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Love the trio, I just wonder why they swapped the baton for a banana.

EK was a stoner ! Prove me wrong after watching this !!!

Comic genius. See the bank dick classic

Thank you for the video! My third cousin, twice removed used to pick up Ernie's dry cleaning. He always told me that Mr Kovacs was always a generous tipper. He will forever be missed.

Rowan, Martin and Kovacs' Laugh-In

Well, whattayaknow, you mix Chevy Corvairs, alcohol and cigars, and you ruin the future of television.

In the last 12 (!!!!)years, has the quad master shown up?

Recon he was immitating Truman Capote? Seems a close inspiration 😂😂

Lol

The guy doing the Brand X and Brand Q comparison with the corks sounds like the guy that used to do the "turbo-enfabulator" routine.

Once when he was doing Percy Dovetonsils the crew put a goldfish in his drink. Ernie just ad-libbed a line and carried on with his bit.

These guys look like the smash and grab suspects from the jewelry store mall robbery. La'Quanda.

Omg I had forgotten all about this! 😂

I can just remember seeing this when I was very young (around 5 years old) on my folk's TV. Meaning as it aired, not in PBS reruns, or whoever else replayed in in later years.

I meant to to say like the Talking Heads thematics. Something different and new

A coiffure "on her head." So where else could you get a coiffure... And the censors never caught it.

Actually, it's not funny. It's disturbing. Those masks and wigs are nightmarish. More like a Paul McCarthy bit than a comedy sketch.

It's racist and completely inept. Total rubbish.

It’s funny because anytime someone plays the drums on someone’s head, it’s funny.

I've never seen or heard of this guy before but this is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.

It’s fitting that Ernie mentioned the old marijuana euphemism about smoking tea. It’s easy to imagine that writers on weed were writing for viewers on weed. Even back then.

This would give me nightmares if I saw it as a child. It is somewhat reminiscent of the Barvarian clock scene with the cast of the Sid Caesar show. Both shows are the same era, I dont know which came first.

Ah, this was when comedy was comedy. LOVED the Nairobi Trio.

Kovacs laid more eggs than any other great comedian.

Pretty funny if you happen to be on acid. I always heard this guy was a genius comedian. This entire half hour was horrendous and I don't think it was much funnier in the 1950's.

I didn’t get it then, I still don’t get it.

Kovacs is just another yamaka wearing anti-Black bigot. If all this was reversed, a Black person would be accused of anti-semitism.

This may be Ernie’s most famous piece but, with a little research, you can find vastly more creative skits from his shows. Genius and guts.

Damn, this crap didn’t age well

I have no idea why this is funny or what compels a person to watch something so inane & vapid. It's just irresistible! lol T goofy mahe banana that comes aprt, that stupid cigar, it's so dumb & bizarre it's hilarious! I'm 75. I remember Ernie Kovacs, the early Jackie Gleason show, for years there were only a couple of stations on the air in each city market. Seattle didn't get a high-band station, (channel 7, CBS) until 1958. We'd had the two low-band stations, 4 & 5, ABC & NBC respectively for a few years at that point. Mutual & Dumont were already gone by then.

I am from Trenton NJ and consider him my role model and is why l will never shave off my mouse stash.

Oh,I get it,as in Nairobi,Kenya in Africa! I see the resemblance now.

Nothing better now or ever. Rip kovacs and company

Hey this was on “Friends”

That skit is so dated and definitely did not age well

truly disturbing

Boy, I haven’t seen this in a long time

I never forgot the Nairobi Trio or Ernie Kovacs. I must have been about 9 or 10 when we'd sit around and watch Ernie Kovacs on our old Dumont TV in the living room. Takes me back more than 70 years.

Most of early tv was old movies, sports and radio shows adapted for tv. Ernie’s show was created for visuals and a model for all the new ideas that only tv could present.

Comments that Ernie Kovacs' comedy was ahead of its time do not do him justice. His experimental comedy influenced many comedians and comedy shows in coming decades. And his short life was so interesting that they made a movie about hims After The Laughter (1984) starring Jeff Goldblum as Ernie. Kovacs divorced his first wife and won custody of his two children who were subsequently kidnapped and taken out of state by his ex-wife. The children were found after an extensive search. After Ernie died in a car accident, his ex-wife took legal action to try and gain custody of her children from Ernie's second wife, actress Edie Adams. After emotional testimony by the children who wanted to stay with Adams, the court denied the ex-wife's motion. So even in death, the drama of Ernie's life continued.

Ernie Kovacs did a lot of very experimental comedy and much of it wasn’t really funny.

I recall watching this exact skit in the '50's when I was about 10 or 11. My dad ang I were both howling with laughter. Comedic genius. I hope to find the clip where he's a gunslinger who's been shot and there's blood ( water) streaming out of multiple holes in his torso.

During the intro I thought,”What’s the gag?” I found out soon enough.

This was done so well. Ernie had so much talent. It is so sad he was taken too young.

This is so gay.

Plus, they smoked a good deal of reefer…

Kovacs' delivery seems to be a great spoof of Leonard Bernstein.

My favorite on toast! Open face only and HOT

One of his best!

I had to look it up, but an "orthicon tube" is an old style of television no longer used.