Daily Inspiration Quote by Harvey Korman

Domestic chaos as punchline is an old vaudeville move, but Harvey Korman lands it with a craftsman’s timing: he starts by pretending the story is about “our show,” then swerves to “that was just me,” collapsing the public ensemble into one private mess. The humor is escalation-by-understatement. “Marriages, divorces and other stuff” is deliberately vague, a throwaway list that lets the audience fill in the tabloid blanks while keeping the line breezy. It’s not confession; it’s control. He’s turning potentially grim biography into a clean, digestible laugh.

The intent reads as twofold: self-deprecation and reputation management. Korman frames his personal life as production-level drama, implying that the off-camera life of entertainers can be as episodic and absurd as the sketches they perform. Subtext: in show business, your life is always part of the act, whether you consent or not. By calling it “stuff,” he shrinks the seriousness to a prop in a comedic bit, signaling resilience and professionalism: whatever was happening at home, he still showed up and hit his marks.

Context matters because Korman’s era prized the illusion of effortless comedy. Variety TV and sitcom machinery depended on stability, while performers’ real lives often ran hot with instability. The line lets him nod to that tension without turning maudlin. It’s a performer’s elegant dodge: acknowledge the wreckage, keep the laugh, move on.