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"You sure that little asshole's through?" is one of the all time funniest lines in television history!
Watch everyone's reaction when she said it and you understand why "killing it" means a comedian being on point.
Neat view, first te I've seen the serious part.
Look for Neil Diamond's HELL YEAH.
In an interview, Carol said when Tim started in we just let him go.
@@rickr442 ,, That's Dick Vandyke.
😆😂🤣💯🙏🌟👍✌️🏅
Tim Conway is a severely underrated comedic legend.
If you like Tim Conway's style try Dorf on Golf.
Underrated he most certainly is not. In the years he acted both on TV shows and in movies he won several awards for his acting talent. He and Harvey Korman while friends were also fierce rivals when it came to the academy awards. There is even a video of them being interviewed together. Tim Conway had a career that spanned several decades. So no he is not an "underrated" performer.
Yeah, he was
An entire generation grew up watching this stuff. It was brilliant.
Tim was such a devious genius. His mind was always going, but he always saved the good ad-libs for the tapings. His mission in life was to make his co-stars break character. And he would do different things at each of the two tapings. Most everything you see and hear from him, they were seeing and hearing if for the first time, too. But Vicki's comeback at the end is absolutely perfect.
I love this show because it was live ! There was a live studio audience for all of her shows. Plus there were so many skits and live performances! This show was everything!
Bloopers were funnier than the skits
Yes! Conway is one of the top 10 comics in history imo!
Tim Conway was the Robin Williams of his generation. A genius comedian. He is missed.
Exactly what I was thinking.
His comedic timing was so perfect.
He was very underrated as an improv. Check out his skit on "The Hollywood Palace" with David Janssen: ruclips.net/video/GV1AZYWA0R8/видео.html
Totally
Something went wrong with that video. He just told the end of the elephant story. The whole beginning is missing. It looks like you got the password show.
The lady who plays Mama is the youngest person sitting on the sofa.
@Bull Jordan LLC She really is..I follow Vicki on Instagram and she looks great!!
That'd be Vickie Lawrence
Karl Smith Exactly. 🙂
@@karlsmith2570 Carol Burnett's husband Dan was played by Dick Van Dyke!
Vicki Lawrence.
I struggle as a stoke victim, and had a particularly difficult day today. I noticed that you had a video up, so I was excited to watch it. I lmao! This is 4 great comedians on this couch. Thank you so very much for playing this. It changed my day🤣!
I'm so glad I was able to .
Watched Carol Burnett as a tween and teenager every Saturday night. Still HILARIOUS!!!
Just stopping by to send you some love and hope you’re having a better day.
They need to bring back this kind of comedy to TV again. Good clean fun with no politics.
I just read your post. I hope you are doing better.
RIP Tim Conway. The comedians comedian.
No one did comedy like Tim. His skits on Carol’s show could make any miserable day better!
Tim always did what he could to crack everyone up. It was filmed in front of a live audience so they never knew what he would do.
The incredible part was that Vickie Lawrence was able to remain in character for her last line.
There’s an interview on RUclips with Vickie about her producer coming to her dressing room and telling her, there’s been a change to the Mama’s Family sketch, good luck.
Then she was complaining to her manager/husband who was with her when her producer came in. He told her "Get him" meaning Tim Conway.
Vickie's last line was not on the script. It was her way of going off script too. Which she never did. Thats why it broke all of them. Vickie was still new to the group at this time. And was often frustrated because Tim was always going off script and got away with it. It made her confused as to how she could stay on script and make it work. So it all built up and she went off script too. As you can see, it took all of them by surprise. Even the stage and film crew lost it. Tim loved it and this off script skit is considered an epic blooper, to this very day.
ruclips.net/video/aA7bxTc0AJw/видео.html
And, the censors didn't bleep what she said either...they were probably on the floor laughing as well. But Vicki got EVEN that day!!!
That's one thing that's missing from today's comedy. The ability to make the other cast members try to keep a straight face has always seemed to make a comedy sketch even more amusing, in my opinion.
