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Harvey Herschel Korman (February 15, 1927 – May 29, 2008) was an American actor and comedian who performed in television and film productions. He is best remembered as a main cast member alongside Carol Burnett, Tim Conway and Vicki Lawrence on the CBS sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1977) for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.
Mama's Family is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper). The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called " The Family " featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1967–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979).
A soap opera parody taking place in the fictional town of Canoga Falls with Burnett as the main character Marian Clayton. Other recurring residents of Canoga Falls include Conway as different variations of the Oldest Man, Korman as Mother Marcus and Lawrence as Marian's daughter, who always comes home with a baby and hands it over to Marian, who shortly thereafter almost always ensconces it in ...
Mama's brother-in-law Roy Harper shows up and charms the entire family except for Mama, who has mixed feelings about him. Guest Star: Murray Hamilton as Roy Harper. Note: Murray Hamilton would later appear on The Golden Girls with Betty White and Rue McClanahan as Blanche's (McClanahan's) father, Big Daddy Hollingsworth.
The success of this program spawned a spin-off sitcom titled Mama's Family, starring Vicki Lawrence and Ken Berry, which ran from 1983 to 1990. It occasionally featured Burnett and Korman guest-starring as Eunice and Ed Higgins; Burnett's involvement in Mama's Family was limited due to her divorce from producer Joe Hamilton. [17]
Harvey Korman, left, and Tim Conway show off three Emmy Awards in 1978 for "The Carol Burnett Show." ... Conway’s humor stretched beyond the screen, says his daughter Kelly, who wrote the book ...
Mama is an exaggerated version of a prototypical middle twentieth century lower middle class grandmother in the United States South. The character was originally created for Carol Burnett; however, Burnett preferred to play Mama's daughter Eunice Harper Higgins, which resulted in Lawrence being cast as Mama.
Lawrence was born Vicki Ann Axelrad in Inglewood, California. [1] [3]Her paternal grandfather, Simon Axelrad, an Austrian Jewish immigrant. Her paternal grandmother, Anna Irmas, was born in Illinois, to German Jewish parents but became an adherent of Christian Science, in which faith Vicki's father was raised.