Ernest Goes to School” and “Ernest Saves Christmas.” Chapman told TMZ that Byrge was discovered walking down the sidewalk, before he got cast in 1985’s “Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the ...

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

Ernest Scared Stupid and Ernest Goes to School. Byrge also participated in Varney’s Saturday morning show Hey Vern, It’s Ernest in the late ’80s. After Varney died in 2000, Byrge returned to ...