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Did any of you hear that Harvey Korman ( I think thats spelled right) Died? He was on the Carol Burnett show way back when. He and Tim Conway were brilliant on that show. I woner if they will ever put some of those skits out on DVD.
You know I recall seeing that headline that he had died. Although I'm a big pop culture spectator, I can't say I'm familiar with what he looked like. I remember Tim Conway and the Carol Burnett show (barely, and maybe it was only in reruns), but I don't remember Harvey.
He and Tim were in a lot of skits together. I too was real young when it was on but my parents watched it all the time… I watch reruns on TVLand. He was the governer in Blazing Saddles.
I thought he was hilarious in Blazing Saddles. I never watched or don't remember watching the Carol Burnett Show. Mostly what I rememebr about TV in the 70's is Three's Company, MASH, Saturday Night Live, and my dad cussing every time he saw Carter on the news.Anyone remember when they used to play movies on like Saturday afternoon that would be sponsored by a siding, window, or roofing company and thats all you got for commercials was from the sponsor?
I don't recall the siding commercials, but I do recall Mutual of Omaha's “Wild Kingdom”. I believe it was narrated by Lorne Greene.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0466327/publicity… Korman article at IMDB.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121949/plotsummary…Wild Kingdom @ IMDB; Malin Perkins narrated I believe.Cheers,Wally
My family watched the Carol Burnett every week. Dad loved the skits with Tim Conway & Harvey Korman together. Both were excellent comedians in their own right but together, they were brilliant. The best skit ever on that show was the “Gone With the Wind” moment which didn't have Tim in it, but Harvey & Carol were something else! Fortunately or unfortunately I remember the show, “Laugh-In” so, all those wonderful shows of the 60's & 70's I miss tremendously.
Ah yes, Wally…perhaps “Wild Kingdom” was on before/after Battlestar Galactica, and I'm getting the two mixed up, or….I also see that he hosted a show called “Lorne Greene's New Wilderness” from the 1980s. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001296/otherworksBensgal, when I was little I remember the show “He-haw” on all the time and I couldn't stand it. Obviously, I was a kid and I couldn't get the humor, and the fact that they're standing in a cornfield only entertains one for so long. Now, I wonder if the jokes were actually funny or not.
Ah yes, Wally…perhaps “Wild Kingdom” was on before/after Battlestar Galactica, and I'm getting the two mixed up, or….I also see that he hosted a show called “Lorne Greene's New Wilderness” from the 1980s. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001296/otherworksBensgal, when I was little I remember the show “He-haw” on all the time and I couldn't stand it. Obviously, I was a kid and I couldn't get the humor, and the fact that they're standing in a cornfield only entertains one for so long. Now, I wonder if the jokes were actually funny or not.
Rest assured we Kentucky folks got the jokes. 🙂
Those jokes on “He-haw”…we Hoosiers got them too. And I identified with standing in cornfields. Detasseling corn was a rite of passage as a first job for teenagers in the 70's. The job was hard work and long hours but it was decent pay for kid at that time.
Oh, yeah, I remember Harvey Korman, as well as the rest of the Carol Burnett show, used to watch that, and Hee-Haw with the folks as a kid.Harvey could never keep a straight face as Tim Conway was acting out some off-the-wall skit, damn, they were funny… IIRC Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was on after the World of Disney on Sunday night…I used to watch it at the neighbor's kids house since they had color TV ;)And, if it was summer or we had Monday off, I could watch Hawaii-50, since 9PM was bedtime during the school year…Huh, I now have DishNetwork with about ten thousand channels, yet I think TV was WAAYYY better when all we got was the “Big 3”, a few “independents” and PBS ::)
I watched an interview of the two and Harvey said when ever he was in a skit with Tim and he was trying not to laugh it was because Tim had completly left the skit and was ad libbing everything he did.
Conway and Korman would have been great on Whose Line Is It Anyway? Their improvisation skills were legendary.