Tim Conway was going off script on the story, that’s why everyone is losing it.
Going wayyyy off script lol.
Even off script, everyone loved it
He never stayed on script. Sometimes he didn't have a script
@@dawnbailey910 Actually, he stayed on script during the first taping, but he'd always let loose on the second one. He was constantly trying to bust up his castmates. He's part of the reason it lasted 11 years.
Tim Conway what a master of the ad lib. He and Harvey Korman rarely stayed on script. The genius of it all. No foul language just sheer comedy
You need to watch his dentist skit. He made his costar piss himself laughing
Yup, Harvey wet himself on that one.
Yes!!
Yeah, I saw all this when it originally aired, it was HILARIOUS ! But the Dentist sketch is better...try this one ! ruclips.net/video/9IUSM4EKcRI/видео.html
Truth!
Yes please watch the full dentist skit ♥ Probably my very favorite ever!
Part of the fun is watching the performers try to keep a straight face around Tim Conway. He was one of the funniest clean comedians I've ever seen.
His specialty was getting other cast members to break. If you watch just the elephant part, it's like a master class in comedy timing and ratcheting up the pressure.
Especially Harvey Korman. He could crack Harvey up like anything.
@@almostfm We remember him mostly from "McHale's Navy" and Carol Burnett. But he was VERY GOOD at improvisation and ad libbing to crack up people (from his radio days and the Army).Watch how he destroys David Janssen on "The Hollywood Palace": ruclips.net/video/XJANVuPt3D4/видео.html
HE was nortorious of doing the unexpected and going off-skit, taking hos co-stars by surprise.
Tim Conway-- the funniest man on live TV! 🤣 I used to watch this show every Sat night. You never knew what was going to happen but you always knew it was going to be funny! Like someone said, all of those people on that couch were top notch comedians, Dick van Dyke, Vicky Lawrence, Carol Burnett and Tim Conway. All of them are legends in comedy, but Tim Conway just had a special way about him where he could crack anybody up with a crazy line until they just couldn't do anything but laugh hysterically and forget their lines, etc. This show was live so you just never knew what someone was gonna say or do. I've heard Carol say in interviews that they would rehearse but then in the live show, the skit never played out the same. RIP Tim Conway 😢. We're loosing all the greats from the past. Dick van Dyke is in his 90's, Carol Burnett is in her 80's but I think Vicky Lawrence is probably in her 60's. 😂 it was a great time for TV. Lots of people in the entertainment business got to be on live TV for a few minutes to keep the public interested in what they were up to in life. Keep their name relevant. Nowadays, all we see is a RUclips video when they say or do something stupid or criminal.
Anyhow, I'm really glad somebody has posted things like these clips of the Carol Burnett Show so the younger generations can see the great stuff we got to see on TV every week. 😀!
A lot of time Tim would never show up at the rehearsals. So when these scripts came into play, they never knew what he was gonna say or do, and why Harvey Korman laughed so much. That particular script is a classic blooper from Vicki Lawrence. She was told to just get him back, play his game and that was when she finally drew up enough courage to say " Is that little asshole finished" was her moment to shine. She still talks about that to this day as does Carol Burnett with her show she has. Tim Conway, was a class act.. Rest In Peace and thanks for the laughs...
Actually this is not really true. Tim was always at rehearsal. Never missed. What he did was go through the script exactly as written. But then when they went live, he would ad lib and that's why they never knew what he was going to do. In this particular case they were told just before shooting live that the elephant story would be different but not how. Here is a clip from VIckie Lawrence talking about it and talking about Tim - who I do agree with you there he was a comedic genius and true class act. ruclips.net/video/aA7bxTc0AJw/видео.html
2nd elephant story is I.C.O.N.I.C!!! Funniest clip in TV history for me! I love how Tim Conway cracked himself up, as well as everyone else!
