The comedic Hollywood legend Carol Burnett shared a legendary story about when fellow comedian Tim Conway made Harvey Korman wet his pants on her eponymous sketch comedy program, The Carol Burnett Show.
Burnett Remembers Conway And Korman
Burnett, Conway, and Korman starred on The Carol Burnett Show for eleven seasons from 1967 until 1978. Though clips of the three of them cracking up during sketches continue to go viral to this day, Burnett said that it was actually a rare occurrence.
“People think we broke up all the time and that’s not true,” she told Variety. “It’s just that it’s so delicious to remember.”
Burnett went on to talk about the infamous sketch in which Conway plays a dentist and Korman is his trapped patient.
“That’s over 50 years old and still one of the funniest things you’ll ever see in sketch comedy,” she revealed. “Poor Harvey was helpless in that chair. And Tim swears Harvey wet his pants.”
Burnett’s Fond Conway Memories
Burnett has fond memories of Conway’s sketches in particular. Her favorite series that he did on her show was the soap opera parody “As The Stomach Turns.” In one of these skits, Conway’s character falls down the stairs. What Burnett did not know at the time was that Conway was going to make a meal of it!
“He was a gymnast in school, so he had great control over his body,” she remembered. “He fell down those stairs in slow motion. People think we slowed the film down. It took him minutes to fall down the stairs. Then he got to the bottom and there’ s a rug on the set – he rolled himself up in the rug and kept rolling on the floor.