I was tipped off early that this tale was imaginary when the segment mentioned Brooks’ “The History of the World, Part I” among the Brooks-Korman collaborations before telling the tale of the friction during “High Anxiety.” That film was made four years after “High Anxiety.” Then, as the segment drew to a close, I remembered that Korman also had a substantial role in an even later Brooks-directed film, his Dracula satire, “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” which rolled out to tepid reviews 28 years after “High Anxiety.”

What I didn’t know was that in 1989, twelve years after Mel supposedly never worked with Harvey again, Brooks produced a TV series starring Korman, “The Nutt House,” one of two doomed American efforts to duplicate the hilarious John Cleese sitcom, “Fawlty Towers.”

In short, the “Studio Tale” that Mel Brooks found Harvey Korman so difficult to work with that he blacklisted Harvey after “High Anxiety” is completely false. Furthermore, there is no excuse for it: a simple search in the Internet Movie Database, Wikipedia or other sources would have revealed the truth in seconds. The fake “Studio Tale” isn’t just a mistake, it is signature significance for a lazy, reckless, irresponsible and dishonest content creator. That segment means that nothing claimed on the Studio Tales YouTube channel can be trusted, because even perfunctory research fact-checking isn’t part of its process.

Putting that kind of false information on the web is unethical, and personally, I detest it with the flaming fever of One Thousand Hells. This example is unfair to the public, but also to Mel Brooks and the late Harvey Korman.