I saw an interview with Carol Burnett where she said the writers wanted Carol to play Mamma. When Carol saw the script she said "I'm playing Eunice and we're doing it Southern." The writers almost walked off in protest. When they finally did the show, it was such a success that "the writers couldn't write the Family sketches fast enough."
They came up with the characters in the bathroom. Carol said “mama do you have any toilet paper?” And Vickie said “well where the he’ll do you think we are? Of course I have toilet paper!” Carl said “well excuse me for living” They laughed and instantly went to the writers.
This is April 2023, and I can't believe that I am laughing at a funeral episode! Only Carol Burnett can have me in stitches laughing! Ed, just gets it, the worst! Sit down Ed! He'd rather be home watching "The Best Of Bugs Bunny!" Magnificently done!! 🤣🤣🤣
I read somewhere that for one rehearsal of Eunices Family they agreed to try and say it straight; no accents, no pulling faces, no shouting. It was so depressing that they ended up in tears. I hope that was true!
My favorite dysfunctional family! They make narcissistic abuse funny, God bless them all. The relentless criticism, the total absence of appreciation, the complete lack of love and acceptance, the melodrama that evaporates into thin air. I looked forward to this all week. Watching this and being able to laugh must have saved so many people from despair.
The best one was with Roddy McDowall. Eunice had a new poodle which the family made a huge deal about. Roddy McDowell had won the Nobel Prize for literature. And Mama asked how long he was going to live off his past achievements. Meanwhile the poodle rolled over and they thought it was the greatest thing on earth.
They can't make them anymore, Conway and Korman are gone. Carol and Vicki are retired and all the other talented people that did shows like this are gone!!!!! This includes the writers!!!!
pinz2022 - um, no. Why is it that people always assume that blacks always get their ideas from Caucasians? I am not prejudiced. Tyler Perry got the *"Madea"* inspiration by watching certain older women in his family, and or from Martin Lawrence if I'm not mistaken. However, I believe it's from some of the older women in his family. It is also a fact, reality, and truth that people of color are/were the first humans on this planet, starting in Africa, the motherland. Even "Africa" wasn't the original name of that invaded/colonized continent. Just like other continents, countries, and or islands around the planet got renamed by pale-skinned colonizers.
These reruns are on Sunday afternoons on our cable channel. Hilarious writing. During the 2020 pandemic we bought about 20 box sets of old retro tv shows. These old shows certainly better than the new tv shows
This is still my favorite show. Ed doesn't get enough credit. He was a riot especially when they drive him over the edge...great cast! Talent well never see again
Vicky Lawrence and Carol Burnett are simply brilliant. You just really get into their characters, and forget about the actresses. Great performances from Vicky and Carol and of coarse Harvey Just the best comedy show since Bud Abbot and Lou Costello and Jackie Gleeson. They just don't make them like that anymore. The talent was just Surperv!!!!!! Greatest comedy shows ever on TV.....PERIOD
@MissX33 What's that's supposed mean? Another words your saying you acted better than the Carol Burnett Show, Everybody Lives Raymond and Abbott and Costello and Seinfeld???? If you are saying when you were 6 years old you acted better than them without acting lessons. Then why smarty mouth didn't you have your own show 🤔????? After Shirley Temple was making movies at the age of 5 and was a success. They all made plenty of money. And what's your job ??? And how much did you make without acting lessons????? Yea I thought so. Your a wanna be. And you certainly don't appreciate a good clean laugh. You should keep your mouth shut, until you have a show on TV that's a success and running on TV for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID THINK BEFORE YOU TALK CAUSE SOUND LIKE AN ASS WITH NO BRAIN!!!!!!
My late wife and I use to laugh at these Family shows, I always told her it was a story about her family and she always asked me when I was going to open a Hardware Store. I still miss her.
"I was aggravated that not one of my children had offered to clean that oven for me" LMAO! Boy Mama was something, always trying to make Eunice feel bad
Burnett said she got letters from people who grew up in a family like this, who said she helped them to laugh over situations that were not especially funny when you lived them the first time. It is meant to be uncomfortable and funny at once.
Minds me of mine own dearly beloved mom n dad n sis she's only 1 left my folks fought like this every mealtime all the time goin anywhere to a funeral a party out to dinner , it was crazy , life was very hard for them n us , uh What's disfunctio nAl mean all we did was work night and day , to feed many many people , people would stop by at dinner occasionally and literally run away it was funny then, mom would say well what's a matter with them huh , etc etc just so much like Mrs Lawrence and then she'd sit n laff. Laff at her n Eunice n poor Ed , I miss them all our aunt's uncles grandparents so much now , it's funny but it also hurts so much to see theses old shows . It was the best of times , it was the worst of times , til now just really the end of time for n ol guy now just Waitin to go home in another dimension far away .I hope I hope we can get the 60s,n 70s , tv , n rock music there just lower the volume on the hollering .
