Ernie Kovacs & Early TV Comedy

Ernie Kovacs & Early TV Comedy
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 9780292779624
ISBN-13 : 0292779623
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Download or read book Ernie Kovacs & Early TV Comedy written by Andrew Horton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the pioneering career of the man whose quirky comic experiments influenced decades of television, from Laugh-In to Late Night. A true pioneer of television, Ernie Kovacs entertained audiences throughout the 1950s and early 1960s with his zany, irreverent, and surprising humor—and also inspired a host of later comedies and comedians, including Monty Python, David Letterman, much of Saturday Night Live, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, Captain Kangaroo, and even Sesame Street. Kovacs created laughter through wildly creative comic jokes, playful characterizations, hilarious insights, and wacky experiments—“Nothing in moderation,” his motto and epitaph, sums up well Kovacs’s wholehearted approach to comedy and life. In this book, Andrew Horton offers the first sustained look at Ernie Kovacs’s wide-ranging and lasting contributions to the development of TV comedy. He discusses in detail Kovacs’s work in New York, which included The Ernie Kovacs Show (CBS prime time 1952–1953), The Ernie Kovacs Show (NBC daytime variety 1956–1957), Tonight (NBC late-night comedy/variety 1956-1957), and a number of quiz shows. Horton also looks at Kovacs’s work in Los Angeles and in feature film comedy. He vividly describes how Kovacs and his comic co-conspirators created offbeat characters and situations that subverted expectations and upended the status quo. Most of all, Horton demonstrates that Kovacs grasped the possibility for creating a fresh genre of comedy through the new medium of television—and exploited it to the fullest.


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