The Family: Sorry! from The Carol Burnett Show (full sketch) 

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😢😢😢💚💚 so sorry for your loss! Don't know your dad! I've seen what cancer dose to the family two of my mom's close friends died my mom had it twice and a tumor take from her back! So sorry 😞 you dad had great taste in TV

❤️ This is the BEST & I wish The Family would have gotten a spinoff show with Eunice & Ed before Harvey passed away...✔️Love them all 🥰

My deepest condolences...

@@lizdestefano4905 he never wanted me to be an actor but once I wrote Vicki Lawrence a letter telling her about my interest in acting she sent me a still with her signature saying good luck two months later I got an acting job small part in a German foreign film then a Brazilian softer no commercial and some modeling ..I understand Eunice wanting so bad to be an actress ...the saddest Eunice skit for me was when she was in the gong show and she got gonged

Because that's a baby's game...baby's play that game..lol

It's the chaos theory that Carol was so unique with. Normally directors snap when actors goof lines, or laugh, crack up during filming. Carol, Harvey, and the rest all tried to make the others lose it. Like they had a game. But it NEVER EVER made the skit worse, it always made it better, thereby the chaos of the best possible way created the most laughs. She was brilliant and she KNEW what made people laugh!

@@EdsterIII she still is😃

So true…lol

Right! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Guess if my pilot light was out, I'd end up being nuts too

No wonder this show was on for 11yrs on cbs great show great chemistry great characters thank you RU-vid 😃 can't get enough of this show 🙂

She looks like she is about to crack-up so many times but keeps it together. They're all great comic actors. I miss this type of television.

@@gvalley07 Carol did break character and barely kept it together.

What about the actress that played Granny in Beverly Hillbillies who really got into that roll?

Carol hired her at 17. She really grew up with the best...

Harvey and Tim were part of the team......

You are so right!

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I get the distinct feeling that that line wasn’t in the original script. Carol did her best to hold it together and not break character with the ad libs. Of course, Vicki’s best ad lib was in the sketch where Tim Conway went way off script with the elephant stories. They were playing some board game in that sketch too.

They were all a class act. Great memories from my childhood growing up in the 70's. I love the Christmas episode where Carol says"now we all agreed we were going to open all the presents in order, not helter-skelter like a bunch of maniacs.

Elephant one 😆🤣

The Best, The freaking Best!!! ..I Love Carol Burnett Soooo much, they all rock .😀😀

These never get old.

It was

As that character, she is granite to Eunice's fire.

I don't recall Vicki EVER breaking in a sketch--

Always love Carol Burnet show!

One of the rarest times when Carole lost it!

I was just a kid (about 8-9 years old) when TCBS was on but on but the Friday night line up was: 7:00 pm M*A*S*H 8:00 pm The Dukes of Hazzard 9:00 pm Dallas 10:00 pm Dynasty This was from 1978-1981 The golden are of TV for my generation and I'll be 50 in November

But we all get older of course, no sense of turning back to something we can’t go through again.

You’re telling the truth, good clean television!! Those were the good ole days!

@@annam.6223 We might not can go through it again but that's why I'm glad shows like this are now on DVD Bc ten to twenty years from now, when TV REALLY sucks, we can at least pop in TCBS, Dukes of Hazzard, MASH, or whatever show you liked and watch good clean funny TV.

YUP. THOSE WERE THE GREATEST TIMES. MEMORIES ARE ALSO GREAT. BUT NOW ALL WE HAVE FOR ''MEMORIES'' IS ''DID I BRING MY MASK WITH ME?'' WHAT A PILE OF HORSESHIT THIS COVID CLUSTERFUK IS. I NEVER BELIEVED IT SINCE DAY ONE.

It sure does.

