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
And I'll tell you somebody else who was a straight man and considers himself a straight man and describes himself as one, Cary Grant.
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.
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.
Funny is when you're serious.
Using Viagra is like putting a new flagpole on a condemned building.
People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.
Tape Seinfeld for me.
And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.
You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.
I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.
I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.
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.
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.
I mean, we had on our show, we had marriages, divorces and other stuff going on. And that was just me.