Tim Conway always found ways to break up his co-stars, especially Harvey Korman. Just an epic show!
Tim wouldn't stop until he make Harvey crack up. Genius comic!
They performed each of the shows twice, and the second one was when they were really free to go off book. A lot of the best bits come from those shows.
@@delennamachoo Carol Burnett said during rehearsal, Conway would stick to the script. When they did it in front of the studio audience, watch out.😎
I was thinking about Harvey at work today in Blazing Saddle's.
" Where's my froggy" with Slim Pickings.Classic stuff in that movie.
Oh man with Dick van Dyke!
Carol Burnett's show was classic. It was In Living Color before In Living Color. Tim Conway was infamous for going off skit to get the cast to laugh. It was a personal challenge for himself to make everyone bust out laughing every skit.
When Mama got her own show, "Mama's Family", Carol Burnett would sometimes guest star as Eunice with Harvey Korman as her husband Ed during the first season, and there were some really great moments like this one. There was also an entire TV-movie called "Eunice" that was performed live on tape before a studio audience like a stage play, which was excellent. It covers the time between when Eunice was a teenager in the 50s to the day of Mama's funeral.
Vicki Lawrence started out as the new kid on the show, and usually played Carol's kid sister or a Valley Girl type. It was when she took on the Mama character to such an amazing degree that she really came into her own on the show.
WKRP, Thanksgiving episode, and this skit are two of the funniest TV sketches ever.
"Oh my god, theyre turkeys!"
I swear as God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
@@slipknot6789 I thought my mom was going to choke to death she laughed so hard.
@Katherine Chapman ... oh I bet. My brother and I were talking about wkrp today because they're running a marathon of their shows on the decades Channel. It'll never get old!
The siamese elephant story. ....... an all-time classic and favourite. "all they could do was just blow and go 'fnort' ...... if they'd sneeze the other's eyes'd get real big. "
There was another blooper version I heard that said when one elephant sneezed it blew the other elephant's brains out. That's the one that nearly killed me from laughing.
“shnorky”:)
The Siamese elephant is the funniest version. I still laugh so hard at that one. There were several versions of this skit, all the elephant story was ad lib. They never knew what was gonna come out of Tim's mouth. Please find the Siamese elephant story. "The Dentist" is another ad libbed gem of a skit.
Wrote that before he got to it. Oops.
@@eleni33koro88 I hear it as "fnorket" 😜😂
The Carol Burnette show. Funniest show ever! Back in the innocence of the 70's. I always loved how the cast members were so good that they cracked each other up and they did not cut it out. They showed the cast member trying so hard to not show they were cracking up! RIP Tim Conway.
The outtakes version is the one everyone was referring to. I’m glad they included the Siamese elephant story at the end. That makes the clip.
Me too because I was wondering while I was watching this " Hmmmmm what's supposed to be so funny about the elephant story" then the end came and of course you seen my reaction.
Right bc you really don't get Tim's full hilariousness from that one sketch. He especially cracked up Harvey Korman. They have some classic clips the dentist and an Adolf Hitler spoof w/ Lyle Wagoner. I mean doesn't sound funny but...
@@Modern-Renaissance-Man This show was so great because it was shot with a live audience! That's why whenever they lose it...you hear ppl in the audience starting to go a bit crazier and it's not just canned laughter. Carol Burnett also used to come onstage sometimes right before the show started and speak with the audience and take questions directly from them. Her signature move before she began her show after she was done speaking to her audience was to tug very quickly on 1 of her earlobes. THAT was her signal back to her family if ggey were watching so they'd know that she was okay. She also used to do what's known as a "Tarzan yell"! Research her a bit~I'm a huge fan because I grew up as a KID watching this show every week. She's one of my favorite comediennes and her story really is quite remarkable. 😎
Right, what you want to see is the out take blooper clip.
