I am a psychologist. I went to a workshop given by a rather famous psychologist who used clips from Mama's Family to demonstrate dysfunctional family dynamics. She found much truth in it, and made some profound points. To me, it is utterly hilarious, and never got the acclaim it deserved. I still can't believe Vicki Lawrence played Mama so perfectly, and Carol....well, she is a comic genius.
My own mother was a mildly watered down version of Eunice. These scenes cracked me up when I was a kid and now I know why - the narcissism and passive aggressiveness. And yes, Carol Burnett was a comic genius.
There s all types and levels & types, of dysfunctional families. From ridgid to chaotic and in between. And some with major repeating cycles of trauma plaguing some families. That make this program look like totally sane and got it all together..in comparison !.
That's how my mom was with me when I was a child and I would do something wrong. She'd yell and scream at me and read me the Ryot act and in the blink of an eye I'm going down to Walmart by the way is there anything you need?
This is so funny that it takes a little while to realize that Mama is talking about how she used to have to deal with a physically and verbally abusive husband.
This has got to be the WORST thing to watch when recovering from back surgery. I am laughing so doggone hard I'm sure I busted a stitch 😂😂😂 Absolutely LOVE IT. Laughter is the BEST MEDICINE.
I watched an interview that Vicki Lawrence talked about her role as Mama. She said she wasn't completely comfortable with playing the character. She didn't feel she could spend 30 minutes screaming at the other characters. Evidently she was able to because she was excellent in the role.
She said that in regard to a weekly sitcom. And not playing it but the audiece's reaction. Mama in these sketches is true Mama as she was created and intended by Dick and Jenna. The Mama that was altered for consumption by those newbie sitcom viewers isn't Mama and I agree with the writers. If you didn't like the yelling you didn't like the character and maybe watch something else.
It's so funny how one minute, they're ripping each other apart. Then the next, someone has an epiphany and humbleness sets in; they're walking non-stop roller coasters.
Mama warming up the Cream of Wheat reminds me so much of my grandma. Grandma would keep reheating the coffee in the coffee pot throughout the day until it was gone. She'd never make a fresh pot - lol
The reason why "Mama's Family" was so funny and successful is that everybody recognizes elements of their own families in the dysfunction shown in this show. Everybody can relate to it. Art imitating life. Everyone Loves Raymond and some other shows were similar.
Yes: I feel that "Everybody Loves Raymond" is probably the closest thing to this family dynamic that's ever been on TV since Carol and her gang did these characters in the 1970's. The 1980's sitcom "Mama's Family" started out like these hilarious sketches but then changed dramatically once the show went into syndication (when they killed off Fran and brought in Iola and Bubba). Mama mellowed big time and became a completely different character. She still had her temper but she was far from the completely ornery and judgmental person we see in this video here. I wish Vicki had kept Mama mean, but when the sitcom became popular Harvey Korman convinced her to alter the personality because he believed the character would not be likable if she was totally mean and cranky all the time.
Carol and Viki always said in interviews they had writers that hated their families. The brilliance of these sketches is they took a concept, drama first and then added some humorous one-liners.
@Logically progressive We can disagree and still compare notes, that's a good thing. That change in Vint was dramatic, no doubt. I always felt that once Vint transformed into a dolt, actor Ken Berry borrowed heavily from Don Knotts' brilliant work as Barney Fife for some of Vint's mannerisms and reactions. Like you say, Vint in the first two seasons started off kind of standoffish-- for me he was like a Joe Average, an Everyman (from the South); hardly a comical character except for a few random moments. And then in season three ... instant dingaling. Sometimes Vint's lack of brains was funny, though. It depended on each script/writer. As for Mama habitually hitting him in years 3-6 if she became peeved with him: look closely and most of the time she does very light swats. But once in a while she would really smack him in the shoulder. I enjoy the Bubba/Iola seasons but there is something so good about certain earlier episodes, like the obscene phone calls that start coming when Naomi is up for Cashier of the Month (or whatever title it was), or the show about Mama getting that job as receptionist at the Raytown Travel Agency (when she answers the phone the first time by herself, I nearly weep from laughing). Good stuff.