I didn't realize the talent I was watching with my own eyes, live on television, some forty-five to fifty years ago. Today, however, I can honestly say that Carol is likely the single most talented actress to have lived . . . including actors. Carol is boss.
I'm a 5th generation Texan and I used to watch the Mama and Eunice episodes as much as possible. I remember how my mother and I would die laughing at these skits. They reminded us so much of some of our older relatives and hearing country folks talk exactly like these characters. Carol Burnett was from San Antonio, Texas, which probably explains where she got her inspiration to do these brilliant skits.
"...as it turn's out, she sure as hell didn't need 'em!" 😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dying! I'm in the floor trying to breathe! I could watch the Carol Burnett Show all day! Awesome Cast!!! Thanks for year's of laugh's!!! TV today sux! I don't bother with cable. Nothing but crap! Easier to buy DVD's of GOOD SHOWS, & watch them commercial-free!
How is it possible I haven't seen this in probably 45 years and still remember the best lines? 25 cents on coffee, 10 cents on dog food and two for the price of one on toilet paper, double ply! And for crying out loud, they brought the Ford!
@@mgmail7279 Mine dramatically sighs. She will do some task, without telling anyone she was doing it, and then complain no-one helped her with it. It has reached the point where when she asks a question, we say: 'We need more context. We don't know what answer you expect, and we're not being pulled into one of your traps again. Explain.'
@@Timmybear my personal favorite is when telling the story for the 100th time and you ho to say "mom you told me this" she say "can I finish please?!" in that mother tone then forgets where she was and starts all over again!
Mama reminds me of a resident i work with in the retirement home whos 94 lmao every time i see her she go a new story to tell me about her children. Or rants about some one she knew who died in her family she couldn't stand. 😂😂😂😂
Vicki Lawrence was only eighteen and right out of high school in Long Beach, California when she was cast for the Carol Burnetts show...Not only was she very talented...Many people thought that she was Carol's sister because they looked so much a like.
Funerals....when everyone shows up...in-laws and out-laws...all under one roof for an hour...and then the bickering starts all over again. Things that happened years past etc. are once again brought to light. Funerals, like family reunions...make for a good day's entertainment.
"...after all, she didn't need those coupons!" - funny and good acting too. They didn't have that much time to learn their lines before show time. The props and wardrobe were spot on!; and always those tacky whiet shoes and purse. Just great....
In a matter of speaking, it's somewhat more realistic than some parent-child relationships on TV have been, though probably my favorite two sit-com families are Mama's Family and the Roseanne show.
Oh I remember Carol Burnett, and absolutely loved every one of her skits. Just the best writing, best acting, best comedienne, The best show period. Too bad we don't have any like this anymore. (and look at his socks! too funny!)
Her tragedy was that she never stopped trying to please a bitter, angry woman who always withheld approval from her. There was nothing funny about that....
@@maskedmarvyl4774 absolutely right. People should be HORRIFIED. However, the writing and the talent of the actors made it work. They were truly showing us some serious family toxicity, and people could see this, yet it succeeded as a comedy.
My father used to have a co-worker who dressed like that. Those high water pants and the light colored socks with the dark shoes and pants. He walked funny too. Instead of walking 'heel to toe' like most people, he would pick up his entire foot at once.
@@thestones8022 Nah. Archie was a racist and a bigot but his family wasn't dysfunctional. Especially Edith. Plus, unlike Al Bundy and perhaps Ed Higgins, Archie really DID love his family. Despite anything else, Archie loved God, his family and his country. Exactly in that order too!
I remember back then we had only three channels to choose from, this was way before cable, and the programing was so good you almost had to flip a quarter to decide which channel to watch. Never had to flip a quarter when the Carol Burnett Show was on, we ALWAYS wanted to watch her! I miss those days so much.
I used to watch Mama's Family reruns at 11pm every weeknight to go to sleep on my turnstyle tv with aluminum on the rabbit ears when i was in elementary school. I still love that show! Vicki Lawrence is the best!
i too,,, find it easy to forget that Vikie is a cute red head. this whole "Family" skit just blew us away back when...... it was a must see show back then.
This was the first Eunice sketch I ever saw on Carol Burnett. I was finally allowed to stay up past 10pm on Saturdays at age 12 and this was on. Loved it!