@@anncorsaro224 exactly

🤦🏻‍♀️😅😅😅You guys need aroma therapy and herbal teas to cool down. 😂

​@@hana.the.writer5074😅😅😅😅😅😅

MarkinDC and MASH and The mary Tyler Moore show

I mean all in the family

Y’all growing up in that time are lucky bc for ppl 20s and younger (my age) we had shitty tv and have to look these classics up on RU-vid

Us too! And then later, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island were our every Saturday night!

I was 7 years old but I loved watching the Carol Burnett Show. The whole family would sit in front of our tv watching. We were always in stitches!

There is a channel Pluto that runs carol Burnett' show at 11pm😀😀😀👍

They were always my faves growing up so happy to see others feel the same way 🥰🥰🥰

Very true

Omg i did not know that

Noone can play Mama but Vicki Lawrence😆💯😆!!!

I heard she wrote Carol a fan letter which prompted Carol to get in touch and they met and talked for 5 minutes but that was all it took for Carol to get a feeling about how good she was

@@AFMountaineer2000 here is a interview Vicki talks about how she met Carol Burnett ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xszpHRpOsbM.html

Lol

My mom cleans the table during dinner and getting all the table wet, even before 2 spoons fulls

My Aunt kept a fly swatter & butcher knife on either side of her plate. She swatted flies on the table & threatened the dog for begging, during the meal. Uncle was chucking ham bones the length of the table for the dog & I learned to keep my elbow tucked in after the 1st toss. My cousin was schizophrenic & took his teeth out, so he could lick them before they started passing the food. Best diet I’ve ever been on, lost 20 pounds during that visit!!!

Eunice already wiped that side of the table in the beginning of the sketch.

It's sticky!

I watched this show growing up & I needed this today too it's still the go to laugh!

I lost my lovely cousin Anne. Watching all the episodes of Rhoda helped me cope with her passing.

Amen To That..Sista....

@@ddsmith3006 I am so sorry for your health issues. I myself have emphysema and asthma. I watched my Mom with the same illness as I do and it's scary. I've taken to also watch classics from the 60's and 70's. MeTV has some great shows. My Three Sons, Dragnet(odd but I love Harry Morgan), Leave it to Beaver, and the cartoons I grew up on from 6am-7am M-F. Carol Burnett was truly INCREDIBLE! Her ability to create was amazing and her pick of Vicki Lawrence was mind boggling. I recently saw the episode where she was introduced and she was shaking she was so nervous. Vicki was so sweet yet incredibly talented and so cute. She was one of my crushes as a boy. Then when I heard she was Mama too, um that altered my view a bit...lol. They would crack each other up on stage and make the others lose it, but it never ever detracted from the skit, it made it BETTER! That is what Carol could create. Art from chaos, causing chaos for laughs, and just being herself. She was brilliant! One of the BEST EVER IF NOT THE BEST!

Bahahaha

LMAO!!! How in the heck was Vicki Lawrence able to keep a straight face?

💕😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣stop, my side hurts

One of my favorite show in the 1970's. 📺😄

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About the same age as you and totally agree. Surprised it never rated in the top 10 as it was must watch TV on Saturday at 10 before Love Boat and Fantasy Island came along.

Pluto channel actually has the carol Burnett show channel so you can watch it anytime you want 🙂

55 huh ? Believe or not I an almost 85 and still reading these skits and loving them !!

As I at 84 !

It's 2024 and I'm still laughing at Sixty Eight 😂😂

That would be so funny!

But there were no dice and a bell in the game, right?

@@sha11235 No, there were cards with numbers on them.

Absolutely, so wonderful, when you could do clean comedy and laugh 😂

Amen to that

I am dying laughing. I miss this show. I forgot how funny it was.

Right!!!?? 🤭🤭😂😂😂

Except for The Honeymooners.

omg same. I still come to this sketch once a while just for that part lol.

Is this house supposed to be in Tel Aviv? because this comedy is VERY Kosher.

I googled this today! I still use it to this day!

And eyes 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

If you draw a 7 in Sorry, you have the option of splitting it between two men. It's the only way to move forward four spaces in the game.

