Once again, in response to emails we’re offering you a bit more of television comedy pioneer Ernie Kovacs, who died in a car accident in 1962. Click on the You Tube below and you’ll see two of the superb cigar commercials that the cigar-smoking, moustachioed Kovacs wrote, produced and starred in. He helped turn commercials into high quallity comedy blackouts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkoNLi74jj0
You can learn more about Kovacs online at the Encyclopedia of Television. His official website is here. Kovacsland (unofficial site) is HERE. The Ernie Kovacs blog is HERE. And you can buy a collection of his best bits below:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.