I just keep thinking how awesome Vicky Lawrence was as "Momma" on Carol Burnett and "Momma's Family" and was younger than most of the people she worked with. I love watching "The Family" on youtube. They were all awesome on the show, but to play an old lady and be the youngest does take talent. Those clips still crack me up.
Superbly talented writing delivered by superbly talented actors. You can't find this kind of comedy anywhere on TV these days--not a curse word or coarse joke, and yet they paint a picture of human nature in relationships that many people can relate to.
I don't about anyone else but I could not STOP laughing. God, Mama was a person you wanted to strangle!!! What a terrific skit, real talent unlike today's crap on television!
I AGREE.THEY WE'RE AWESOME MAMA WAS PERFECT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE TO PLAY THE PERSON YOU DON'T LIKE SO MUCH..JUST LIKE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW TAKE OUT BARNEY YOU GOT NO SHOW..
+Alice McLeod As an older man myself who watched the entire Saturday night line-up including this show I couldn't agree with you more. Today's television comedy is mostly crap!
The irony of these sketches is that Carol Burnett drew from characters in her own dysfunctional family and that people watching these skits can relate to them because they either have relatives or friends who act this way. The spats between Eunice and her sister Ellen are both funny but also come very close to realty because many sisters carry their petty grudges from childhood into adulthood because "Mom always liked you best." The TV movie "Eunice" told of different years in her life from being a teenager to when her mother died. When Eunice starts crying about her mother dying and blaming her for not allowing Eunice to develop her own life, Ken Barry as the brother steps in and tells Eunice that she is responsible for her own life. That scene allowed Carol to go from her crazy, off the wall Eunice into a character whom we felt sorry for, even though we knew it was only a play.
"Eunice" was groundbreaking in that it was a dramatic comedy, which was unheard-of in 1981. Yes, there was "M*A*S*H" but it wasn't filmed in front of a studio audience. When Eunice breaks down, you can hear sniffs in the audience too. I think the reason "The Family" was so beloved is that people could look at it and see either themselves or people they could relate to.
Poor Ed. The man works in hardware all week - the hardware game ain't easy. The least he should get is to relax on a Saturday with a beer and some Bugs Bunny on the TV.
Those would sell like hot cakes in rabbit season, especially if Mickey Hart worked his magic by putting them next to something like 3/4" flat head screws. Imagine some rabbit hunter walking into the hardware store just before rabbit season. He's looking for a 3/4" flat head screw. He looks around on the shelf, finds the screws,. then sees the traps. He thinks, "what do we have here?" He goes to the register to pay for his screw. "Hey, Ed. I see you have those rabbit traps, but nobody buys American rabbit traps. The Japanese traps are the ones that work - they're all the rage." Ed: "Them there are Japanese rabbit traps. I only stock the best." Rabbit Hunter: "Give me a dozen!" When word got out in the rabbit hunting community, they'd be coming from far and wide to buy those traps. Then, with the placement of the 3/4" flat head screws, they'd pick up a few of them too - bonus profit.
It looks like Eunice’s dress is exactly the same sad dress she always had on, but with black chiffon over it. That’s amazing.
I thought the same thing
It's hard to believe that Vicki Lawrence is 16 years younger than Carol Burnett, yet she plays the mother. She does a great job doing it.
Acting...wigs...old clothes.....
I didn't know that.🤔
You can clearly tell if you knew and looked at their necklines and facelines.
I saw an interview with Carol Burnett where she said the writers wanted Carol to play Mamma. When Carol saw the script she said "I'm playing Eunice and we're doing it Southern." The writers almost walked off in protest. When they finally did the show, it was such a success that "the writers couldn't write the Family sketches fast enough."
Vickie Lawrence was exceptional at playing Thelma Harper. She reminded me (at age 5) of one of my actual Southern grandmothers.
They came up with the characters in the bathroom. Carol said “mama do you have any toilet paper?” And Vickie said “well where the he’ll do you think we are? Of course I have toilet paper!” Carl said “well excuse me for living”
They laughed and instantly went to the writers.
Do we know that this really happened?
@@Mister_Listener I know that Carol Burnett said it did in an interview.
@@Com005 those are not her actual words that you have put in quotation marks, are they?
This is April 2023, and I can't believe that I am laughing at a funeral episode! Only Carol Burnett can have me in stitches laughing! Ed, just gets it, the worst! Sit down Ed! He'd rather be home watching "The Best Of Bugs Bunny!" Magnificently done!!
