RIP Harvey Korman
The blizzog is saddened to note the passing of comic great Harvey Korman, who died yesterday at the age of 81.
I first discovered Korman as a kid while watching “The Carol Burnett Show” with my parents. But I didn’t really understand the depth of his comic genius until he starred as Hedy Lamarr (“that’s HEDLEY!”) in my favorite movie of all time, “Blazing Saddles“. His turn as the scheming land-snatcher (“see: snatch”) is one of the best parts of the film and the standard by which all comic bad guys should be judged.
Thanks for the laughs, Mr. Korman. Rest in peace.
Here here – give that man a hurumph!
thx for the kind words; i remember on the carol burnett show he played a wine critic whose wife had recently died; “she wasn’t a great woman,” he said, “but she was a good woman;” so fine…