This is like Mad Magazine coming to life. Ernie was so ahead of his time. What a shame that the vast majority of the current smartphone generation will never have heard of him. He was making viral and blooper clips 60 years before anyone.

You Gotta love the Italian cameraman from "Ennna-B-C!"

There's never again been geniuses bit Ernie and Edie.

Mel Brooks must have been watching. It's like the end of Blazing Saddles, and Madeline Kahn sings the same song in Young Frankenstein.

I wish they had more of these things today. Thank you for posting!

ah yes i remember it well; i just loved this; i must have been a really strange kid.

I saw commentaries on Ernie Kovak in Mad magazine. But in 57, at Los Angeles, I think, I saw some of his tv programs. With Pee Wee Hunt's dixie arrangements of famous classical melodies, I knew my personal humor critics on life where correct, before I knew about Dadaism. This is an excelent production laughing about pretencious formalities so common in stiff people thinking they were cultured! We have to revise all this works by great humorists. We did something similar in ¿1969? in Channel 8 in Mexico city, Las Damas Chinas, a tenor singing Una Furtiva Lacrima with propositions and direction of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Hope it was videotaped and we could see it again. I did a simple casettte recording, with very limited sound, but Im'll try to rescue it. For new happy laughs. Creo que conocí a Ernie Kovak en la revista Mad. Y en Los Ángeles, en 57, creo haber visto algunos programas. Con Pee Wee Hunt, ese año, que hizo arreglos en dixieland a famosas melodías clásicas, me di cuenta que mis propias críticas con humor eran correctas, antes de conocer el Dadaísmo. En el 69, creo, Las Damas Chinas hicimos algo similar, con un tenor cantando Una Furtiva Lágrima, con proposiciones y dirección de Alejandro Jodorowsky. Espero que exista un videotape y podamos ver eso de nuevo, Para reir y recuperar esas riquezas, del humor crítico delirante, donde el Loco Valdés fue muy notable también desde los últimos años 50.

Neat, to see André Previn as the conductor of the huge orchestra!

Fun stuff!!! Thanks. :)

At 2014 this skit was very funny to me,and, a surviving Ernie Kovaks video clip with his wife Edie Adams.I think this was part of the video clip that cbs put out in 1967 or 68 in a special commemorating Ernie Kovaks

Excellent classic

Comedy has improved somewhat since then, BUT Kovacs a big part in inspiring future comedy writers and performers to improve it.

There's only 1 cigar smoking comedian with a mustache who is even on the same level as Ernie Kovacs....the 1, the only - GROUCHO !!!

wow

The romantic drama of this song is so over the top - it's hilarious that they are spoofing this song.

YOU"RE A LUCKY FELLOW MR.SMITH (Buck Privates).

gee wattever333...in the 50's you could go through years without a foul word being spoken and all saw humor for what it was.funny

Is this how the Fox Network got started? I'm joking, of course. 😸

IT'S ENRICO PALAZZO! (Sorry.)

i see benny hill all over this clip. you know, i've seen several interviews with benny hill and he never gave kovacs any credit for being an influence on him. i never even thought of it until now. i wonder, is their similar styles of tv comedy a coincidence? doesn't seem likely. but why hasn't anyone pointed this out before?

Look for Louis Jourdan on kettledrums.

Enna - B -C 😆🤣

I Wish It Has A Real Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in That KOVACS ON MUSIC SPECIAL From 1959 as Guest Stars Not When ERNIE KOVACS as Nelson Eddy and EDIE ADAMS As Jeanette MacDonald. How Dare You Do the Jeanette and Nelson Skit Without Their Permission!

Although I am a die-hard Nelson Eddy-Jeannette MacDonald fan, I must remark that Ms. Edie Adams' voice is comparable to MacDonald's. Not so for Ernie. Latter was a neighbor of my Mother in the late 1960s.

Ernie Kovacs was doing heavy drugs obviously :P

One of the funniest things I've ever seen. But perhaps politically incorrect by today's standards.

dadaisme

A poor joke!