I remember hearing an old story about Tim Conway on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. Carson had an extremely boring guest on but he had to have this person on for a certain amount of time. When Carson wasn't watching Conway would get up and turn back the clock. Carson was dying trying to figure out what to say to the guest. A result of this was they put a cage over the clock so it couldn't happrn again
There were times when the producers would tell Tim, we need to stay on schedule tonight, so no extra silliness. And that's all Tim needed to hear
Tim Conways comic timing is ledgend
Joseph Hickman
Yes he was‼️
Yeah, he'd hear them, but go off this beaten path.
That's all he'd need to hear, and opposite of what we would see.
Those of us who were kids in the seventies were blessed. That show had some of the longest laughs from some of the most iconic linens uttered in comedy. You should react their version of Gone With The Wind. I think there's a laugh in there that rivals this and it's not such a long skit.
One of my all time favorites ever! Back when 4 generations of a family could watch the same show and ALL laugh out loud.
The live audience and improv are so fabulous.
Tim was so creative and I miss him a lot. His son has a daily radio show in Los Angeles on KFI radio.
It's so funny how they break character so much on this show 😂☺️😂
Vicki said her husband suggested she say something and at the end she did and got them all losing it. Was perfect!
This was Vicki's first ad-lib. Up to this point she, being much younger than the rest, always stayed on script.
She said "Is that asshole done", which no one was expecting!
Classic Carol Burnett Show! They don't make'em like this anymore! Lovin' it!
In an interview Carol Burnett said they did 2 takes, first one would be straight on but 2nd one he ad libbed like crazy....
What makes this extra funny is the girl that played grandma wasn't an actress or comedian per se. She got the job because she looked like Carol Burnett (she had won a Carol Burnett look-alike contest). She complained to her makeup artist, who she had just recently married, that all the stars got to ad lib and change the act and she didn't feel it was her place to do so. While hubby was finishing her makeup, the producer came in and said there would be a change in the scene (they did two cuts before a live audience, then combined the best parts for TV, and Conway was famous for secretly ad libbing to make everyone break character and laugh). Her husband just said "Get 'im!" and she sure as hell did. This innocent, non actress who never broke character shocked them all!
An added note; Dick Van Dyke who was comic legend in his own right, admitted years later that he peed his pants, you can see during the skit he was holding it in.
The famous "elephant skit" was the part from 22 minutes on. It was Tim Conway going off script and ending with "Mama" using the "A" word, which was an unthinkable TV and "live TV audience "no-no" in those days.
They had been told earlier that Tim had cooked up something, and to just roll with it, but they didn't know what it was. And NOBODY including Tim Conway could have anticipated that Vicki Lawrence was going to say what she did.
but what made it all the more funny was that Vicki Lawrence stayed in character when she said it.. Listen carefully that's "Mama" talking not the actress herself...
I've heard her tell the story. Her husband was in the dressing room with her when someone tipped her off that Conway had something planned, and her husband just said to her "Get him". And did she ever-it's one of the best examples of a verbal "kneecapping" I've seen.
That was a golden reaction...Carol’s show which was highly and critically acclaimed embodies the earlier Show of Shows and predates Saturday Night Live.
The guy from Frasier had a completely different voice and he wasn’t famous back then. This is Dick Van Dyke. Mary Poppins
What guy from Frasier? I don't understand what you're talking about.
@@truthisnine4650 4:52 He asks is that the guy from Frasier.
Maybe you're confusing COACH, where Jerry Van Dyke- Dick's brother- played the assistant coach Luther van Dam
oh boy... to clear up those that are completely confused, in the reaction video, Modern Renaissance Man briefly says "is that the guy from Frasier". It is not. The two guys in the video are Tim Conway - the guy telling the elephant story, and Dick Van Dyke - the drunk. Dick Van Dyke was only in half of the last season this sketch aired.
Thank the Lord for people who are not afraid to be Christian ,God Blss you.
Love it! I like him and Carol in the “Mrs. Awiggins” skits too. The boy was crazy.
Lisa Michelle kills me every time, and his lil ole man skits...incredible physical comedy.
