Kovacs definitely had a thing for music. Many of his extended skits involved taking ordinary inantimate objects and having them "move" to a famous piece of music. Two of his best known skits involved the movement of pieces of equipment in an office and another involved kitchen appliances moving. The comedian had one skit in which eggs were cracked, celery was broken and glasses were clinked to Beethoven's 1812 Overture. Kovacs also had a skit in which four people ate in rhythm to a piece of music.
Many of these skits were amusing but not funny. That is the thing with Kovacs' sense of humor. Like a Surrealist, he seemed more to provoke or to question rather than to get guffaws out of the viewer. The musical sketches were quite elaborately staged and must have taken a great deal of preparation. Last night I watched a skit in which six individuals dressed in full gorilla suits danced to Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. The individuals were definitely accomplished dancers; the arabesque of one of the pivotal dancers, in full gorilla outfit, was quite amazing.
The photo above was of Kovac's "Nairobi Trio," three men in gorilla suits. Again, the effect was creepy; definitely one that would scare the hell out of a child.
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