@Logically progressive I agree, there aren't many good sitcoms anymore. If I find *one* each year that impresses me, I am basically flabbergasted, LOL. The only recent one that completely won me over was Grace and Frankie, on Netflix. Oh, and since you were speaking of Aunt Fran (I liked the episode where Thelma replaced her pink dress with another one but it had all these tucks and things) ... You probably heard this before, but Rue was initially offered the Rose role on Golden Girls while Betty White was offered Blanche; they swapped, wisely, as Betty already played a self centered nympho in the previous decade. And Rue played something of a ditz on Maude. Regarding Bubba: I liked his character when he first started. But after a while they made him into some shallow, vain type who was no longer a hell-raiser. It was just all about girls and his hair, very boring for me. Oh, well, I still liked the series even as it changed. Beverly Archer added a lot as Iola.
Ha, ha, ha.....I don't think we'll ever see this sweet simple, clean comedy again! Hope I'm proved wrong! Comedy without vulgarity.....where do you find that in this day and age?
I cannot stop watching these Carol Burnett clips. Eunice and Mamma are so hilarious. These characters are the splitting image of each other their always screaming around about something.
lee Rusty It would be great to see the classics. But Vicky Lawrence is doing great right now on Fox’s The Cool Kids. It’s so funny, produced by the same guys from Its Always Sunny...
Truthfully, it wouldn't be the same. Vicky's spinoff was not nearly as funny as crotchety Mama on the CB show. Also, we would miss Ed and Mickey. Killer ensemble!
I was watching then and also in it's original time slot on Wednesday. It came on at 9 and we had to go to bed at 9:30. We used to hide the hallway and sneak peaks. Good memories 😊
I love Tim Conway ! No one held a candle to him in comedy between all the a three of them. ! I can't imagine y Conway wasn't mentioned on your lists altho he wasn't on this hillbilly nonsense ..entire family behaves ignorant on this program.. Didfunctiond in families are bad enough long enough & progressively grows like a cancer worse as time goes by !!! But I will give VickiLawrence an A t for her role she played and Burnette second place.. If you enjoy watching and listening to arguing and fighting and childish content complaining and nagging. . I liked carol Burnette show much better.. Alot more variety and different guests. Rather than same ole same ole bickering amoung themselves. it annoying and never racking. Kinda sickening too. Nut they all play their parts in Excellency ! Although pretty much all the same: being ridiculous!I hope their own families are nothing close to this, in real life. !!! Wish Tim Conway wld hv been part of the show as the ole man skits. 😂 Then I would watched it way more often. R.I.P TIM
This one is a chilling and masterful script, to be fair. So much back information and pitiful memories they share about their characters, how Carl threw things at Thelma and abused Eunice too. It gets glossed over when we laugh, but they are very sad, well developed characters. The sketch begins and ends with them trying to be Holy and pleasing to God but not a minute goes by theyre not judging and screaming with those blood curdling (hilarious) gut screams all three actors were so good at.
The scripts were written straight, not jokes or laughs, but performed straight, these scripts could be a drama. The characters saying these lines makes it hilarious. Carol and Vicki say as much themselves.
These Eunice and family sketches always seem to deliver. They really bring something special to the show. It’s hard to describe how unique they are. They are funny, very funny really, but the pain the characters have is also just under the surface. A absurd as they are they always have a profound message to them!
Favoritism always destroys relationships.I remember watching these when I was young and thought it was hilarious. Now that I've dealt with people(in-laws, siblings) like that, it's not as funny. But, I love The Carol Burnett Show.
This whole skit is completely me and my family. It's just me and my mom and my younger sister and this is totally how we Act. We are completely dysfunctional but we love each other lol.
Eunice's emotional pain is really pretty dark. If a lesser actress were playing her, the Family sketches could easily tip over into sentimentality and maudlin awkwardness. In an interview, Carol Burnett said that once, at the table read for the latest Family sketch, they tried it without the Southern accents, and the results were virtually too painful to bear. Without the accents, she said, it was like a family tragedy out of Ibsen or Strindberg.