Mr. Tudball! I started a trucking company and named it Tudball Transportation after my favorite Tim Conway character.
@@timconway7860 LOL. I like that!
Whenever I'm having a bad day, this Carol Burnett clip is the clip I play. Hands down, never fails to get me in a good mood. Truth.
You should definitely watch carol Burnett's skit went with the wind
"I just saw this in the window,and I had to have it."😂Yep,that's one of my favorites as well!😉
That's my absolute favorite skit.
@@debsreno911 mine too
A pure classic!!!
my favorite djkfghkdfh
I love some of these. I remember watching them on reruns growing up with my mom n granddaddy. I’m such a huge carol burnett and Vicky Lawrence fan. I remember when the movie Annie came out I was so happy the character of mrs hanagin was being played by carol. I can not even watch any of the remakes , no one will ever play that part like she did. It was one of my movies growing up. And I always wanted to be as good an actress as carol. I just adore her
The thing I find the most funny here is that Vicki Lawrence (who plays Momma) was by FAR the youngest cast member on the show! =)
She was 19 years old when she first started on the show.
I was 16 in 1977 when this aired, My mom and my dad and my sisters were watching. We laughed out loud, the prices in 1977 were remarkably low. Wages were 3.75 per hour for general labor, this is why 20 dollars for rent was not un common, a bag of chips was 25 cents chocolate bar 50 cents. The pure comedy with no political sidebar, priceless. Thank you for bringing a heartfelt memory, I am glad you enjoyed it now as much as its first airing. Dick Van Dyke Mary Poppins
Tim Conway was always going off script and sending them into fits of laughter. Lol Also, Vicki Lawrence who plays Mama...she is only 26 years old when she played that part. She was perfect.
Loved when shows had live audiences! Mistakes were made, people ad libed! It was hysterical!
That last part around the 20min mark was the part everyone wanted you to watch. The thing to remember about Tim Conway was he loved to ad lib, the other no one on the set knew when he was going to do it and when he started it was always funny as hell.
I had forgotten how many comedians were on here! Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence & Dick Van Dyke as a guest for this one! lol. Vicki Lawrence younger than them all ...playing Mama!!! lol.
For the few that didn't know, the Mama skits lead to the series Mama's Family starring Vickie Lawrence.
She just recently had a new series which I thought was great but did not last long called "The Cool Kids".
We knoooooow> in my Eunice voice 😬😬🤣
@@membel I liked that show too. Shame it didn't last though
I saw that when it was originally broadcast back in the day. My whole family cracked up and could barely breathe for laughing! We watched that show as a family. My mother laughed so hard, she cackled. Her laugh was so extremely funny that we were laughing at her laugh and the skit. We were just about rolling on the floor, too! Since then, every time I see that skit, I still can't help but laugh! My momma's not here for me to hear her happy cackle laugh, but I do remember that was the only time I ever heard her laugh that hard. Thanks for sharing. It was good to see you laughing at it, too!
first time I've ever seen the whole skit.
Me too. Now it makes more sense. :)
Same
Same here.
Same.
Me, too.
According to cast members, including Vicki Lawrence, the first version of the elephant story was in the script. Tim Conway just had a way of delivering lines that constantly broke up the others. After they filmed it, they took a break. During the break, a decision was made to re-film the scene using the second version of the story, which the others hadn't heard before. They were just told that he'd be telling something different. But it was still scripted -- he wasn't making it up as he went. But then there was Vicki. She'd been struggling to play her part as straight as she could, but during the break someone (I don't recall if it was her husband, a staffer, or a friend) told her to just cut loose and let Tim have it for once. So her "You sure that little a**h*** is through?" was the only unscripted line in the whole thing. Mission accomplished -- she literally had them rolling on the floor.
The Siamese Elephants kill every time.
Tim Conway set the bar for all other comedians! And, he set that sucker high!!! R.I.P. Tim. Thank you for all the laughs!
