Ernie Kovacs - "Ode to a Book Worm" with Percy Dovetonsils

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12 жыл бұрын

[From "Kovacs Corner" on KZfaq.com] - Percy Dovetonsils offers more poetic incantations. This time the title is "Ode to a Book Worm". Percy's martini is flavored with an unexpected ingredient...courtesy of the NBC stagehands!

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@tonygumbrell22 3 жыл бұрын

Today's poets can't hold a candle to Percy Dovetonsils.

@childwaters Жыл бұрын

Possibly a blowtorch.

@echoecho3108 10 ай бұрын

You could buy those glasses at any toy or novelty store back when Ernie did this bit. My dad bought me a pair of them when our family went to The Boardwalk on vacation. And, trust me, I wasn't the only kid --- or kid-at-heart, of any age --- who was wearing them. Silly fun. Wish I still had them. I miss those days. I miss Ernie's show. Ah, nostalgia. RIP, darling Ernie, and thanx so very much for the magic, music, and memories. Thanx muchly, Kovacs Corner, for sharing this little treasure! Looking forward to more, and more, please please pretty please with a cherry on top?

@MyPalJimbo 10 ай бұрын

That's funny! I've only just heard of Percy Dovetonsils (or Ernie Kovacs for that matter) but those glasses are hilarious. I'd like to have a pair myself!

@echoecho3108 10 ай бұрын

@@MyPalJimbo 😊👍 You are apparently in luck, my Friend! I just Googled 'novelty glasses with eyes', and some listed as being through amazon, Oriental Trading Company, and even Walmart, look pretty much like good ol' Percy's. Maybe not exactly a match, but reallllly close. Enjoy! Also, be sure to check out some of Ernie's movies. He was a pretty good actor. (edit for typo)

@MyPalJimbo 10 ай бұрын

@@echoecho3108 awesome! Will do, thanks!

@echoecho3108 10 ай бұрын

@@MyPalJimbo 😊👍 Happy to help! And glad that Ernie has a new fan! (edit for typo)

@markbleichwehl 3 жыл бұрын

A comic genius

@treesny 2 жыл бұрын

Everything about Percy Dovetonsils positively screams "dated gay sterotype" (and surely there's a dash of Tennessee Williams in him) yet Kovacs is so very sweet that I've never found the character offensive.

@blues24jesus 3 жыл бұрын

Love Ernie Kovacs

@richardwhitfill5253 4 жыл бұрын

Ernie was a great T V innovator.

@patriciajustice9795 4 жыл бұрын

As a kid in the 50 a didn't understand this but thought it was funny, mom let me stay upright to see this

@mikeu5380 11 ай бұрын

Just watched his marvelous performance in "Our Man in Havana," playing off the incomparable Alec Guinness.

@Bertonator 12 жыл бұрын

Love the fish in the martini gag!

@vestibulate 6 жыл бұрын

The fish that was slipped into Percy's martini reminds me of a similar story. Kovacs was doing his Hungarian chef bit, which required him to drink copiously throughout the sketch. What he didn't realize until he took that first swig was that someone had substituted real liquor for the prop stuff. It's said a small reaction appeared in his eye as he paused slightly to glance at the amused crew before resuming the sketch. He downed several glasses as scripted and made it through the performance, but was pretty well bladdered as he signed off. Live tv had its moments.

@MyPalJimbo 10 ай бұрын

That's a great prank, glad he took it well

@peternemeth1777 3 ай бұрын

Was it the skit when he drowned the chicken in wine and scotch whiskey and drank everything from the bowl at the end as cook Miklos Molnár? The skit that's uploaded here on youtube?

@Lampshade51 7 жыл бұрын

The crew pulled the fish in the drink gag on Ernie and he rolled with it.

@goldbergje 12 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this....I've been looking for it for years :)

@Janster59 12 жыл бұрын

thank you Ernie-Today is My Birthday-too bad you can't do Ode to a Spinster.......

@tannerboyle9423 3 жыл бұрын

Stephen Root had to have used this as inspiration for Milton in Office Space

@MyPalJimbo 10 ай бұрын

Oooh, I think you're right! I knew I recognized some of the mannerisms from somewhere!

@karabursinger 11 жыл бұрын

goodness gracious

@QDRox 5 жыл бұрын

Came here because of The Simpsons

@johcafra Ай бұрын

I think this was done a little too early in the morning for Ernie. Yet I need agree with those who find him not the least offensive; he simply didn't have that streak in him, or perhaps he was just too busy being creative to be motivated by meanness. I commend Kovacsland, a biography of him by Diana Rico.

@rolko52 12 жыл бұрын

@goldbergje - You are welcome!

@HVACSoldier 6 жыл бұрын

If you notice, the eyes are fake. They didn’t blink once.

@HVACSoldier 6 жыл бұрын

Bob Anderson Being that it’s “black and white” I’m trying to figure out if the fake eyes are on the glasses or over the eyes.

@ZnenTitan 4 жыл бұрын

And set too close together for comic effect.

@davidserlin8097 Жыл бұрын

@@HVACSoldier They are painted on to the surface of the lenses.

@twocanfox 5 жыл бұрын

Dovetonsils meant queer.

@luisreyes1963 4 жыл бұрын

You should hear how he described the colors of the Easter Eggs.

@ZnenTitan 4 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 Gee, you think "Lavender" might have been enough of a hint?

@bobbyfrancis8957 3 жыл бұрын

I had a pet dove named Percy Dovetonsils.

@b.deville3236 3 жыл бұрын

In the 1950's , this character was considered comic exaggeration. Today, real individuals who look and sound like this are in school teaching your kid's gym class.

@53rdAndThird 3 жыл бұрын

Like Jim Jordan

@davidserlin8097 Жыл бұрын

@@53rdAndThird snap! Well done.

@nihilioellipsis Жыл бұрын

I don't think individuals like that existed in schools and holidays. They would be in color and he's in black-and-white.

@MyPalJimbo 10 ай бұрын

What are you talking about