Harvey Korman Talks About Almost Drowning | Carson Tonight Show

Original Airdate: 09/18/1974
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[@yikes7963]

Harvey, Tim and Carol literally kept me alive with laughter in my childhood.

[@meijer78]

Miss these legends! Very blessed we still have Carol with us who turned 90 years old.

[@verminkillah6622]

Wow 90 years old. Seems legit since it was 1974, damnit I'm old... 50 this yr

[@GeorgeD1965]

@@verminkillah6622 she'll have a birthday special on the 26th

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[@Traderjoe]

We will never have their kind among us again. They made the world so much more enjoyable, really.

[@OldSoulJer]

Harvey Korman was/is a legend. It was often said that Tim Conway’s major goal in life was to completely destroy Harvey… by making him crack up in fits of laughter. All the moments where the cast members completely lose it from watching Tim’s antics (especially Harvey) is the best part of the show

[@JoleneSailer]

@@ellegroover If it got really old and predictable then why waste your time? What a rude comment. Then why did you watch them ALL....many times? Please be respectful or don't post your insulting opinions about people you do not even know and have passed on. Gone are the days of "clean" comedy. Your laughing emoji contradicts your fake post.

[@dottiegillespie8067]

Correct you are sir!

[@ColleenD78]

​@@JoleneSailer LOVE YOUR COMMENT! That show and EVERY cast member were pure GENIUS! These are Legends, Folks! ❤❤❤

[@pattibrooks1907]

I love Harvey Korman !

[@uppityglivestockian]

Korman as Hedley Lamar in Blazing Saddles is a tour de force of pure comedy. One of his best skits on the Carol Burnett Show was he was a snooty rich fart in a smoking jacket in his mansion who is forced to answer his own phone. He prances over to the side table where the ringing phone sits by a bowl of fruit and a vase of flowers. He reaches out, grabs a banana and holds it to his ear, "hallo? hallo?" Ring ring ring---he looks at his hand, rolls his eyes and marvels how he could make such a silly mistake. He flips the banana stem up "hallo? hallo?" 😂🤣😂🤣🏆

[@DreamDancer82]

That was "Rancid Harvest," which was a parody of the movie "Random Harvest." I have never seen the actual movie, but the parody was hysterical.

[@citibear57]

I miss Johnny Carson. He was a terrific host, and had the best guests whether they were famous or not. Comedy was so much better back then too, unlike a lot of vulgar comedy today. Harvey Korman was great, as were all of the co-stars on the Carol Burnett Show. I rarely watch TV today, and prefer watching older stuff on KZbin.

[@cindearbuckle6074]

Can’t take all the late night shows now…. Vulgar and too political and too woke

[@ColleenD78]

Harvey... Genius ❤

[@baharam98]

Glad that life had these two men in it.

[@cliffords.8341]

This episode was the first time I saw Harvey Korman not acting. I love his acting/comedy and he seems to be a down to earth person. I couldn't believe someone in the audience thought he was joking and laughed when he was telling us what happened to him. May he R.I.P.

[@cluelessbeats]

I wasn't too familiar with Harvey Korman before this, but I found this interview very interesting and entertaining. This channel is so important - not just in preserving Carson's legacy, but in preserving entertainment history as a whole.

[@uppityglivestockian]

@clueless, fully agree.

[@nkt1]

He’s not at all well known here in the UK, we only really saw him in Mel Brooks films. Every time he pops up, I really enjoy his interviews and performances, *except* the Star Wars Holiday Special. Obviously, the material was very poor but, unlike Art Carney and Bea Arthur, he doesn’t manage to do anything with it, and it’s painfully unfunny.

[@JoleneSailer]

This channel is comforting.

[@toreckman8899]

Great clip. Thanks. I was in the audience in 84 and he was on. Just a genuine guy.

[@jeffdawson2786]

These were the good old days of Carson for me. L.A. celeb life was good, mellow, and conservative. Safe as milk.

[@BrunetteOnTheCouch]

LA celebs are liberal by nature. They care about others. Thank God.

[@jillkjv3816]

I was so sad when he died. RIP.

[@jm20105]

These stories are legendary.

[@youngproscia]

Love both of these men. So many laughs!! RIP and God bless!!

[@bethedmonds9635]

I loved Harvey in the Carol Burnett show. Sometimes he couldn't keep a straight face due to laughing.

[@sabinawoods5134]

What a great segment!

