As we kick off the new year and decade in 2020, Ray Horner Show producer and fill-in host Tony Mazur went back in time to the simpler days of the 1980s and '90s.

Ernest P. Worrell was all over television in commercials and his own show, and had several films about his wacky antics. But what about the man behind the character?

Justin Lloyd is the author of the book The Importance of Being Ernest, and he wrote about his uncle Jim Varney, who passed away from lung cancer 20 years ago.