Farewell Harvey Korman

Harvey Korman of The Carol Burnett Show died today at the age of 81. As with Jimmy Fallon, half the pleasure was watching as Harvey tried to stop himself cracking up (as he frequently did with Tim Conway).



Mel Brooks summed it up when he told the AP, "A world without Harvey Korman — it's a more serious world. It was very dangerous for me to work with him because if our eyes met we'd crash to floor in comic ecstasy. It was comedy heaven to make Harvey Korman laugh."

Mel gave Harvey one of the best lines ever in a movie. Who can forget "Don't be saucy with me, Bearnaise," from History of the World, Part 1.