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

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Uploaded by on Feb 16, 2009

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - Only Ernie Kovacs could envision Tchaikovsky's masterwork accompanied by mechanical toy monkeys, splattered eggs against a frying pan, and a rather zoftig ballerina played by actress Muriel Landers. Preceeding the clip are two blackout sequences featuring Jolene Brand in a bathtub, and Ernie himself.

[Update May 31, 2010] BTW...to answer some verbal inquiries, Ernie's out-of-sync audio was not a problem on my part at uploading the YT video. It was Ernie's deliberate action at disorienting the viewer, which was to match the disorienting visual of the small girl on his shoulder.

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  • "Smoking tea"

    Nice.

  • @EpicureMammon VERY old school!

  • When Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In won their first emmy,Dan Rowan thanked the producers of their series and Dick Martin slyly said,"We'd also like to thank Ernie Kovacs and everybody else we stole our matierail from."

  • @RJRanke - Since the producer was George Schlatter, whose wife is Jolene Brand ("The Bathtub Girl" seen above), he was absolutley correct!

  • Heavyset singer/dancer and comedy performer:Ms.Muriel("Tiny")Lan­ders had worked with"The Three Stooges"in"Sweet & Hot" and she appeared in the 1967 movie musical version of"Dr.Dolittle"with Rex Harrison and Sir Richard Attenbrough.

  • @143AC I first recognized her from one of the original "Twilight Zone" episodes.

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  • @143AC She also appeared at VIOLET, the cousin to Cara Williams on PETE AND GLADYS.

  • @rolko52 Is that bab?

  • @alto100 I'm old enough to barely remember the show (B in 1956). I remember laughing even then. What a talent the world lost too soon....he was the original MAD Comic book (before the Magazine)...only on TV.

  • Was so happy as a kid to find someone with the same sense of humor I had. Miss you Ernie.

  • He also created a puppet skit called - "that's how you make a hit record"

  • Either this is total genius or I'm totally stoned...this clip is a trip...Ernie K was so far ahead of his time he had to have a big influence on all comedy going forward... Rowan and Martin and ... I'm too stoned... you got the idea....

  • Either this is total genius or I'm totally stoned...this clip is a trip...Ernie K was so far ahead of his time he had to have a big influence on all comedy going forward... Rowan and Martin and ... I'm too stoned... you got the idea....

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