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78. Yes, I call that the "Harvey Korman Effect"

Tue Dec 15, 2020, 01:33 AM

Dec 2020

As a kid, watching Harvey doing comedy skits with Carol Burnett, it didn't matter if the writing was great or so-so, the actors barely controlling their own commitment to character, and the tension created from this pulled the character into the scene, and made us participants, rather than just observers.

We know dis cause we saw dat.
It still works, just ask Bill Hader.

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