Absolutely - just like my husband's family! His parents adore the baby brother who literally treats them like crap. My husband is the middle child, who would do anything for them, any time of day. I have to reign him in sometimes, he would drive 30+ minutes to go pick up food for them if they claim they haven't eaten,, after he worked a 12-hour shift but they are actually capable of getting food for themselves, or the son they live woth could get them food They never thank him for anything he does, but his younger brother is hailed as a prince, such a hard worker, great son, etc. Makes me so irritated!
@@MaxOakland I'm talking about racist jokes, period. They just put people down. People are people, no matter where they're from! We're all from the planet Earth.
@@MaxOakland yeah this person is clearly talking about how everything is about race,gender, and politics. its made its way into comedy. and im quite sick of it ....
I had a mother-in-law that was horrible. (not just to me, but to everyone) One day my neighbor said "Bobbie , she is a character, but you need to pray for her" I said "Sam, I do, I pray every night she will not wake up in the morning"
The Carol Burnett Show was and will always be a classical comedy at it's BEST! ALL of the skits are so funny, but my favorite is the segment with Tim Conway, Carol Bernett, Vicky Lawrence and Dick Van Die. When Tim tells about the Elephants. I laugh so hard and I have seen it at least 25 times
In my high school days in the 1980's, nearly everyone knew about the CB Show, even us kids, especially The Family skits. I actually wrote and put on two plays for my French Club class for entertainment when we had parties at club members homes. It was all unique material...none stolen from the CB Show, but, clearly, based on the characters from the show. We had one actress who went all out to play Mama, including a hilarious dress, wig, pillow stuffed in her stomach, and great mannerisms. I wish I could find the scripts I wrote, but I do remember them. They went over so well, and were absolutely hilarious, in particular one skit that involved Eunice, Ed and Mama taking a plane trip to go to France. That was a tie in to us being all French Club members. And in one scene on the plane, Eunice was practicing her French, and she was totally mispronouncing everything, along with a heavy southern accent. It was hilarious. And then I had Mama say "I do declare, Ed, we got us a native Paris-site." That alone drew huge laughs from the audience! I LOVE The Family skits!
I did see the skit with Joanne Woodward and it was interesting how calm Eunice is when Mama and Ed aren't around, and Mama was finally out into her place there.
This is TV at its best!! I was a small kid when this show was on, and I'm sure a lot of it went over my head back then, but thank God for RUclips!! Classic comedy!! We need more if this today, FOR SURE
I was born and raised in the south. I love these segments because they remind me of a lot of my relatives. None of them were as over the top as they are but I am waxing nostalgic tonight. Excellent stuff.
I am a psychologist. I went to a workshop given by a rather famous psychologist who used clips from Mama's Family to demonstrate dysfunctional family dynamics. She found much truth in it, and made some profound points. To me, it is utterly hilarious, and never got the acclaim it deserved. I still can't believe Vicki Lawrence played Mama so perfectly, and Carol....well, she is a comic genius.
SO funny that he used "The Family" clips. I've heard people say that they see their own family dysfunction in some of these skits. Me too! Lol.
My own mother was a mildly watered down version of Eunice. These scenes cracked me up when I was a kid and now I know why - the narcissism and passive aggressiveness. And yes, Carol Burnett was a comic genius.
There s all types and levels & types, of dysfunctional families. From ridgid to chaotic and in between. And some with major repeating cycles of trauma plaguing some families. That make this program look like totally sane and got it all together..in comparison !.
@@glendathegoodwitch6987 Tim Conway..more so ! As said by Carol Butnette herself.
Joyce Brothers appeared on the syndicated version
Mama Harper and Eunice put the FUN in dysfunctional!
They go from 0 to 1000 in 5 minutes LOL
Minutes? 😀
@@Smilingraincat😂
Talk about pent up feelings. They’re all ticking bombs. Lord have mercy. 😅
Korman, one of the most underrated and overlooked actors of our time..
hewas in so many shows leading up to this one, Hazel, Lucy Show..etc.
