The Funniest Carol Burnett Show Blooper Ever

I get tired of this one. Tim Conway’s antics wear thin very quickly.

This and Fawlty Towers 'The Germans' are two of the funniest moments in television history.

This one's pretty good., too. "Are you ridin' the cotton pony?"

These characters had some very funny moments over the series. I used to adore this show as a kid.

Often the outtakes are funnier than the program.

The great context for the OP clip is that for most of the show's run, Vicki was always the "new girl" and almost never broke or did anything out of line. So when she says the great punchline of "Is that little asshole done?" they all just FELL. OUT.

Does anybody know what the bad blood was between Carol and Vicki? Seems to be repaired now, but for years they never appeared together.

R7 It's not really repaired, sadly.

And it sounds like a misunderstanding. Carol and her husband, who produced her show, were breaking up and she wanted to produce a show with Vicki as Mama.....but Joe (Carol's soon to be ex) had already signed Vicki up for the same idea. They didn't talk for years.

Well, I thought it was repaired because just recently I heard Carol do a voice-over ad for Mama's Family.

Vicki didn't approve of Carol breaking up a home and laughing at the ex-wife who left 8 children.

When Hamilton dumped Carol's ass, Vicki said "How do you like it now?" and Carol instead of realizing what a cunt she had been, took offense.

Vicki walked in and found Carol and Julie Andrews naked and in the throes of muff-eating passion.

Vicki, being a Christian woman, wasn't having it. She told them both to fuck off, and when Carol came calling about a show for Mama as a way to apologize, Vicki took the idea to Joe Hamilton.

Vicki accidentally read some entries from Carol's diary, and discovered that "Carol" Burnett had been born "Carl" Burnett.

The clip at r3 is just about the only time I saw Vicki come close to losing it. She was always very stoic in such moments.

Actually the way I read it, after the show was over Carol simply became a near recluse. She was no longer the star of a top tier show and I think that status meant a lot to her and she couldn't bring herself to deal with the people she had worked with and made rich in any other way and no longer had any control over. She didn't come up with the idea to do a new show with Lawrence until she heard rumors that her ex husband was talking to Lawrence about doing a show. She wanted to cut Hamilton off at the knees. Unfortunately she was too late and as egomaniacs are apt to do, she cut Lawrence out of her life for many years as a passive aggressive "how could you betray me like that" punishment. That way the fault for the breakup was all on Lawrence. Egomaniacs will find any way to justify mistreating others and making it all the other person's fault.

They aren't friends now. The "hug" Carol gave Vicki at that 50th anniversary show the other year was almost as frosty as the hug Aretha gave Patti after Patti sang the hell out of her song.

[quote] Actually the way I read it, after the show was over Carol simply became a near recluse. She was no longer the star of a top tier show and I think that status meant a lot to her and she couldn't bring herself to deal with the people she had worked with and made rich in any other way and no longer had any control over. She didn't come up with the idea to do a new show with Lawrence until she heard rumors that her ex husband was talking to Lawrence about doing a show. She wanted to cut Hamilton off at the knees. Unfortunately she was too late and as egomaniacs are apt to do, she cut Lawrence out of her life for many years as a passive aggressive "how could you betray me like that" punishment. That way the fault for the breakup was all on Lawrence. Egomaniacs will find any way to justify mistreating others and making it all the other person's fault.

Yet Carol appeared in Mamas Family; when it initially aired.

I was at one of Carol's one woman shows and she talked about Vicki lovingly and how they emailed each other about a drag queen potentially showing up at one of the girls concerts so this rumor of her being Frosty with her is absolute BS.

They may not be best friends but they certainly have warm feelings for each other.

Women are often loving with their friends when they're face to face, even though they secretly have feelings about each other that are not very nice. And they won't go to much trouble to keep contact with each other when they're apart. I have always felt that many women have a lot of hatred of members of their own sex, especially of those who are better looking, or better off than they are. Straight women simply can not be trusted in many cases.

Jealousy, they name is woman.

I feel tension in the clip where Carol introduces Vicki singing The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, the number one song in the country at the time.

I was molested.

The funniest blooper was when Carol said, "Dick what are you doing here? I fired your ass." Only it was real.

The Koala chronicles. The quickest way to break Harvey up was for Tim to say "Koala".

I never found Tim Conway funny for one second of his unfairly long career. Vicki, on the other hand, was often hilarious.

Carol forgave Vicki after MF ended.

Tim Conway was a comic genius.

Vicki is the luckiest bitch on the planet. She'd never have had any career at all if it weren't for Carol. She ought to be worshipping at that woman's feet.

Vicki Lawrence was hot as hell in the first 5 years of the show that are playing on Me-TV right now.

Loved the show, but I always thought it was kind of weird that Carol picked another redhead as a co-star.

R28 That was rather the point. She was picked for a particular series of skits because she looked like Carol's sister, and then did so well she was made a full member of the cast.

No devil's lettuce for Miss Carol!

[quote]Jealousy, thy name is woman.

The misogynist at r18 has SPOKEN!

Vicki Lawrence is genuinely talented, and the way she grew and mastered her talent during the years of TCBS is amazing.

Her creation and performance of television icon Mama was one for the books. And the fact that she was young playing old allows her to do the part now (as she does in MeTV commercials) and look pretty much the same.

Tim Conway was brilliant. At any moment, he could go off script, and you knew you were in for a treat as the others began laughing so hard, not knowing where it would end. Watching Harvey Korman lose it was golden. It was done in front of a live audience, which made it even funnier.

This is the Dentist scene. Start watching about the 5:30 mark. Korman admits he peed his pants during this one.

This was a scene when Tim Conway unexpectedly introduced a little Hitler puppet. It made such fun of the "Fuhrer". My father was bowled over laughing when he saw this.

That Lyle Waggoner was one sexy man.

Waggoner must be a real stand up guy. Next year he'll have been married to the same woman for 60 years.

^^ He's gay.

Tim Conway always thought more was better. He needed an editor, a real director, not someone who would let him go on and on and on.

[quote]^^ He's gay.

In your dreams.

Harvey was the Great Gazoo

I loved Harvey as Count de Monet.