It is classic comedy. Nothing offensive, just funny. Mrs. Wiggins was one of my favourite skits on the Carol Burnett Show. Another classic skit was the Gone With the Wind skit, with Carol as Scarlett and Harvey Korman as Rhett Butler. Thanks so much for this. 👏👏🇨🇦
The Carol Burnett Show was the best...Mrs. Wiggins sketches were funny...not this one...left me bored! I guess they cannot all be winners but this show was on for 11 years because most were.
Tim Conway was a real genius at twisting characters and situations. His son is a radio host and you can hear the strand of humor that he learned from his dad.
The dimwitted secretary that Carol Burnett is playing is largely inspired by theTIGHT DRESS that the only way to wear the dress is to stick her butt out.All of the costumes on the Carol Burnett show were designed by LEGENDARY Designer Bob Mackie who also has designed dresses for the Sonny and Cher show where the Carol Burnett show and The Sonny and Cher show were filmed in the same studio!
In many versions of this skit, Carol would pretend to chew her fingernails to keep from laughing. Thing was that Tim Conway would follow the written script for rehersal, but when they were on stage live, what he did had nothing to do with the words in the script -- all through each show, everyone always ended up laughing.
This was done live & was like the first Saturday Night Live. A show full of the same cast, often with a celebrity guest doing several sketches weekly. The difference was that it was a family show & the kiddos could laugh too. Jokes over their heads were saucy not vulgar. I'm 71 & grew up watching this show.
I always thought, when watching these shows when first broadcast on the late 1980s and 1990s, that Mr. Tudball was Swedish. We have many folks of Swedish descent in states like Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Carol Burnett used to open each show with audience Q&A - oftentimes someone would request her Tarzan yell and she'd do it! She's had a brilliant career doing comedy but also singing with her guest stars... Also the Gone With the Wind skit is entitled "Went" with the Wind.
@@scottnielsen1553 His accent is actually Romanian. "Mrs. Wiggins" features two characters created by Tim Conway: Mr. Bernie Tudball (played by Conway) and Mrs. Wanda Wiggins (played by Carol Burnett). Vicki Lawrence would occasionally play Mr. Tudball's wife. Mr. Tudball is a businessman with an off-color toupee and a mock Romanian accent, pronouncing his secretary's name "Mrs. Uh-Whiggins".[2] Mrs. Wiggins is his secretary, a "bimbo who the IQ fairy never visited".[3] She was notably recognized by how she walked in her skirt, as designed by Bob Mackie, and her near-constant fingernail filing and gum chewing. The sketches center on Mr. Tudball's frustration over Mrs. Wiggins' dimwittedness, such as not being able to properly use the office intercom system. Wikipeadia
I especially like the Miss Wiggins/Mr. Tudball skit "The Vending Machine" and watch Harvey Korman working SO hard to not giggle and keep it together. Tim Conway had "other plans" about that.
Needed a good laugh today ..I probably watched all of these shows back in the day I think it was on every Sunday night. I Hope you do more ..what talented people .. this was great TV back in the day!
I grew up watching the Carol Burnett Show every week. You want to see her spoof of Gone With The Wind spoof. Harvey Corman and Lyle Wagner were her secret weapons. I was thrilled to be able to see them perform live a few years ago. Watching this today, I’m reminded how slow TV entertainment was back then.
Classic comedy from back in the day. Gotta love it. Their live skits were more like a group of actors just getting together to have fun and that was conveyed to the audience. Thanks for doing this one guys. Another great reaction as always.
I'm so glad y'all reacted to this skit. When I was a kid watching the show these characters were my favorites. I have wondered if it would still read today. The story goes that Bob Mackie who dressed Carol Burnett as well as other tv celebrities accidentally made the backside of Mrs Wiggins skirt to large. Carol decided to go with it and walk in that way with her caboose stuck out as part of the character.
Every Sunday my family would watch "The Caroll Burnett Show ". Whenever they did this bit we knew we would be laughing hard enough to pee ourselves. Tim Conway was so funny.😇
Tudball & Mrs. Ha-Wiggins was a recurring sketch. The cast of the Carol Burnett Show were the best. The humor was corny as hell, but it had to be to be on TV. But the improv skills of the entire cast was beyond question. Breaking character for laughing was a frequent occurrence.
