Harvey Korman, one of the most acclaimed comic second bananas of the last half-century, has died at age 81. Korman shot to fame in the 1960s on the popular Carol Burnett Show where he he was a weekly regular, often playing in sketches with his friend Tim Conway. One of those sketches, in which Conway was a bumbling dentist operating on Korman, is considered a classic. Conway had the ability to crack Korman up and the audience relished seeing Korman desperately trying to keep a straight face. Korman also excelled in several Mel Brooks films. He was the smarmy frontier bureaucrat Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles who hated being confused with Hedy Lamarr (even though she was born in the following century!). He also offered a hilarious performance in Brooks' High Anxiety playing a corrupt psychiatrist with a penchant for masochistic sex from Cloris Leachman's Nurse Diesel. Up until last December, Korman and Tim Conway were performing their comedy sketch act on stage across America. Conway said, "It's a 45-year friendship. It was a great ride; we
worked together probably 30 years, plus the Burnett show, which was
about as good as it gets."
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