Ernie Kovacs

Ernest Edward Kovacs (23 Januari 1919 – 13 Januari 1962 ) adalah seorang pelawak, pemeran dan penulis Amerika Serikat. Gaya lawak Kovacs mempengaruhi sejumlah acara komedi televisi selama bertahun-tahun usai kematiannya.

Ernie Kovacs
Kovacs pada set acara televisinya, 1956
Nama lahir	Ernest Edward Kovacs
Lahir	(1919-01-23)23 Januari 1919 Trenton, New Jersey, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	13 Januari 1962(1962-01-13) (umur 42) Los Angeles, California, Amerika Serikat
Dimakamkan	Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)
Media	Surat kabar, radio, televisi, majalah, sinema
Tahun aktif	1941–1962
Suami/istri	Bette Lee Wilcox ​ ​ (m. 1945; bercerai 1952)​ Edie Adams ​ ​ (m. 1954; kematiannya 1962)​
Anak	3

Catatan

Referensi

Daftar pustaka

• Greene, Doyle (2007). Politics and the American Television Comedy: A Critical Survey from I Love Lucy through South Park. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-476-60829-7.
• Samuel, Lawrence R. (2001). Brought to You By Postwar Television Advertising and the American Dream. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-77763-7. via Project MUSE (perlu berlangganan)
• Spigel, Lynn (2009). TV by design: modern art and the rise of network television. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-76968-4.

Bacaan tambahan

• Adams, Edie (1990). Sing a Pretty Song: The "Offbeat" Life of Edie Adams, Including the Ernie Kovacs Years. William Morrow; ISBN 0-688-07341-7
• Barker, David Brian (1982). "Every Moment's a Gift": Ernie Kovacs in Hollywood, 1957–1962, a Master's Thesis. Available for viewing at the library at the University of Texas at Austin ^{[tanpa ISBN]}
• Rico, Diana (1990). Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs. Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich; ISBN 0-15-147294-7
• Walley, David (1975). Nothing in Moderation. Drake Publishers; ISBN 0-87749-738-9
  Reprinted as The Ernie Kovacs Phile by David Walley, Bolder Books, 1978 and Fireside/Simon & Schuster, 1987; ISBN 0-918282-06-3

Pranala luar

• The Official Ernie Kovacs Website
• Ernie Kovacs Dot Net: A Tribute To Television's Original Genius
• Talking About Ernie Kovacs di The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
• Kovacsland Online! – the Ernie Kovacs website
• List of Kovacs' 16 articles for MAD magazine

Tontonan

• The Jack Benny Program with Ernie Kovacs as guest at the Internet Archive
• Operation Mad Ball Trailer (1957) at the Internet Archive
• John Barbour's documentary Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius at John Barbour's World
• Ernie Kovacs Dutch Masters Cigar Commercial