It was the night TV completely came unglued — the night three legends broke it without even trying. 🍸 Everything started out simple enough: Dean Martin leaning on the bar like he owned the place, Ted Knight doing his best “serious face,” and Tim Conway wandering in with that innocent smile that always meant trouble. Within minutes, the whole sketch fell apart. Conway went off-script, Knight was doubled over with tears streaming down his face, and Dean? He tried to stay cool… but even he cracked, laughing so hard he could barely stand.
She thought it was just a quiet farewell… until the stage doors slowly opened. The final night of The Carol Burnett Show unfolded in an atmosphere both warm and bittersweet. Tim Conway stood beside Carol with his familiar playful smile, then gently interrupted her: “You have someone you’ve always loved the most… He’s been here every week with his piano, and you’ve never let him on the show. Since tonight is the last night, I thought I’d finally give him his chance.” Carol froze. The audience held its breath. Then the stage doors slowly opened… And there stood Jimmy Stewart.
🚒😂 “The Fireman” — Tim Conway’s Old Man Gives Harvey Korman the Most Disastrous Mouth-to-Mouth in TV History
Tim Conway walked into what was supposed to be a simple, harmless sketch—just him washing windows on a shaky scaffold. Nothing special. But the moment he stepped into the scene, everything fell apart in the most hilarious way possible. He slipped, swung around, and turned a tiny bit of comedy into pure, unstoppable chaos. Harvey Korman was begging him—literally begging him—to stop, but Tim was on a roll and there was no putting the brakes on it. For 22 straight minutes, the script might as well have been thrown in the trash. The cast couldn’t think, the crew was gasping for air, and the audience was laughing like they’d lost control of their own bodies. Tim wasn’t following anything. He wasn’t even steering the ship. He just broke the entire show—and nobody could do a thing to stop him.
Tim Conway and Carol Burnett’s “Lunch Date” Sketch Still Has Fans Crying with Laughter — Decades Later