🤣🤣🤣
Carol Burnett and Mama's Family are two comedic classics that are timeless. Writing, comedic timing, acting the trifecta of Hollywood.
TRIFECTA?😂
I hope people see the pathos in these skits as much as they see the humor. They really were brilliantly written and acted.
I read somewhere that for one rehearsal of Eunices Family they agreed to try and say it straight; no accents, no pulling faces, no shouting. It was so depressing that they ended up in tears. I hope that was true!
I love mama and Eunice sketches! I wish they made more tv like this ! Still making new fans in 2023! 💕
My favorite dysfunctional family! They make narcissistic abuse funny, God bless them all. The relentless criticism, the total absence of appreciation, the complete lack of love and acceptance, the melodrama that evaporates into thin air. I looked forward to this all week. Watching this and being able to laugh must have saved so many people from despair.
so very
funny! Mamma and Eunice, never fail, to make me laugh! 😂❤
The best one was with Roddy McDowall. Eunice had a new poodle which the family made a huge deal about. Roddy McDowell had won the Nobel Prize for literature. And Mama asked how long he was going to live off his past achievements. Meanwhile the poodle rolled over and they thought it was the greatest thing on earth.
It saved me . lolo
Absolutely psychologically AND comedically brilliant.
Sad they don’t make shows like this anymore - good memories
in living color had some great skits!! ms benita butrell. makes my head split!!..lol
Ikr...these shows I grew up on and still love to watch them....I watch her everynight after working allday 12 hour shifts she makes me laugh...lol
They can't make them anymore, Conway and Korman are gone. Carol and Vicki are retired and all the other talented people that did shows like this are gone!!!!! This includes the writers!!!!
Did you watch EUNICE? it’s Like a movie and it’s funny sad Eunice dating her husband to mamas passing. Great!
Vicki Lawrence is also the lady that sang "The night the lights went out in Georgia", beautiful voice, singer, an actor she is.
It was a popular song I heard on the school bus on my way to grade school.
@@shawnsmith5028 one hit wonder
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Carol told her she had won a gold record in front of their audience.
@@SUGAR_XYLER Maybe but song was good enough to be remade by none other than Reba.
Oh poor mama can't get enough of these classic sketches pure comedy gold
One of my favorite shows growing up. The whole cast was so talented
Eunice is such a hilarious character. Pure genius
Brilliant move for whoever created these characters
Vicki Lawrence is absolutely brilliant as Mama. You totally forget she's really a cute little redhead and believe she's an older woman.
Do you suppose this is where Tyler Perry got his inspiration for Madea & Family? Mama and Eunice really sound black if you close your eyes.
+pinz2022 Maybe, but as for me, I love them both.
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pinz2022 - um, no. Why is it that people always assume that blacks always get their ideas from Caucasians? I am not prejudiced. Tyler Perry got the *"Madea"* inspiration by watching certain older women in his family, and or from Martin Lawrence if I'm not mistaken. However, I believe it's from some of the older women in his family. It is also a fact, reality, and truth that people of color are/were the first humans on this planet, starting in Africa, the motherland. Even "Africa" wasn't the original name of that invaded/colonized continent. Just like other continents, countries, and or islands around the planet got renamed by pale-skinned colonizers.
jerseytomato100 Exactly I love Vikki
This sketch is about a funeral, and is STILL funnier than the garbage on current TV!
These reruns are on Sunday afternoons on our cable channel. Hilarious writing.
During the 2020 pandemic we bought about 20 box sets of old retro tv shows. These old shows certainly better than the new tv shows
So true! This show actually makes you LAUGH unlike current TV shows!
U kno u r right!
I definitely agree! 🙂❤️💕
@@d.g.n9392I said the same thing. I don’t even watch the new shows, only the old ones.
This is still my favorite show. Ed doesn't get enough credit. He was a riot especially when they drive him over the edge...great cast! Talent well never see again
Vicky Lawrence and Carol Burnett are simply brilliant. You just really get into their characters, and forget about the actresses. Great performances from Vicky and Carol and of coarse Harvey
Just the best comedy show since Bud Abbot and Lou Costello and Jackie Gleeson.
They just don't make them like that anymore. The talent was just Surperv!!!!!!
Greatest comedy shows ever on TV.....PERIOD
The only show that's as funny as those shows I just mention .is EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND
Surperv?
@@KD-nk3htI agree 100% with you !!
I agree with you 100%
@MissX33
What's that's supposed mean? Another words your saying you acted better than the Carol Burnett Show, Everybody Lives Raymond and Abbott and Costello and Seinfeld???? If you are saying when you were 6 years old you acted better than them without acting lessons. Then why smarty mouth didn't you have your own show 🤔?????
