In 1974 I had my 1st car for about week , my best friend and I decided we should see The Exorcist which was only playing in one theatre about 40 miles away. This was during the gas shortage, but we managed to get to the theatre in Michigan City Ind. on a Saturday afternoon. We had to wait in line while the showing we wanted to see was sold out. It was an adventure I was 17 a high school senior. When I finally got home after dark, I turned on the TV and the 1st thing that came on was this sketch. It was freaky.
After a while it became clear that the Conway/Korman skits were being deliberately engineered to destroy Korman from the inside out. The absolute worst was the "Sleeping Beauty" one where all Korman needed to do was lie motionless in a glass case. That's all - just lie there. At one point Conway's character put his face down on the top of the glass to listen for breathing and promptly started snoring, inches above Korman's face. The camera was zoomed in tight on the two of them and it looked like Korman was going to explode. TCBS was a jewel of television comedy and Carol Burnett was and will always remain a giant.
@@bobareeniobobareenio2935 - No. The sketches were written to be funny for the audience, not to make the actors laugh. These shows were filmed in front of studio audiences, so no retakes were possible. Sometimes, the performers couldn't help laughing--especially given Tim Conway's habit of improvising.
@@Noname24675 Stephanie is my daughters name. Anyway, I actually have had quite a few experiences as far as seeing actors in various places around Southern California. Spent the day at Warner Bros studio. Saw quite a few actors and visited various TV programs being videotaped. I was on Truth or Consequences. Met Kiersten Dunst. Saw numerous actors at Ram Football games. Peter Falk stood next to me and talked to a gentlemen sitting front of me. I saw Shirley Jones two times. Once in Big Bear Ca and once in Chico Ca. In the town I live in today, Chico, they've made quite a few movies. Being a delivery driver I was able to see some of the actors coming and going. One of the production guys invited me to a wrap party once. Sorry for going on and on. Peace.
I saw this just after coming home from seeing the movie which scared the hell out of me. The skit saved me from the nightmares I was sure I would have.
Carol Burnette, Tim Conway, and Bernadette Peters in a skit with jokes about the generation gap, June Taylor, Maude, Nixon, and The Exorcist. It doesn't get any more 1974 than that. I was an early teen around that time and had a major schoolboy crush on Bernadette Peters.
this is such a blast from the past. how bout that line 'or will she return to washinton dc, where strange behavior is accepted.' too funny. somethings never change
I lived for the Carol Burnett….absolute comedy gold. And Bernadette Peters has a golden voice….she was fantastic in Into The Woods and Mack And Mabel….my mom played lots of show tune albums as I grew up in the 70’s! Such good times.
There was a skit that never aired due to one word. It is Tim Conway's elephant story. If you have not seen it, do so ASAP. To this day, I still view it at least once a week.
What really is amazing about Bernadette Peters is that she played the role of Lily Saint Regis in Annie with Carol Burnett 8 years later!!!!! AMAZING!!!! I never knew that they acted together before!!!!
@@robinshallrestoreamends , it doesn’t mean anything. He mentioned her soul and her heart, so, just for the sake of spontaneity, he added her knee as just another random part of her. He could have said “and her big toe” or @and her left shoulder” for the same effect. The fact that it didn’t mean anything is part of the humor of it. No meaning - just something added randomly (emphasis on randomly) purely for comic effect.
I was depressed as hell, even weeping a bit - then THIS showed up! Tears of laughter! The Carol Burnett Show never disappointed! These people KNEW TRUE COMEDY! I am so blessed to have watched it every week with my mother before she died of cancer. Ironically, my dad & stepmother met Carol in Maui two years later - she invited them to dinner.-I remember my dad saying about her, "She was one class act, really down-to-earth!" Woooooww!
you reminded me when I was a kid an my mom had kind of a nervous breakdown....we watched Carol Burnett every week together..... it helped a lot to chase the 'demons' away.
I'm a simple The Carol Burnett Show, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and The Exorcist fan. I see there's a video with all four, I click. Tim Conway was a bonus.
Airdate Feb. 16th, 1974. Probably the first Exorcist parody ever! Exorcist premiered Dec. 26th, 1973. I remember seeing the lines from the Empire State Building as a kid.
