Ernie Kovacs (January 23, 1919—January 13, 1962) was an American comedian whose uninhibited, often ad-libbed, and visually experimental comic style came to influence numerous television comedy programs for years after his tragic, early death in an automobile accident. Such later, iconoclastic shows as Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Uncle Floyd Show, and Saturday Night Live and TV hosts like David Letterman are seen as bearing Kovacs's influence.

The show was originally broadcast between December 1952 and April 1953. It was then brought back as a summer replacement for "Caesar's Hour" (1954) between July and September 1956.