The Carol Burnett Show Bloopers Part 1 ("Mama" discusses "Elephant Story" Blooper)
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Carol, Tim, Harvey and Vicki were razor sharp and quick. So much of that was improv!
There will never be a show that good again
Harvey said Tim would play it correctly in rehearsal. But, when they got to the live show he would ad lib just to make Harvey laugh.
Tim Conway was one of the funniest men in comedy history.
He was awesome in Married with...Children as Peggy's father.
No one can ever bring this back to life. And no one is coming even close. Especially Saturday Night Live they stink.
Anything Tim Conway and Harvey Korman is gold. True comedy.
One of the reasons for Tim Conway breaking up the others is although they would practice the skits, Tim would never do it the same way.
The thing that was different about The Carol Burnett Show was on other shows, Red Skelton, etc. the star always got the best lines. It was their show after all. Carol said if it’s good, do it. I don’t care who gets the laugh/applause so long as it’s good.
This reminds me of Jack Benny. Jack Benny went out of his way to purposefully give his guest stars the best/funniest written lines. He said in an interview that it was a win / win because it helped promote the guests while TV viewers would remember they saw it on "The Jack Benny Show". Since it made them look better, TV and movie stars were always more than willing to do a guest appearance on his show.
Oh please; snl's _nothing_ like the Carol Burnett Show.
Carol Burnett's show was funny =)
"SNL" used to be great when John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Eddie Murphy were on there. When they all left, the show went to shit. It's no longer worth watching.
Yeah, to be fair the SNL of today is very different from the Saturday Night Live of long ago. The Carol Burnett Show was fantastic but there was a reason the cast of SNL was called The Not Ready for Prime Time Players. It's not really fair to compare the two because they each had their strengths and drawbacks. And that clip you saw with elephant...the Carol Burnett show was able to film that after Tim Conway did his thing. Saturday Night Live, being live, wouldn't have that luxury. So let's enjoy both for what they were.
There is an episode of a show called Taxi, that gives back story on a character named Reverend Jim. It is from his college days, and it is the first time he tries marijuana.
Oh Ty- I’m so happy you’re doing these AND enjoying what pure gold this show was! Warms my heart- And I am enjoying living my childhood days with you, as I’ve not seen this sacred show myself, in years. I gotta get the box set-it’s not cheap last I checked.. but well worth it! Real acting/TV- Oh! That was the “old man“ character I’ve referenced.. the one swinging in the clothes rack and the firefighter one-Carol also started doing the “old woman” version when Tim’s was such a hit!! I was surprised Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Swiggins weren’t in this one- I wish I knew how to link it- Also, there’s the 4 of them doing a special onstage, talking with one another and audience (like what Vicky did here) it’s quite interesting and funny too- they were a fantastic group of folks.. not only on the show but also in life - I can’t wait to watch more with ya! Sending love always-❤️🤘🏼✌️
Vicky Lawrence is brilliant. The one person who can literally put Tim Conway on the floor. THAT takes some epic comedic timing. She's incredible.
I would love to see them bring programs like this back!
Vicki Lawrence was the ultimate straight man. She held it together when the others were falling apart, and then she’d let rip a line that dropped the others to the floor.
Loved this. I have watched these bloopers many times and laugh every time. Your comment about the new comedy shows is what us older folks have been saying for years. I also agree that shows like this should be brought back but you can't because of "political correctness", the show would be deemed offensive. Back then people knew how to laugh at jokes and not take them personally. Disclaimer, the opinions expressed are my own and do not represent the opinions of this channel or Ty. 😉
I'm so glad you're now watching The Carol Burnett Show, one of my all time favorite shows! And the Television Academy (formerly Archive of American Television) interviews! Those interviews are so in-depth: Carol, Vicki, Harvey and Tim are all in the archive. And because I know you watch The Golden Girls, Bea, Betty and Rue have all been interviewed too. I highly recommend watching the Interviews archives, not necessarily as a reaction video, they're a pleasure to watch!