SNL stayed this long by minimizing controversy as time went on. They got into hot water a good few times now they refuse ANY deviation from the script. ZERO tolerance. So the cast BETTER get it all right. .in older days, if they messed up, they could get back on track and it was forgiven if it came out funny. But after some deviation caused trouble, snl refuses to allow that....that's why they all look at the cue. Secure their position
I loved watching this show as part of the all-time greatest TV line-up ever. Saturday nights, early-mid 1970's, I was still only a pre-teen, my family hadn't started to splinter yet, and we ate sloppy joes or fondue and laughed out loud at Carol Burnett and MASH and Bob Newhart and All In The Family and Mary Tyler Moore.
@MaGuffintop Ive been bingeing RUclips collections of commercials from the late 60's through the 70's and 80's. Some really bad stuff but also transportive to a better time in my life relatively speaking. And speaking of Saturday mornings, you cant even find broadcast or cable channels that show cartoons anymore, at least not here in Tacoma/Seattle. Thank fuck for RUclips and the Internet though. Everything is findable. Have a great weekend!
@MaGuffintop Fun to spot famous actors during their struggle-days. I caught Jason Alexander, David Caruso, Joe Mantegna, Patrick Swayze, the more you watch the more you spot :)
I love how Tim's priest sounds exactly like Mr. Tudball. That has to be very deliberate. My mom used to laugh herself into hysterics watching Carol Burnett. Still funny as hell!
Bernadette is so good at making those faces, they're hilarious. I'm surprised the audience isn't responding so well to Bernadette. I think these days people would be laughing hard at her performance, it's so good and funny.
I don’t know all the details of her career, but I feel like the 80s were when she became really popular. I’m assuming, at this point, she had had a role on Broadway that Carol saw and loved, but maybe America didn’t really know her.
I watched this show new, thought it was funniest after 1972. I remember this skit well. I was age 11 or 12 when this skit was new. It is still hilarious.
I used to watch all these in my NYC apartment as a middleaged 36 year old before I moved from Manhattan because of the violent tendencies of a city that became entirely too revolting too quickly. Good years leading up to that...really just something fine.
@@kennethwayne6857 And before that, in 1968, she won a Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, for her portrayal of Ruby in "Dames at Sea".
Much longer! Her television debut was at age 3 1/2, she got her Actor's Equity card at age 9, and had her professional stage debut the same month. That was in 1958.
I love the bit about Pat Boone's white shoe - wonder what he thought of it. Didn't realize he was still alive until I saw those weird commercials he's doing now.
🕶 💋 🚬 👍 I love you Carol Burnett and I loved watching you and your cast as a kid and one of the more happy memories in my childhood thanks for the laughs ❤
This was funny on so many levels. I read the book to see how horrible of ridiculousness the scenario it's based on took it. Then the movie came along and embellished the book. I saw some movie goers' reactions to the movie. Complete over reactions, vomiting in the theater...etc. Enter Carol Burnett show. I couldn't stop laughing. I could watch this over and over and still get the same reaction. This show was genius at laughter, not making people laugh. In other words, they didn't have to work on making people laugh, especially with skits like this. Pure comedy gold. Again, the movie and book were over the top. This skit matched it immaculately.
The horror movies in the 50's and 60's were so boring and fake. The Exorcist changed that persona where people found the movie so real that caused hysteria.
"how horrible of ridiculousness?" Yeesh. And it sounds more like those people in the theater were reacting, not "overreacting." Nothing like that had ever been seen before, at least not in a mainline movie.
this is the real deal. she had to do so many shows and though always good, it's hard to be perfect all the time. this video here, this is the bomb. this is carol at her very best and reminds me why i love her.
a white shoe worn by pat boone, get a load of bernadettes reaction. fantabulous. gave me a real down to earth belly laugh that one did. better than an apple a day, better yet, when she rolled off the couch to the floor. such theatrics. i am rolling on the floor myself right now. she got me big time. yea baby!!!
I've never seen 'The Exorcist' until recently, but have seen this sketch a million times. I always knew it was a take off of that movie, and now I know the "Raven" is a play on the name "Reagan"!
Reagan wasn't president until the 1980s. This sketch is from 1974. The name is a take off on the character from the motion picture's "Regan" played by Linda Blair. I think it more as spelled, " Ravin' " for comedy effect in this sketch ;)
@@lennypearl Yeah, during this time he was Governor of California and was an actor so its not like NO ONE had ever heard of him until he was President.
