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Ernie Kovacs

I'm ransacking my favorite childhood memories of TV --- I always thought Ernie Kovacs was amazing, and today, I wonder if Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live or the Late Show with David Letterman would ever have emerged without him blazing the trail.

I have a feeling if he'd lived beyond 1962, he'd have come to dominate TV comedy in the late 60s, 70s and 80s. We missed a lot when we lost him.
 
Bob1370 said:
I'm ransacking my favorite childhood memories of TV --- I always thought Ernie Kovacs was amazing, and today, I wonder if Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live or the Late Show with David Letterman would ever have emerged without him blazing the trail.
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...Laugh-In creator/producer George Schlatter has long admitted that Kovacs was the primary inspiration for the later series. And Letterman displayed his admiration of Kovacs by using Ernie's old Tonight Show announcer, Bill Wendell, for his entire stint at NBC and bringing him over to CBS when changing networks...
 
Bob1370 said:
I'm ransacking my favorite childhood memories of TV --- I always thought Ernie Kovacs was amazing, and today, I wonder if Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live or the Late Show with David Letterman would ever have emerged without him blazing the trail.

I have a feeling if he'd lived beyond 1962, he'd have come to dominate TV comedy in the late 60s, 70s and 80s. We missed a lot when we lost him.
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I'm quite sure that, after having seen "Laugh-In," the public would have realized what Kovacs was trying to do and would have applauded. I, too, think he could have been a superstar from the late '60s onward.
 
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