After Shirley Temple was making movies at the age of 5 and was a success. They all made plenty of money. And what's your job ??? And how much did you make without acting lessons????? Yea I thought so. Your a wanna be. And you certainly don't appreciate a good clean laugh. You should keep your mouth shut, until you have a show on TV that's a success and running on TV for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STUPID THINK BEFORE YOU TALK CAUSE SOUND LIKE AN ASS WITH NO BRAIN!!!!!!
Apart from the fabulous comedy value - these guys are REAL professional actors.They're good!
When Ed went off on Mama about them coupons was too funny!!!
After all these years, this is still 10 times better than any sketch on SNL these days.
once again,very true this can top any comedy nowadays or even SNL
You are so right
@@kattalady8114 AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!
@@patricodesouza7453 Word!!!
Odothuigon - snl isn’t even funny, quit watching it a long time ago -
My late wife and I use to laugh at these Family shows, I always told her it was a story about her family and she always asked me when I was going to open a Hardware Store. I still miss her.
The skits are so funny because they're universal. There was a lot of arguing and passive-aggressive behavior in several families I've known.
Lol
Aww bless your hearts!
May her soul rip
Scottie dynamo
Like a great song that you love, these family sketches are like that. You know every word, but it never gets old.
"I was aggravated that not one of my children had offered to clean that oven for me" LMAO! Boy Mama was something, always trying to make Eunice feel bad
I no ko
Toxic, like a lot of mothers.
"As it turns out she sure as hell didn't need 'em." Gets me every single time.
Grace Austin 😅😅😅😆😆😆
Ling Austin ikr, Vicky is a true riot, I just cannot say & get enough of her as Mama, NEVER!!!!!
Timing was perfect beer open look on euris face
That's my favorite line too. This is a brilliant sketch.
Carol Burnett and the cast of the show were fabulous. True Holloywood actors, NOT the idiots they have now. Love this show, and Mama's Family!.
Burnett said she got letters from people who grew up in a family like this, who said she helped them to laugh over situations that were not especially funny when you lived them the first time. It is meant to be uncomfortable and funny at once.
Minds me of mine own dearly beloved mom n dad n sis she's only 1 left my folks fought like this every mealtime all the time goin anywhere to a funeral a party out to dinner , it was crazy , life was very hard for them n us , uh
What's disfunctio nAl mean all we did was work night and day , to feed many many people , people would stop by at dinner occasionally and literally run away it was funny then, mom would say well what's a matter with them huh , etc etc just so much like Mrs Lawrence and then she'd sit n laff. Laff at her n Eunice n poor Ed ,
I miss them all our aunt's uncles grandparents so much now , it's funny but it also hurts so much to see theses old shows .
It was the best of times , it was the worst of times , til now just really the end of time for n ol guy now just
Waitin to go home in another dimension far away .I hope
I hope we can get the 60s,n 70s , tv , n rock music there just lower the volume on the hollering .
I didn't realize the talent I was watching with my own eyes, live on television, some forty-five to fifty years ago. Today, however, I can honestly say that Carol is likely the single most talented actress to have lived . . . including actors. Carol is boss.
Still going strong at 90!
@@chaswr I had no idea. I'll have to look into that. :)
Oh, ok. If you feel that she was only mediocre, why are you watching her material and now commentating in a negative way? Scratching my head.@@MissX33
"Hell, that don't look like no Caddy!"
"Oh, for crying out loud, they brought the Ford! That's gonna put a crimp in the funeral...."
LMAO
My absolute favorite skit is the one where they're playing SORRY.🤣
Vicki Lawrence was the underrated one in the cast
She was the star of the show!
willminkorea2010 the were all great
AND she was very shapely too ... great RACK !
This is one part Tennessee Williams, one part Southern Gothic, one part black comedy, and all parts BRILLIANT.
love Carroll BURNETT
jod6cindy nailed it.
I was thinking Tennesse Williams while watching this too!
A less dark Flannery O'Connor.
Mama is one of the best TV characters ever created. Major props to Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, and Vicki Lawrence! =)
I'm a 5th generation Texan and I used to watch the Mama and Eunice episodes as much as possible. I remember how my mother and I would die laughing at these skits. They reminded us so much of some of our older relatives and hearing country folks talk exactly like these characters. Carol Burnett was from San Antonio, Texas, which probably explains where she got her inspiration to do these brilliant skits.
Carol Burnett show was hilarious. They should come back.
Carol is THE BEST!!!!!!
I’ve seen tears roll down my dads face watching these skits.....
