Video Find of the Day
Ernie Kovacs Miklos Molnar Howdee Dee Dee Show
I've never seen this before. Love it.
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Showing posts with label kovacs. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2009
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Percy Dovetonsils
Video Find of the Day
The only video out there I could find of Percival Dovetonsils, one of my great poetry heroes. I hope it isn't pulled too soon.
The date is somewhere during the Kennedy administration. I was 10 or 11, allowed to stay up late precisely until the end of the Ernie Kovacs show. I had already tried writing poetry before seeing this. Watching Dovetonsils, I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was being WAY too serious.
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils
The only video out there I could find of Percival Dovetonsils, one of my great poetry heroes. I hope it isn't pulled too soon.
The date is somewhere during the Kennedy administration. I was 10 or 11, allowed to stay up late precisely until the end of the Ernie Kovacs show. I had already tried writing poetry before seeing this. Watching Dovetonsils, I figured out what I was doing wrong. I was being WAY too serious.
Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils
Friday, January 11, 2008
Bennie & the Jets
Video Find of the Day
I looked the song up on Wikipedia. The article says it was deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel after September 11, 2001. Amazing.
Here, a video that combines the weird song with Ernie Kovacs -- the match makes no sense, therefore it fits!
Benny & The Jets - Elton John
I looked the song up on Wikipedia. The article says it was deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel after September 11, 2001. Amazing.
Here, a video that combines the weird song with Ernie Kovacs -- the match makes no sense, therefore it fits!
Benny & The Jets - Elton John
Friday, June 8, 2007
Timing is Everything
In the role of Percy Dovetonsils, back in the late 50s and early 60s, Ernie Kovacs inspired some of my past bad poesizing. Percy's the one on the top, second from the left in the montage below. Today's Video Find deals with the role depicted below that one.
Ernie Kovacs created the Nairobi Trio after hearing the song Solfeggio by Robert Maxwell. Solfeggio basically means Sol Fa. It's a song about singing scales. Kovacs turned it into a recurring gag, based on an image of mechanical monkeys, evolved into mechanical men-in-gorilla-suits. It is the one of the greatest examples of the slow burn. I think the song was performed by the Ray Charles Singers. Kovacs was always the one in the middle.
Ernie Kovacs created the Nairobi Trio after hearing the song Solfeggio by Robert Maxwell. Solfeggio basically means Sol Fa. It's a song about singing scales. Kovacs turned it into a recurring gag, based on an image of mechanical monkeys, evolved into mechanical men-in-gorilla-suits. It is the one of the greatest examples of the slow burn. I think the song was performed by the Ray Charles Singers. Kovacs was always the one in the middle.
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