Many of my good friends and I have agreed over the years that the Carol Burnett show was the best show to sit down and watch w/ our families! It's so sad, to me, what's happened to television. I don't watch tv now, save for special internet tv shows, and a few documentary shows from PBS you can watch on the net. I adore Carol forever!
The film reversal at the end was priceless, but if the clip had lasted for one more minute, we would've seen Carol-as-Esther back indoors undoing the towel on her hair, and reveal her hair to be perfectly dry and magically springy. That was hysterical!!
There couldn't have been much of a script. Who else on earth could have been relied on to just dive into a pool and swim a few laps and be that funny? She just kills...GENIUS.