No Time for Comedy 1939, and ran for 179 performances. The cast included Laurence Olivier as Gaylord Esterbrook and Katharine Cornell as Linda Paige, and was directed by Cornell's husband Guthrie McClintic. Olivier starred in this play in New York while his lover, Vivien Leigh, was filming "Gone With the Wind" in Hollywood, causing Leigh stress due to their separation, and according to GWTW lore, influenced her portrayal as Scarlett O'Hara and according to her personal assistant at the time, hurry production so she could be reunited with him. No Time for Comedy No Time for Comedy is a 1940 American comedy-drama film based
Went with the Wind! Went with the Wind! "Went with the Wind!" is a comedy sketch featured on the eighth episode of the tenth season of "The Carol Burnett Show". It originally aired in the United States on CBS on November 13, 1976, and is a parody of the 1939 American historical drama film "Gone with the Wind". The sketch was written by two young writers, Rick Hawkins and Liz Sage. In 2009, "TV Guide" ranked the sketch #53 on its list of "Top 100 Episodes of All Time". Carol Burnett introduces the sketch saying: "Recently, nearly the entire nation spent a total of