Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" Take 4, includes car dropping through floor.
Loading...
Uploaded by rolko52 on Aug 28, 2009
[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - One more rendition of one of Ernie's most remembered video "blackout" sequences involving the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song "Mack the Knife" (or "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"). The late German comedian and actor Wolfgang Neuss is singing.
Uploader Comments (rolko52)
Top Comments
-
The car drop reportedly cost $15,000.00 in 1961 money and was done in one take. The crew essentially had to build an elevated stage complete with a fake building wall as a backdrop on the ABC lot.Of course,I don't think that Nash's suspension nor the crew could have survived a second pass. As always scenes like these are a lasting credit to Kovacs and the ABC crew people.
1 year ago 3
-
Master of the "sight gag",he was outrageous ,the first heretic tweaking the nose of all in new medium of television.
Video Responses
All Comments (11)
-
@thevidiotkid That's incredible! A $15000-gag in about six seconds! But that's the problem with visual humor. It is often quite expensive and dangerous... but can be funnier than anything else!
-
I meant to write, "the glop wasn't a pie (wink wink)." You see John's a big man, and you can make of that what you'd like.
~ Ernie Rules
-
Ernie spent most of the show's budget on the gag starting at 1:09
-
The audio of that Young parody wound up within "The Ernie Kovacs Album" in 1976.
-
3:36 is a parody of the opening of "THE LORETTA YOUNG SHOW"; Jolene Brand swirls into the room as "Loretta", who usually asked her announcer "John" to say a few words about her sponsor's product before the evening's story began. Mr. Kovacs, however, allows us to see what WE wanted to see....
-
yeh fantastic!!
- 9:37
Ernie Kovacs - "Take a Good Look" 1/3by rolko523,124 views
- 5:14
Ernie Kovacs - Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" Balletby rolko525,460 views
- 5:25
Ernie Kovacs - "Jalousie" (Jealousy) & "Sentimental Journey" / Bathtub Blackouts / End Creditsby rolko526,121 views
- 10:34
Ernie Kovacs - "Eugene" Part 1by rolko523,944 views
- 5:02
Ernie Kovacs - Edie Adams as Marilyn Monroe sings "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"by rolko522,372 views
- 3:58
Ernie Kovacs - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture, Part 2" featuring Muriel Landersby rolko5232,648 views
- 7:29
Ernie Kovacs as Matzoh Hepplewhite Saws a Woman in Half!by rolko5211,272 views
- 7:06
Ernie Kovacs - Edie Adams sings "Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life" written by Victor Herbertby rolko523,914 views
- 5:47
Ernie Kovacs - Miklos Molnar hosts "The Howdy Deedy Show"by rolko523,689 views
- 4:02
Ernie Kovacs - The Chess Mastersby rolko524,141 views
- 9:52
The Ernie Kovacs Show - Excerpt (NBC, 1956)by sandysoup6,561 views
- 4:00
Ernie Kovacs - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" / Nativity Sceneby rolko527,372 views
- 2:55
Ernie Kovacs - 1955 Ford Commercial with Edie Adamsby rolko523,294 views
- 4:00
Ernie Kovacs - A Kovacs Kitchenby rolko522,998 views
- 4:12
Ernie Kovacs - "Operation Mad Ball" Theatrical Trailerby rolko522,483 views
- 5:57
Ernie Kovacs' Street Scene / Béla Bartók "Concerto for Orchestra"by rolko522,130 views
- 1:24
Ernie Kovacs' PBS Series introduction by the late Jack Lemmonby rolko524,264 views
- 3:16
Ernie Kovacs Show: Edie Adams Sells Mops Ernie Sells Flatwareby RRaquello829 views
- 2:07
Ernie Kovacs - Auntie Gruesome tells the story of Cinderellaby rolko523,115 views
- 4:33
Ernie Kovacs - "Disk Chockey" Wolfgang von Sauerbraten for "Schnitzel-Dent"by rolko522,845 views
Viewers should understand that the load of glop (at marker 3:42) that John applies to the woman's face was not a pie.
neatoauctions 1 year ago
@neatoauctions Whether or not it was actual pie filling, shaving cream, or something else, it's the perception that counts and delivers the laugh.
rolko52 1 year ago