“Give me something bizarre to play or put me in a dress and I’m fine.”
~Harvey Korman, 2005
One of the humor greats, Harvey Korman died Thursday at the age of 81. He was a multiple Emmy-award winning actor and a regular on the Carol Burnett Show for ten seasons. I grew up watching both the new and old seasons back in the 70’s, when there was UHF which showed reruns of just about anything, and it helped shape my sense of humor as a child.
The best part was watching Korman try so hard not to laugh. This clip is a hilarious example:
Here is another one, the classic ‘Speedo Airlines‘ bit:
He was Count De Monet in History of the World Pt I using his classic ‘get the name right’ gag as well as an old pun:
But my favorite role was his most famous, Hedley Lamarr, the evil politician in Blazing Saddles. Here he is talking about all the evil types of people he wants for his gang of criminals, including Methodists:
And of course the infamous pie fight scene in the Hollywood Commissary:
A western comedy where the climactic fight scene spills over into the actual movie studio. Why can’t they make movies like this anymore?
Like Mel Brooks said, a world without Harvey Korman is a more serious one. We will miss you Hendley.
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In college I had to take a class called ‘Positive Mental Attitude’, or PMA. The teacher was one of those people that was always happy no matter how bad life got. There was always a bright side. If her car broke down and she had to walk ten miles to work while seagulls and pigeons crapped all over her, she would simply say “Well at least it didn’t rain” or “At least I didn’t get raped by midgets”.
She even had conjoined twins. I am not making that up. I guess she is someone who needed a PMA but I really wanted to see her go through PMS once in a while just so I didn’t think she was an alien or a psycho hopped up on Prozac.
I never went back after the first day because the class smelled like patchouli oil and I already had a PMA. If I didn’t have one I would not even be in college. I tried to argue this to get out of the class but was unsuccessful, took a zero and the hit to my GPA.
There are still wackos like that teacher in society. Take Sharon Stone for example. Last week she implied that maybe if the Chinese were nicer to Tibet there wouldn’t have been an earthquake.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else…and then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Maybe if China thought more positively of their smaller sibling country hundreds of thousands of people would have lived. We should have sent that teacher to Bejing to teach those mean people a lesson according to her.
We have seen what a snatch shot in a movie did to Sharon’s acting career so she might have a point about karma. Still, I think members of the SGA are a little too full of PMA.
On a side note, Sharon Stone sounds like like one of those stoner girls back in high school that liked getting drunk and having sex with anyone. I guess going from that to acting isn’t too much of a stretch. Unlike her coochie…wow did I just go there?
How about people who think we will have flying cars someday? Imagine what it would be like if there was an up-and-down part to the process? Never mind the DMV issues, we don’t drive well on the ground. They never told us how many traffic accidents there were on the Jetsons. People jump in and out of flying cars in ‘Star Wars III: Garbage Dump of the Trilogy‘ so much it is like the sky is one big jungle gym.
We already believe in the fiction that passes for news these days on FOX, MSNBC, and CNN so it isn’t much of a stretch for people to think they can do crazy things in real life.
Hey person who thinks this can happen: stop thinking positive. You aren’t Anakin Skywalker you dipshit. Pull that crap and you’ll end up DOA.
Sorry, that was being too negative. Perhaps I need to go back to college and take that PMA class after all.
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Yes, I know this is a humor blog. But for the first time I would like to talk about something serious: honoring the people who serve in the military.
I would like to say thank you to every person who has served in the US Military on this Memorial Day. Without your bravery we would not be free. Even with a draft in WWII you felt compelled to fight, not feeling at all like you were forced to do so. You fought in Vietnam despite being hated at home for all the wrong reasons and later your younger brethren helped heal those wounds with a successful first Iraq war.
Right now, hundreds of thousands of you are overseas fighting for a cause many here in the United States do not believe in, for good reason of course. But you volunteered to fight the fight none the less.
You left your home, your families, and your children born without you being there because you chose to fight for all of us. But yet the rest of us live our daily lives like there isn’t a war going on. It isn’t like it was in World War II with rationing and salvaging metals for the cause. Our burning issue each day is where will go for lunch. Yours is whether you will be alive to be able to eat lunch.
Yet we treat you like your sacrifice doesn’t matter. Just war or not, it matters. You matter and we must never forget this.
So this post is for all you people in the military, past and present. You are the real American heroes and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say thank you for the sacrifices you made.
Day is done,
gone the sun,
from the lakes
from the hills
from the sky,
all is well,
safely, rest,
God is near.
Fading light,
Dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky
Gleaming bright,
From afar,
Drawing, near,
Falls the night.
Thanks and praise,
For our days,
Neath the sun
Neath the stars
Neath the sky,
As we go,
This, we, know,
God is near.
Humor-blogs.com and Angry Seafood wish all veterans of all wars a Happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. We will always remember and never forget your sacrifices.
“Give me something bizarre to play or put me in a dress and I’m fine.”