I'd never heard of The King Family, though I like mid-century pop culture cheese quite a bit. Turns out they were singers from the big band era who managed to hang on and get a late 1960s television show. Like the Osmonds, they were Mormans from Salt Lake City. Their Christmas specials ran from 1974-76, hence the joke here about the branch from their Christmas tree. Two members of the band The Arcade Fire are King Family grandchildren. All this and more at Wikipedia.
Honestly, I couldn't relate to some of the exorcising materials save for Pat Boone's white shoe. I'm a 90s kid who did not have any cable tv back in my home-country, the Philippines. But I couldn't help not to laugh out loud esp. with Carol Burnett's delivery. And Bernadette Peters' energumen voice reminded me somewhat of Ms. Swan's from MAD tv. Anyway, thank you for posting this clip of gem of a talent named Carol Burnett. I will be sure to check out the rest of her comedy skits.
bernadette kicks it. man, she so spot on. this is a very special episode of carol burnett. tim conway is as good as can be and you know we'll be seeing harvey korman, sometime or another. what a crew
i was just thinking, i know that voice. yes indeed it is lionel wagner one of carols most favorites. he is a lucky man to have her as a friend, believe you me. she is a darling
Lyle Waggoner was the show's announcer and performer for 7 years. In 1979, while working on Wonder Woman, he discovered and invested in the world of motor homes at $50,000 apiece, renting them out to Hollywood productions for $400-$500 per week as Star Waggons, which leased customized location trailers for use by the entertainment industry.
The more "evil" Bernadette tries to look, the more adorable she is! She's so young in this clip!
A couple weeks before her 27th b-day
@@KreemieNewgatt wow she was my age
I've always loved Bernadette Peters! I always thought she was just the most beautiful while still being incredibly adorable, person 🤍
I love when Tim Conway adlibs!!! 😂
Bernadette's little "evil eyes" are hysterical. lololol
Yeah, she is hilarious as a possessed child. :D
to these days mind & generation & the whole 9 yard, comes out more stupid & silly then funny
@@SFBenjaminK
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@@SFBenjaminK can you put those words in a proper sentence?
In 1974 I had my 1st car for about week , my best friend and I decided we should see The Exorcist which was only playing in one theatre about 40 miles away. This was during the gas shortage, but we managed to get to the theatre in Michigan City Ind. on a Saturday afternoon. We had to wait in line while the showing we wanted to see was sold out. It was an adventure I was 17 a high school senior. When I finally got home after dark, I turned on the TV and the 1st thing that came on was this sketch. It was freaky.
I love sketches like these when they keep the show going even when the actors are cracking up
Look for the 'Dentist' skit. It is rumored that Harvey Corman peed himself laughing so hard.
I wish we still had these variety shows. Bunch of junk now. I was very young during these times.
It’s all intentional Ajay. No mistakes at all . . . All set-ups ,
After a while it became clear that the Conway/Korman skits were being deliberately engineered to destroy Korman from the inside out. The absolute worst was the "Sleeping Beauty" one where all Korman needed to do was lie motionless in a glass case. That's all - just lie there. At one point Conway's character put his face down on the top of the glass to listen for breathing and promptly started snoring, inches above Korman's face. The camera was zoomed in tight on the two of them and it looked like Korman was going to explode. TCBS was a jewel of television comedy and Carol Burnett was and will always remain a giant.
@@bobareeniobobareenio2935 - No. The sketches were written to be funny for the audience, not to make the actors laugh. These shows were filmed in front of studio audiences, so no retakes were possible. Sometimes, the performers couldn't help laughing--especially given Tim Conway's habit of improvising.
I'm a '70s kid, and I never thought I'd one day say this about Carol Burnett, but she has a very rockin' body here 🔥
Um, never looked at her that way, but yup she's easy on the eyes!
She is a beautiful woman 👠
Do you remember that she and Cher had the same measurements, and used the same wardrobe guy for their dresses?
Too skinny, like most 70's women in entertainment sadly.
@@MDK2_Radio Not being hugely curvaceous doesn't make her too skinny. She looks healthy.
Bernadette peters was cute and gorgeous back then she is still gorgeous today
Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters in their very beautiful prime. Very nice!
Giggity
Can we PLEASE bring back variety shows like this!
It wouldnt b be the same.😒
Hi Tony :-)
With today's so-called "talent"? If that's what you want to see, I, certainly, wouldn't waste time watching people, today, attempt to do this...