He never seemed to age….
He had to play his part and he is great at it
*FACTS*
@alank5560 he was already old thats why.
The comedy shows of today can’t hold a candle to Carol Burnett. !!
I love Carol Burnett!
@Donald Zachariah Why do you keep sending this same reply, do you have stock in the company or something 😂😂???
You show no what to say** 🤣😂🤣😂2👍👍up
I agree ❤
Love the way they go from screaming hysterically at each other to friendly chit chat in the blink of an eye.
That's exactly how life in the south really is/was!
Funny 2👍👍up🤣😂😅😂🤣😂😅
Or go from friendly chit chat to screaming hysterically... they use start out so nice and loving 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dropkickmurphy4114 and in many other areas
That's how my mom was with me when I was a child and I would do something wrong. She'd yell and scream at me and read me the Ryot act and in the blink of an eye I'm going down to Walmart by the way is there anything you need?
By far, some of the best script writing ever to come on television
They were the best
They don’t make them like that anymore!
This is so funny that it takes a little while to realize that Mama is talking about how she used to have to deal with a physically and verbally abusive husband.
This has got to be the WORST thing to watch when recovering from back surgery. I am laughing so doggone hard I'm sure I busted a stitch 😂😂😂 Absolutely LOVE IT. Laughter is the BEST MEDICINE.
this can sure cure anything
It is. Hope you had a successful recovery, but outstanding taste
It hurts me to even hear you say back surgery!! I hope everything was a success!!!
You are so right about 😂😂😂 Get well soon
Hey
I’m 18 and love The Carol Burnett show. Classic television like this is way better than today’s television.
Courtney Cox You have GOOD taste!!!!
You watched an old TV skit from before you were born, congratulations
Great talent is timeless
My 20 year old daughter doesn't. She has no taste unlike you!! You're about the first 18 year old who loved the show. Glad to see it.
So much better I totally agree
Even on a bad day, you can always count on The Carol Burnett Show to cheer you up.
And Lucille Ball two of the VERY BEST❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I still watch her daily...It is great for my blood pressure also...
Absolutely
I watched an interview that Vicki Lawrence talked about her role as Mama. She said she wasn't completely comfortable with playing the character. She didn't feel she could spend 30 minutes screaming at the other characters. Evidently she was able to because she was excellent in the role.
She was hysterical. And being 16 years younger than Carol Burnett - I could see how that would seem awkward!
She said that in regard to a weekly sitcom. And not playing it but the audiece's reaction. Mama in these sketches is true Mama as she was created and intended by Dick and Jenna. The Mama that was altered for consumption by those newbie sitcom viewers isn't Mama and I agree with the writers. If you didn't like the yelling you didn't like the character and maybe watch something else.
@@BrunetteOnTheCouch
Yeah, those 2 writers absolutely hated their mother
The Lord lead Ed to hardware 😁
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
LOL
It's so funny how one minute, they're ripping each other apart. Then the next, someone has an epiphany and humbleness sets in; they're walking non-stop roller coasters.
Neuroticism
Maybe they are all bi-polar?
The writers really need the credit and kudos for how they write these sketches.
I agree 1000%
Amen.
I think a whole lot of it was ad lib!
Brilliant comedic work. absolute mastery of their crafts!
Mama warming up the Cream of Wheat reminds me so much of my grandma. Grandma would keep reheating the coffee in the coffee pot throughout the day until it was gone. She'd never make a fresh pot - lol
Those floral dresses, wallpaper, curtains, upholstery...no wonder they were crazy. 🤪
Today is Carol Burnett's 90th birthday..I celebrating by watching all the Eunice skits back to back .
Is Carol Burnette still alive?
That butter cost money lol.
"No I am not drunk!" LOL
LOLOL
Her delivery of that line is perfect. Didn't miss a beat.
Even after all the yrs that's past,this is still the best comedy EVER 👍👍😂😂😂😂😂
Here Here!
Mary Easton Amen!
Yes it IS 🤣
This is great but nothing beats all in the family
even me iam arapic women and i love her show alot
Dysfunctional family drama and tension reinforced and alleviated by food! Totally correct!