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Agreed

And fabulous singer too! She was the first to record "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" such a talent!!

@@elliewuzzup7689 I remember that song what memories

I was obsessed with the both of them!

Wonderful addition to Carols show.

I know who blew it out-Mama.

S Jackson The “Queen” of, no doubt! Poor Eunice 😿. Nothing ever works out as planned for her, despite her best intentions.

@jeff jones big man

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I love Carols hair do 🤣

Hellz yeah.

Me! "Sliiiiiiiide....!"

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Me!

@@sebastianvaldivieso9654 Sebastian, Luv your name. And yes I'm in quarantine watching this.

That's a reference to a hit song.

Rob Thompson on her monthly cycle

Did anyone else notice that Carol Burnett was trying to look upset while laughing at that line? Wonder if it was improv....seemed to have surprised her

@@MVHS85 That was the funniest part, Vicki breaking Carol up. Mama: "You wait. I've got more." Definitely improv. on Vicki Lawrence's part.

Hi Dawn

They were a part of Carol's life. Her grandma and mother fought all the time. Her mom, drank and was a defeated actress. They lived in poverty.

Yes, that's the truth, Catherine Mathers ... Carol's own experiences influenced this sketch heavily! Have you ever seen the CBS special "Eunice" from 1982? It was a two-hour special, and really dealt with Eunice's family history from a very emotional standpoint, and flashed ahead a few years as well. It was such a sad and bittersweet show to watch. But I thoroughly recommend it. It is here at RU-vid. Just search "Eunice" and you'll find it.. worth a watch!

Tre404 Generational dysfunction is disturbing to see, even in a comedic format. Sometimes it's hard to determine whether the tears you shed are from laughter, distress, or both. I suppose 'Eunice' and the Family sketches were Carol's way of exorcising some demons. It was brilliantly done by the actors. I loved that show.

It’s like watching my family. I’m now in Hawaii 6,000 miles away. Now I can laugh at this.

Robert Gardea No, but I was held back from laughing out loud or around said family. They stopped watching the show because of Mama’s Family clips....it’s is my favorite show.

Me too. Splinters come built in to windmills. Just like conspiring comes built into strategic planning.

Vicky was supposed to play the daughter. Carol decided she was better suited as the daughter so Vicky had to play Mama. And you're right, wig and granny glasses was all they had time for. And of course that padded dress and old lady shoes. Vicky was 18 when she went to work for Carol. She was a genius but has done little since.

@@jeffmartin3179 She has a show she takes on the road doing the Mama character. There are videos on RU-vid. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E3x6ILmHmcA.html

She effectively DID get an award for it. An Emmy. Back then, when a show wanted to get an individual nominated for a Emmy, they submitted just one episode for each category. For Vicki Lawrence the year she won, The Family was the main part of the episode that was submitted. (In fact, the episode was called The Family Show.) Though she also did a sketch as a telephone operator, it was clear she won based on The Family sketch.

She was perfect

That's right !

"It was a seven" is not a funny line. But the way Carol Burnett screamed it, like the frustrated maniac Eunice was, is legendary.

same here remember back in the day me mom would order pizza and watch this show back when Americans where normal no filth just great comedy

Well, I don't recall them changing it, but The Carol Burnett Show was on Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. That's how they were able to pull off some of the humor 😏 from the censors back then. But, it was great funniest show! It's like the old Dean Martin Show had some VERY funny skits & sketches on that program too! Those were the days of good comedy & good television! Not like the ERA of "REALITY" television we have been in for the past 16-18 yrs. 🤨🤯 The entire group of "reality shows" has completely destroyed any semblance of quality programming on television anymore. 😳🤪🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

@@justlivinglife....619 You are correct, it did start on Mondays, but most of the seasons were shown on Saturdays. Regardless it was an incredible show, with so many talented people

I was so pulled into the drama. The acting is so excellent, then you get to that point and realize "they are doing this live in one take" Impressive!