@@malcolmdrake6137 so true…yep beat to stick to reruns lol
People just are not that funny anymore. Today the idea of humor is being raunchy.
I was sitting at a light in LA near the Dorthy Candler Theatre and Bernadette Peters was crossing the street. My claim to fame.
@@Noname24675 Stephanie is my daughters name. Anyway, I actually have had quite a few experiences as far as seeing actors in various places around Southern California. Spent the day at Warner Bros studio. Saw quite a few actors and visited various TV programs being videotaped. I was on Truth or Consequences. Met Kiersten Dunst. Saw numerous actors at Ram Football games. Peter Falk stood next to me and talked to a gentlemen sitting front of me. I saw Shirley Jones two times. Once in Big Bear Ca and once in Chico Ca. In the town I live in today, Chico, they've made quite a few movies. Being a delivery driver I was able to see some of the actors coming and going. One of the production guys invited me to a wrap party once. Sorry for going on and on. Peace.
I saw this just after coming home from seeing the movie which scared the hell out of me. The skit saved me from the nightmares I was sure I would have.
think of the people who never recovered
@@MN8 I always wondered after all of these years how the lady next to me who was clearly distressed coped.
@@paulabartholomew8497 now you know
@@MN8 How would I know how she did?
@@paulabartholomew8497 is this a trick question?
Did anybody notice that the doorbell rang AFTER Carol said "I'll get it."
"cheer up dear" not even joking, I laughed so hard I might have started a hernia 🤣🤣🤣
How does Bernadette Peters look the same age here as she does now? Is she a vampire?
She still looks good. But let's be real. She doesn't even look like she did in the '90s or '00s.
Carol Burnett's still a beaut! And she ain't hardly no camp! The most gifted funny lady since Mae West!
@@andrewdancy2849 She's an vegetarian exercises and plus the surgery
@@raydonahue1978 ullllu I'll I oki l I'll ullllllululluuulll\
Adrenochrome is popular in Hollywood. It does keep it's drinkers young.
So blessed to have these now right here! We need to share these to the younger generation.
Eye twitch, smirk: “Cheer up dear!”
😂
Omg that bit had me laughing so hard, the sarcasm is off the scale 🤣
Another one of my favorite sketches of hers. Bernadette is brilliant! Tim's knee joke is spit take hilarious!!!
Carol Burnette, Tim Conway, and Bernadette Peters in a skit with jokes about the generation gap, June Taylor, Maude, Nixon, and The Exorcist. It doesn't get any more 1974 than that.
I was an early teen around that time and had a major schoolboy crush on Bernadette Peters.
What's amazing is that Bernadette Peters doesn't look all that different than she does here 48 years ago.
Freelance exorcist... I swear, just hearing that cracked me up as much as anything else.
Carol didn't break like Harvey did, but Tim's "..little bit of her knee." ad-lib sure got her in this sketch!
Bernadette still has lots of goodness and purity in her heart and a little bit of her knee.
so random hahahahahah
this is such a blast from the past. how bout that line 'or will she return to washinton dc, where strange behavior is accepted.' too funny. somethings never change
I lived for the Carol Burnett….absolute comedy gold. And Bernadette Peters has a golden voice….she was fantastic in Into The Woods and Mack And Mabel….my mom played lots of show tune albums as I grew up in the 70’s! Such good times.
There was a skit that never aired due to one word. It is Tim Conway's elephant story. If you have not seen it, do so ASAP. To this day, I still view it at least once a week.
What really is amazing about Bernadette Peters is that she played the role of Lily Saint Regis in Annie with Carol Burnett 8 years later!!!!! AMAZING!!!! I never knew that they acted together before!!!!
Awww the days of Live TV. 🤣
Bernadette Peters has always looked like a beautiful doll... even while possessed.
I absolutely LOVE Bernadette Peters... so many good movies and characters. I believe I loved her best in 'The Jerk.'
love how Tim Conway cracks up Carol Burnett at the end as only he can do
Eventually they all cracked up.
Tim Conway cracked me up in this skit his voice reminds me of mister tudball😃
I saw Bernadette Peters once in NYC. I waved at her and she waved back. She seems like a really nice person.
“I’ll get it”
then DOORBELL RINGS.
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂. It’s the simple things
"and a little bit of her knee" was clearly ad libbed, which is why it cracked them up. Good stuff!
