TV Guide (July 2, 1955)

Record Details:

Title:
TV Guide
Date:
July 2, 1955
Publisher:
Philadelphia: Triangle Publications, Inc.
Volume:
TV Guide - Philadelphia (July 2, 1955)
Leaf #:
0008
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 28, 2022
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Clown-framed: Edith Adams with boss. Jack Paar, I.; husband, Ernie Kovacs. “Before that, I kept winning titles like ‘Miss Timetable.’ People were always giving me watches and timetables, but no money. The first question I asked Ernie was, ‘Do I get paid?’ I had a house filled with wristwatches.” Edith tactfully ducks any critical comparison of Kovacs and Paar. They’re both funny, she maintains stoutly. And they both smoke cigars— “green-leaved ones when it’s cloudy, and brown-leaved ones when it’s sunny. Or the other way around. “They’re alike in other ways, too,” she says. “They think alike. They’re both satirists, see humor in common¬ place things. I don’t know when some¬ thing is funny. But with Ernie and Jack around, who has to be a come¬ dian? I play it straight.” Nonetheless, cn The Morning Show, Paar allowed her considerable leeway to try to be funny. “I learned a lot,” she said, “because the show was so relaxed. Jack said, ‘Do anything.’ But on the new show,” she added, with just a trace of regret, “we’ll only have a half hour. And people will have had their breakfast and their lunch, too —they’ll be wide awake and a lot more critical!”