His birthday may have been yesterday, but I'm not quite done celebrating Harvey Korman's contributions to The Flintstones yet! For this week's video, here is a great interview with him discussing how he approached the role of the Great Gazoo, and the character's enduring legacy. As a fan of his work both in and out of Bedrock, I got a real kick out of finding this, and I hope you will too.
Harvey Korman's correct: he's not an ideal voice actor, but his voice is so distinctive and his comic instincts so right that he could bring something to a character like Great Gazoo that no other voice actor could.
ReplyDeleteIf he was more comfortable on stage, how come he didn't do more stage work? (He probably did summer theater in between seasons of "The Carol Burnett Show," as most TV actors did in those days, but in what exactly I couldn't tell you.) I'd love to have seen him in a play, wouldn't you?