2:31 p.m. July 21, 2023: An earlier version of this article referred to the UCLA Film & Television Archive as the UCLA Library Film & Television Archive. It also said an eight-minute piece on the life ...

Dallas VideoFest is proud to honor actor and comedian John Cleese, best known for the British comedies Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, with the coveted Ernie Kovacs Award at 7:00 p.m.

Armisen will receive the award Nov. 22 at the Texas Theatre, where he’ll sit down with Dallas Video Fest director Bart Weiss ...

His mother, the actress Edie Adams, had been married to Kovacs, the actor and writer whose conceptual comedy on television in the ’50s and early ’60s was years ahead of its time. Kovacs died in a car ...

When Ernie Kovacs was a star, he was called a clown and an oddball, but he's since been heralded as a genius. Comedy pros join NPR's Scott Simon... Comedy Veterans Remember TV Pioneer Ernie Kovacs ...

Ernie Kovacs was a genius. There’s no way around that. Carson, Letterman, and Conan have all cited him as an influence, and there have been hundreds of tributes, articles, PBS clips shows, and even ...

He’s been gone a long time, but one of television’s most original talents is having a renaissance month. Ernie Kovacs is celebrating his 100th birthday year with the release today of The Ernie Kovacs ...

"Bend over, I'll drive/ Bend over, I'll drive/ Is this the way Ernie Kovacs died?/ Bend over, I'll drive" – The Cramps If you looked closely at Conan O'Brien's 30 Rock stage set during his run as host ...

“The Best of Ernie Kovacs,” along with the recently released “Sid Caesar Collection,” is indispensable for anyone interested in the history of television comedy. Distributed by Kultur Video, this ...

As we bumble toward the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, it is safe to assume that a dwindling, if not already severely dwindled, number of Americans know the name Ernie Kovacs, madcap ...