Little Happier: The Happy Story of When Carol Burnett Fired Harvey Korman

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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I was fascinated to read a story from the life of the legendary comedian Carol Burnett. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	I'm Gretchen Rubin and this is A Little Happier.
0:33.4	I was fascinated to read a story from the life of the legendary comedian, Carol Burnett.
0:39.7	For years, she headed up the successful TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show.
0:45.1	One of the stars of the show was comedian Harvey Korman.
0:49.1	In her 2016 memoir In Such Good Company,
0:52.5	Carol Burnett told the story of something that happened one day during the seventh season.
0:57.9	The regulars had rehearsed for the show with that week's guests,
1:01.6	who included singer Patula Clark and comedian Tim Conway, who later became a permanent cast member.
1:08.8	During the rehearsals, Harvey Korman was very rude to the guests and the other cast members.
1:15.5	Though she usually wasn't very confrontational, Carol Burnett realized that she needed to intervene.
1:20.5	So after rehearsal, she went to Korman's dressing room for a conversation.
1:24.8	He told her to mind her own business.
1:27.1	She told him that any issues between the stars and guest stars of her show actually was her business.
1:33.0	Korman responded that she couldn't dictate how he should act or feel and that he'd just
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