I think it is important to mark the passing of one the people who made many of us laugh over the past 50+ years. Howard Morris died over the weekend. He was a great part of the team on Sid Caesars' Your Show of Shows. He was the voice of many of the characters on the Hanna Barbara cartoons. He directed some funny films. But most of all he created one of the funniest television character of all time; Ernest T. Bass. If you saw Ernest T. on the Andy Griffith Show then you know the joy that this man brought to the small screen.
It is hard to believe that Ernest T. was on only five episodes of the Andy Griffith. In a medium that takes any good idea and overexposes it and replicates it until it has no life in it we need to remember the impact of Morris and Ernest T.
More at: http://www.ernestt.com/