[@BELCAN57]

Harvey was great in "Blazing Saddles" and "High Anxiety", both Mel Brooks movies.

[@ericn7677]

Count de Monet.

[@BELCAN57]

@@ericn7677 Hedley Lamar

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@@BELCAN57 The Great Gazoo

[@hoosierbaddy3052]

@@ericn7677 count the money! 😅

[@hoosierbaddy3052]

@@BELCAN57 History of the World part 1.

[@philthomas8351]

I worked on Saturday night and missed Carol and Harvey for years. Saw him later and was glad to see him.

[@funghouls5498]

Great Interview about both their injuries, and with Johnny did at the restaurant was phenomenal. Wish you could’ve seen that in person.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

It's great to see a talk show in which there's talking and an actually, authentic conversation, not just one attempt after another to get laughs. Today's talk show hosts, take note.

[@Moose46316]

Loved Harvey Corman

[@michaelgreen1365]

Harvey Korman was one of my Favorite characters on the Carol Burnett show he was absolutely wonderful and so was the entire cast but I also love Ken Berry and of course Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence and the rest of the cast they were all just wonderful and funny I’m gonna miss them😮

[@mikeray1544]

The Carol B Krewe that used to crack each othér up on set...I still value that world I was born into..great chanell here- Thanks-

[@josedelacampa7066]

What a great actor, what a great person!!!

[@noam65]

I miss them both.

[@DreamDancer82]

Wow, I never knew this about Harvey Korman. Though it makes me think he was somewhat accident prone, considering at the beginning of the second season of "The Carol Burnett Show," he broke his toe, and then later on in the second season, he busted his hand. And then there was Season 3 Episode 2 with Nancy Wilson and Bernadette Peters during Carol's Carmen Miranda salute, when he jumped over Carol's skirt and landed flat on his back (but he didn't seem to have hurt himself too badly there).

[@susannebass1883]

Blessings be upon them 🙏🙏

[@bobcosmic]

Is that Hedley Lamarr🤣🤣🤣

[@OldSoulJer]

Yes it is 😉

[@jacokyle0160]

Heddy

[@bobcosmic]

@@jacokyle0160 Doesn't matter it's 1874 you'll be the one whose able to sue her😂

[@yikes7963]

He was so good in Blazing Saddles 💜

[@bobcosmic]

@@OldSoulJer Mongo Santamaria🙏

[@jamescarp]

I never knew this happened to him! I used to watch him on the Carol Burnette show all the time!

[@petebishop7524]

It's worth going down the rabbit hole of watching videos with him in them....including Blazing Saddles. Here's a legendary classic from the Carol Burnett show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3q4hIBqerCWiKs

[@jeffwalsh6015]

What would the Carol Burnett show have done if Harvey drowned?? I wonder if "Mammy's Family" would ever have happened.

[@drumbum3.142]

Art Fern is *SO* Classy.. ... . 👏👏👏 ..it's BEAUTIFUL.. .

[@susanwest8239]

Harvey aren't you taller than the waves?❤

[@marilyncrutchfield1873]

A nice and funny man

[@hollywoodharriet13]

I knew a young man who experienced a broken neck from body surfing. Recovered, but not 100%. Be careful.

[@jeffrey6618]

GOD USED THIS YOUNG KID TO SAVE HIM .THANK God he should have said

[@johncopeland3826]

Now that's what you call true pals !4 jokers at the same dinner table having a riot at each others expense ... That would not happen today in 2023 ! Would it ?

[@leetka333.]

I love ❤️ Harvey.

[@mares3841]

Harvey should have reciprocated!

[@mares3841]

💛

[@nealwhite5602]

malibu now is now some of the most polluted water in california

[@giraffesareselfish9563]

Hedley Lamar

[@michaelnivens6267]

John Wayne was seriously Injured body surfing.

[@steveconn]

Not a fun experience. Discombobulated, one of the worse ways to go.

[@Pisti846]

And three years later he would ditch his first wife.

[@DreamDancer82]

His first wife cheated on him, though.

[@BrunetteOnTheCouch]

​@@DreamDancer82And she 'ditched' him.

[@thyslop1737]

Korman never funny a day in his life.

[@DreamDancer82]

As my dad often quotes whoever said this, "De gustibus non est disputandum."

[@BrunetteOnTheCouch]

Or you never possessed a sense of humor a day in yours.