When TV added sight to sound, the hope was that the comic scene would be enriched with visual as well as verbal guffaws. Instead, the Big Eye seems to transfix comedians into frozen-faced patter-pushers. Visual gags, when they happen, are a cut below Charley's Aunt. With vaudeville dead, the turn of last resort has been the old silents. Last week some of this vintage wackiness seemed to have rubbed off on Comedian Ernie Kovacs who interrupted his regularly scheduled program of reruns, Silents, Please, with a half-hour of bubbleheadedness of his own. While it may not...
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