My late wife’s brother was one of the writers on the mama’s family show. He also wrote for full house.
"...as it turn's out, she sure as hell didn't need 'em!"
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm dying!
I'm in the floor trying to breathe!
I could watch the Carol Burnett Show all day!
Awesome Cast!!!
Thanks for year's of laugh's!!!
TV today sux!
I don't bother with cable. Nothing but crap!
Easier to buy DVD's of GOOD SHOWS, & watch them commercial-free!
Vicki Lawrence did an outstanding job playing Mama, never laughed so hard in all my life.
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She,s the best !1
Both sad and funny that Thelma is a carbon copy of my Grandmother.
Camden Bridges I love her too I wanna know how she kept a straight face
I used to watch her show almost Saturday night with my mother. Dad just laughed at us laughing at Carol.
Carol Burnett the very best sitcom
I'll never grow tired of watching this comedy.
How is it possible I haven't seen this in probably 45 years and still remember the best lines?
25 cents on coffee, 10 cents on dog food and two for the price of one on toilet paper, double ply!
And for crying out loud, they brought the Ford!
I just love Carol Burnett l watch her shows every day
My mother was like that, repeated the same thing over and over until you lost your mind.
+Elsie Dupuis I think they knew they were driving you crazy, it was their way to maintain control.
+Elsie Dupuis No, actually, I am the other way, very direct and to the point.
I'm like you, Scott. Couldn't stand my mother's passive aggressiveness. I'm the opposite.
@@mgmail7279 Mine dramatically sighs. She will do some task, without telling anyone she was doing it, and then complain no-one helped her with it. It has reached the point where when she asks a question, we say: 'We need more context. We don't know what answer you expect, and we're not being pulled into one of your traps again. Explain.'
@@Timmybear my personal favorite is when telling the story for the 100th time and you ho to say "mom you told me this" she say "can I finish please?!" in that mother tone then forgets where she was and starts all over again!
Mama reminds me of a resident i work with in the retirement home whos 94 lmao every time i see her she go a new story to tell me about her children. Or rants about some one she knew who died in her family she couldn't stand. 😂😂😂😂
Vicki Lawrence was only eighteen and right out of high school in Long Beach, California when she was cast for the Carol Burnetts show...Not only was she very talented...Many people thought that she was Carol's sister because they looked so much a like.
very true, saw an interview from Vicki saying that.
Wow, she was only 18⁉️ What a lucky break for a fantastic performer‼️😀
@Tracy Sharp Vicki was able to hold her own against then pretty well. She's super talented!
I read about this. True, she does look like Carol a lot.
That's awesome
Funerals....when everyone shows up...in-laws and out-laws...all under one roof for an hour...and then the bickering starts all over again. Things that happened years past etc. are once again brought to light. Funerals, like family reunions...make for a good day's entertainment.
"Mama, I'm not wearing any gloves, I told you I don't like to wear gloves so I'm not going to wear any gloves." LOL!!
"...after all, she didn't need those coupons!" - funny and good acting too. They didn't have that much time to learn their lines before show time. The props and wardrobe were spot on!; and always those tacky whiet shoes and purse. Just great....
That had to be one of the most poisonous mother-daughter relationships on TV.
In a matter of speaking, it's somewhat more realistic than some parent-child relationships on TV have been, though probably my favorite two sit-com families are Mama's Family and the Roseanne show.
Karyl Miller everybody has a touch of this. That's why it's so funny.
This was very real for many people.
I was rivetted watching this, but didn't find it funny at all.
I agree, but I would have to add All In The Family. It was BRILLIANT!
This is the role Vicki was born to play! Carol just takes a back seat (gladly) in these sketches.
Binkle Baba: Says a lot about Carol that she never tried to upstage Vikki. The audience loved her so much for that ensemble professionalism.
Oh I remember Carol Burnett, and absolutely loved every one of her skits. Just the best writing, best acting, best comedienne, The best show period. Too bad we don't have any like this anymore.
(and look at his socks! too funny!)
I said “what kind of a patsy do you think I am,?” and slammed down the phone on her!
Too funny... dying of laughter
Poor Eunice. Always trying to please but never quite succeeding.
FEELINGS!!! WHOA, WHOA, WHO-AH, FEELINGS!!!!
Love this show! It was favorite for me and my late Grandma Bonnie Kincaid. It brings back memories of laughing with her!
Her tragedy was that she never stopped trying to please a bitter, angry woman who always withheld approval from her. There was nothing funny about that....
@@maskedmarvyl4774 absolutely right. People should be HORRIFIED. However, the writing and the talent of the actors made it work.
