I think Eunice would have been fine with Mama having a rich boyfriend- as long as Mama would keep babysitting Eunice's kids at a moment's notice for FREE! The second Mama said she couldn't babysit that ONE time because she was due to travel, THAT is when Eunice went on the warpath!
This was definitely one of the best family sketches. The whole "wake up and smell the coffee" bit in the kitchen was priceless. Whenever they show the best clips from the show, that one is frequently shown.
Vickie Lawrence began on this show as a teen. She must have known she was made for acting. She is majorly talented and a real study in how to perform... She is able to go from aging "Mama" to one of the dancers in heels and seductive costumes. She can play such a variety of characters. She has cut records and ended up in the top 10 with great singing talent as well. Her one woman show has been performed around the country as well. She is amazing.
Carol Burnett is a national treasure. These ‘family’ segments are some of the funniest, most brilliantly acted and timeless comedies ever done. At times they also have a definite undercurrent of pathos. I imagine they hit home with a lot of people.
I love that Vicki Lawrence is in her EARLY 20s here... the talent that was brought out of her at such a tender age... Amazing. I applaud Carol for SEEING that spark in her at 17 yrs old!!! They're both simply genius! ❤❤
@@wilykat that's just amazing! Thank u for the info, I knew she was very young. I didn't know Carol was preg at the time, how funny! It was destined to be.... 🥀🌹❤️
@@ColleenD78 Indeed it was. Out of Carol's own mouth she said that when she saw the newspaper clipping of Vicki, it was like looking at a younger version of herself.
These skits and the Mrs. Wiggins skits are the best of the show. I wish they would put out a dvd set of just these. So much of the show was just so-so. These are the Honeymooners of this variety show.
Same me and my grandma and the whole family would gather Friday nights around the TV set to watch the Carol Burnet show. Brings back such beautiful memories ❤❤❤
My mom and I used to watch the Carol Burnett show every Saturday night. Mama's family skits were our favorite. The talent was unreal. Those were the days. I miss those days and I miss my mother. What a masterpiece of down home Americana.....
OMG I just howled through this Family skit - they are all perfect for the characters they're playing, and they must have had the greatest writers alive!! How I wish the Carol Burnett Show was still on, we'd all have something to actually enjoy on tv!!
Mama's Family is one of the best hilarious tv show & so many stories about this family & Definitely the dysfunction, lol. Id be glad to see my mom to have a boyfriend & let me be a mama in Mama's age & a man coming to see me, shoot I'd be running behind the man & think nothing of leaving everyone else in the town & go & have fun. The best show & no matter if you are sick at home, this show will definitely make you laugh no matter how your day is. A classic show that I wish could have kept going on & on. Hello all from South Carolina.❤️💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They offered The Carol Burnett Show on DVD a few years ago and I ordered it. I got a DVD set which they claimed was every episode it wasn't but at least I have a lot of them. For the price I paid I didn't complain since it wasn't that bad compared to other sets I have.
Eunice cracks me up when she be looking at Ed when he laughs and when mama Beau smacks mama in the behind lol her look is priceless 😂 and then Everytime Ed get up she sit him down lol her look are priceless
A lot of long lost sketches from The Family I bet this person just found them and decided to upload them to share. Most of these lost sketches are the first time my generation gets to see them!
This was one of the regular sketches from the Carol Burnett show that was airing back in the late 60's and 70's. I remember this one in particular with Eunice banging her head into the refrigerator screaming "Oh, this is a BLACK DAY, a BLACK DAY..."
Amen. Hollyweird is on the decline from their sexual behaviour to the reality crap they call entertainment. Let's not forget their self congratulatory awards shows which are downright ridiculous and embarrassing.
@@andos2923 I think this was one of the few times I sided with Mama lol Mama was in the role Eunice is usually in in this sketch and Eunice was acting more like Mama usually acts
Who ever thought of these characters was genius Eunice, momma, and Ed are very well played bravo 👏 so funny. Their voices, facial expressions, the ward robe all good 👍, love to watch them!! 😂
Dang ! She said “ I wish I never brought you home from the hospital ! “ Only this show can make me laugh at that. Oh yeah and Eunice was just too jealous. 🤣
This is some of the funniest stuff that ever hit the TV screen! Vickie, Carol, Harvey and Tim made magic with this “family” theme. Hilarious!!! It’s not a wonder this became a sit-com. They don’t come funnier than Vickie Lawrence-Shultz. Wish Carol, Harvey and Tim would have permanently joined the cast on the TV series “Mama’s Family” when it first aired. The show would have ruled the airwaves into eternity!
