I find Tim Conway extremely adorable! Love his eyes. To have been married to him or have grown up in his household must've been a riot. Laughter is an essential must for any marriage. His wife was very lucky.🤗
I was in the fourth grade when this aired and remember talking about it at school the following Monday. My parents wouldn't let me see the movie JAWS, so this was the alternative. Carroll Burnett Show was hands down the best television show of all time!!!!
I read that this aired one week after Saturday Night Live did their "Jaws II" sketch which introduced the Land Shark to pop culture. So in 1975 you ended up being afraid of swimming in the ocean, a knock at the door and taking a bath.
Having seen the movie Jaws, I had a really good laugh over this sketch, the Jaws references were pretty funny and then of course Tim stealing the show at the end. Harvey's accent sounded almost exactly like Quint's.
Korman's old sea captain plumbing accent! and that camera angle.. biggest bathroom ever in any apt! and "good luck ham" aimed right at Korman! Conway knew exactly what he was doing, was watching to see if he cracked Harvey up, and Harvey looking at him as if to say "you just said that, didn't you, you imp!"
The "good luck ham" was scripted. In fact, it was Conway, not Korman, who took three takes to get it without cracking up. The look they exchanged--and the audience reaction--was due to Conway's barely making it through the final take. Somewhere on RU-vid you can find the outtakes of this (search on "Conway cracks himself up". In the outtake, Conway called it the "lucky ham"). Hilarious.
Me and my dad used to watch this video , the whole time we would laugh together. He liked to quote it which would make me laugh. He passed away 3 months ago and now I’m watching it by myself because I miss him. I love you Dad. ❤️
@@JimL2883 I’m really sorry. I can’t imagine the pain you feel in your heart. Grief is so tough but everyday it gets a little better. Good luck to you and your family Jim. ❤️
This first aired when I was 14 and was in a hospital bed recovering from an operation. I had to keep myself from laughing because I thought I would literally bust the stitches! Painfully funny!
I was very young when I first saw this. I remember the shark in the tub but what I don't remember but have been told by my parents was that it was a battle to get me into the bathtub for several weeks
The story Tim tells at the 6 minute mark was "blooped" in the other recording of this skit (they usually recorded two shows per day before live audiences and then used the best bits for the broadcast). Here's the other version where Tim cracks up: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5RM0ZAoFtjQ.html
If the Carol Burnett Show had appeared in 2017 instead of 1967 every single sketch would be censored and deemed as racist , xenophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, homophobic, etc, etc, etc....this, very sadly, is where we are today.
They would be shut down due to not having a Black, Asian, or Latino as part of the main cast. I'd give anything to go back to the 1970s and be a child again. I was sooo happy!!!
In 1976, NBC had a long (90 minute?) special, also a spoof. It was called "Joys"; I suppose that Jowls may have been copyrighted or reserved. Joys was a silly name. However almost all the great comedians of that time were together for the special, including Groucho Marx' last appearance. It would be nice to see again, although the storyline was kinda lame.
I saw this when it first aired. It was the first time I saw a toilet on national television. Times were so different back then. Wonderful talented cast!
The highlight of this skit for me had to be the various pieces of toilet hardware being ripped off and blown away. Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway (along with Lyle Waggoner and Dick van Dyke) had such great comic chemistry together. Even when flubbing lines, corpsing, and cracking each other up, they didn't feel like mistakes, but additional, unexpected jokes, and we laughed with them laughing with each other. They were hilarious when they couldn't keep a straight face to finish a sketch, and nobody could complain or fault them - we even looked forward to their screw-ups, and bought them recorded separately on tape or disc as their "greatest bloopers"! I can't think of any other show where the cast's little oopsies came out so funny and are so well-remembered.
She did an interview once (somewhere here on RU-vid) where she said as the youngest and least experienced cast member she didn't think she had earned the right to laugh and break character. I don't know how she managed to keep a straight face!
Some people keep good luck charms with them wherever they go...things like a rabbit's foot, or a 4 leaf clover, things like that. This girl went around with her "good luck ham" (big chunk of ham, like you'd buy at the grocery store...i dunno how she'd carry it around, but for whatever reason she thought it always brought her good luck), and one day, when she was out boating in the ocean with some friends, she decided to hop off the boat and go for a swim...and she had her "good luck ham" with her (maybe she slung it over her back, using a shoulder bag strap, or something). Only problem was, on that particular day, it didn't bring her good luck, it brought a nearby shark good luck. See, um, sharks love ham as much as we humans do, or something...so the shark went after it (and her). This bit is really bad writing, and the writers on the show knew it, but they went with it anyway...played it for laughs, and it paid off...the TV audience (and i) found it hysterical.
Trev0r98: Wow...and I thought _I_ had a bad habit of over-explaining things! :-) Just kidding you, of course, but it's true for me - I can get lost in the fine, unnecessary details when telling a story. Almost every RU-vid comment I make has been greatly edited down to half its original length.
I remember in an interview when talking about the infamous elephant bit, Carol said sometimes after dress rehearsal Tim would ask if he could add something to a sketch during taping, but not tell anyone what he had planned. And he would usually get them to break
The "good luck ham"...that's one of the few times Tim Conway almost broke from character. Harvey Korman usually laughed first, but Conway was a rock...except for here. Funny sketch.
+ghoststalking Fitizharris....... yes this is "TRUE" enough but i don't get it how does Tim get from going into the tub & popping up into the sink? since I've "NEVER" seen this one before.
The tub definitely had a trap door because you could see you could sit in there like normal and then drop down in. The camera angle also helped with the backstage magic.
Nobody--not even the audience, I think--noticed that after "Quit" supposedly locks the door and eats the key, the door opens right back up when Korman and Lawrence decide to "go out together." :D
no and Harvey was pretty much up on all the pop culture starring in Mel Brooks blazing saddles and always had that sort of dirty sense of humor about him which is why he popped up in his movies and had a lot of fun I'm sure he was a huge fan of Jaws.. he sure got robertshaw sparked right on the money that was some great tribute to one of the biggest selling movies of all time in 1975