What television needs is more shows like this. Just good old fashion entertainment.
I agree
I loved The Carol Burnett show as a kid. I know that had so much fun trying to crack each other up! 💖💖
My favorite show growing up. Nothing like it.
I'm telling you if you looked at the Flip Wilson show, you would really crack up.
Oh yess yess. Flip Wilson was a favorite of mine. Like Carol Burnette, I was very young when that was on. I am remembering Flip's 'Here Comes the Judge" skits. And the ones where he played Geraldine. ROFL He also had alot of famous guest on his show too.
I also liked Flip Wilson. His Geraldine and 'The devil made me do it' was hilarious. I did not like it when he said he abused his children.
Another good one, again memories of me laughing my head off at grandmas. Those were wonderful times for me, I should really say I cherish those memories.
The TV shows are so much funny and better then today's TV!!!
It would be fun to see you react to some of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, especially the ones with Don Rickles. There are plenty of short clips of individual roasts on UA-cam.
Flip Wilson is another comedian that I would live to see you react to.
I like whatever you do...It’s fun watching YOU watch what I watched the first time it was aired!
Always loved Carol Burnett show and it's bloopers. Their inability NOT to laugh. Love watching your reactions. You have an infectious laugh.
You know you're good when you make a grown man laugh so hard he pees on himself.
Melanie Viselli I was trying to find the pee stain.
@@Wellch I think on the version that actually made it to TV, it shows where Harvey Korman actually peed on himself.
I don't know how easy it is to actually see him do it...but here is a link to an interview Tim Conway did, talking about when he made Harvey Korman laugh that hard....
ua-cam.com/video/CB4KFsV7Bqk/v-deo.html
Carol Burnett's parody of Gone With the Wind - Went With the Wind is so hysterical
Loved "Momma's Family" and "The Carol Burnette Show" great comedy. We need more of this today. Tim had his own show at one time. Sadly it didn't go very long.
I met Carol Burnett at a very low point in her family's life. She tried to stand proud, but you could see it was tearing her apart. I had to make sure I didn't gush and fawn, even being a little kid, because of where I met her. I had such mad respect for her as a result of that.
This was real comedy. How I miss it!!!
I love this show. I grew up with those classic shows like this one. Nothing can top it.
Tim and Harvey were always cracking each other up... I grew up watching this show! Good times!
No matter how many time I watch this, I still roll on the floor
A major point to remember is that the Carol Burnett Show was a live broadcast, not taped, not edited. So when Tim Conway went off-script, the rest of the cast had to try to keep it together. And notice how impeccable Tim Conway's timing is. how he waits until Carol just about has it together before he continues his story.
simply brilliant and unsurpassed entertainment ..watching Tim and harvey just all out trying to break each other up..man i laughed and laughed..that elephant sketch is wonderful to watch
Keep Well Keep Strong My Friend
I wish they used live studio audiences these days.... it makes scenes like these that much funnier.
There was no going back in this show. It was filmed live on stage with an audience LOL I loved it so much.
The Carol Burnette show. The original Try Not To Laugh challenge.
More out takes and bloopers please😍😍
I remember watching the Carol Burnett Show every week with my Mom. It was always one of the funniest shows on TV. And you mentioned your wife doesn't like your attempts at humor sometimes. My husband and I will be married 35 years in May of this year. As I'm sure you know, no marriage is without it's share of disagreements sometimes. When we argue, or even when I am just in a bad mood all by myself, my husband is the only person on the face of this earth who can ALWAYS make me laugh - and break my bad mood or bad feelings. THAT is a true gift! I am happy that you are also so blessed! Being able to laugh together, even during a rough patch, is a wonderful way to connect with each other.
Side note: Things are always ten times funnier at times when you're supposed to be quiet, and serious!!!
For Tim Conway it was a game every week to make Harvey, Vicky and Carol laugh
He would go off script.