I grew up watching Carol Burnett and company, still love these skits. There's an outtake with Tim Conway, Vickie (sp?) Lawrence , Carol, and Harvey Korman: Tim goes off script and tells a joke about Siamese twin elephants, keeping the other three histerically incapacitated. Vickie gets the last laugh, a one-liner that will live forever! Thank you for sharing, you've a new subscriber in the mountains of far west Texas. Looking forward to your next offering, Happy Trails!😁
I grew up watching this show. Funniest stuff ever on tv. Loved her spoofs of classic movies: Mildred Fierce (Carol as Joan Crawford), Babes in Barns( spoof of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney) and of course the best was "Went With The Wind". I also loved her "Family" skits. They were never really written as comedy, but they were hilarious. And her spoofs of Queen Elizabeth II were spot on.
Her name was always pronounced Mrs. Ah-Wiggins. Don't remember a specific episode but watching her sharpen a pencil always had me laughing till I cried. Being a secretary, I loved Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Ah-Wiggins.
The same night (Saturday) that the Burnett show aired, it followed a killer lineup of great comedy to check out: Bob Newhart show, Mary Tyler Moore Show, All in the Family and MASH.
That skit was so popular that they spun off a show starting Vicki Lawrence,called Mama's Family. Carol Burnette and Harvey Korman made a guest appearance as Eunice and Ed,once,that I know of.
Another great one guys. Loved the Carol Burnett show, such an amazing cast. I still laugh at these skits no matter how many times I've seen them. Thanks for the laughter guys. Peace and blessings to all.
As Mr Tudball, whenever Tim had a line where he thought he said something clever, he had this silly laugh that sounded like "Tih huu tih huu tih huu". That always cracked me up. I found it interesting what you said about Mrs Whiggans being based on an actual employee. I heard Tim say that Mr. Tudball's accent was based on a real person he worked for as a young man.
Other skits from the Carol Burnett show I think you'd like are: No Frills Airline No Frills gas station The Family that Doesn't Belong in a Fancy Restaurant
I remember the show, one of several I used to watch a million years ago - why did these shows stop being popular? Or is it just that networks stopped carrying it.
Tim Conway was basically bald. So they often gave him "mop top" wigs to play certaib characters that were technically not supposed to bevbald in the skit
Tim Conway inserted ad-libs all the time. Carol was better about not breaking character or laughing than Harvey Corman was. Tim could almost always break Harvey. In this sketch, I think I can tell which lines are ad-libbed by the laughs from the audience. I can hear a director, a producer or maybe Harvey Corman laugh loudly behind the scenes after an ad-lib.
If u guys enjoy Tim Conways comedy, please watch all the episodes where he has the cast hysterical and unablre to read their lines. Harvey Korman could never stay serious with Tim.. Tim Conway is a legend!!!!!!
Loved the Carol Burnett show. Would watch it with my folks in the 70s when i was a kid. I think she's largely responsible for my wacky sense of humor. Little known fact, the costume designer, Bob Mackey, is largely responsible for the success of this skit. Mrs. Wiggins was initially written to be an old woman. But Bob told Carol she should instead be a young, ditzy blond, and he made the costume as though she were. When Carol said that the she didn't have enough butt to fill out the skirt, he told her to stick her butt out when she walks. And voila, Mrs. Wiggens was born.
I left the old country in 1980 and grew up with Monty Python but this was the funniest show i have ever seen. Carol is a great entertainer but Tim Conway was the most talented ad lib comedian ther will ever be,a script meant nothing to him.
I love you guys! Yes! QUITE "Fawlty Tower-esk!!!" June from Maine USAnnn You two guys have GOT to watch more of "Boss Tudball & Mrs. h-Wiggins!" And "As the Stomach Turns." A take on "As the World Turns," ...ah...yeah....I think I had already mentioned that....sorry,
Nice Oasis outro. I think my favorite Carol Burnette skit is the one where they do a "Gone with the Wind" parody. But I'd skip it if you never watched the movie.