"Imogene passed away, God bless her soul - I guess" - How I love Vicki and Carol in these roles! I actually watched "Mama's Family" for years when I was younger and never knew it all originated on Carol Burnett's show, why wasn't IT on reruns back then?
Now that would be great to have some of the old variety shows like The Carol Burnett Show on re-runs. I have a list of several of my favorites I used to watch. Hey Cablevision people, this is a great idea for a new channel.
Forty five years later and Vicki Lawrence can still play Mama and would still look like someone impersonating an old woman and she’s actually now older than Mama. Lol
Carol, Harvey and Vicky are also amazing actors, as usual! It's good to see special guest star, William Conrad (Cannon, Gunsmoke - TV Shows), doing this small bit. Great actor as well! Thank you for sharing!
Cuz of the point of the show/premise. Their reactions are half the laughs. Besides, Eunice was right, Mama wasn't being her true self. And that can feel like a fuck you from a loved one, (for those who can relate know what I mean). Plus, what end result do you expect from "Mama's Family". Which is kind of the first thing I said.
What was Eunice thinking? If Thelma and Willie got married, and Eunice was more nice to him he would've helped her out with her "show-biz career", maybe she would write her own play ( with herself starring in it) for that Pepperpot Playhouse!
Ikr ~ she should’ve known Eunice would throw a jealous fit 😂 ~ these crack me up so much but omg Eunice in real life would not have any friends ~ I saw one where her husband left her and it was kinda sad but I was like it’s about time cuz she treats him like crap 😂
love MAMA'S FAMILY. watch reruns of it on ME TV in NY. it was on 6 years and I never get tired of seeing it. it brightens my day. TY for posting The Family from the Carol Burnett Show. She is on ME TV too every nite.
I sure miss these family sketches. I often wonder who on the Carol Burnett show came up with the concept for these family sketches. The writers were pure genius.
It was the BEST when it was on Carol Burnett Show....lost all its "grit and realness" when it went to the sitcom Mama's Family. NOTHING like this awesome ensemble cast!!! Nothing can touch this greatness right here!!!!
Yes, Mama's Family was not up to the standard of these sketches, and I noticed right away in the first episode that Mama's voice was different in the series from what it was in these sketches. In Mama's Family she sounded more like a caricature than a character.
The character was purposefully toned down at the suggestion of Korman to make mama less one-dimensional and more likeable since she was carrying the show.
And I’m guessing the voice change may have had to do with Lawrence herself. That screaming tone is one thing to do for 10 minutes once a week on a live show, but to use it for the amount of hours it took to shoot a weekly sitcoms? Just guessing, but I bet it hurt!
Thank you for these great episodes! It is the middle of the Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic. Watching these videos brings much needed brightness and laughter. I love this show!
Mama's Beau was played by William Conrad, who was one of the top radio actors ever. He starred in Gunsmoke for years and was on every show in the golden age of radio. Such a dynamic voice!
I first became familiar with him as Frank Cannon when I first started watching his other TV show "Cannon". Funny that I have been watching "Gunsmoke" from time to time and never noticed him. I just do not remember who he played on that show. I will be looking that up.
Did you notice that the sound effect was slightly off que on the last time Eunice struck her head against the fridge? It's noticeable if you watch it a few times.
They make me laugh! 😀 It was so well written and performed. I saw Carol on Broadway in "Moon Over Buffalo". I saw her at Carnegie Hall for a tribute to her. Vicki, Tim and Lyle were all there! She did her Tarzan yell and it echoed throughout the Hall. Other stars were there too. I saw Maggie on Broadway in "Lettice and Loveage". It was quite funny and well enacted. Such happy memories of seeing them all and watched them with my Mom on television! 😀😁😁🌟
Not in my family. Everybody is d3ad, including both of my children---he would have been 49 in a few days (killed in an accident at the age of 31), and she would have been 47 last October (she died at birth)--and there's only my sister and I left. She lives 800 miles away, in our home city, and we just text each other a couple times a month. We get along just fine.