I was in the studio audience for the Christmas show of her final season. The show itself was great, but the highlights were when tech glitches made them have to do retakes. To keep it fresh for the studio audience, they would get progressively sillier and more improvisational on each take.Most of this was never aired. Helen Reddy was there to sing with Carol a song from Pete’s Dragon, a then newly-released Disney picture Reddy was in. The segment wasn’t meant to be comical at all, but the green screen that was supposed to make scenes from the movie appear behind them on video kept bleeding green into the video. By the tenth take, Burnett had the entire audience in stitches with ridiculously over-acted versions of her lines, originally meant to sound like spontaneous banter.
A PS-The Carol Burnett Show, as many shows still do, taped twice with different audiences on the same day-afternoon “dress rehearsal” and evening. Friday was taping day for the later years of the Carol Burnett Show. Shows would generally have their first airings 3-4 weeks later. The best of the two tapings would be edited into the final show. This kept multiple takes to a minimum, kept any one audience from getting worn out by multiple takes, and running out of laughter for the same repeated joke. For shows with studio audiences, laugh tracks are generally used only to smooth edits. The two tapings also mean that performers and crew don’t have to stay quite as late doing “pick-ups” (minor brief do-overs) after the audiences are gone. If a complicated segment goes particularly well in the afternoon, it might not have to be done for the evening audience. It looks like this sketch was done twice, and that the shorter elephant story without the bleepable line is the only one that aired. So glad they saved this version. Burnett had often said that what kept the 11-year run of the show from utterly exhausting her is that she hired great supporting regulars and let them shine. She discovered Lawrence when Lawrence was still a teenager. Conway, a veteran of the successful McHale’s Navy sitcom, and then multiple failed sitcoms, shone in frequent guest spots on Burnett’s show, and was eventually brought on as a regular. He’d found his niche. He kept his California license plate number, 13WKS, because of the number of series he’d been in that had bern canceled after 13 weeks.
Thank you Ty...this is going to be a blast!
Carol Burnett was looking for someone to play her sister in what became the Carol Burnett show. A reporter saw Vicki Lawrence at an event and Lawrence sent a copy of the article to Burnett. She hired Lawrence and Lawrence stayed on Burnett’s show the entire 11 years it aired.
Thank you for that, had a good laugh, best way to start my day. Amazing to watch comedians who can improve like that.💕
1) It’s hard to hear because the audience is laughing so hard, but after Vicky says “Is it your time of the month, Eunice?” she then says “Are you riding the cotton pony?”. That’s when Carol completely loses it. 2) Carol’s goof ups inspired SNL, which swore they wouldn’t be like Burnette, and they would not crack up. And that was true early on, but no longer. Now SNL cracks up just like the Burnette Show cast did.
If you like that I would suggest watching Mrs. Browns Boys from Ireland. I love that show!!!! You will laugh every time you see them!!!!
I dig all of your stuff!✌
Thank you for the lovely memories . . .
Vicki Lawrence was a singer. She originally recorded Reba’s Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia.
they went out of their way to be "corny" pun intended, but there were some really funny things done on Hee-Haw as well. Probably didn't have as wide of an audience, but Rendercella, and the Pee little Thrigs crack me up.
Laughter does good like a medicine
There are few things better than Vicki Lawrence as "Mama".
Check out Carol, herself. She was a riot.
Harvey Korman actually peed on himself during the dentist skit because he was laughing so hard.
First time I ever heard Vicki's interview. Very interesting story. I was born in 1964 so I grew up watching many of these great comedy shows and agree that comedy today is simply not the same. TV series in general are not the same. Back then we had 3 main Television channels [ ABC, CBC & NBC ] and also PBS which carried Sesame Street, The Electric Company and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood. Anyway, even with that limited number of channel's I was able to find something good and entertaining to watch every single evening I turned on the set. Not so much today.
Please do the Carol Burnett " Gone With The Wind " scene! Even if you haven't seen the actual movie Gone With The Wind, it is still hilarious! Also the old man falling down the stairs. Those two scenes are so funny!!
