Philadelphia restaurant in a gorilla suit in one, and looking into a construction pit saying it was deep enough to see to China, when a man in Chinese clothing popped up, said a few words in the language, and ran off.[3. Despite its popularity, the weekly prop budget for the show was just $1. Kovacs once asked his viewers to send unwanted items to Channel 3; they filled the station's lobby.[3.

The only character no one ever saw inspired more gifts; he was Howard, the World's Strongest Ant. From the time of his WPTZ debut, Howard received more than 3. Kovacs's viewers, including a mink lined swimming pool.[3. Kovacs began his Early Eyeball Fraternal & Marching Society (EEFMS) while doing Three to Get Ready.