I'm only 41, so, this was before my time, but, 2 of THE FUNNIEST WOMEN ON TV EVER, WAS CAROL BURNETT & VICKI LAWRENCE. THE SKIT WHEN THEY'RE PLAYING SORRY IS MY FAVORITE. LOL. WHEN CAROL MAKES THE FACE & HER VOICE GETS LOWER ALWAYS CRACKS ME UP!!
I was always amazed how well Vickie played an old lady. Those skits were always my favourite part of the Carol Burnett Show. 🇨🇦
I love these old shows. They are way funnier than the shows that are out now.
By far!
Yes indeed
Truly
It depends!
Way funnier
Vicky Lawrence is the only actress who can never age out of her most famous role.
Oh, I don't know. Irene Ryan did pretty well at that, too. 🙂
That’s cause she married her make up artist.
@@stephenwoehr6500 moo
@@stephenwoehr6500 So has Carol Channing, and she's dead.
@k.robertrichardsshe was half black dear she aged wellon6779
Eunice makes me laugh so hard I fall out of the chair. The writing here is brilliant. Great acting. Classic gold.
Only Carol and Vicki can bring these two characters to life! Amazing.
And Harvey too!
That was the point
Watching in 2024 Carol Vicki Betty. All are great actress 💯😀😊💯 love watching all the actress and actors
2025
Eunice hitting her head on the Refrigerator 😂😂💀This show is priceless!🏆
This show is a mess (smile)
that set me into convulsions.
I've slapped myself in the face I've been so upset...I've had family remember who have banged their heads against the wall
Eunice's face when Mama said she wasn't a nun when she met her father was priceless. 😂😂😂
Eunice is a human emoji
@@ericrivera8410 lol true love Eunice 😂
Greasy hairspray!! lmao
Carol Burnett as Eunice is one of the funniest characters in the history of tv.
Don’t forget the part where Eunice slams her head on the icebox at 9:37! 😂😂😂
William Conrad another underrated actor. Loved him on Cannon and many movies!
Me and my mom used to watch cannon ❤❤
Don't forget radio. He was all over it, including playing Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke!
He played Matt Dillon on the radio version of Gunsmoke? Are you a Chester Morris fan as well?
Carol is a national treasure. OMG. This was so freaking funny.
The banging her head on the fridge part!
Sadly they’ll never be shows like this again . Brilliant❤️
Agree
I know 😢
@@rainbowgold6410p97 by 7th
@@teresadbrownbrown3785😊
Those were innocent times
“Eunice, for crying out loud. Wake up and smell the coffee!” 😂😂😂😂😂
Never knew that MAMA HARPER ever dated CANNON!! Children of the 70s such as myself will get it. LOL!!
Yes! Born in 1960 and remember William Conrad as Cannon.😄
Yep. Born in '74 here.
We thought it was "MOTHER HARPER"!!
@@atranfanatic l
@@suzannewetzel8561 I take it you were born in '74 as well?
I used to enjoy watching this show with my mom. Way back in the days when families used to watch TV together...❤️
Same here, my mother said if she had a daughter like Eunice she'd drowned her.
Actually I miss shows like this, none of the so called comedies are really funny these days, if they are they are very few.
Agree
@@conniecarroll7222 exactly
It is a shame.
Eunice was so jealous that Mama had a rich boyfriend and a chance to go to NYC. Loved the way Ed spells failure, LOL.
I think Eunice would have been fine with Mama having a rich boyfriend- as long as Mama would keep babysitting Eunice's kids at a moment's notice for FREE! The second Mama said she couldn't babysit that ONE time because she was due to travel, THAT is when Eunice went on the warpath!
I absolutely love Mama's and Eunices' accents, and all of their accents!
I just love Eunice's facial expressions when she's angry!
She's a human emoji.
Carol Burnette is amazing!!!!!
@@ericrivera8410 lmao!
William Conrad was trying not to laugh
This was definitely one of the best family sketches. The whole "wake up and smell the coffee" bit in the kitchen was priceless. Whenever they show the best clips from the show, that one is frequently shown.
Vickie Lawrence began on this show as a teen. She must have known she was made for acting. She is majorly talented and a real study in how to perform... She is able to go from aging "Mama" to one of the dancers in heels and seductive costumes. She can play such a variety of characters. She has cut records and ended up in the top 10 with great singing talent as well. Her one woman show has been performed around the country as well. She is amazing.
