The Best of Ernie Kovacs
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Actor: Ernie KovacsBrand: KULTUR
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 360 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: White Star
DVD Reviews of The Best of Ernie Kovacs
DVD Review: Classic Ernie Kovacs
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD is "the bomb".
I only wish there were more of Ernic Kovacs material available.
Much of his work was recorded on video tape and ABC was re-using for other purposes when his late wife Edie Adams found out and exchanged many of those tapes with brand new video tape for them to use.
This collection is wonderful. As always The original version of "The Nirobe Treo" is the highlight of his work.
DVD Review: T.V.'s Most Unlimited Imagination (Virtually)
Summary: 5 Stars
Before the days of Lucas Films and innumerable technological "magic", Kovacs blew our minds every show with his incredible imagination of what could be done with an infant medium with severe technological limitations (like editing 2" video tape on scan lines that required a reagent to be applied to the tape so that the splice point didn't "roll".) Kovac's work is timeless. Who else in the early days of TV could have you convulsed with laughter for an hour without one word of dialogue, only highly imaginate visuals and occasional sound effects. This DVD (actually a pair of them) is worth the price of admission for "Straw Hatted "Eugene" and his squishy shoes in the ever so odd library, decades before Stanly Kubrick bent our senses in "2001 A Space Odyssey". No more word. Just behave, and immediately order this set from Amazon. Read his bio for the tragic life behind this driven man, a victem of his own special vice, gambling.DVD Review: the comic genius, that few know about..
Summary: 5 Stars
the first time I ever saw Ernie Kovacs, I was impressed by the simple, pure limitless imagination of this man, who left us far to early. I would loved to have seen what else he would have created and how much more he would have influenced what we today know as modern entertainment. To see these skits and charecters compared to todays version of comedy is to see how sadly lacking and corrupt our immagination has become. Ernie Kovacs stands as a GIANT among the pioneers of early television. It's to bad he does not get the respect of excepted comedy greats of the 50's, like Lucile Ball, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, etc.....This collection of videos is priceless and a must see for anyone who loves to laugh and enjoys pure, clean comedy.DVD Review: Best of Ernie Kovacs
Summary: 5 Stars
It's classic television that was the incubator to so many other comedians. He was the best and died far too early. This is a fine compilation of his work that will still be misunderstood by some but will be rollicking fun for others
Ernie can't be beat
DVD Review: Best of Ernie Kovacs
Summary: 5 Stars
Great collection of Ernie's comedy. It brings back good memories.
The Nairobi Trio is my favorite.
Description of The Best of Ernie Kovacs
Box Set - Rare Footage of Ernie Kovacs' Quiz Show; Take a Good Look Clues; Edie Adams' Legendary Routine Impersonating Marilyn Monroe; Interviews with Ernie Kovacs' AssociatesFor anyone interested in the history of television comedy, The Best of Ernie Kovacs is indispensable. This five-part series, originally broadcast on PBS, is a six-hour guided tour through Kovacsland, and a more surreal or cockeyed landscape has never been broadcast over "the orthicon tube." The best cigar-mustache combo since Groucho, Kovacs, who perished in a car wreck in 1962, was one of the fledgling medium's pioneers. He turned staid television convention on its ear and satirized the medium itself (David Letterman is a kindred spirit). The Best of Ernie Kovacs offers a generous sampling of more than 100 blackouts, musical diversions (including a simian version of "Swan Lake"), sketches, and technological dalliances. The macabre game show "Whom Dunnit," in which a panel must determine the identity of the mystery guest who has wounded an unfortunate studio audience member, would not be out of place on "Saturday Night Live." Another highlight is "Eugene," a 1961 broadcast in which not a word is uttered. And let's not forget the musical gorilla-costumed Nairobi Trio, one of Kovacs's signature creations. The DVD edition has a few noteworthy additions, including a clip from Kovacs's 1959 quiz show, Take a Good Look. In another memorable clip, Edie Adams, Kovacs's wife, performs her definitive impersonation of Marilyn Monroe (singing "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"). Though this footage dates back to television's early days, this is no antiquated museum piece. Some of it is dated, but much of what Kovacs unleashed on an unsuspecting public is fresher, funnier, and more original than most of what passes for prime-time programming. Boy, do we need him now. --Donald Liebenson
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