Everyone knew who Ernest was back in the late 80s and well into the 90s; played by veteran actor Jim Varney, the dim-witted, accident-prone character starred in local commercials along the Gulf ...

Bill Byrge, who showed up as the quiet but feisty Bobby on a kids TV show and in four of the goofy Ernest comedies that starred Jim Varney ... in local commercials for a Nashville advertising ...

Byrge portrayed the character Bobby in the Ernest movies opposite Jim Varney's Ernest P ... of Ernest — who began as a character Varney played in commercials — and Bobby, one of Ernest's ...

Bill Byrge, remembered as the silent, silly Bobby in a number of Jim Varney's Ernest projects, has died at the age of 92 ...