Carol Burnett is a national treasure. These ‘family’ segments are some of the funniest, most brilliantly acted and timeless comedies ever done. At times they also have a definite undercurrent of pathos.
I imagine they hit home with a lot of people.
That dress should be in the Smithsonian
They originally tried it without the hillbilly accent and it was too sad
Eunice’s wig and shoes should be in the Smithsonian too. 😊
This show never gets old!!! Love Carol Burnett!! 😘
I remember when her show first started, can't tell you the year but I recall My Mom and I sitting in front of the TV watching every week.
Agree
Those expressions of Eunice are priceless!! 💜💜💜
Classic…doesn’t get any better than Mama and Eunice! The best 😂❤
I love that Vicki Lawrence is in her EARLY 20s here... the talent that was brought out of her at such a tender age... Amazing. I applaud Carol for SEEING that spark in her at 17 yrs old!!! They're both simply genius! ❤❤
18yrs old to be exact. That was when they first met face to face at the miss fireball event and Carol Burnett was 14 months pregnant.
@@wilykat that's just amazing! Thank u for the info, I knew she was very young. I didn't know Carol was preg at the time, how funny! It was destined to be.... 🥀🌹❤️
@@ColleenD78 Indeed it was. Out of Carol's own mouth she said that when she saw the newspaper clipping of Vicki, it was like looking at a younger version of herself.
@@wilykat14 months pregnant?
I thought she was 30???
Carol has always been a master of physical comedy ...🥰
I love how Eunice makes her faces expression when the guy smacked her mom butt lol and her face expression with her husband she funny
These skits and the Mrs. Wiggins skits are the best of the show. I wish they would put out a dvd set of just these. So much of the show was just so-so. These are the Honeymooners of this variety show.
This was absolutely excellent. I haven't seen this one before.
4:55 "You miss the start of a Clint Eastwood movie you can't never pick up the thread again"
Truer words wer never spoken
Such an accurate portrayal of a dysfunctional family. Everyone is unhappy with each other but also stops each other from leaving.
Lol misery loves company right... Even 40 years ago 🤣🤷
Very accurate portrayal. And if you really watch and listen, there is nothing funny about these videos. They are very sad, very lifelike.
@@tcpirish52 families were happier back then so dysfunction was "funny" now it's just the new normal for a lot more people.
A lot of people identified with this.
@@lorettajarrell500 ...How sad, if true...
My grandmother and I used to love this show and laugh at it, because it reminded us of our own family ❤️😅
Same me and my grandma and the whole family would gather Friday nights around the TV set to watch the Carol Burnet show. Brings back such beautiful memories ❤❤❤
I actually thought I would be the only one here in 2020😂😂😂
Never! Great shows like this will always have huge fans.
@@jay1hi547 😉😊
Nope
I’m here , too !
One of my favorite shows.
The Carol Burnett Show and The Family skits never get old, always laugh out loud funny, Mama's Family TV shows, too!! :-)
My mom and I used to watch the Carol Burnett show every Saturday night. Mama's family skits were our favorite. The talent was unreal. Those were the days. I miss those days and I miss my mother. What a masterpiece of down home Americana.....
Mama was a hoot. William Conrad was a terrific actor. I did not know he did comedy. This show was priceless.
He was pretty much the straight man, Carol and Vicki were so great at this sketch
Cannon
CANNON 😆
@@ericrivera8410And the original Marshal Dillon on radio.
I think famous actors wanted to be on this show.
OMG I just howled through this Family skit - they are all perfect for the characters they're playing, and they must have had the greatest writers alive!! How I wish the Carol Burnett Show was still on, we'd all have something to actually enjoy on tv!!
ME TV ITS STILL ON
Pretty sure Carol Burnett is the writer.
Mama's Family is one of the best hilarious tv show & so many stories about this family & Definitely the dysfunction, lol. Id be glad to see my mom to have a boyfriend & let me be a mama in Mama's age & a man coming to see me, shoot I'd be running behind the man & think nothing of leaving everyone else in the town & go & have fun. The best show & no matter if you are sick at home, this show will definitely make you laugh no matter how your day is. A classic show that I wish could have kept going on & on. Hello all from South Carolina.❤️💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The color and clarity of this tape is incredible!!