I lost it at carol giving tim a bath. Mama had the best one liners for people being stupid. You need to see a full skit of tim Conway as the old man
Around 1978 or 1979, when I lived in Baltimore when I was a kid, WJZ Channel 13 use to air reruns of The Carol Burnett Show every weekday afternoons after school. We were living with my grandmother at the time, well my grandmother watched the Carol Burnett Show every afternoon before the news, and I would watch it with her, because I couldn't watch it when it originally aired, because it came on at 10pm and I was in bed by 8pm when I was a kid.
It was nice growing up in this time - nothing like it today and yes we need this stuff again.
Oh so glad you got to experience this, Tim Conway was NOTORIOUS for going off script and poor Carol and Harvey never could keep a straight face. Hands down this one is my fav hahahahaha
The 1970s sitcom Taxi is great. Look up Taxi and Jim’s driving test. Jim is a gentle soul whose brain cells are quite fried. The cabbies suggest that he get a cab driver’s license. The cast includes Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza and Danny DiVito as the tyrannical garage dispatcher
Carol Burnett show was a 1hr show. An audience sat for almost 5hrs because of all the mess ups.
If you love sitcoms. You'll love... It's a brand new day for freedom. Medea vs Brown.
back then, we could all laugh at ourselves
You need to see Harvey and Tim as undercover cops on a stake out...
5:42 Yeah, Tim Conway made that show hilarious. He was notorious for going off script and improvising lol
Tim would do the stuff to crack them all up.
You are very correct when you said "now a days someone would protest". The Art of real good comity is lost for now. Hopefully it comes back one day! It is missed!!
Funny always love the bloopers make you laugh more 😀😀
Chuckel worthy. Now how about kicking the laughter up a knotch by easing into British humor with "I'm All Alone' from the Broadway musical production of Spamalot.
You should read “What’s So Funny?” By Tim Conway. He devotes a chapter to his time on that show. His goal was to improvise and crack up Harvey, which was more often than not, successful. It’s an easy, fun read by a really nice guy.
Tim Conway and the gang were so adept at impromptu and ad lib and so politically incorrect (no one really noticed then) , they elevated comedy to a level that, I believe, will not be matched. RIP Tim.
Do you have the Mrs watch these after you see them? We,had the best tv growing up. There wasn't any limit they wouldn't reach. They would have everyone just in tears. It's nice to see you enjoying,these.
Would be great to see someone do an old-school variety show, with a little bit of everything.
I never missed her show. We missed a lot of dialogue from laughing so loudly.
You should check out a skit with Tim Conway and Lyle Wagner. It is a Nazi interrogation skit with a Hitler Puppet. Some skits were reserved for bloopers but this skit made it to the TV show. Wagner was an American soldier and Tim was a Nazi interrogator. Wagner had no idea Tim Conway was going to pull out a Hitler puppet and you can see it in his eyes as he looks around for help during the skit. Tim Conway often worked with the costumes department or sound crew without telling his other cast members what he planned to do. He had them make the Hitler puppet.
In an interview with Carol Burnett, she stated that Tim Conway was like that all the time whether there was a camera on him or not. Carol then told a story about a late night gathering with some of the cast and crew. Near the end of the gathering, Tim Conway excused himself to use the bathroom. Tim came back with toilet paper wrapped all around his head like a mummy with two holes for his eyes and one for his mouth. He had someone take a polaroid picture of him as he stuck out his bottom lip and crossed his eyes. He then carefully cut out his mummy face from the polaroid pic and glued it over his drivers license picture. Tim was Carol's ride home. Tim kept his mummy face on while he drove her home and purposefully went a different route through a known speed trap area. He sped up and sure enough a police car stopped him. He crossed his eyes and stuck out his bottom lip as the police officer approached the car and asked for his drivers license - which he then gave to the officer (with the mummy face still stuck on it).