They were truly showing us some serious family toxicity, and people could see this, yet it succeeded as a comedy.
This show really takes me back to sitting on my grandma's living room floor in front of her console TV.
Look at Harvey's pants and socks when they're sitting on the couch. These people really paid attention to the details.
Yes classic!
You are so right! I would have missed that.😊✌️
Yup, Harvey was better dressed when he was Hedy Lamar
@@billolsen4360 That's HEDLEY! 🤣
My father used to have a co-worker who dressed like that. Those high water pants and the light colored socks with the dark shoes and pants. He walked funny too. Instead of walking 'heel to toe' like most people, he would pick up his entire foot at once.
Bring back this kind of TV
coolsweetgroovy Nothing is funny like that, today is just vulgarity and not fun
"You ordered up two cars to take you to this funeral so you're going!" Priceless. ^_^
I used to think Al Bundy's family was the most dysfunctional family on television; but then, I'd forgotten about Mama's Family.
or archie bunker...?/
@@thestones8022 Nah. Archie was a racist and a bigot but his family wasn't dysfunctional. Especially Edith. Plus, unlike Al Bundy and perhaps Ed Higgins, Archie really DID love his family. Despite anything else, Archie loved God, his family and his country. Exactly in that order too!
Poor Ed!😞 He has to put up with these two everyday!
This is television gold.
I remember back then we had only three channels to choose from, this was way before cable, and the programing was so good you almost had to flip a quarter to decide which channel to watch. Never had to flip a quarter when the Carol Burnett Show was on, we ALWAYS wanted to watch her! I miss those days so much.
I used to watch Mama's Family reruns at 11pm every weeknight to go to sleep on my turnstyle tv with aluminum on the rabbit ears when i was in elementary school. I still love that show! Vicki Lawrence is the best!
pearl nestor best days of life. When comedy was funny and not sleazy
I laughed so hard I wet my pants when Harvey Korman repeated all the coupons.
i too,,, find it easy to forget that Vikie is a cute red head. this whole "Family" skit just blew us away back when...... it was a must see show back then.
This was the first Eunice sketch I ever saw on Carol Burnett. I was finally allowed to stay up past 10pm on Saturdays at age 12 and this was on. Loved it!
When I'm down in the dumps Eunice always makes me laugh. she is amazing and so creative in everything she does.. No one will ever be like her again..
Carol is still alive, you know.
@@sha11235 Someone doesn't have to be dead to have that said about them...
"She went right that afternoon while she was watching the Mike Douglas Show." LOL
The Momma and Eunice sketches were the best. I had a cousin we would call Eunice whenever she got witchy.
This is classic television at its best , total talent and pure entertainment , love it, love it, love it!!!!!!
ncavlleguy Thank you! Louder please for the children for the children
Yes THE BEST ! Today is garbage!!
I had an Aunt Mae. She and my great grandfather were brother and sister. She was a very sweet, gracious, kind lady. She died around 1966.
Lol! My family used to just crack up over "The Family". Those were some good memories. 😂🤣😅
I love Carol and Vicky and when Harvey goes off! Ha! Great TV!!
The best trio on MeTV every night at 11P,M. I love to laugh with them.
I just keep thinking how awesome Vicky Lawrence was as "Momma" on Carol Burnett and "Momma's Family" and was younger than most of the people she worked with. I love watching "The Family" on youtube. They were all awesome on the show, but to play an old lady and be the youngest does take talent. Those clips still crack me up.
Oh, Lord, will this day never end?
It will, when the clock strikes midnight.
I feel Ed. All he wanted to do was watch his bugs bunny. He sure does put up a lot
I watch carol burnett show every single Saturday nite I sure do miss this show
Superbly talented writing delivered by superbly talented actors. You can't find this kind of comedy anywhere on TV these days--not a curse word or coarse joke, and yet they paint a picture of human nature in relationships that many people can relate to.
Hello Deborah, how are you doing today?
This skit sounds like my family - lol - I loved her show, nothing today compares to it
the acting...the writing...BRILLIANT!
I don't about anyone else but I could not STOP laughing. God, Mama was a person you wanted to strangle!!! What a terrific skit, real talent unlike today's crap on television!
+Alice McLeod it's like listening to chickens cackle when they are yelling at each other! but brilliantly funny chickens!
I AGREE.THEY WE'RE AWESOME MAMA WAS PERFECT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE TO PLAY THE PERSON YOU DON'T LIKE SO MUCH..JUST LIKE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW TAKE OUT BARNEY YOU GOT NO SHOW..