I didn’t realise until I read your comment. The color is amazing!
@@Nadia..J Maybe because of the lighting or the cameras.
manofmanyinterests Definitely not a DVD. The ones on tape hold up much better.
@@maryelizabeth6797 I agree. So many seem fuzzy, but this one looks like an oil painting come to life.
They offered The Carol Burnett Show on DVD a few years ago and I ordered it. I got a DVD set which they claimed was every episode it wasn't but at least I have a lot of them.
For the price I paid I didn't complain since it wasn't that bad compared to other sets I have.
That face at 12:40. Only Carol Burnett can pull that one! That is hysterical every time.
Eunice cracks me up when she be looking at Ed when he laughs and when mama Beau smacks mama in the behind lol her look is priceless 😂 and then Everytime Ed get up she sit him down lol her look are priceless
When she barked sit down!..I knew it was gonna get real
Eunice and Mama seemed to switch roles here lol usually it's Mama criticizing Eunice's romance choices
LOVE ANY THING BY CAROL!!! 87 and 1/3 YEARS OLD.
I've never seen this one. Not sure where these are coming from but keep 'em coming please.
A lot of long lost sketches from The Family I bet this person just found them and decided to upload them to share. Most of these lost sketches are the first time my generation gets to see them!
This was one of the regular sketches from the Carol Burnett show that was airing back in the late 60's and 70's. I remember this one in particular with Eunice banging her head into the refrigerator screaming "Oh, this is a BLACK DAY, a BLACK DAY..."
Lmao 🤣😂🤣 the smack on the butt though!! Eunice's facial expressions!!😭😭😭
This actually says so much. So well observed incredibly well and subtly acted
These people are wonderfully fabulous. The opposite of today's comedic actors and writers.
R J bullshit-but you’re correct about how good they are.
Amen. Hollyweird is on the decline from their sexual behaviour to the reality crap they call entertainment. Let's not forget their self congratulatory awards shows which are downright ridiculous and embarrassing.
Vicki and Carol are just so amazing. The chemistry off the charts. I loved watching this show as a kid on reruns…Still love it today.
Eunice is the only woman who can say Set Down with that skill. Ed knew to hit that chair !
SIT down. She wasn't telling him to put an object down, she was telling him to commit the physical act of SITTING.
Thank you for these. Mamas Family takes me back to when I was young. 💗💗
Too wonderfully funny!! Don't recall this one!!!
I don't either...thought i saw all the family sketches, but I missed this one!
I’d love to have a DVD set with all the Family sketch comedy routines from The Carol Burnett Show. They’re my favorites 👍
Perfect idea
Or a streaming service
You can find them
This is one of the wildest Eunice sketches ever!
I love every skit!There really is an underdog in every episode ya feel sorry for and it changes between Eunice, Ed, or Mama :)
Right. There is also a rotating antagonist. Many times it is mama or Ellen.
@@andos2923 I think this was one of the few times I sided with Mama lol Mama was in the role Eunice is usually in in this sketch and Eunice was acting more like Mama usually acts
Who ever thought of these characters was genius Eunice, momma, and Ed are very well played bravo 👏 so funny. Their voices, facial expressions, the ward robe all good 👍, love to watch them!! 😂
I’ve been binge watching a bunch of these. They’re hilarious!!
Same lol
No other show could make me laugh as much as carol Burnette could…. Or ever will 😂
I love these people they are so entertaining.
Dang ! She said “ I wish I never brought you home from the hospital ! “ Only this show can make me laugh at that. Oh yeah and Eunice was just too jealous. 🤣
My mom didn't....she had a friend of hers bring me home😕😕😕
Hugs to you.@@slikster4life
This is some of the funniest stuff that ever hit the TV screen! Vickie, Carol, Harvey and Tim made magic with this “family” theme. Hilarious!!! It’s not a wonder this became a sit-com. They don’t come funnier than Vickie Lawrence-Shultz. Wish Carol, Harvey and Tim would have permanently joined the cast on the TV series “Mama’s Family” when it first aired. The show would have ruled the airwaves into eternity!
They don’t make these great shows any more. Can’t get enough of this show
Never saw this episode before. Thought I'd seen all of them. This is Great!
😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭 by farrrrrr the funniest episode i ever saw!😂😂😂
I love Carol Burnett, Mamma's Family, Happy Days, 3's Company & Lavern & Shirley plus many many more.
