{"id":157,"date":"2008-05-29T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/05\/harvey-korman-1927-2008.html"},"modified":"2010-11-01T05:07:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:07:40","slug":"harvey-korman-1927-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Harvey Korman (1927-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

For fans of television, he’ll always be fondly remembered for the hilarious contributions he made on The Carol Burnett Show<\/a>. <\/em>For film fans, there was his tenure as a Mel Brooks<\/a> favorite, most notably as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Korman was a comic legend who left our world today at the age of 81. He had been suffering for several months as a result of an abdominal aortic aneurysm. His wide-ranging comic ability helped get him started on TV in bit parts, eventually landing on The Danny Kaye Show. <\/em>He also was the voice of the Great Gazoo<\/a> on The Flintstones<\/a> <\/em>(I never knew that!)<\/p>\n

It was working with Carol Burnett<\/a> that he would achieve his most lasting legacy. Her variety show ran from 1967-1978 and was among the most popular TV shows of the decade. Korman’s work as a comic foil was immense, most notably opposite the hilarious Tim Conway<\/a>, who had the unstoppable ability to crack up the cast (but most especially Korman) in their scene work.<\/p>\n

Here’s one of them:<\/p>\n

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And some bloopers:<\/p>\n

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For fans of television, he’ll always be fondly remembered for the hilarious contributions he made on The Carol Burnett Show. For film fans, there was his tenure as a Mel Brooks favorite, most notably as Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles. Korman was a comic legend who left our world today at the age of 81. … Continue reading Harvey Korman (1927-2008)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1810,1809],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-harvey-korman","tag-the-carol-burnett-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}