............RIP another funny man has left the stage...... Harvey Korman .............

Give him a hand- he made many laugh and forget their troubles.

The comedians of today could learn a lot from this man. So sad.


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comic actor Harvey Korman, who co-starred on the U.S. television classic "The Carol Burnett Show" in the 1960s and 1970s and in "Blazing Saddles" and other Mel Brooks movies, died on Thursday at age 81.


Korman died of complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm he suffered four months ago, according to a statement issued by the University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center.

Starting off in small roles on Broadway, the tall, lanky actor first gained notice as a featured performer on "The Danny Kaye Show," a CBS musical variety series where he perfected his talents as a sketch comedy artist.

In 1967, he joined the cast of another popular CBS variety hour, "The Carol Burnett Show," and spent the next decade as Burnett's leading sidekick in an ensemble of comedy regulars whose chemistry turned the show into a prime-time classic.

Regular bits included the "Ed & Eunice" sketch, in which he and Burnett played an unhappily married couple who were at each other's throats as much as they were with Eunice's elderly mother, played by Vicki Lawrence. A spin-off series based on the sketch, "Mama's Family," ran on NBC several years later.

Korman also was famed on the show for his pairings with frequent guest star and eventual cast member Tim Conway, who had a knack for getting Korman to break from character and succumb to fits of laughter in the middle of their act.

Korman earned four Emmy Awards for his work on the show, but left the series in 1977 to pursue other projects, though he never quite achieved the same level of success.

In motion pictures, he played a prominent supporting role as the domineering character Hedley Lamarr in the 1974 western spoof "Blazing Saddles," and appeared in two other Brooks films, "High Anxiety" and "The History of the World: Part I."

Harvey Korman and Carol Burnett - "The Simba Sketch"



Harvey Korman and Carol Burnett - "Went with the Wind"



Blazing Saddles



Clips from the Carol Burnett Show