Nothing beats the 70's for me. Best of everything.
Thelma was counting the money like "Oh well"
These showed up and I've been watching them for a few nights now. They bring me comfort somehow 😊
Thanks for sharing the o'l classics with us!!!!!👍
"Imogene passed away, God bless her soul - I guess" - How I love Vicki and Carol in these roles! I actually watched "Mama's Family" for years when I was younger and never knew it all originated on Carol Burnett's show, why wasn't IT on reruns back then?
J is Scoobysmom same!
Now that would be great to have some of the old variety shows like The Carol Burnett Show on re-runs.
I have a list of several of my favorites I used to watch.
Hey Cablevision people, this is a great idea for a new channel.
Same here.
This show was on reruns at one time.
I love being able to enjoy both the dark edge of the sketches and the comfort-tv of the tv series. I love them both
I LOVE Cannon. William Conrad was extremely talented very good video glad to watch good clean funny shows
They put the fun in Dysfunction!!!
So priceless....watched this when i was 8 years old in 1964 i am 66 now.....it never gets old!😄
Show didn't start until 1967.
Forty five years later and Vicki Lawrence can still play Mama and would still look like someone impersonating an old woman and she’s actually now older than Mama. Lol
And Carol can still do Eunice. Brings a smile to my face.
Can't wait to see Vicki in June!!!
Wow
@Little Bit HI, wouldn't that be a joy to see? Now that you mentioned it, I NEED to see that LOL LOL. Now I depend on Mike and Molly for laughter.
It really is too bad Carol wouldnt stay on Mama's Family after the second year. Eunice was such a great part of these sketches.
"This is a black day; a black day; I wish I'd never seen this day." I was in the floor!
Carol, Harvey and Vicky are also amazing actors, as usual! It's good to see special guest star, William Conrad (Cannon, Gunsmoke - TV Shows), doing this small bit. Great actor as well! Thank you for sharing!
I have a daughter exactly like Yunis n Thank God she lives five hours away 🙏🙏🙏🤣🤣😂😂😂
What was Mama thinking? She should have gotten rid of Eunice and Ed before Willy showed up!
Cuz of the point of the show/premise. Their reactions are half the laughs. Besides, Eunice was right, Mama wasn't being her true self. And that can feel like a fuck you from a loved one, (for those who can relate know what I mean). Plus, what end result do you expect from "Mama's Family". Which is kind of the first thing I said.
Exactly. This one Eunice reslly made a fool out of hetself. She was jealous of Mama
Exactly Eunice was being totally unreasonable and selfish.
What was Eunice thinking? If Thelma and Willie got married, and Eunice was more nice to him he would've helped her out with her "show-biz career", maybe she would write her own play ( with herself starring in it) for that Pepperpot Playhouse!
Ikr ~ she should’ve known Eunice would throw a jealous fit 😂 ~ these crack me up so much but omg Eunice in real life would not have any friends ~ I saw one where her husband left her and it was kinda sad but I was like it’s about time cuz she treats him like crap 😂
"Did you know my dear, dead, daddy, Mr Foster." Ya gotta love the alliteration.
OMG 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I laughed so hard my jawline ache lol 🤦
Love Carol and the gang ❣️❤️ grew up on this laughed..
Laughter is good for the Soul 💖☺️
love MAMA'S FAMILY. watch reruns of it on ME TV in NY. it was on 6 years and I never get tired of seeing it. it brightens my day. TY for posting The Family from the Carol Burnett Show. She is on ME TV too every nite.
I always loved these family skits that they would do. Looked forward to them.
Thanks so much for posting this!! Favorite part for me was when Ed spelled F-A-Y-L-U-R on his forehead, hahaha!!
YES 😂😭
I sure miss these family sketches. I often wonder who on the Carol Burnett show came up with the concept for these family sketches. The writers were pure genius.
Carol was raised by her grandmother and I think some of The Family dynamics are based on her mother and other relatives.
It was the BEST when it was on Carol Burnett Show....lost all its "grit and realness" when it went to the sitcom Mama's Family. NOTHING like this awesome ensemble cast!!! Nothing can touch this greatness right here!!!!