The reason why "Mama's Family" was so funny and successful is that everybody recognizes elements of their own families in the dysfunction shown in this show. Everybody can relate to it. Art imitating life. Everyone Loves Raymond and some other shows were similar.
Yes!!! If you dont have people in your family like these characters...you know people in other peoples families like them...
Yes: I feel that "Everybody Loves Raymond" is probably the closest thing to this family dynamic that's ever been on TV since Carol and her gang did these characters in the 1970's.
The 1980's sitcom "Mama's Family" started out like these hilarious sketches but then changed dramatically once the show went into syndication (when they killed off Fran and brought in Iola and Bubba). Mama mellowed big time and became a completely different character. She still had her temper but she was far from the completely ornery and judgmental person we see in this video here. I wish Vicki had kept Mama mean, but when the sitcom became popular Harvey Korman convinced her to alter the personality because he believed the character would not be likable if she was totally mean and cranky all the time.
Carol and Viki always said in interviews they had writers that hated their families. The brilliance of these sketches is they took a concept, drama first and then added some humorous one-liners.
@Logically progressive We can disagree and still compare notes, that's a good thing. That change in Vint was dramatic, no doubt. I always felt that once Vint transformed into a dolt, actor Ken Berry borrowed heavily from Don Knotts' brilliant work as Barney Fife for some of Vint's mannerisms and reactions. Like you say, Vint in the first two seasons started off kind of standoffish-- for me he was like a Joe Average, an Everyman (from the South); hardly a comical character except for a few random moments. And then in season three ... instant dingaling. Sometimes Vint's lack of brains was funny, though. It depended on each script/writer.
As for Mama habitually hitting him in years 3-6 if she became peeved with him: look closely and most of the time she does very light swats. But once in a while she would really smack him in the shoulder.
I enjoy the Bubba/Iola seasons but there is something so good about certain earlier episodes, like the obscene phone calls that start coming when Naomi is up for Cashier of the Month (or whatever title it was), or the show about Mama getting that job as receptionist at the Raytown Travel Agency (when she answers the phone the first time by herself, I nearly weep from laughing). Good stuff.
@Logically progressive I agree, there aren't many good sitcoms anymore. If I find *one* each year that impresses me, I am basically flabbergasted, LOL. The only recent one that completely won me over was Grace and Frankie, on Netflix.
Oh, and since you were speaking of Aunt Fran (I liked the episode where Thelma replaced her pink dress with another one but it had all these tucks and things) ... You probably heard this before, but Rue was initially offered the Rose role on Golden Girls while Betty White was offered Blanche; they swapped, wisely, as Betty already played a self centered nympho in the previous decade. And Rue played something of a ditz on Maude.
Regarding Bubba: I liked his character when he first started. But after a while they made him into some shallow, vain type who was no longer a hell-raiser. It was just all about girls and his hair, very boring for me. Oh, well, I still liked the series even as it changed. Beverly Archer added a lot as Iola.
Mama is straight up savage 😂😂😂😂
Putin - You ain't lying!
"I am calling China! I am calling Afghanistan! I am running up a $50,000 phone bill!" Lol!
This was good comedy. They don't make 'em like this anymore
ODB Gonz I don’t think they do have any live slapstick comedy anymore.
It's really sad. So much comedy is lazy now. They just added canned laughter thinking it's funny.
Ha, ha, ha.....I don't think we'll ever see this sweet simple, clean comedy again! Hope I'm proved wrong! Comedy without vulgarity.....where do you find that in this day and age?
Unfortunately.
@@Daleylife Comedies that aren't funny. Strange.
These ladies are classic comic genius.
the whole cast was brilliant!
Harvey Gorman. Tim conway
@@petersolhjell604 It's pronounce Harvey Korman
“I have looked into the corners of my soul and you know what I found there?!? I FOUND LUUUUUUVVVVVV!!!” 😂
Carol's face when she says this is PRICELESS!!