Funny but I didn’t understand what he meant by that lol
what does it mean?
@@robinshallrestoreamends , it doesn’t mean anything. He mentioned her soul and her heart, so, just for the sake of spontaneity, he added her knee as just another random part of her. He could have said “and her big toe” or @and her left shoulder” for the same effect. The fact that it didn’t mean anything is part of the humor of it. No meaning - just something added randomly (emphasis on randomly) purely for comic effect.
The funniest part 🤣
(1:55) "Oh well, what matter does it make! (What matter does it make?) What-- No matter!"
😆
“She’s such a sweet-“ **pauses cause people are laughing at her goof**
Followed by “I’ll get it!” (doorbell rings)
@@NoPawn Reminds me of that moment:
"Was that the--"
(doorbell noise)
"Oh yeah, it was the."
I was depressed as hell, even weeping a bit - then THIS showed up! Tears of laughter! The Carol Burnett Show never disappointed! These people KNEW TRUE COMEDY! I am so blessed to have watched it every week with my mother before she died of cancer. Ironically, my dad & stepmother met Carol in Maui two years later - she invited them to dinner.-I remember my dad saying about her, "She was one class act, really down-to-earth!"
Woooooww!
I hope you're feeling better now! It's great that RUclips can help in a pinch! I have found so many old comedies posted by fans on here!
you reminded me when I was a kid an my mom had kind of a nervous breakdown....we watched Carol Burnett every week together..... it helped a lot to chase the 'demons' away.
I'm a simple The Carol Burnett Show, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and The Exorcist fan. I see there's a video with all four, I click. Tim Conway was a bonus.
Airdate Feb. 16th, 1974. Probably the first Exorcist parody ever! Exorcist premiered Dec. 26th, 1973. I remember seeing the lines from the Empire State Building as a kid.
Keeping from breaking character when Bernadette Peters grunts and makes those faces had to be nearly impossible.
the original Moaning Myrtle, hahaha. i LOVE this show. we need shows like this again!
Holy Smokes! It's Lily St. Regis and Miss Hannigan from Annie (1982). Without Rooster!!
They were all perfect in Annie! Wish the script was better.🙄
@@kallen868 You think so? How would you write the script for this 1982 movie version of Annie?
They did soooo good in that movie!
Bernadette was such a cutie.
Fell down a very deep rabbit hole and found this video. What great comedy writing. Never seen this show before.
Oh my! You must be young. Would love to find out if you thought it was funny
when are we gonna get a series of bluray box sets for the entire show run. i want everyone of them?!
This is absolutely fantastic Bernadette does such a fantastic performance during this segment
excellent comedy.
🙋🏾♂️ I have always been, and I will always be in love with Bernadette Peters. ❤❤❤❤❤❤😍
I met her once. So amazing.
Same. But I think they could have done so much more with her than this.
You and me both.
@@kallen868 Tell all!
I wish SNL was this funny today.
So much better when they don't stare dead eyed into a teleprompter 24/7 like SNL does.
SNL stayed this long by minimizing controversy as time went on. They got into hot water a good few times now they refuse ANY deviation from the script. ZERO tolerance. So the cast BETTER get it all right. .in older days, if they messed up, they could get back on track and it was forgiven if it came out funny. But after some deviation caused trouble, snl refuses to allow that....that's why they all look at the cue. Secure their position
That was excellent. Especially Bernadette Peters, she played it so well.
Ah the golden age of televison every Saturday night!
Right before SNL!
Right on maude!! I remember all those episodes too...😂😂😂
Carol Burnett was simply brilliant
I grew up watching The Carol Burnette show; it's classic comedy and I love it.
Carol Bernett could say so much with just a facial expression!
I loved watching this show as part of the all-time greatest TV line-up ever. Saturday nights, early-mid 1970's, I was still only a pre-teen, my family hadn't started to splinter yet, and we ate sloppy joes or fondue and laughed out loud at Carol Burnett and MASH and Bob Newhart and All In The Family and Mary Tyler Moore.
@MaGuffintop Ive been bingeing RUclips collections of commercials from the late 60's through the 70's and 80's. Some really bad stuff but also transportive to a better time in my life relatively speaking. And speaking of Saturday mornings, you cant even find broadcast or cable channels that show cartoons anymore, at least not here in Tacoma/Seattle. Thank fuck for RUclips and the Internet though. Everything is findable. Have a great weekend!