Yes, Mama's Family was not up to the standard of these sketches, and I noticed right away in the first episode that Mama's voice was different in the series from what it was in these sketches. In Mama's Family she sounded more like a caricature than a character.
@@karlakor yeah her voice changed and her character changed....she became nice. I didnt stay with it.
The character was purposefully toned down at the suggestion of Korman to make mama less one-dimensional and more likeable since she was carrying the show.
And I’m guessing the voice change may have had to do with Lawrence herself. That screaming tone is one thing to do for 10 minutes once a week on a live show, but to use it for the amount of hours it took to shoot a weekly sitcoms? Just guessing, but I bet it hurt!
The skits on Carol Burnett were the best.
It must be so hard not to come out of character especially during the refrigerator head banging scene 😂😂
That was hilarious
Thank you for these great episodes! It is the middle of the Coronavirus / COVID-19 Pandemic. Watching these videos brings much needed brightness and laughter. I love this show!
Mama's Beau was played by William Conrad, who was one of the top radio actors ever. He starred in Gunsmoke for years and was on every show in the golden age of radio. Such a dynamic voice!
I first became familiar with him as Frank Cannon when I first started watching his other TV show "Cannon". Funny that I have been watching "Gunsmoke" from time to time and never noticed him. I just do not remember who he played on that show. I will be looking that up.
I'll never forget carol Burnett's show's I love everyone one of them much ❤️
"THIS IS A BLACK DAY, I WISH I NEVER SAW THIS DA--....."
"....QUIT gettin' that GREASY hairspray all over my icebox!"
Real comedy.
Did you notice that the sound effect was slightly off que on the last time Eunice struck her head against the fridge? It's noticeable if you watch it a few times.
@@warp9p659 I did
@@user-xr8co4oi8h Me too. I was watching carefully as I couldn't believe she would really bash her head hard enough to make that much noise! 😄
Too funny.
They make me laugh! 😀
It was so well written and performed. I saw Carol on Broadway in "Moon Over Buffalo". I saw her at Carnegie Hall for a tribute to her. Vicki, Tim and Lyle were all there! She did her Tarzan yell and it echoed throughout the Hall. Other stars were there too.
I saw Maggie on Broadway in "Lettice and Loveage". It was quite funny and well enacted.
Such happy memories of seeing them all and watched them with my Mom on television! 😀😁😁🌟
"quit get'n that greasy hairspray all over my icebox!" 😆😂
One of my favorite episodes - makes you wonder how it would have gone had the beau become a regular in Mama's life. Entertaining and FUNNY.
I Love Carol Burnett and I Love Mommas Family it seems like every family has some relatives like this
Hello Laura, How are you doing?
Not in my family.
Everybody is d3ad, including both of my children---he would have been 49 in a few days (killed in an accident at the age of 31), and she would have been 47 last October (she died at birth)--and there's only my sister and I left.
She lives 800 miles away, in our home city, and we just text each other a couple times a month. We get along just fine.
I'm only 41, so, this was before my time, but, 2 of THE FUNNIEST WOMEN ON TV EVER, WAS CAROL BURNETT & VICKI LAWRENCE. THE SKIT WHEN THEY'RE PLAYING SORRY IS MY FAVORITE. LOL. WHEN CAROL MAKES THE FACE & HER VOICE GETS LOWER ALWAYS CRACKS ME UP!!
"My she's a...kinna a high-strung girl, innit she?" *understatement of the century* 💣
"Cant imagine who the hell she takes after."
@@chaswrMommy Dearest, of course.
Terrific!
*Wake up and smell the coffee*
Poor Mama.
Thanks for posting.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this! Hilarious but seriously TRUE! Families can be so dangerous!
Thank you!! Keep 'em coming. Eunice bashing her head against the fridge, what a funny moment.
Mama: "Quit getting that greasy hairspray on my icebox".
@@AstralPixie 😄
Thank u so much for down loading these films. I just had surgery & this helps take away the lain. LOL. 🤗🤗
Carol Burnett, the best comedy of all time!!!
Carol Burnette so amazing she is.The old shows are classic I can never get eneough laughs from it.. Always puts me in a good moood..
Great comedy really great comedy always has splashes of real drama tucked in it , which makes these so good
WOW WHAT A CAT FIGHT BETWEEN MAMA AND EUNICE, WITH POOR WILLIAM CONRAD RIGHT IN THE CENTER.