You must do “Went With the Wind”, a Gone With the Wind parody from Carol Burnett Show.
FUN FACT:Bob Mackie- world famous dress designer- was the costume designer/maker at the Carol Burnett Show.
Carol Burnett said it was Bob Mackie who came up with the idea of the curtain rod.
Yes! That was the best!!
There's a lot more to that skit than just the curtain dress, but that's the only thing anybody remembers about it.
Congrats, you finally did it...I've watched this 1000 times...and at the very least, it brings a smile.
All the best.
Cheers.
Did anyone notice how wonderful Carol Burnett looked at the Golden Globes.
You need to watch Red Skeleton too. He made you laugh and made you feel like everything was going to be ok. I miss that feeling from the older shows like The Jefferson’s, Chico and the Man, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Smothers Brothers, Lucy, Dick Van Dyke, Mork and Mindy, Happy Days and of course Carol Burnett. 😊
The show was already an improv show- and when Tim Conway wld go off on his own, it was even more hilarious! Improv-ing the improv- so to speak- I’m ready for you to see Tim and Carol do the “old man” and “old woman” characters as well- and Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Swiggins!🤣 There’s so many great skits, and those are just some that stuck out in my mind as a kid growing up, looking forward to seeing them every show- There’s a special with the 4 of them onstage discussing the show, their characters, etc.. Even it’s funny and fantastic watching them do that! Great cast of folks! Such memories! Sending love always Ty- ❤️🤘🏼✌️
Mr. Tudball after it took Mrs. Wiggins a full couple of minutes to shuffle a few feet, "Wow. Better watch out for the Sonic boom!"
@@unseenentity326 My favorite has to be "You know from the side you look like Africa" And Carol had to turn away from the audience! XD
And Mrs. Swiggins always sharpening her pencil-👀😳🤣
The band is called POCO, the song is called the heart of the night. Great song.
The Carol Burnett Show was the ultimate don't laugh challenge and Tim Conway was the main source of the challenge. He was such a great improviser.
That's one of the greatest skits of all time. Your reactions were priceless. God bless you!
This was possibly the first time, or a long time, seeing the entire skit of the elephant story. I've only watched the portion that was adlibbed by Tim Conway.
that is the first time i ever saw the whole thing too.
Carol and Tom...comic genius. I put them and many of other cast in the Johnny Carson and Dangerfield category. Pure genius.
Vicky Lawrence also has a #1 hit song:
“ The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia “
After watching her, check out the song.
📻🙂
That song is from Reba McIntyre.
@@76bllewis Jeff is right. Reba covered it later. :)
Bridget Lewis
Vicki Lawrence
1973:
Reba McEntire
1991( cover)
Also vic Chessnut
1994 ( cover)
(And others).
Was written by :
Bobby Russell,
(Lyrics and score),
Who was the husband of Vicki Lawrence.
The song was a #1
smash hit on the Pop charts as well as Country.
📻🙂
I love your laugh at this CB clip.....seems like you had fun. It is a classic.....
Tim Conway is the GOAT. Outside the reaction videos you should checkout his movie with Don Knots The Private Eyes. It’s a bit hard to find but well worth it.
Now that Disney+ has released their whole catalog, you can also catch Tim Conway and Don Knotts in The Apple Dumpling Gang. I still have fond memories of them from childhood.
One of my favorite movies of all time to watch with my dad :)
Great skit. The whole ensemble were comic geniuses.
Every Saturday night, this was must see TV , before NBC got the saying.
There is a shorter version of this on RUclips that cuts out all of the Password stuff. Tim Conway went off script and made up whatever he wanted.
This is true comedy. Just look at the line up: Tim Conway, Carol Burnette, Vicki Lawrence and Dick Van Dyke! All legends!
Tim Conway was NATORIOUS for doing all rehearsals straight on script, but then go rogue during live taping with ad libs and actions to deliberately try and throw the cast, crew and audience into hysterics!
