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Ernie Kovacs - A Clip from "Take a Good Look"

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This was Ernie's quirky concept for a game show. His panelists in this clip are Cesar Romero ("The Joker" ...

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  Ernie Kovacs - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture, Part 2" featuring Muriel Landers

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Only Ernie Kovacs could envision Tchaikovsky's masterwork accompanied by mechanical toy monkeys, splattered...

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  Ernie Kovacs as Matzoh Hepplewhite Saws a Woman in Half!

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This clip show an early incarnation of magician Matzoh Hepplewhite. Also featured is Ernie's female sidekic...

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  Ernie Kovacs - "Jalousie" (Jealousy) & "Sentimental Journey" / Bathtub Blackouts / End Credits

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - On this video, two quirky orchestral arrangements by Juan Garcia Esquivel were used as the soundtrack where...

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  Ernie Kovacs guests on "The Jack Benny Program" 1/25/1959 - The Mustache Collection

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Ernie makes a guest appearance on Jack Benny's program circa 1959. Jack comments on Ernie's signature appe...

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  Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" including magician Matzoh Hepplewhite

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One of Ernie's most remembered video sequences involved the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife"...

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  Ernie Kovacs - Sex & Violence / NBC Radio's "Miss Monitor" Tedi Thurman - Jayne Mansfield spoof

  [From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - This blackout clip has Ernie satirizing topics which always appear to have social relevence...even after 48...

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Ernie Kovacs - The Nairobi Trio "Solfeggio" - ABC Television Network Videotaped Version

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Although it is posted all over YT, no tribute site would be complete without Kovacs' signature comedy sketc...

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  Ernie Kovacs as Percy Dovetonsils

  Kovacs was a pioneer of TV comedy in the 1950's, edging closer, I think, to performance art than what people typically think of as comedy. Even wit...

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  Ernie Kovack's Nairobi Trio

  Classic television from the always experimental Ernie Kovack, who was so ahead of his time, commedians are still stealing his stuff today. It was ...

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  Ernie Kovacs - Chef Miklos Molnar

  Chef Miklos Molnar shows us how to prepare Chicken Molnar. Or a really complicated way to get drunk.

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  Frank Nelson torments Jack Benny

  There wasn't a single Frank Nelson clip on youtube, which stunned me since he's one of the most recognizable voices of all time. What is it he's fa...

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  Jack Benny Kills Mel Blanc

  In this clip from The Jack Benny Show's Christmas episode, Jack drives poor salesclerk Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny and other classic cartoon...

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  Jack Benny the Surrealist

  Clip says it all.

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  Jack Benny vs. Groucho 1955

  On his TV show, Jack Benny plays a contestant on Groucho's "You Bet Your Life" Program. That's Irene Tedrow in between the two masters. This is j...

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Charley Chase curses

Charley Chase seems to get some profanity past the censor in this clip from his very funny 1930 short "All Teed Up."

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  Charley Chase / Hal Roach

  Scrubbin the Deck..

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  Marty Feldman Auto Mechanic Sketch

  Marty Feldman was a friend whom I miss very much. He was a comic genius and truly gentle soul. Not many Americans know that in his homeland, Mart...

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  Marty Feldman Undertaker Sketch

  Marty Feldman was a friend whom I miss very much. He was a comic genius and truly gentle soul. Not many Americans know that in his homeland, Mart...

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  King of Jazz: Happy Feet: Scene 2 of 3

  Watch Rubber legs Al Norman dance to Paul Whiteman's band. He's freaking amazing.

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  Clark and McCullough in "Kickin The Crown Around" (1933)

  A Ruritanian fantasy for Depression audiences, in the genre of "Duck Soup", "Million Dollar Legs", "Cracked Nuts" and "King Kelly of the USA."

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  Clark and McCullough in "Love And Hisses" (1934)

  Sam White directs, with the subtlety and finesse we associate with his brother, Jules White, who inflicted so much pain over at Columbia. Even so, ...

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Clark and McCullough in "The Iceman's Ball" (1932)

"Deep down in your heart, you know that sooner or later, somebody is going to get that pie!"

Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough were high school budd...

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  Wheeler & Woolsey: Hello Africa (1933)

  Music by Harry Ruby, lyrics by Bert Kalmar.

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  Hips Hips Hooray (1934)

  Wheeler & Woolsey try out a new flavoured lipstick. Swell!

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  Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub sing their way out of trouble

  From 1933: Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey sing their way out of trouble at "The Dead Rat" - The World's Toughest Dive

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  W & W say "Goodbye" to the Indians

  From 1933 . Willy Nilly and Hercules Glub (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey) say "Goodbye" in pig latin to an Indian tribe. The Indians send them to...

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  Jazzy Musical Number from 1934

  Jazzy Dance Number from 1934. "Take A Number From One To Ten" With Lyda Roberti

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  Keep On Doing What You're Doing (1934)

  This clip is so silly you simply have to love it. Wheeler, Woolsey, Lee and Todd at their crazy best.

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  GREATEST STAGE ACT, EVER!: Trixie Friganza

  Trixie sings the all-time favorite : "A Little Girl Named Lula."

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"Let's Be Common" from Love Parade (1929)

From Ernst Lubitsch's "Love Parade" (1929)

Perfomed by Lillian Roth and Lupino Lane

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  Revue stars Beatrice Lillie & Lupino Lane in Andre Charlot's "Please" 1933

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  Charley Chase in Midsummer Mush 1933

  Directed by Charles Parrott :Stars:Charley Chase, Betty Mack and Jimmie Adams :Production Co:Hal Roach Studios.

  Accident magnet Charley Chase plays...

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  Charley Chase - Fluttering Hearts (1927)

  Hal Roach comedy featuring Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, and Eugene Pallette.

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  Charley Chase in" Hasty Marriage" (1931)part 2\ 2.wmv

  Director:

  Gilbert Pratt

  Stars:

  Charley Chase, Lillian Elliott and James Finlayson

  "Hasty Marriage" is another breezy, fun, and cheerful two-reele...

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  Charley Chase in "Hasty Marriage" (1931)part 1\ 2.wmv

  Director:

  Gilbert Pratt

  Stars:

  Charley Chase, Lillian Elliott and James Finlayson

  "Hasty Marriage" is another breezy, fun, and cheerful two-reele...

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  Whirlwind Of Whiskers (1917).wmv

  A "Ham And Bud" Comedy, produced by the Kalem Studio and released theatrically on October 17, 1917. Directed by Lloyd "Ham" Hamilton. Starring Lloy...

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  The Simp (1920)

  An Astra Film-Mermaid Comedy, released theatrically on October 24, 1920. Produced by Jack White. Directed by Owen Davis and Arthur Roche. Starring ...

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