I cannot stop watching these Carol Burnett clips. Eunice and Mamma are so hilarious. These characters are the splitting image of each other their always screaming around about something.
I'm the same way ! I ❤❤❤❤❤
Carol Burnett ! I watch them over and over ! Gotta laugh these days😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tumbs up for Mama and Eunice to come back to TV or Netflixs
lee Rusty mama would be 100 lol
lee Rusty It would be great to see the classics. But Vicky Lawrence is doing great right now on Fox’s The Cool Kids. It’s so funny, produced by the same guys from Its Always Sunny...
Truthfully, it wouldn't be the same. Vicky's spinoff was not nearly as funny as crotchety Mama on the CB show. Also, we would miss Ed and Mickey. Killer ensemble!
They are on Amazon with prime membership
@@haggiefatigue2971 truth
I remember me and my mom and dad and myself laughing at the " still see him settin' there " remark . Such a part of my childhood . Both are gone now .
P47:
And Eunice says "well in that case, you don't have to go to the cemetery to tell him, you can just go into the bathroom". Lol.
It’s sure does
I asked my Dad why was he always in the toilet he told me it was the only place he had peace and quiet
Carol Burnett is a spit fire, she is a natural.......love her to pieces
I remember when this show was on primetime Saturday. It still is as entertainig today as it was then.
i remember going with my uncle to see laurel and hardy. every time a new one came out we would go see them can't bring those days back.
I was watching then and also in it's original time slot on Wednesday. It came on at 9 and we had to go to bed at 9:30. We used to hide the hallway and sneak peaks. Good memories 😊
The Carol Burnett show will always be the best of the Best😂😂😂
Im 24 years old, and this is Comedy Gold💯💯
This is brilliant
Its hilarious how Mama is so chill in this episode 😂and then shes back in her old attitude 😅
As a native Southerner, I can confirm that we call an aunt “ Aint “! lol
I luv me some Carol and Vicki, they were the funniest comics in the day, Tim Conway too 😂😂😂
I love this skit! I love Carol, Vicki, and Harvey!
I love Tim Conway ! No one held a candle to him in comedy between all the a three of them. ! I can't imagine y Conway wasn't mentioned on your lists altho he wasn't on this hillbilly nonsense ..entire family behaves ignorant on this program.. Didfunctiond in families are bad enough long enough & progressively grows like a cancer worse as time goes by !!! But I will give VickiLawrence an A t for her role she played and Burnette second place.. If you enjoy watching and listening to arguing and fighting and childish content complaining and nagging. . I liked carol Burnette show much better.. Alot more variety and different guests. Rather than same ole same ole bickering amoung themselves. it annoying and never racking. Kinda sickening too. Nut they all play their parts in Excellency ! Although pretty much all the same: being ridiculous!I hope their own families are nothing close to this, in real life. !!! Wish Tim Conway wld hv been part of the show as the ole man skits. 😂 Then I would watched it way more often. R.I.P TIM
Lyla is right about this episode of The Carol Burnett Show. I am enjoying this is one of funny ones to watch.
This one is a chilling and masterful script, to be fair. So much back information and pitiful memories they share about their characters, how Carl threw things at Thelma and abused Eunice too. It gets glossed over when we laugh, but they are very sad, well developed characters. The sketch begins and ends with them trying to be Holy and pleasing to God but not a minute goes by theyre not judging and screaming with those blood curdling (hilarious) gut screams all three actors were so good at.
I miss
Ths kind of great acting....I love this seen.......
The scripts were written straight, not jokes or laughs, but performed straight, these scripts could be a drama. The characters saying these lines makes it hilarious. Carol and Vicki say as much themselves.
These Eunice and family sketches always seem to deliver. They really bring something special to the show. It’s hard to describe how unique they are. They are funny, very funny really, but the pain the characters have is also just under the surface. A absurd as they are they always have a profound message to them!
wipes away my blues...thank God for Carol Burnett and crew.
Natasha Gude so true
Natasha Gude ‼️
Favoritism always destroys relationships.I remember watching these when I was young and thought it was hilarious. Now that I've dealt with people(in-laws, siblings) like that, it's not as funny. But, I love The Carol Burnett Show.
