110: Harvey Korman & Huckleberry Finn

Today we’ve got a guest who doesn’t sing at all on The Muppet Show but sings quite a bit in his movie. The star is four time Emmy winner Harvey Korman, and the movie is 1974’s Huckleberry Finn, from the unlikely team of the Sherman Brothers and a two-time Planet of the Apes director! Topics of discussion include Fozzie Bear’s finest hour, the still confounding talking houses, the equally confounding Muppet Show production order, sex versus violence on the nineteenth century stage, different pronunciations of Maurice, and con artists pretending to be Romanovs or Bourbons.

Further resources

ABC Network - The Harvey Korman Show (Complete Broadcast, 4/11/1978)

The Dentist from The Carol Burnett Show

The Family: Sorry! from The Carol Burnett Show

Gazoo’s Antimatter Arrival in Bedrock

Harvey Korman and Brenda Vaccaro Win Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress

Harvey Korman - Television Academy Interviews

It’s Hedley! - Mel Brooks - American Masters

“Now go do that voodoo that you do so well”

The Nutt House (1989) Ep. 1 “Pilot”