Someone Roll a Clothespin, See If He Giggles Like A Little Girl

I have a niece.  One afternoon, when she was about the age of 16 months we found by accident she would laugh and giggle uncontrollably whenever you tipped a cutting board and rolled a round clothespin down it.  We entertained her with that trick that one afternoon many, many years ago.   As I recall when someone tried to entertain her with that a few weeks later, she apparently found it had gotten old.  

Geesh, Simps, the last time the Nairobi Trio skit was on TV was sometime in the early 60s before Ernie Kovacs died while Kennedy was still president.  There was never much to the skit, three people in gorilla suits pretending to play instruments in imitation of a mechanical toy while a really tacky piece of music, "Solfeggio" played in the background.  I don't think Kovacs would have kept it up much longer than that if he hadn't died and had gone on with his career.    What was great about Ernie Kovacs wasn't him repeating the same-old-same-old, it was that he tried new things all the time.   If he stopped doing that, he'd have gotten old along with the bits. 

Yeah, I got over it almost sixty years ago, Simps. It's mildly amusing to recall in a way that nostalgia might be but that's no way to keep learning.  I don't think I'd go looking for Youtubes, as I pointed out last night, I prefer to find stuff that hadn't gone stale for me in my teenage-young-adult years.   It wasn't even one of his more inventive pieces, the same kind of thing had been a gimmick going back before Vaudeville.  It couldn't hold a candle to one of Señor Wences routines.  I've always preferred stuff with text over pantomime.  There's some there, there.  

The parts of Kovac's show I really remember were the ones like with the guy imitating a college professor modern poet reciting his meaningless drivel, the various ones with Edie Adams spoofing sexy stars.  I'd rather watch a good plate spinner than the Nairobi Trio skit, again. 

Update:  Stupy, when his widow, Edie Adams was marketing the videotaped legacy of his shows, that was a repeat of old material.  That counts as a repeat, not new material.  

Ernie Kovacs knew enough about comedy to know if you repeat the same gag over and over, it stops being funny.  He'd have dropped it if he'd lived.  You, knowing nothing, do nothing but repeat stuff, mostly what you've copied from other people.  Edie didn't have much of a career after Ernie died, as I recall.  I do remember she did some White Owl Cigar commercials and was in a made for TV movie about Kovacs where she played Mae West, other than that, if she was working, I don't remember it.