Ernie Kovacs Was NEVER Funny

He speaks well of you, OP.

You got your finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, OP. Well done.

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Then I take it all back

He had a deliciously hairy hole.

The Nairobi Trio would beg to differ.

He was supposed to have been very intelligent. In many ways he was more a performance artist than a comedian.

Ernie was an innovator and brilliant; his visuals led to :Laugh in" and many skits that late nite hosts used.

He was as funny as Milton Berle and Sid Caesar

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Even I was funnier than them

Isn't most of his work lost?

His facial features seem to indicate that his genitalia is of above average proportions.......

Well, what did Ernie say to Zsa Zsa in Hungarian?

Maybe something like, "Take your panties off, bitch!"

I didn't find him funny, but his Nairobi Trio was dadaist genius and lifts him into the pantheon of comedic greats.

Very intelligent. When he was killed in the car crash, he left behind a mountain of debts that took his widow, the great Edie Adams, years to pay off and she paid back every penny. She was the great one in that marriage, she deserved better.

He was an original.

I didn't really get him, but my parents did.

He was driving a Corvair when he died, on his way home in the rain from Jack Lemmon's house, he skidded..

Sigh. I'm about to be That Guy but isn't the concept of Kenyan musicians being monkeys pretty racist?

r13, Ahem: r5.

Nobody alive today even knows who Ernie Kovacs is. I only know who he is because he co-starred in the very last Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour- the last time the Ricardos and Mertzes were portrayed on television.

[quote]Well, what did Ernie say to Zsa Zsa in Hungarian?

He was being an asshole and asked Zsa Zsa if she spoke Hungarian and Zsa Zsa said "no" (someone translated the show in the comments).

See link below, damn he had jacked up teeth, couldn't he afford dentures?

"Nobody alive today" r20 ? Really? Nobody?

He was sexy as fuck.

Edie Adams was a lovely individual. One of the truly good ones in Hollywood and pro gay for her times.

He thought he was funny but a tiny bit (less than five minutes) of Ernie went a long way

I agree that he was more of a performance artist than a traditional comedian. I didn't laugh a lot watching his show, but I was always intrigued and entertained. He never did the expected; there was always something bizarre around the corner. I guess that type of oddball innovation is considered old hat now, but I like it.