Hard to believe "businessman voice" Howard Morris is also Mush Mouse among many others! 😮. 🤓😎✌🏼

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Devo cited this as an influence! no kidding! I guess both the humour and mechanistic aspects...Then Again, they must not the only ones: I've seen a Mr. Coconut show in the early 2000's and t sounded just like this - except they were doing Kraftwerk songs exclusively! Now I know where it came from -Eerie

"Born on a mountain top..." That was all she had to sing for the audience to burst out laughing because of the popularity of that tune. The Ballad of Davy Crockett was one of the most well known songs back then.

daisies won't tell. My mother and I used to laugh when I as a ten year old would imitate Percy.

That's a great Brando from Sid!

I must have a simple mind, I keep coming back to this video.

Hilarious stuff

Meanwhile at the showbiz pizza animatronics prototype laboratory...

He truly was a genius.. 😂😅

This reminds me of some of the dreams I used to have during my pre-school days.

I think Andy Kaufmann used this in his SNL Mighty Mouse skit.

Thats Jack Lemmon on the left

So sad Ernie left us too early.

I'm struggling to find anything remotely funny about this sketch. This is the reason why "doesn't hold up" became a phrase.

The original oscilloscope was a DUMONT 304 H

The car gag is just one of the reasons the production coordinator is crying in the closing credits. kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmrconmAj7eUm8k

What a pioneering talent and so far ahead of his time. Everything here was a precursor to the likes of Laugh In and Benny Hill. Genius gone far too soon. RIP, Sir.

Wasn't there a little skit where a girl was inserted into the cabinet, yet she was very apprehensive about entering? There was no dialogue to the skit?

My parents bowled on the nights his show was on. We were supposed to be in bed but we’d stay up to watch this, until we heard their car pull into the driveway. I was twelve, I adored this show! This and Soupy Sales!

Genius

I love watching black & white shows.Brings back so many memories when we didn’t have color tv.He was genius for what he did another person taking away to soon.

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I could easily have gotten false info, but I heard that one of the apes was sometimes played by Edie Adams.

Ernie was truly genious. He thought of things no one else would in a century or more.

It is a formal concert, the musicians are wearing their monkey suits.

Makes me wanna light up a Dutch Masters cigar.

Comedy gold.

What in the name of artistic creativity did I just watch? I can’t decide if it was stupid or brilliant. Maybe both 😅

That's some very early Monty Python. Or exercises in surrealism. Or pre-David Lynch David Lynch. When I saw some of this as a very young child, I remember being terrified by it.

This is the same generation that told us not to smoke marijuana because it would mess up our brains.

They broke the mold before they poured him. I loved Mack the Knife sung by Lotte Lenya.

Ernie Kovacs was one of tbose guys in television, like Bob Hope in stand-up comedy or Erich Wolfgang Korngold in film music, that was so fundamental that you can't see his influence because the medium is inconceivable without him.

The first message from The Planet Of The Apes. Question: if the ape in the middle ( that had to be Kovacs ) was so angry about those blocks getting dropped on the floor, why didn’t he just pick them up?

I don’t get it. Not funny to me.

When I was a kid, I used to watch his show before I left for school. Still a fan.

🤣🤣🤣 Kovacs was a comic genius!

" how come your not in the Kitchen"... love it.

I recall watching this as a kid, and up to now I always thought in my mind that this was The Steve Allen Show!

What? No cigar?

Brilliant. Ernie stated on camera that music was one of his greatest interests and taking music and combining it with visuals was a main objective. If you watch his shows, you'll see that almost everything visual is timed to capture and enhance the music that is playing. I was able to appreciate his work even more after I understood that deep connection.

This skit scared the heck out of me when I was a kid. The costumes are so good (especially for the era) that they looked like some sort of hybrid human apes. Also, the skit is very similar to the Sid Caesar Barvarian clock skit. I dont know which was first.

Ah for the days when gas stations provided actual services. And when you could draw a huge audience dressed in drag.... 🤣🤣

Did anyone notice that Kovacs Ape in the center started the sketch waving around a conductor’s stick, and suddenly it switched into a peeled banana?

A penny tip for the grumpy waitress!

Only Kovacs could pull this off

Actually, when you consider they had to perform in gorilla suits, those ballet dancers were pretty darn impressive. The presentation of a bouquet of bananas at the end was a nice touch.

Ernie owned a gorilla suit rental business. 🦍

I watched Ernie Kovacs religiously when I was a kid. No one before or since has come close to his bizarre, off-beat, but very intelligent humor. I've never forgotten the "Nairobi Trio" skit. One of my all-time favorite comedy sketches. I remember "The Night The Humor Died" when he perished in an auto accident (If I remember correctly, he was DWI). The sadness still persists.