RIP, Harvey Korman.
LOS ANGELES — Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and was seen to hilarious effect on the big screen in “Blazing Saddles,” died Thursday. He was 81. [...]
“A world without Harvey Korman – it’s a more serious world,” said “Blazing Saddles” director Mel Brooks in an AP interview. “It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we’d crash to floor in comic ecstasy. … It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh.”
My favorite bits: Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles and the Gone with the Wind skit on the Carol Burnett show.
Comment by Toby Petzold on 5/29 @ 9:49 pm #
That’s remarkable learning such a thing from a blog. I am very sorry to hear of his death. Harvey Korman was a fucking riot. I love that guy. Some of the happiest times in my life were when I was a little boy watching that man and Carol Burnett make my family and the whole country laugh. Bless his and his loved ones’ hearts.
Comment by TmjUtah on 5/29 @ 9:58 pm #
“I saw it in the window and I just had to have it.”
I ended up crying on the floor.
Fair winds, Navy. Rest.
Comment by Spiny Norman on 5/29 @ 9:59 pm #
Rest in peace, Heddy, errr… Hedley, umm… Harvey. Thanks for keeping me laughing for 40 years.
Comment by dicentra on 5/29 @ 10:05 pm #
When I was a kid, I didn’t like him on Carol Burnett because he was always ruining the sketches by laughing. I wondered why he didn’t have enough professionalism to keep it together.
Then I learned that Tim Conway would totally ad lib and go off-script just to crack him up. So I forgave him, and now I wish Carol Burnett were on again.
Comment by BuddyPC on 5/29 @ 10:05 pm #
“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”
The voice of The Great Gazoo is stilled.
Raisonettes!
Comment by nk on 5/29 @ 10:25 pm #
I think his best Carol Burnett skit was his parody of Otto Preminger. I’ll look for it on YouTube and then figure a way to link it here.
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Comment by Karl on 5/29 @ 10:58 pm #
There’s good Hedley and Carol Burnett stuff on YouTube, including the GWTW parody. If you want to see Korman cracking up, watch the “Dentist sketch.”
Godspeed, Harvey. Go do that voodoo that you do so well.
Comment by Sean M. on 5/30 @ 12:59 am #
“I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”
That’ll be one helluva memorial service.
Comment by Sean M. on 5/30 @ 1:28 am #
Okay, that was weird. One of the local channels here in SoCal runs syndicated reruns of Scrubs in chronological order, and the episode they just ran was this one, in which we find out the full name of the character played by Richard Kind. Click on the link, trust me.
Comment by cranky-d on 5/30 @ 3:24 am #
I used to watch the Carol Burnett show every week growing up. Those guys were way cool and funny. I recently watch the GWTW parody on youtube. Recommended if you haven’t seen it.
Comment by Lisa on 5/30 @ 6:17 am #
I loved the dentist sketch. He was always such a good straight man for Tim Conway. The sketch where Tim Conway was the decrepit fireman and Harvey Korman was trying to keep a straight face as Conway shuffles across the floor with the firehose.
That show was hysterical. I was just talking to my mom about how funny it was (I will never forget Carol Burnett’s version of Snow White with the sagging boobs and fat ass).
Comment by Lisa on 5/30 @ 6:19 am #
I meant to say “I also loved the sketch where Tim Conway was the decrepit fireman and Harvey Korman was trying to keep a straight face as Conway shuffles across the floor with the firehose.”
Comment by Rob Crawford on 5/30 @ 6:21 am #
God bless you, Harvey, for giving us so much laughter.
Comment by Pablo on 5/30 @ 6:31 am #
Ah, those were the days. Godspeed, Harvey, and thanks for the laughs.
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/30 @ 6:37 am #
#Comment by dicentra on 5/29 @ 10:05 pm #
Here you go, The Dentist Sketch:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q9T8i4FkNVo
If you don’t ROTFLYAO at this, there’s something wrong with you.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/30 @ 6:45 am #
“Now go do that voodoo that you do so well.”
Comment by Salt Lick on 5/30 @ 6:54 am #
“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.â€Â
Thank God he was born before we discovered ritallin.
Comment by donald on 5/30 @ 6:56 am #
Lisa, I’m down with that Sista! My all time favorite.
Comment by Rob O'Connor on 5/30 @ 7:57 am #
“Ditto”
Comment by N. O'Brain on 5/30 @ 7:59 am #
Hedley Lamarr: “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”
Taggart: “Gal-darnit, Mr. Lamarr, you use your tongue prettier than a 20-dollar whore.”
Ya gotta finish what you start.
Mheh.
Comment by mojo on 5/30 @ 8:25 am #
“Hello, Count De Money.”
“De Monet, De MONET!”
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates - UMBA on 5/30 @ 9:14 am #
I will never forget Carol Burnett’s version of Snow White with the sagging boobs and fat ass
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5mYiP2vAr8
This one is also good:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rCJTDsrcXEs
Comment by mojo on 5/30 @ 10:56 am #
“You will be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost-certain Academy Award nomination for the Best Supporting Actor.”
Comment by Patrick Chester on 5/30 @ 11:07 am #
“‘Head them off at the pass’?! I hate that cliche!” *BLAM*
Comment by Celebsy on 5/30 @ 8:27 pm #
He was a great comedian and actor.