She mouthed something at that point too. What was it?

@@mercuryfever392 "Oh boy!"

Totally. LMAO!!! I'll bet the "that's a new one, momma..." was ad-libbed to help keep her from busting up.

Vicki was ad libbing jabs. There’s another clip on RU-vid with alternate jabs during a second taping. I think the “that’s a new one mama” comment came when Carol heard this jab for the first time. And it was different from the other taping.

+Justin Bishop Mine, too!

+Justin Bishop A lot of this came from Carol's own life.

I thought it was my family. Guess it just goes to show how many of us come from dysfunctional homes.

@Justin..... Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation was mine.

It was stated that the writers of "The Family" skits hated their mothers. I do not know how true that is, but that's the story.

Yeah, they sure don’t.

"MyThree Sons" and "The Honeymooners" are great too.

Classic!😂

Lol!!!!

No,sadly they dont.

I remember this from my childhood and am glad it's available to view anytime now!

It was called Mama's Family. And it is spelled Eunice.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2b5C6Xp3pwA.html watch this one at 2:46.....Vicki DOES keep going ...and Carol loses it. It was edited out for the broadcast, tho....

Splinters in the windmills of your mind

Laughing so hard and trying not to show it

You took my little yellow man

When you see Carol Burnett covering her mouth, she was trying not to show she was trying not to laugh out loud as they had to do a lot of retakes.

unlikeavirgin so true. They were the REAL comedians.

unlikeavirgin OH MY GOD! Both are my EVERYTHING!! Except for Ed Sheeran and Liza Koshy!

unlikeavirgin In real life Lucy could swear like a sailor.

??? There was cursing on this show. "JACKASS!" 😁

2degucitas Seriously. "Vulgarity" wasn't a recent invention people. There was nasty language and dirty jokes back in Shakespeare time. It's just our concept of "vulgarity" changed. Sorry, bit I just loathe "Back-in-the-day" misremembering.

Hogan's Heroes

She shurly is ,!!!!!

I said enough ,,!!!

Elle Bee 💯💯💯

Vickie TOO!

My dad used to freeze the entenmens pound cake for some reaso

My dad used to freeze the entenmens pound cake for some reaso

I bust out laughing Everytime I watch this

A few months ago I got a pain pump due to chronic pain. The size of a pain pump is the same size as a hockey puck. I’m sure it’s not the same weight lol

Carol tried sooooooo hard to keep her composure after Mama said the pilot light one lol

Watch THIS vid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2b5C6Xp3pwA.html ...it's a bloopers vid from the show, and this skit is in it...apparently Vicki Lawrence kept going with 'em and Carol just loses it.

Riding the cotton pony.

Eunice to Mamma: " Now you listen to me Old Lady!!" (and she looks at Mamma with those scary psycho eyes) PRICELESS! (and poor Ed with his hardware store!) 😂😂😂😂

I always loved it when Eunice scrunched her face up, bugged out her eyes, and called Momma "OLD LADY"!!!!😂

@@mewregaurdhissyfit7733 Oh man, it's THE BEST!! Those eyes...when she's ready to go off! And poor Ed and his hardware store! And Mama and Eunice hate Micky Hart from Ed's store...it's TV GOLD!😂😂😂

+girlofthex The game "Trouble" also caused a lot of hurt feelings!

+Sam V forgot about Trouble. You can't play Sorry and Trouble in the same night because it makes Rumble in the Jungle look like a Girl Scout meeting.

+girlofthex Yeah, I think they just made it up here with dice and a bell.

+girlofthex it didnt come with a bell. But im sure some families had a little gimmick they put into their game , Eunis's thing was that she wanted the bell when u said SORRY. My friends had a game of UNO and they altered some of the cards. One of them was they put a piece of masking tape on it and wrote FUCK YOU on it ,,, ,if you got that card it was awesome cause at any time (it was your turn) you could throw the Fuck you card down and make whoever you wanted be automatically out of the game.

