Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman
Harvey Herschel Kormanwas an American comedic actor who performed in television and movie productions and was also a voice artist. His big break was being a featured performer on CBS' The Danny Kaye Show, but he is best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show and in several films by Mel Brooks, playing Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth15 February 1927
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
Don't - those writers used to love us. They would write these little plays, and we would take care of the comedy. It really seldom was joke jokes.
It's not so much the club as we kind of make it into, like, theater. It's kind of like revue, like cabaret. It's like, you know, doing our show.
You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.
I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me.
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us.
Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.
Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor.
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.
And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.
They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.