He was also close friends with actors Tony Curtis, Ernie Kovacs, Walter Matthau, and Kevin Spacey.

Early in Lemmon's career, Lemmon met comedian Ernie Kovacs, during the filming of Operation Mad Ball and co-starred with the comedian in this film.

Lemmon discussed his friendship with Kovacs in the documentary, Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius.

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

) Frank Frazetta ( 3 bylines ), Ernie Kovacs ( 11 ), Bob and Ray ( 12 ), and Sid Caesar ( 4 ) appeared slightly more frequently.

** Ernie Kovacs, American comedian ( d. 1962 )

* January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian ( b. 1919 )

* The Ernie Kovacs Show, the first truly innovative show in what was then visual radio, not television

Actress Edie Adams, the wife of comedian Ernie Kovacs ( both regular performers on early television ) testified in 1996 before a panel of the Library of Congress on the preservation of television and video.

Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.

Many of Ernie Kovacs ' videotaped network programs were also wiped.

Ernie Kovacs ( January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962 ) was an American comedian and actor.

Chase appeared in the 1982 documentary called Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius, speaking again of the impact Kovacs had on his work.

In 1986, the Museum of Television & Radio ( now the Paley Center for Media ) presented an exhibit of Kovacs ' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.

The Trentonian, a local weekly newspaper, offered him a column in June 1945 ; Ernie called it " Kovacs Unlimited ".

When Kovacs ' guest chef did not show up in time to go on the air, Ernie offered a recipe for " Eggs Scavok " ( Kovacs spelled backward ).

In April 1954, he started late-night talk show The Ernie Kovacs Show on DuMont Television Network's New York flagship station, WABD.

Kovacs ' television programs included Three to Get Ready ( an early morning program seen on Philadelphia's WPTZ from 1950 through 1952 ), It's Time for Ernie ( 1951, his first network series ), Ernie in Kovacsland, ( a summer replacement show for Kukla, Fran and Ollie, 1951 ), The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 1952 – 56 on various networks ), a twice-a-week job filling in for Steve Allen as host of The Tonight Show on Mondays and Tuesdays ( 1956 – 57 ), and game shows Gamble on Love, One Minute Please, Time Will Tell ( all on DuMont ), and Take a Good Look ( 1959 – 61 ).

It wouldn't be until 1983 that the band returned to its former success with the release of the album, Between the Sheets, which would become the final album to include Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper.

She starred as Edie Adams in the TV film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marylin Monroe in 1993 MOW Marilyn & Bobby: Her Final Affair.

John Eric Bartholomew OBE ( 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984 ), known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the award-winning double act Morecambe and Wise.

* Night Train To Murder ( 1984 ), the last TV / feature film Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise made together before Morecambe's death in May 84.

After Morecambe's death from a third heart attack on 28 May 1984, Ernie Wise spent some of his time at Boca Raton, Florida, where he had a holiday home.

That name, bestowed in 1971 upon a real-life electronics chain in New York City, appeared in 1984 as advertising placement in Splash ; a 1989 parody, UHF, completed the circle by depicting a Crazy Ernie using a hard sell of " buy this car or I'll club a seal " as a TV ad campaign.

* Most League Goals: 162 Ernie Moss ( 1968 – 1975, 1979 – 1981, 1984 – 1986 )

She has earned numerous awards for her writing, including the National Headliner Award for commentary in 1985 and Scripps Howard's Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for outstanding human interest reporting in 1984.

He was defeated in the 1984 federal election by Ernie Epp.

After looking at a few offers Music Man was sold to Ernie Ball on March 7, 1984.

1984 was a vintage year, with David Toms winning the 15 – 17 event, Ernest " Ernie " Els the 13 – 14s ( with Mickelson finishing second ), and Eldrick " Tiger " Woods the 9 – 10s ( despite still being age 8 ).

In 1984, Ernie, Marvin and Chris left the Isley Brothers and formed Isley-Jasper-Isley, scoring with their number one album Caravan of Love.

The 3 + 3 lineup splintered into two groups in 1984, with the original Isleys carrying on as the Isley Brothers, while Marvin, Ernie and Chris formed Isley-Jasper-Isley.

Isley / Jasper / Isley was a splinter group of the Isley Brothers formed in 1984 by brother-in-law Chris Jasper ( keyboards ), Ernie Isley ( lead guitar ) and Marvin Isley ( bass ), due to creative differences that arose among the group.

Within two years, she became co-anchor of the station's 5 p. m. and 11 p. m. newscasts, first with co-host Tom Snyder from 1983 to 1984 and with Ernie Anastos until 1986.

Ernie Sims III ( born December 23, 1984 ) is an American football linebacker who is Free Agent of the National Football League.

The current super middleweight division traces its beginning to 1984, when Murray Sutherland defeated Ernie Singletary for the International Boxing Federation version of the title.

The popular television game show Wheel of Fortune originally commenced recording in studio 1 at ADS-7 in July 1981 with Ernie Sigley ( later John Burgess from 1984 ), Adriana Xenides and Steve Curtis ( later John Deeks from 1984 ) then after the changeover to SAS-7 in December 1987 moved to their studios where it remained until July 1996 when the show moved to ATN-7 Sydney.

Others include Between Tears and Laughter ( 啼笑皆非 ) ( 1943 ), The Importance of Understanding ( 1960, a book of translated Chinese literary passages and short pieces ), The Chinese Theory of Art ( 1967 ).

Between Tears and Laughter ( 1943 ) broke with the genial tone of his earlier English writings to criticize Western racism and imperialism.

* ( 1943 ) Between Tears & Laughter, A John Day Book Company

* ( 1945 ) Between Tears and Laughter, written during World War II, as a bitter plea for the west to change its perspective of the world order.

Between 1930 and 1932 he was either producer or associate producer on four comedies and helped write their screenplays without credit: Laughter, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Million Dollar Legs, which many critics considered one of the funniest comedies of the early 1930s.

* Between Tears and Laughter.

* Between Tears and Laughter Tarset, Northumberland, U. K .: Bloodaxe, 2004.