INTERVIEW BEGINS AT 15:30

Ernie Kovacs was many things, comedian, writer, actor, television pioneer, special effects inventor, genius, gambler, father, husband and cigar nut....and in every case he did nothing in moderation!!

Kovacs took the new medium of Television and turned it on it's head, and almost 70 years later he is still ahead of the game.

Listeners of the show have heard Brian make several references to Kovacs, and he introduced Lauren to this comic genius so it was only fitting to bring on Kovacs expert and fellow genius Prof Andrew Horton of University of Oklahoma to discuss the life and legend of Ernie.

ANDREW HORTON is the Jeanne H Smith Professor of Film and Video Studies Emeritus of the University of Oklahoma, an award- winning screenwriter, and the author of thirty books on film, screenwriting and cultural studies

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