@MaGuffintop Fun to spot famous actors during their struggle-days. I caught Jason Alexander, David Caruso, Joe Mantegna, Patrick Swayze, the more you watch the more you spot :)
She was awesome...always Ms hanagan to me..she was cute when she was young . Good personality
I'd never seen this before as I'm not sure it was shown in the UK - but it was hysterical! :)
Try a wonderfully blocked, almost 15-minutes-long uninterrupted brilliant comedy sketch like this one, in primetime TV today-not a chance. 🤨😍👍
Bernadette Peters totally makes this sketch!
2:57 - Ah yes, the old "Watergate tapes" gag.
(EDIT - Old now, but topical at the time, thanks for the replies! 😀)
Which was still new at this point.
@@MaskedMan66 yes the air date was 2/16/74.
I thought that was the reference!
@@NoPawn It is.
@@MaskedMan66 True.
Two goddesses and a god, at play. Timeless!
The only thing that could have made it better would have been for Harvey to appear as Mother Marcus.
Bernadette Peter's is SO CUTE and believable as a Little Girl. K
I love how Tim's priest sounds exactly like Mr. Tudball. That has to be very deliberate. My mom used to laugh herself into hysterics watching Carol Burnett. Still funny as hell!
Bernadette is so good at making those faces, they're hilarious. I'm surprised the audience isn't responding so well to Bernadette. I think these days people would be laughing hard at her performance, it's so good and funny.
I don’t know all the details of her career, but I feel like the 80s were when she became really popular. I’m assuming, at this point, she had had a role on Broadway that Carol saw and loved, but maybe America didn’t really know her.
Considering the source material, this is a slightly edgier sketch than usual - more like something from Mel Brooks than Carol Burnett.
@@llcooljay520 around this time, she had a supporting role in "The Longest Yard" with Burt Reynolds.
Of course they're responding!
@@llcooljay520 Bernadette was immensely popular in the 70's.
The Carol Burnet ♥️ show was awesome!! Carol was awesome 👌!! She never topped herself with this show. I laugh out loud ⌚️ing it!
I watched this show new, thought it was funniest after 1972. I remember this skit well. I was age 11 or 12 when this skit was new. It is still hilarious.
I'm the same age and remember it as well
I used to watch all these in my NYC apartment as a middleaged 36 year old before I moved from Manhattan because of the violent tendencies of a city that became entirely too revolting too quickly. Good years leading up to that...really just something fine.
I miss these days
I never though Bernadette Peters have such a long career, 48 years of entertaining us.
And that smile of her, at 11:29, having fun with the pro.
Longer. She did 'George M.' on Broadway in the late '60's.
@@kennethwayne6857 And before that, in 1968, she won a Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Actress in a Musical, for her portrayal of Ruby in "Dames at Sea".
Much longer! Her television debut was at age 3 1/2, she got her Actor's Equity card at age 9, and had her professional stage debut the same month. That was in 1958.
@@Dean-dk1xf wasn't aware of that...thank you
@@kennethwayne6857, wasn't aware of that. Thank you
I grew up on this show. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! Great memories
Bernadette's work in Playboy magazine 7 years later was pretty good too
i watched this as a kid and loved it, one of the best TV comedies ever made. Carol Burnett was Genius. :)
I remember seeing it in first run, too. I was a kid but we all knew about those Watergate tapes and I thought that was hysterical.
She's alive!
I love the bit about Pat Boone's white shoe - wonder what he thought of it. Didn't realize he was still alive until I saw those weird commercials he's doing now.
Nothing could be weirder than his heavy metal phase...
🕶 💋 🚬 👍 I love you Carol Burnett and I loved watching you and your cast as a kid and one of the more happy memories in my childhood thanks for the laughs ❤
Tim Conway's vocal inflection reminds me of the mohel in the 1993 "Seinfeld" episode "The Bris,"
This was funny on so many levels. I read the book to see how horrible of ridiculousness the scenario it's based on took it. Then the movie came along and embellished the book. I saw some movie goers' reactions to the movie. Complete over reactions, vomiting in the theater...etc. Enter Carol Burnett show. I couldn't stop laughing. I could watch this over and over and still get the same reaction. This show was genius at laughter, not making people laugh. In other words, they didn't have to work on making people laugh, especially with skits like this. Pure comedy gold. Again, the movie and book were over the top. This skit matched it immaculately.
