#26
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:05pm
I just remembered the soap opera spoof on the Burnett show with Korman in drag as Canoga Falls leading Yente. God he was great!
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#27
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:10pm
So sad! He had superb comedic timing! He will be sorely missed! Rest in peace!
"Love the Art in Yourself. Not Yourself in the Art." -- Stanislavski
#28
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:17pm
"The way he would sometimes try so very hard NOT to crack up from what Carol or Vicki or Tim were doing. "
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Tim Conway and Harvey Korman
Like in this clip?
Tim Conway and Harvey Korman
#29
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:25pm
I just found out. He was the first man to make me laugh.
The World has lost a comedic genius. He was a legend.
The World has lost a comedic genius. He was a legend.
#30
Posted: 5/29/08 at 10:46pm
We were in the Manhattan restaurant where I spent half my youth, La Scala. It was probably 1969. Harvey Korman was having dinner with his wife at the table across from us. (It was a tiny place.) My family was awestruck, but we didn't say anything because, well, my family just didn't do that. But Mr. Korman started chatting with us, and we were THRILLED. He loved children.
Then he invited my little sister to sit at the table with him and his wife for dinner. My sister was about 2, I think. (My brothers and I were so jealous!) Mr. Korman was utterly warm and kind and, yes, funny. He was also a real gentleman.
My brothers, sister and I have always remembered this experience fondly. As soon as I saw this thread, I emailed my siblings, who were so saddened by the news.
I just wanted to share this story with everyone because he left such an indelible imprint on our lives, as an actor and as a human being.
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Then he invited my little sister to sit at the table with him and his wife for dinner. My sister was about 2, I think. (My brothers and I were so jealous!) Mr. Korman was utterly warm and kind and, yes, funny. He was also a real gentleman.
My brothers, sister and I have always remembered this experience fondly. As soon as I saw this thread, I emailed my siblings, who were so saddened by the news.
I just wanted to share this story with everyone because he left such an indelible imprint on our lives, as an actor and as a human being.
http://www.roches.com/television/ss83kod.html
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#31
Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:45pm
He was one of the greats. His "Mother Marcus" on The Carol Burnett Show never failed to make me howl. I remember him playing that character in one of the "As The Stomach Turns" skits and cracking Ms. Burnett up, who rarely broke.
God rest his brilliantly funny soul.
Lovely story, Miss Pennywise. Thanks for sharing it with us.
God rest his brilliantly funny soul.
Lovely story, Miss Pennywise. Thanks for sharing it with us.
#32
Posted: 5/29/08 at 11:46pm
A funny man. Rest In Peace.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#33
Posted: 5/30/08 at 12:27am
This has been a tough week. Where would my laughs have come from if not for Laugh-In and The Carol Burnett Show. My appreciation of comedy can be partially and directly linked back to Dick Martin and Harvey Korman. And further shaped in later years by Tootsie. I laughed my way through my formative years with these talented men, and they will be sorely missed.
That was a beautiful touching story Miss Pennywise, by the way.
That was a beautiful touching story Miss Pennywise, by the way.
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
#34
Posted: 5/30/08 at 1:14am
I will miss Harvey Korman 
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#35
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:18am
He was my favorite on Carol Burnett- I always thought he was funnier than Tim Conway. I also loved him in "High Anxiety" and "History of the World, Part One" pure brillance. He will be missed...
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#36
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:30am
Miss Penny, I am not at all surprised that Harvey was such a sweet warm man in real life but was happy to hear it!
Does anyone remember when he was on The Munsters? Very funny.
Does anyone remember when he was on The Munsters? Very funny.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#37
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:55am
No...who did he play on the Munsters? Very curious...
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.- Bette Davis
#38
Posted: 5/30/08 at 8:51am
I think he played a psychiatrist on the Munsters. Some kind of "analyzing doctor," as I recall. It's bee a LONG time.
Miss Penny---that was a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Miss Penny---that was a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing it with us.
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#39
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:37am
And he was the voice of that space thing on The Flintstones, wasn't he? The Great something-or-other.
#40
Posted: 5/30/08 at 9:45am
And let's not forget Headley Lemar.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#41
The Great Gazoo!
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:23am
The Great Gazoo!
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#42
Posted: 5/30/08 at 2:30pm
He may have been on a couple of times. The time I'm thinking of is when a magazine was doing a story on the average american family and The Munsters were chosen! Harvey and another guy were a reporter and photographer who were staying in the house with them overnight to do the story.
If I heard the bells and the banjos ring
#43
Posted: 5/30/08 at 3:42pm
Gazoo has gone back to his home planet...
Hedley LaMarr has gone to rest with...Hedy LaMarr...
Thank you Harvey Korman. You were a huge part of my childhood.
Hedley LaMarr has gone to rest with...Hedy LaMarr...
Thank you Harvey Korman. You were a huge part of my childhood.
#44
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:04pm
"...and anyone tardy will not get fruitcup."
His scenes with Nurse Diesel are the work of pure genius.
#45
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:16pm
Although when I was a kid I kept confusing him with Harvey Keitel. I thought the Bad Lieutenant was the voice of Gazzoo.
#46
Posted: 5/30/08 at 4:36pm
Oh my god, I love High Anxiety.
RIP
RIP
The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?
#49
Posted: 5/30/08 at 10:54pm
I met Harvey Korman many years ago. He was an absolute rude and ignorant man. To this day I never held that against him due to all the comedy he gave us. His comedic brilliance will be missed by me. RIP
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
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#50
Posted: 5/30/08 at 11:05pm
This thread (and another email chain some friends of mine had going this afternoon) is like Mary Tyler Moore's funeral of Chuckles the Clown...every time I start to get sad, I remember something he did, and I bust out laughing.
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