In my ongoing, Wednesday night acting workshop, whenever someone breaks character by cracking up, we call it a “Harvey Korman”– a tribute to the ad-lib moments on “The Carol Burnett Show” that were so hilarious that the man just couldn’t keep a straight face.
Harvey passed away on Thursday. Here’s one of his classic Blazing Saddles scenes, by which to remember him (best word in the piece: “Methodists”):