LOST ERNIE KOVACS FINAL EPISODE OF TAKE A GOOD LOOK SET TO PREMIERE ON COMEDIAN’S BIRTHDAY – JANUARY 23, 2025 – ON YOUTUBE

Previously Unreleased Ernie Kovacs Archival Comedy Album Also Set for Release the Following Day

Final Episode of Recently Discovered Kovacs Game Show is Part of a Distribution Agreement with Clown Jewels Powered By 800 Pound Gorilla Media for Previously Released and Unreleased Audio and Video Material from the Kovacs Archive

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA. (THURSDAY JANUARY 9, 2025) – The Estate of Ernie Kovacs announced today the premiere of a recently discovered final episode of the game show, Take A Good Look, will stream on the Clown Jewels YouTube channel on Thursday, January 23rd at 7pm EST. This rare lost episode has not been seen since it first aired, 65 years ago. The premiere will feature Edie Adams son, Josh Mills and Kovacs archivist Ben Model in a live chat with fans to take questions and add to the conversation. The Clown Jewels channel already has available a curated playlist for fans to view: Featuring: Ernie Kovacs. Fans can also purchase any of the five previously release DVD box sets direct from the Ernie Kovacs webstore.

In addition, a brand new, never-heard-since-original-broadcast comedy album, Mayhem in the AM: The Lost Radio Comedy of Ernie Kovacs will be released the next day, Friday January 24, 2025, to all available audio platforms.

The premiere of the final episode of the offbeat and wildly bizarre Take A Good Look game show and Mayhem in the AM: The Lost Radio Comedy of Ernie Kovacs are the kick-off to a new distribution agreement between the Ediad Productions and one of the world’s leading legacy comedy media imprints, Clown Jewels. Unreleased and rereleased audio and video from the vast Ernie Kovacs library will be rolled out in the coming months on digital, satellite and physical platforms with details announced shortly.

“The best part of the partnership between the Ernie Kovacs estate and Clown Jewels, is that we finally will bring Kovacs to classic comedy fans where they are most – online,” said Joshua Mills of Ediad Productions. “It still amazes me that in 2025, we are still finding new, never-heard-or-seen-since-originally-broadcast Ernie Kovacs material but here we are!”

“Ernie Kovacs brilliant “high” meets “low” hijacking of mid-century television programming ignited a spark in my teenage brain and the fire spread fast,” said Devo co-founder Gerald V. Casale and 2024 VideoFest Ernie Kovacs Award Winner. “Could Devo have ever existed without the Nairobi Trio? I think everyone knows the answer.”

Take A Good Look began in 1959 and was an off-the-wall game show hosted by Ernie Kovacs. Guests from all fields were identified by a celebrity panel via a series of pre-recorded clips featuring Kovacs and regular cast members Peggy Connelly, Jolene Brand & Bobby Lauer. Celebrity panelists included  Edie Adams, Cesar Romero, Hans Conried, Carl Reiner, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jane Wyatt, Mort Sahl, Jack Carson, Tony Randall, Janet Leigh, Jim Backus and Jacqueline Susann.

Best known for his wildly imaginative, gleefully absurdist television show in the 1950s, Ernie Kovacs (1919 – 1962) was also a radio show host, a film actor, a television director as well as a notorious illustrator, novelist, essayist, newspaper columnist, and poet.

A pioneer in early television whose inventive use of the medium inspired countless performers, directors, and video artists, Ernie Kovacs created indelible characters such as Percy Dovetonsils, Matzoh Hepplewhite, and Uncle Gruesome, Kovacs invented a distinctly modern form of comedy that playfully subverted the television medium. After his death in 1962, Edie Adams, his on-screen partner as well as his wife, was instrumental in saving and preserving Kovacs’ body of work when she bought all existing Kovacs materials – including the masters – the television networks were planning to destroy.

About Clown Jewels

Clown Jewels, powered by 800 Pound Gorilla Media, is a worldwide comedy audio and video distribution company that takes pride in preserving the legacy of comedy. Specializing in legacy artists and estates, their roster includes the likes of Robin Williams, George Carlin, Flip Wilson, Jackie Gleason, The Lucille Ball Estate, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Dean Martin, Laugh-In and the entire George Schlatter Productions library plus many more. Clown Jewels brings legacy programming to ardent fans and introduces all types of classic comedy to a whole new generation.

About Ediad Productions

Formed and based in Los Angeles by the late entertainer and Muriel Cigar girl Edie Adams, and currently run by her son Joshua Mills, Ediad Productions is home to what is likely one of the largest independent archives of early American television. The archives include more than 150 half-hours of visual content from legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams’ as well as more than 100 hours of rare Kovacs and Adams audio content. Titles include The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ernie in Kovacsland, Take A Good Look, the Kovacs ABC specials, The Edie Adams Show, Here’s Edie! as well as physical memorabilia, photographs, scripts, production notes and more.

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