Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar

Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.

[@annangauamo5320]

I recently discovered this man talents, and he is growing onto me. All I can say is this MAN need to be more acknowledge for his work in television!! If you watch his shows you would see this guy was living in the future!! Very smart and talented man with his wife always having his back! R.I.P Kovac.

[@jerryjohnson8485]

Any "show"on t v steals from Ernie 😉

[@dmontes133]

Ernie was a comic genius! One of my idols!

[@tillabakos2248]

Undestanding the hungarian bits he sprinkles in makes it even funnier.

[@asderso]

Thank you BOb, from first second I laughed on the floor.... now, that is to be a real comedian ! what a talent, Ernie Kovacs !!!

[@monicaqueenan9985]

"Cheeseburger, cheeseburger! No Coke, Pepsi!!" The Kovacs effect permeated many future shows. RIP Ernie.

[@popomatic1970]

LMAO!! Janosh Daniels!! so much of this went over my head when I was a kid watching Kovacs reruns.. the man was a genius

[@monkeymouse]

Broke me UP! The great thing about Ernie was you couldn't guess where he was going with sketches like this one.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

In this case, pretty much nowhere.

[@peternemeth1777]

Hahaha. This comment together with the comment you received gave me an idea. You know the two old guys from the muppets show Waldorf and Statler. Waldorf to Statler: With this guy you never know where he's going. Statler to Waldorf: In this case pretty much nowhere. Hahahahahaha

[@peternemeth1777]

Hahaha. This comment together with the comment you received gave me an idea. You know the two old guys from the muppets show Waldorf and Statler. Waldorf to Statler: With this guy you never know where he's going. Statler to Waldorf: In this case pretty much nowhere.

[@benmodel2079]

The "Chicken Molnar" bit is actually a clue from an episode of "Take a Good Look" that aired in the spring of 1960. The secret guest was Alonzo Fields, who had been the chief butler at the Whitehouse for 23 years.

[@xanajak]

I watched this in 2012 (I was 41) and started have flashbacks of when I was maybe 3 or 4 years old and realizing it's one of the first things I'd ever saw on TV. It was strange but cool to be transported back in time like that. This is a really funny clip.

[@bencemak2244]

Ernie Kovacs, ZsaZsa Gabor, Bela Lugosi, Adolf Zukor, William Fox, Eva Gabor, Mickey Hargitay, Tony Curtis... Hollywood seems like a hungarian colony

[@kali3665]

Reincarnated years later as the Swedish Chef....

[@peternemeth1777]

Yes it really seems that the swedish chef cook in the muppets show was inspired by ernie kovacs miklos molnar. I mean he even looks almost like him, moves like him and this absurd humour seems also an exact copy.

[@NorbertN]

But the swedish chef sounds more swedish though. :D

[@MikeAndrews]

+Peter Nemeth The Muppets creators said that the Swedish Chef was based on a real Swedish chef who had a cooking show. But Ernie's Chef Molnar _is_ the basis for all of those Churkey jokes that go around this time of the year.

[@elwoodblues9613]

Err! Bierze boorze boour er durrmur err purdee cheeken!

[@Abby_walks]

That's the first thing I thought of "Swedish Chef" on the muppets!

[@rolko52]

Especially the Janos Daniels!

[@-RandomBiz-]

Ernie Kovacs owned KZbin before it ever happened.

[@deutschesmaedchen]

god this is genius!

[@elfinmajictime]

Yes, Ernie himself was Hungarian!!

[@deutschesmaedchen]

But he didn’t speak a word of it. :D

[@lajoskiss4230]

@@deutschesmaedchen he said "csirke", "kolbász", "beszélni", "magyarul", "Istenem", "mit csináltam", "nem szeretem", "tudom", "fokhagyma" just a few hungarian words from this show

[@deutschesmaedchen]

Lajos Kiss he knew *some* individual words, but he couldn’t speak a coherent sentence. His own testimony, in fact. His parents never taught him how to actually speak Hungarian, he just picked up a word or two here and there, and most of it didn’t stick.

[@lajoskiss4230]

@@deutschesmaedchen Dieses ungarischen wörter und die Sätzen sind richtig.

[@deutschesmaedchen]

Lajos Kiss look buddy, I can recognise and even use a few Hungarian words myself having grown up around them. That doesn’t mean I can SPEAK it. Do you understand the difference between having a very limited knowledge of a language vs. being able to actually speak it?

[@deckardcanine]

"Any number, but make sure Fahrenheit." XD

[@lsmftymf]

The original Danish Dynamite!

[@Juliaflo]

"Csardas" is a Hungarian dance. (So is the Verbunk).