I know these are blooper of Carol Burnett Show and they improvise a lot but there is a show that was not improvised, at all, everything was done to script and that was I Love Lucy. There is an episode that is said to have one of the longest audience, because it was filmed in front of a live audience, laughs on television and it was the episode when Lucy and Ricky are doing the Tango while Lucy has a bunch of eggs in her shirt. I hope you check that out, plus many other episodes of I Love Lucy. It's amazing that they went by script because you'd think that some of those episodes were improvised with the comedic timing Lucille Ball had.
I remember watching this with my mom and my dad I love Tim Conway
I subscribed because I know your a Christian. God bless you
A man who understands comiedic retoric. Finally!
carol burnett .. gone with the wind...
They star in another tv show which was spun out of the mama persona, called Mama's family
Check out "World Famous Jockey Lyle Dorf" on the Tonight Show (the real one with Johnny Carson). Another Tim Conway gem!
There was also another one where Tim was a Dorf-like character who played basketball on the Carson show. I can't remember who was laughing the hardest, me, my Dad, or Carson lol.
Need reruns of that show!!! I never laughed so hard, Tim conway was the funniest
Love this 😂🤣😂🤗
You want to check out an old comedy classic - try Don Knotts the Nervous Weatherman
Tim Conways son has a talk show on KFI here in LA. He's pretty good.
The best part is most of this stuff aired on TV. Tim Conway would go off script to see if he could make them laugh. This really was one of the best shows
So Tim’s character took the dogs meds by mistake. The whole skit was so funny!
Hi numbed his leg I😄😄😄😄
You have got to react to some of the skits that Johnny Carson did on the tonight show especially The Great Carnac!!!
There will neer be another carol bburnett
I agree with you 💯.
If you liked the Carol Burnett skits, please do a reaction video of The Family Plays "Sorry".
Yes her comment WAS BLEEPED when it aired on TV cos I SAW it that night! We were so pissed cos we had NO IDEA what she said that made Tim and DIck VanDyke fall off the couch in hysterics. Even on reruns it was still bleeped. We didn't know until MANY MANY years later WHAT the remark was that Vicki ("Mama") We NEVER missed a single show during all the years that it ran. FUNNIEST SHOW ON TV EVER! Tim Conway NEVER did the final skit like it was rehearsed, THAT is why the rest of the cast had NO IDEA WHAT he was going to do, so it was EASY to break them up! My sister worked with TIm Conway on a tour he did (she was part of the lighting and sound techs) and I got to see that show when they came to where I was living at the time. Because of that I was lucky enough to meet Tim, get an autograph and my pic with him. My sister said that Tim was SO FANTASTIC to all the staff that was working for him on that tour. He would often take them all out for dinner on many occasions. He was a "hometown boy" to my family, as TIm was born and raised in Chagrin Falls, Ohio which is a suburb of Cleveland, and not far from where we lived in Mayfield Heights. Tim did a lot of work on Cleveland local TV back then. His name was really TOM Conway, but when he left Cleveland to go on to bigger things, he changed his first name to ""TIM" because their was another celebrity whose name was ALSO TOM Conway. Great person and so creative and funny. SO SAD that he is no longer with us. RIP Tim and THANKS for all the LAUGHS over so many years. WE MISS YOU
This show was sort of like our Monty Python.
You've got to see the whole skit with the aging "dresser." It's funny anyway even before the ad-libs start. These were filmed in front of a live audience, so they couldn't just do another take. Well, they did, for TV, but the audience saw and heard it all.
Also, it was a time when some people were also half snapped on TV sometimes....
Tim Conway (short one) was famous for always making Harvey Korman (tall guy) laugh during the skits. Tons of ad lib on that show. Conway trashed the script a lot and just made it up.
Check out the Carol Burnett episode called The Funeral with Robin u ...hilarious!
Just curious, have you seen Blazing Saddles? Recognize Harvey?
Improve is the most BRILLIANT comedy there is! This can’t come back...people are too sensitive...boohoo.