Last week on Stu's Show, my buddy Stu Shostak welcomed Josh Mills, who's the son of the wonderful comedic actress, Edie Adams. As everyone knows, Edie was the widow of the great comic mind, Ernie Kovacs and she controlled all of Ernie's "intellectual property" — and much of it, in addition to being very funny was somewhat intellectual. Ergo, Josh is now the guardian of the Ernie Kovacs Archives and he brought some never-before-seen highlights onto Stu's Show including footage from the brief period in which Ernie Kovacs was the host of Tonight, aka The Tonight Show.
Stu's Show is free to watch when it's transmitted live on Wednesdays in both video and audio versions, and Stu usually charges a modest fee to watch or download it after that. But this week's episode is so special that as a service to Television History, he's making it available for free, at least for a while. So that's our video embed today and I'll warn you that the whole thing runs a bit over four hours. But there's so much good stuff in here it's worth it. Don't blame me if you decide to sample just a little and wind up watching the whole darned thing…
[NOTE, added later: A couple of folks have written me that their browsers will not allow them to view the above video embed. It works on mine but if it doesn't work on yours, go to this page. And consider updating your browser or installing a different one.]