[@peternemeth1777]

Hahaha. This comment together with the comment you received gave me an idea. You know the two old guys from the muppets show Waldorf and Statler. Waldorf to Statler: With this guy you never know where he's going. Statler to Waldorf: In this case pretty much nowhere.

[@xxthatpookieeditsxx]

Ez meg most is nagyon jo....vedd ki a csirket es idd meg a levet...

[@TimelordR]

@richiepiep Many thanks for the Hungarian lesson, barát!

[@amanfromaran6259]

I guess that it's too late for an alt.hungarian.chef.bor.bor.bor Newsgroup... I've been a Kovacs fan for decades, but I never made the "Swedish Chef" connection until just now.

[@paulpearce665]

A was amazing, I loved his show, I took his death very hard.

[@suzymittenthal5796]

How many ? years ago W.C.Fields did something in the same vein..... he produced a recipe for marinated peaches. Put a bushel of peaches in a barrel, add whiskey, age appropriately, and throw out the peaches.....

[@rolko52]

@nokomarie1963 - He is actually saying "kissi" in Hungarian. It translate to the English word "slighlty".

[@miklosmolnar881]

I'm actually Miklos Molnar. True story chaps.

[@MrAitraining]

Ernie Kovac's show used to creep me out as a kid.

[@wmbrown6]

@richiepiep - It may have something to do with Gilliam thinking that Kovacs was of Czech descent, as I seem to recall him saying in an interview.

[@yatinexile7144]

I swear to God, this is how my high school cafeteria operated.

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

I was waiting for BOR. Inevitable, just a question of when.

[@mgamaji]

bör... ez baromi jó!!!

[@SirTimothyMarton]

@TennVol92 its kolbasz in hungarian but yeah XD

[@8lifeisamovie8]

Hát ez K.rva jó!

[@dybbuk4640]

@GSUKat here's another analogy... did you ever notice that peter lorre looks like a combination of sal mineo and oscar levant?

[@lifelongitch]

Could that be Laugh In's Henry Gibson getting the hit of garlic breath?

[@Laughandsong]

lifelongitch Exactly!

[@FijneWIET]

Huh... this is astonishing! I didn't know The Swedish Chef used to be The Russian/Hungarian Chef.. (Börk Börk Börk)

[@sylviekell]

@richiepiep I was thinking the Swedish Chef myself!

[@nokomarie1963]

Kitchen scotch? Sounds like my mother on the holidays.

[@JohnnyRecently]

Funny Chicken! Take one...Throw rest away

[@FridaysForFumes]

János Daniels 😂

[@MichaelButchin]

He reminds me of mine Barto Bacsi....

[@bertalanmakuch4504]

Nagyon jó. Amerikai angol keverve magyarral. Ja. és még ennyi idő távlatából is humoros és nézhető. Ellentétben a sok mai amerikai gagyi,primitív műsorok és filmekkel ellentétben.

[@vestibulate]

That's easy for you to say.

[@michaelmalik5049]

I think that’s Vietnamese

[@WeAndThe3]

Any number but make sure it's Fahrenheit :D LOL

[@SirTimothyMarton]

@superjules janos not janoz

[@Nickcat5]

F...ing FunEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

[@yermongo]

Oh my god, look how little chicken used to be before growth hormones.

[@TheBornnaked]

I watched the Nairobi trio and thought it was hilarious. Then I watched this and it kind of pissed me off.

[@Nickcat5]

Well,If you don't get it,You never will. No sense in trying to explain it to you.

[@TheFillyfillyfilly]

borat?

[@dybbuk4640]

strangely reminiscent of borat ... wonder if he watched this ...

[@ze11er]

:-)

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Not even slightly a little funny or clever.

[@bessied.5694]

last Koresh; It's funny, but it requires more that a two-digit IQ to get it. You must like something about, since you posted two comments three years apart.

[@dougthemoleman]

I'm sorry but I really don't get the humor in this skit. Is it supposed to be funny because he's outlandish? So basically, ha-ha, they talk funny, they like wine so much they bathe in it, they have elaborate stuffing (unlike the Turducken among other things) they like eating garlic and they're just so much unlike "us"...? Props for the accurate Hungarian though, I suppose. Maybe this was funny back in the day. Maybe not.

[@87advil]

Ernie Kovacs was Hungarian himself -- that is, his parents were.

[@redflamered]

This is genius? Not funny. BORING.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Kovacs wasn't funny. Steve Allen, that man was funny. Kovacs is just a weirdo.

[@paulpearce665]

You are wrong, absolutely.

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

@@paulpearce665 why didn't I laugh? I have a good sense of humor. I adore the greats of this era. I didn't even crack a smile watching this guy.