My younger brother was the favored one in our family. It was hard on me.
This is a family that should have been on Jerry Springer, especially at a dinner table on the stage.
This is my anxiety medicine 🥰😍
Dealing with a terrible bout of anxiety myself and I wholeheartedly agree. This show seems to ease it some.
eunice is my favorite character of hers
God, what a gifted ensemble ❤
I love the way Carol screams, she gets so damn loud 😂😂😂
Great lungs! Remember her Tarzan?! MMB
Nobody can act this good anymore, they need to edit and cut every two minutes,
You are so right.
This whole skit is completely me and my family. It's just me and my mom and my younger sister and this is totally how we Act. We are completely dysfunctional but we love each other lol.
Eunice's emotional pain is really pretty dark. If a lesser actress were playing her, the Family sketches could easily tip over into sentimentality and maudlin awkwardness. In an interview, Carol Burnett said that once, at the table read for the latest Family sketch, they tried it without the Southern accents, and the results were virtually too painful to bear. Without the accents, she said, it was like a family tragedy out of Ibsen or Strindberg.
God I miss this show!
And now, due to the magic of the internet, you don't have to miss it anymore ...
Age old story, the ones you show the least appreciation for, are the ones you can always count on!
🙋🏼♀️Hey Mississippi Dude May i just say🤦🏼♀️ ... *_AAAAAMEN!!!_*
😇🙏🏻😉
Absolutely - just like my husband's family! His parents adore the baby brother who literally treats them like crap. My husband is the middle child, who would do anything for them, any time of day. I have to reign him in sometimes, he would drive 30+ minutes to go pick up food for them if they claim they haven't eaten,, after he worked a 12-hour shift but they are actually capable of getting food for themselves, or the son they live woth could get them food They never thank him for anything he does, but his younger brother is hailed as a prince, such a hard worker, great son, etc. Makes me so irritated!
#FACTS
He's Ellenn!!
Well.. That sure @ least makes me feel better. lol
@08:14, THAT BUTTER COSTS MONEY YOU KNOW?? $5.80 A POUND!!! RIGHT ON TARGET for 1973 and 2024!!
I was too younge to watch these. But now I enjoy these. 👍🙃👀
Proof that you don't need 'dirty', lines, mean, racial comments, or swear words to be funny. ❤ 😊
What do you mean raciaI comments?
@@MaxOakland Any comment/joke about different races that people laugh at, but is honestly very degrading.
@@gracealexandre3381 Can you be more specific? Are you talking about racist jokes against minorities?
@@MaxOakland I'm talking about racist jokes, period. They just put people down. People are people, no matter where they're from! We're all from the planet Earth.
@@MaxOakland yeah this person is clearly talking about how everything is about race,gender, and politics. its made its way into comedy. and im quite sick of it ....
This episode was a classic! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Mama was the first Medea. Love both of them. 🎄👩🏻🦳💫
Medea?
@@peterpiper7441 It's pronounced MADEA to you.
Dennison Edwards Medea can't compete with mama,when these 3 were together the laughter was real.
You are so right. I never made the connection between the two of them. 😂😂😂
@@katespurlding9647 they can't compete with MADEA
Carol Burnett I love you and your shows
Carol Burnett is not sitting around reading comments on old RUclips videos.
"Daddy your little PRUNE TART is causing a scene!!".....TOILET FLUSHES. LMAO!!
Mama wasn't a sweet little old lady,she was spunky as hell..mean old lady...
Kind of like Sophia on Golden Girls. But Mama makes Sophia look like a girl scout, lol.
No
KEEP YOUR PANTS ON MR, IM TALKIN TO EUNICE....LOL
I love Mama's family 💕💕
After nine years... Still eating cream of wheat.
This is MY family. We’d watch it and roll on the floor laughing because we saw our selves.
The entire skit is hilarious! But it really gets funny at 8:00🤣🤣 Vicki Lawrence was amazing!
Love the family. That Vickey Lawrence is a great actress.