The horror movies in the 50's and 60's were so boring and fake. The Exorcist changed that persona where people found the movie so real that caused hysteria.
"how horrible of ridiculousness?" Yeesh.
And it sounds more like those people in the theater were reacting, not "overreacting." Nothing like that had ever been seen before, at least not in a mainline movie.
Truly hilarious all 3 of them epic
4:18 Carol doing her best Jack Benny look!
Proto-Tudball? Bernadette is so committed in this sketch! That's how you do comedy.
Tim used that voice as a lot of characters; he'd based it on a Romanian relative of his.
this is the real deal. she had to do so many shows and though always good, it's hard to be perfect all the time. this video here, this is the bomb. this is carol at her very best and reminds me why i love her.
a white shoe worn by pat boone, get a load of bernadettes reaction. fantabulous. gave me a real down to earth belly laugh that one did. better than an apple a day, better yet, when she rolled off the couch to the floor. such theatrics. i am rolling on the floor myself right now. she got me big time. yea baby!!!
I love these actors......great comedy❤️
After Sunday in the Park with George, this is my favorite thing that Bernadette Peters has ever done.
Into the Woods!
“Goodness & purity in her heart and soul and a little bit of her knee!”
I just peed!
I've never seen 'The Exorcist' until recently, but have seen this sketch a million times. I always knew it was a take off of that movie, and now I know the "Raven" is a play on the name "Reagan"!
Reagan wasn't president until the 1980s. This sketch is from 1974. The name is a take off on the character from the motion picture's "Regan" played by Linda Blair. I think it more as spelled, " Ravin' " for comedy effect in this sketch ;)
@@Izumi-sp6fp I’m curious, what made you think my comment was about Ronald Regan?
@@lennypearl Yeah, during this time he was Governor of California and was an actor so its not like NO ONE had ever heard of him until he was President.
@@lennypearl Probably because you spelled the name as "Reagan" when the name of Linda Blair's character in _The Exocist_ was spelled "Regan."
In the Mad Magazine send-up, 'The Eccchhorcist', she was called Ravin.
I'd never heard of The King Family, though I like mid-century pop culture cheese quite a bit. Turns out they were singers from the big band era who managed to hang on and get a late 1960s television show. Like the Osmonds, they were Mormans from Salt Lake City.
Their Christmas specials ran from 1974-76, hence the joke here about the branch from their Christmas tree. Two members of the band The Arcade Fire are King Family grandchildren. All this and more at Wikipedia.
Anyone remember the 90’s when Marlena was possesed on Days Of Our Lives?
Yellow eyes.
That show had a Catholic world view, no joke.
I was invested that summer when no one knew it was Marlena! I was 12 that year and obsessed with DOOL haha
LOL, the beginning of this foreshadows her role of Birdie on SVU in the 2000s.
Even the thumbnail is hilarious 🤣
This is HILARIOUS
Honestly, I couldn't relate to some of the exorcising materials save for Pat Boone's white shoe. I'm a 90s kid who did not have any cable tv back in my home-country, the Philippines. But I couldn't help not to laugh out loud esp. with Carol Burnett's delivery. And Bernadette Peters' energumen voice reminded me somewhat of Ms. Swan's from MAD tv. Anyway, thank you for posting this clip of gem of a talent named Carol Burnett. I will be sure to check out the rest of her comedy skits.
This was a funny skit. The Exorcist skit done by Richard Pryor on Saturday Night Live was also funny.
"Churrry Blussums" RAWR
. . . and some tapes from Washington. Kids today have no idea. :)
Comedy at its best!!
bernadette kicks it. man, she so spot on. this is a very special episode of carol burnett. tim conway is as good as can be and you know we'll be seeing harvey korman, sometime or another. what a crew
So cheesy and I love it.
i was just thinking, i know that voice. yes indeed it is lionel wagner one of carols most favorites. he is a lucky man to have her as a friend, believe you me. she is a darling
Lyle Waggoner was the show's announcer and performer for 7 years. In 1979, while working on Wonder Woman, he discovered and invested in the world of motor homes at $50,000 apiece, renting them out to Hollywood productions for $400-$500 per week as Star Waggons, which leased customized location trailers for use by the entertainment industry.
love love love carol burnette!
Bernadette is SOO Bernadettey!
So good. So good.