Vicki Lawrence (Mama) was the toughest one to break and I think Tim Conway took it as a challenge. She almost always stayed in character no matter what, which made it even more amusing, as did the fact she played Carol Burnett's (Eunice's) mom even though in real life she was sixteen years younger than Carol. I was just a "tweener" and early teenage kid back then, at even at that "too cool for school" age I loved this show and most of the classic variety shows of that era. They had something that appealed to all generations. The whole family could gather around and enjoy them together and have those shared experiences and inside jokes forever. You mention Conway's elephant story to just about any American who was alive back then and they'll know what you're talking about.
Tim Conway Jr. has had his own daily radio show on KFI in Los Angeles for years. Every once in a while he mentions something from his experiences growing up in the suburbs with TC as his dad.
Tim Conway doing his old man skits
Erich Fellehner Those are hilarious.
Yep, The old man in the clock repair shop. Wanna see a quarter til three? It also had the "koala" running joke.
The best
Tim Conway was like this in every skit. He took great delight in getting Harvey Korman to lose it. Carol and Vicky were pretty good at keeping it together but this skit was the one that blew them all out of the water. Before going on stage, Vicky's husband who worked behind the scenes, told her to turn the tables on Tim, and she did.
try to dig up the mary tyler moore episode where chuckles the clown dies - he was dressed as a peanut and elephant - well...……. - and then the funeral later -
ruclips.net/video/TJny78bpsgo/видео.html
Awesome comedy. She was also great at the physical comedy like Carol and cast were.
I love Carol Burnett. I saw her not long ago in Houston. It was a dream come true!
Vicki Lawrence, the one who played Mama, rarely ever broke character or goofed around. That's why they they all completely lost it when she made the "asshole" comment.
Tim Conway was a comic genius. He admitted that he did everything he could to make them break character each week. This was back in the days of a true live audience. Originally, they showed it live, but once he joined, they began having to tape it so that they could get all of the skits on air. He was famous for absolutely breaking everyone up on stage. This elephant story is a classic example. He told the director that he planned to go off script, but nobody told the actors. It became one of the funniest outtakes of all time for ANY show. Of course that last sentence by Vicky Lawrence would never have made it past the censors of the day. She was much younger than the rest of the cast and had been being very shy about being with them. This is counted as the first time she ever asserted herself on the show and the timing of it was comic gold
@Modern Renaissance Man I don't know if anyone mentioned this to you or if you picked up on it. The Carol Burnett Show was filmed live in front of a studio audience.
This is one of my FAVORITE Carol Burnett show bits!! I still die laughing! I'm 62, I saw it originally. Good show you've got! Keep on keepin' on! 😊💖
When Tim Conway starts that elephant story, he just went off script. Trying to bring the skit on back on script Carol is trying to hold it together. Tim keeps expanding on the elephant story. Carol is trying hard to not laugh and stay in character. But Tim keeps on going on and Carol is trying to get through the skit. But Tim goes on. Vicky(Mama) was kind of in on it. Was told to give it to Tim by, I think the Director. No one knew that part, not even Tim.
It was her husband that warned her that Tim had been given liberty to do his own thing. Tim was know to say one line at the morning run, and something completely different at the later for broadcast run thru.
The first thing I would be interested to know is how familiar were you with Carol Burnett and the ensemble.
This is so very different from what passes for comedy today in every aspect. I will be watching your video and reactions from this frame of thought.
Well the clip included both versions of the elephant joke and I am glad neither the humor of them or the pandemonium of the family breaking character escaped your attention. Your reactions met all my expectations.
Yes, I saw this on the night it originally aired as did the largest segment of the TV viewing audience of the US. This is the formula that put the show and this ongoing family sketch at the top of the ratings and kept it there. I'm glad you could experience it.
What I think is hilarious only Tim can keep a straight face when he does those Elephant bits. Btw Ty that was Dick Van Dyke in case no one else caught your question.