+Sam V The games that Bunkers play on All in the Family, you got to watch that one as Mike Stivic threw a big fit when everybody gained up on him about talking their feelings out.

I agree, you need both of them 😀

esp when she is the youngest person in the skits. She is so good at making faces, looking grumpy and changing her voice to that of an old southern lady. Her old lady shoes and extra padding finishes the job of her transformation.

You are right. They were best together. The Mama show was not as good as this.

Their chemistry was just excellent in these skits. But it's important to remember that Vicki was in her early 20s playing Mama brilliantly here.

I grew up watching these shows on their first run in the 60s and 70s, and in our family these skits were known, simply, as 'Eunice'. For us the Eunice character was by far the main one. Vicki was good, but Mama was so obviously a supporting character we never even considered her as the main one. It was Eunice that the sketches focused on, and that was just fine with us!

I haven't had Tv service in over 15 years. I only watch old shows on RU-vid!

These days, they'd UNABLE to avoid making it about political cr*p. Non-political comedy like this, that can make EVERYBODY laugh and that can stand the test of time, seems to over.

@@JackiePhillipsTheSocialPet For me, my main channel is MeTV. 😉😉

I agree! These old comedy shows, as somebody else mentioned in their comment, do stand the test of time. Even Saturday Night Live, which I watch off and on, doesn’t come close to that - at least not the past several seasons.

@@KoshN you are exactly right.

She started laughing after Vicki said 'I think somebody blew yer pilot light out!'

The bloopers for this are posted.

Yes, that happened lots of times on the show. It added to the appeal.

She played it off as though her character is crying.

@@sdlock83 Laughter and crying look remarkably alike...I've done that while on stage....it was fun too!

This is Sorry, not Monopoly. That was another sketch.

@@sha11235 It ends with the same result regardless. People start snapping at each other.

@@melanie6014 We all knew what you meant ! Gosh it happened in my family too

@@sha11235 I don't remember sorry having a bell

Monopoly was the Antichrist.

I there is a set f DVD collection of the Carol Barnet Show out. I'm not sure. Gooogle search it to make sure.

Eunice movie was sad

i am 100

I have that Eunice movie on VHS, I taped it from TV. Lol You guys are right, it was sad!!!!

They are to die for!!! 😂😂😂❤❤❤

Hannah Hayes 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

So did Carol Burnett

you've got splinters in the windmills of your mind

This is a bloopers reel of the show. This skit is in it. Apparently Vicki Lawrence kept going with them...and Carol completely loses it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2b5C6Xp3pwA.html

Really funny!

I LOVED that show

Irreconcilable differences!!!!

These are the most obnoxious people in the entire milky way galaxy. 🤣.

Fuckin losers. They probably think 3rd Rock From the Sun or Modern Family is funny now days. They wouldn't recognize real talent or comedy if it bit them in the face

B B B But it triggered me....... Waaa!

Fuck "em!

Totally dysfunctional show. It's only funny the first few minutes.

Same here!

She was awesome. Never breaks character.

I was amazed at how long some of the ‘takes’ were. Not sure how they got thru the lines with out cracking up or changing authentic facial expressions.

@@jonyoder2356 Totally agree. Sheer talent.

In an interview she stated that as the newest/youngest/least experienced comedienne on the show, she felt she hadn't earned the freedom to "play" with the lines like her established co-stars had.

😆 she was biting the inside of her cheek

I dont know how they even got ANYTHING done. just seeing them all on screen together, I want to start laughing. They were an AWESOME comedy trio. Miss TV like this.

LoveFlatfootin1 so freaking amazing. My God I miss those days

I had forgotten Mash was in that lineup.

tonysc: All the best. I can BINGE on MASH!

