Culture: Did I Mention That Harvey Korman was in The Star Wars Holiday Special?

By Noah Mallin

The late, great Harvey Korman did an awful lot of work and we were all the luckier for it. Still, nothing quite reaches the surreal heights of his appearance in alien drag in one of his three roles in George Lucas' disowned Stars Wars Holiday Special. Watch and marvel:

Film: An Alternate Universe Far Far Away, Where Saul Bass and George Lucas Team Up

Saul Bass is one of the greatest graphic artists of the twentieth century, designing iconic credit sequences for such films as The Man With The Golden Arm. Now some smarty, arty pants has imagined what the Star Wars credit sequence would have looked like a la Bass:



Here's the actual factual Bass' sequence for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World:


And his famous Anatomy of a Murder:

Music: YouTube Video of The Week

The folks at VH-1 may have beat me to it but I defy you to watch this and not empty your bladder spontaneously while laughing. Go ahead. Never has a trumpet been used (abused) in such a way and I pray to Yahweh never shall it happen again.