My son was a baby when I got hooked of Carol Tim and all the other geniuses on that show. I always looked forward to Saturday night when Carol Mary Tyler Moore and Newhart came on. I'd put a big quilt I had in the floor in front of the old black and white tv I had and I'd put my son and his toys on it then get the salad I always made and sit in the floor waiting for them to come on. I loved that so much. I was young and it was before I got a job and life got crazy and complicated. I wish I could go back to that time when life was so much better. I'd stay there and never come back to this crazy world as it is now.
This was requested already below but react to the Went with the Wind, that one is an absolute classic.
Have you seen I Love Lucy, Vitameatavegamin?
That would be a good for him. Also when Lucy works in the chocolate factory.
My favorite ❤️ TV show of them all,I got DVDs of them and I watch them when Im needing a pick up and just want to laugh,my mom use to tell me , Michelle your driving me nuts with this show, I'm 51,and I started watching I love Lucy, when I was 7reruns after reruns and I still laugh at all of the episodes.lucy will never die in my heart, Lucy and Ethel was me and my mom, were called each other that..
Where is your RUclips award? There it is. Have you ever watched Mama's family and the I Love Lucy? Talk about funny, wath a rerun of I love Luy, she's hilarious. I love the Carol Burnette show, Tim Conway is the best. I think this is what started Mama's Family. They all crack-up, but Tim keeps a straight face.It's so good to see you laughing at good clean fun, something you don't find these days.Tim Conway is great as the old man. God Bless You MRM.
I never get tired of the elephant story. It's cool to see the whole context, and finally understand why Carol keeps showing that card to Vickie.
You always manage to make me smile. You are an inspirationl man. Obviously we have never met. But I want you to know, I Love You. And I Thank You, for putting smiles on so many faces.
if I'm not mistaken the elephant stories were ad-libbed.
It was in the aired one which is this one lol.
@@debsreno911 both versions in this video were ad libbed.
Little backstory about why this was so funny in context. At the time Vicki Lawrence was a relative unknown and she'd been learning from Carol who was a huge star. So she'd been on the show for some time, but had really never done anything that wasn't strictly on the script since she was kind of in awe of Carol, Tim and of course, in this case Dick van Dyke. So in this particular sketch Tim had made some changes between the time they first ran it in dress rehearsal and the live performance in front of an audience. Now this was a common thing for Tim and Vicki was getting aggravated. She was complaining about it backstage and someone said "just get him", suggesting that she do something to get back at Tim. Now remember Vicki had never cut loose with an ad lib or anything. So they were doing the sketch and everyone was trying to keep a straight face as Tim was cracking everyone up. So at the end, Vicki did "get him". The "are you sure the little asshole is finished" ad lib was SO unexpected from her, that they couldn't keep it together.
The other one you should react to is when they played the game "Sorry". Toooooo funny!!!
Leo Lion “IT WAS A SEVEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!” 😂🤣🤣🤣
@@knightfly28 😂😂😂😂😂😂 hilarious
Your supposed to say "Sooooooooooooooorrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!" yeah that was funny as hell.
Sadly the Carol Burnett show was never broadcast in the UK where I live & Tim Conway is largely unknown this side of the pond.A great shame.It has been a pleasure uncovering his material on YT.Monty Python could not beat his dentist sketch or the elephant material.
Robin williams and Jonathan Winters together went off the rails together adlibbing.
One of the few times Tim Conway ever broke! A classic...thank you!
Have you watched The Mary Tyler Moore Show "Chuckles Bites The Dust?" I would love to see your reaction.
I recommended this via a comment just about when I found your channel at about 1600 subscribers. I gave up after a while, but I am so very glad you ended up watching it. These are so funny
So glad I was able to do it. Thanks for being there with me at 1600 subs.
@@Modern-Renaissance-Man I've loved every step of the way.
If you get a chance react to the Flip Wilson show. Hilarious.
Especially the skits when Flip plays the preacher or Geraldine.