Silent Show is a 1957 American half-hour television comedy special created by and starring Ernie Kovacs.

It was broadcast on NBC, and was selected by the United States as the only television program screened at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

Although NBC was more interested in the "visual splendor" of what would be shown, Kovacs went one step further and, aside from his opening monologue and the Dutch Masters cigar commercials, decided to banish all human conversation from the show.

[11] Excluding Kovacs' opening monologue, commercials, and closing credits, the main body of the show runs about twenty minutes.

Books on a library shelf are filled with sound: War and Peace is all cannons and gunfire, until Eugene finds, at the end of the volume, a live dove, which flies away; the pages of Camille cough; removing the volume of The Old Man and the Sea from the shelf causes a flood of water.

[5] Throughout, Eugene, at worst, is only mildly perplexed—at least until the end, when, seated at the side of a long table, he finds that gravity is now somehow tilted: the contents of his lunchbox keep rolling away, a plumb-bobbed plum is at an angle off vertical, and milk from a thermos misses the cup directly below it.

[7] In 1962, Kovacs and his co-director, Joe Behar, received the Directors Guild of America Award for the second version of this program shown over the ABC network.