@tonysc Those were the days...

tonysc those were the days 😀

I remember it Our whole family would watch it every Saturday night😀

I like this show

Joshua Stien that line was said in "Whats happening" in Dee has a date episode

I think Mama got the same treatment from her Mama. That's how that usually works. Trust me. I know. Wasn't funny then but I can laugh at it now.🙄🤪😂

Well thanks a lot Mama 😅

+lennypearl her face is priceless haha

+Andres Esqueda The Eunice scowl.

Well thanks a lot mama! Sooooorry

+lennypearl classic. COmedy at its finest.

Well, all right Eunice you ungrateful.... sooorrrry! Get me another beer. it's so funny!

Just made it today lol! Waiting for everyone to arrive

So tasty, but seems more ate it years ago. My mother cooked a roast beef every Sunday.

@@m.e.d.7997 I'm laughing.. I don't remember a time when a pot roast was ever 'just right'.. what is it about them?!? So problematic.. always too dry or too stringy or too much gristle 🤪😂 My son made one in an Instapot not too long ago.. he threw it away.. we don't know what happened inside the pot?!? 🤔

@@m.e.d.7997, I love a good pot roast. Any meat is great if not overcooked and dried out. Boneless chuck and beef bottom round are 2 cuts of beef make good pot roast. Also beef brisket cooked the same way is also great.

Kathy Senn Funny, my mom had it down to a science. She would only get the meat from a butcher shop with lean meat, russet potatoes, carrots and her broth. Nothing compared. But damn it took all day too cook. 🙂

Yes but no longer have 🕗 c

Sharon what a great memory!

@@monicajane7888 🤔 . 💖 . 😁 . .

I'm so glad we never had that game!

Of course there was no dice and bell, right? Just cards.

Fergie Mcavoy “birth data”

April 26th is also Lucille Ball's death date.

You're playing hockey with a warped puck😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dead. I laughed so hard I was in tears. Comedy at its finest.

IM DECEASED!!! I literally started laughing so hard that my mom came in my room and asked if I was strangling a goose...

I am December 2019🤣🤣🤣

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2020

JENN-U-WINE funny show ! ! Tim Conway makes me laugh by just thinking about him and stan laurel ! ! Wowsa it's Feb 20 2020 already ! !👍👍❤❤❤💜💜💜💚💚💛🧡👋👍👌👏👏👏👏😭😭😭😭😭🍺🍺🍺🍺👍

2020 during COVID-19 quarantine in Maryland

I can only barely count the number of times I've watched this sketch. The thing is, too, that I'm actually pretty good at math. :)

Agreed!!!!

Pilot light. Lol

Me 2

Hello Dear How are you doing!

I think she said, "landing".

Callum & Friends

sha11235 nope, she said sorry

"Are you sure?"😂

I must of laughed for 30 minutes after that part. LOL.

@@vinceA3748 me too lol

9:32

"Eunice seems to be of the OPINION that it was a seven."

Hello greetings

I love Harvey Korman so much -- and he makes Ed a beautiful, tragic, good-natured and unforgettable character.

They literally act like babies playing the game

And he says he loves the game after he sorries Eunice.

Kevin Biltmore-Fonzworth must be a vinaigrette

Kevin I don't know if I should be more scared of the bowl or the dressing

kevin davis maybe the acidity 😂😂

Jason Hurd lmao ikr

I loved that too😂

Eunice, in particular, is a tragic character. She's so dissatisfied with her life.

Carol Burnett said that in one rehearsal, they tried it without the accents, and she said it immediately became so bleak and despairing that they couldn't continue. She said it was like something out of Ibsen or Strindberg.

Carol wanted the Chaplinesque "charwoman" to be her trademark, but Eunice was her brilliant, unforgettable, undeniable masterpiece. Pathos, humor, longing all in one amazing character.

Eunice IS tragic. Funny as hell and still so sad.

I wonder where Carol had to go " inside herself " to react the way she did. First female comedian that I know of that could go that deep emotionally yet still makes you laugh at the tragic moment. Lucille was a great " goof ball " kinda comedy yet she could never duplicate a performance like that. Incredible