+Alice McLeod As an older man myself who watched the entire Saturday night line-up including this show I couldn't agree with you more. Today's television comedy is mostly crap!
Mama was more likable in the tv series. But she still had a grudge against Eunice.
+LibertyGiveMe amen!
"I bust my butt for you, old lady!!" "Oh you do by taking me to one dirty movie?!!" "She won an Academy Award for it!!!" ROTFLMAO!!
Wanna bet Mama sneak-peaks said dirty movie on her VCR?
imagine eunice's daddy's funeral just by listening to this sketch. eunice was crying and mama thought it was humiliating tolerating it.
That southern accent 😂😂😂 brilliant show, wonderful cast they were !
I would love to see the uncut version of Aunt Mae Is Dead. Hopefully Carol Burnett's channel on here will upload it one of these days.
Mama all her discount coupons drove ED crazy.😢❤
This show was brilliant .
The irony of these sketches is that Carol Burnett drew from characters in her own dysfunctional family and that people watching these skits can relate to them because they either have relatives or friends who act this way. The spats between Eunice and her sister Ellen are both funny but also come very close to realty because many sisters carry their petty grudges from childhood into adulthood because "Mom always liked you best." The TV movie "Eunice" told of different years in her life from being a teenager to when her mother died. When Eunice starts crying about her mother dying and blaming her for not allowing Eunice to develop her own life, Ken Barry as the brother steps in and tells Eunice that she is responsible for her own life. That scene allowed Carol to go from her crazy, off the wall Eunice into a character whom we felt sorry for, even though we knew it was only a play.
"Eunice" was groundbreaking in that it was a dramatic comedy, which was unheard-of in 1981. Yes, there was "M*A*S*H" but it wasn't filmed in front of a studio audience. When Eunice breaks down, you can hear sniffs in the audience too. I think the reason "The Family" was so beloved is that people could look at it and see either themselves or people they could relate to.
I did not know that ... makes these sketches even sadder. I miss these shows.
Yep.
Vicki was great as momma.
I miss this show! I grew up on this kind of tv! I love that I found this!
Poor Eunice, she needs a hug and somebody to love her. She tries so hard. Love these skits, we all have family like these characters
She desperately needs therapy.
Mama: “She had more money than Carter had liver pills!” ROFL 🤣
I haven’t had that heard that line since I was a little girl!
So funny! I was dying that he couldn’t miss Bugs Bunny!
I love watching these kinds of shows with my mother and my grandmother, and I'm 19. I wish TV was like back in the day. XD
THEY WERE SO GOOD! (All the cut-throat emotion of a REAL family!) That's all I can say about that!
I used to think my family was dysfunctional, but after watching "Mama's Family", I changed my mind. I've seen every episode of this great show!
@HuYoaDaddy 1qq
"Hell that don't look like no Caddie! " "Oh for crying out loud they brought the Ford!" 🤣😂
Bob Mackie is a genius..utterly brilliant designing every single costume on the Carol Burnett show..
He was an amazing designer.
Did a few of Pinks outfits
@Lala lalala Yeah. The shoes do not match Eunice's dress either. It is not that hard to find nice looking shoes. Black shoes are easy to find too.
90% are still in style...I love the dresses she starts the show in.
bob is brillant, just did Cher on broadway. flawless
This show will never get old. Too funny I can watch it every day too funny😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Poor Ed. The man works in hardware all week - the hardware game ain't easy. The least he should get is to relax on a Saturday with a beer and some Bugs Bunny on the TV.
Yeah...but what do you expect from a man who'd ordered 1000 Japanese rabbit traps....
Those would sell like hot cakes in rabbit season, especially if Mickey Hart worked his magic by putting them next to something like 3/4" flat head screws.
Imagine some rabbit hunter walking into the hardware store just before rabbit season. He's looking for a 3/4" flat head screw. He looks around on the shelf, finds the screws,. then sees the traps. He thinks, "what do we have here?" He goes to the register to pay for his screw.
"Hey, Ed. I see you have those rabbit traps, but nobody buys American rabbit traps. The Japanese traps are the ones that work - they're all the rage."
Ed: "Them there are Japanese rabbit traps. I only stock the best."
Rabbit Hunter: "Give me a dozen!"
When word got out in the rabbit hunting community, they'd be coming from far and wide to buy those traps. Then, with the placement of the 3/4" flat head screws, they'd pick up a few of them too - bonus profit.
I was thinking the same thing. Poor ed
Thats the same lady who sang The light the nights went out in Georgia!
Oh Lord will this day never end!!!