Ernie Kovacs & Edie Adams--What's My Line

[observer9670]

Ernie is referring to him taking over the Tonight Show for two nights a week after Steve Allen got his Sunday night prime time show on NBC and cut back hosting Tonight to 3 nights a week.

[eron1963]

a bad bad monroe imitation

[FredDude27]

The honorable Kovacs...Who knows what wonders he would have been able to create and bring to modern TV had he lived.

R.I.P Ernie!

[larryraiken]

I did a show with Edie Adams (a true and amazing professional!) and told her about my admiration for Ernie. What a loss to television his death was! Thanks for posting this video.

[GGE47]

I met Edie Adams in 1966,but Ernie had passed away by that time.She was the one with the cigar in commercials but I can't remember what brand.

[GGE47]

@GGE47 I just saw it.It was Muriel Cigars.

[bigblondman1]

@GGE47 muriel cigars

[weightfeather1]

Two great gifted people. I understand that even though there was turmoil in their private family life, they were a very happy couple. It's a shame that Ernie died so young. He had a lot of comedic talent left to explore!

[redheadedgolem]

They really should bring this show back.

[barrymore]

Ernie was the tops!! So was Edie.

[zevsiberiano]

Doesn't the panel smell the cigar?

[shoredude2]

@zevsiberiano Back in 1956, people were more used to people smoking. So it wouldn't have been a big deal.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Edie is sexy!

[FnordicQueen]

Wouldn't it have been great to go to canasta night at their house?

[satori03]

Ernie Kovacs..one of the funniest men....EVER!

[wiedep]

tony randall and ernie kovacs, what a combination!

[alienhuman]

Wow she looked better at 40 than here.

[stormycape]

Ernie Kovacs was such a good artist!

[zamusicza]

How nice. I was so born in the wrong time.

[henrygrove100]

THis show is evil, just kidding! not

[HowardOfOz3565]

God she was so hot!!!!!!!

[mikefmich]

I was young, but knew that Ernie was special.

[kellingc]

Edit Adams was an attractive woman - and I miss Ernie Kovacs - talk about an off center skew view of things.

[chucknyc123]

Two great comedic talents. Ernie was a true genius of early TV and Edie is now mostly known as the Tiparillo girl, not for what a brilliant talent she was. They must have had such a fun marriage.

[eheaven3]

Ernie was a true comic genius. He re-invented the art. For example, tilting the camera and tilting the table where he sat, then he used gravity as a special effect. Looked like he was sitting at a level table but then when he placed a marble or bubble gum on the surface it would roll away from him. He was the greatest. Wrote his own commercials. And The Nairobi Trio was fall down funny!!! Like I said, a genius. And, yes, Edie was hotttt!!!

[HowardOfOz3565]

FYI: The charecter played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Watchmen was known as "the Comedian. The make up job on him made him look just like the late Ernie Kovacs

[rentatrip1]

Eddie will always be  too hot to touch , very beautiful-

[ipmoic]

He was a true original. Nobody knew what to do with him! Great talent.

And Edie was some looker and a fine singer.

[peck4111]

before laugh in there was ernie he was a classic

[OldTimerGoGetter]

Ooooh! I couldn't stop laughing after I saw Edie did the MM impersonation!

Such a cute couple, and a funny one, too!

[Imthecuteone]

i googled Bennett's son and found some pics of him, and omggggg he looks exactly like Bennett. If you saw him, you'd think you just saw Bennett..lol

[Muffy2314]

Such a cute couple-seemed to really love each other.

[Muffy2314]

Dorothy looks great here.

[mca1218]

Smashing looking couple!! They looked like they had a ball and a true love together. RIP to both of them.

[SIMPFANN]

5:08-10- Sid Caesar and Ernie Kovacs were on the same show? That must have been brilliant! I wonder if a tape of it survives.

[rolko52]

Actually, Ernie hosted a summer show in place of "Caesar's Hour". Remember, back then video tape was not in widespread use.

[SIMPFANN]

I stand corrected!

[tippymugs]

"Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?--"--lol--

[HowardOfOz]

i never get tired of this one either,,,what a beautiful elegant graceful creature Edie was....breathtaking....

[mmm413]

I remember What's My Line when I was a kid. Great show.

[itjustfigures]

Luvs them! RIP to both.

[photoshoot60]

oh how i loved these two people and when he was killed i was just a child but still was crushed -- and now she is gone -- but she is with ernie and their daughter(s) -- how wonderful for them -- how sad for us

[HowardOfOz]

RIP Edie 1927 -2008

[Catalogerman]

Fabulous!  Thanks for posting!!!

[Jerry8068]

Notice: right after they sit down, it looks like Edie is playing in Ernie's lap with her right hand. She even has a sly grin on her face.

[blackwingy]

You're sharp to notice that! I think she may have been trying to help keep big ol' Ernie in the (shared) seating there, though. ; )

What a priceless clip. Both so young...youngest candid thing I think they did together(if you don't count the hundreds of live shows on local TV). Obviously so in love. Tony Randall looks like he was a good pal to them both, too. I'm sure he loved talking opera with Edith!

[heebieandjeebie]

R.i.p. Edie Adams!!! thank you for all of your entertainment!!!

[need4zpeed]

Just read that Edie Adams passed away at the age of 81. She was a hottie!

[HowardOfOz]

maybe it's just me, but Edie Adams is far hotter than Marilyn Monroe

[HowardOfOz]

she was a hottie

[soulierinvestments]

This is one of the few times Gil Fates gets a mention on his own show.

This broadcast occurred a few months before Rodgers and Hammerstein cast her as the Fairy Godmother in the March 1957 live TV musical version of "Cinderella."

What a home life these talents must have had. What with her singing and his comedy, it must have been some household to remember.

It is interesting to speculate how Ernie's TV career might have evolved in the 1960s if he had not died so young so untimely.