1:34: I think this is the first and last time Mama ever said something nice to Ed.
Don't come near me Eunice. You're perspiring!!!
A lot like my family!
And I thought my family was bad !!!
I had a mother-in-law that was horrible. (not just to me, but to everyone) One day my neighbor said "Bobbie , she is a character, but you need to pray for her" I said "Sam, I do, I pray every night she will not wake up in the morning"
Is she still kicking? 😅
@@demcadman No, died years back
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I know the feeling.
My mother died 3 weeks ago.... I celebrated 🥳
😂😂 😂
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I grew up with this, and enjoy watching this recently laughing so hard.😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😆😆😆
I love this episode! The carol brunette sketch’s are so good ! I also love Mamas family 🤍🤍
Used to watch this show in the 70s every week. Was just a kid, but I still enjoyed it. Even funnier now - has me in stitches lol.
I always loved carol Burnett, classic television.
Mark Peden i have all of mamas fam on dvds.
Marshan Thomas yes I like that also.
Marshan Thomas Hello, do you have 24 and 25? Greg. Z
The Carol Burnett Show was and will always be a classical comedy at it's BEST! ALL of the skits are so funny, but my favorite is the segment with Tim Conway, Carol Bernett, Vicky Lawrence and Dick Van Die. When Tim tells about the Elephants. I laugh so hard and I have seen it at least 25 times
Their ALL wearing white shoes!!!!! Lol!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They're, not 'their'.
@@peterpiper7441 Why are they all wearing white shoes.
That is kind of weird.
I wanna see the car ride 🤣
Please add the rest of The Family sketches. I love these, especially the "Gong Show" one. Lol.
Boy I miss this kind of comedy!!!
they should have made this a show it is so funny these three crack me up
and it went six years!!
Eunice: "I am calling China!! I am calling Afghanistan!!! I am running up a $50,000 phone bill!!!!" ROTFLMAO!!!
Yes! So hilarious!!! I loved these skits!
I love cream of wheat...ate some today!
I love cream of wheat too!
I loved every episode.
This was brilliant.
this is a very early one... Eunice and Thelma don't hate each other and Ed is treated with respect.
It was the 2nd one. It was the 1st episode of season 8 of Carol Burnett Show (September 14, 1974).
In my high school days in the 1980's, nearly everyone knew about the CB Show, even us kids, especially The Family skits. I actually wrote and put on two plays for my French Club class for entertainment when we had parties at club members homes. It was all unique material...none stolen from the CB Show, but, clearly, based on the characters from the show. We had one actress who went all out to play Mama, including a hilarious dress, wig, pillow stuffed in her stomach, and great mannerisms. I wish I could find the scripts I wrote, but I do remember them. They went over so well, and were absolutely hilarious, in particular one skit that involved Eunice, Ed and Mama taking a plane trip to go to France. That was a tie in to us being all French Club members. And in one scene on the plane, Eunice was practicing her French, and she was totally mispronouncing everything, along with a heavy southern accent. It was hilarious. And then I had Mama say "I do declare, Ed, we got us a native Paris-site." That alone drew huge laughs from the audience! I LOVE The Family skits!
I did see the skit with Joanne Woodward and it was interesting how calm Eunice is when Mama and Ed aren't around, and Mama was finally out into her place there.
I couldn’t get my hair that crazy looking if I tried.
I found LOOOOOOOOOOVE!
Such quality entertainment like this doesn't exist today. Classic!
This is TV at its best!! I was a small kid when this show was on, and I'm sure a lot of it went over my head back then, but thank God for RUclips!! Classic comedy!! We need more if this today, FOR SURE
Laughter is the best medicine..
Love, Love, Love, her....she's the
Queen.....
White shoes on all of them. 😂
I love these skits!
This show is b4 my days..I discover this show watching reruns of The Carol Bennett show now I'm hooked this is the most funniest sho ever!!!!!!
I was born and raised in the south. I love these segments because they remind me of a lot of my relatives. None of them were as over the top as they are but I am waxing nostalgic tonight. Excellent stuff.
Great show ,great childhood memories