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Percy Dovetonsils

The lisping of both names helped reinforce the supposedly effeminate nature of those two names, a fact which George Carlin would later sometimes reference when discussing gay issues.

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Kovacs created the character for his program Three to Get Ready on WPTZ in Philadelphia (the station that is now KYW-TV).

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His wife, Edie Adams, was able to acquire them again in 1967; they remained part of her non-public collection of her husband's work until her death in 2008.

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