Top 10 Funniest The Carol Burnett Show Bloopers

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Vintage laughs! Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the greatest times when the “Carol Burnett” ensemble broke.

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00:00Well, yeah, they're all in the shape of a...

00:02Guava.

00:03LAUGHTER

00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo,

00:08and today we're counting down our picks for the greatest times when the Carol Burnett ensemble broke.

00:13Well, I guess we'll, uh, get right to it.

00:16LAUGHTER

00:19Number 10, Mary Worthless.

00:21A parody of the Mary Worth comic strip sees Carol Burnett as a wide-eyed, dopey, busybody

00:26terrorizing everyone with her annoying optimism.

00:29But the biggest laughs in this sketch start with a delayed sound cue.

00:32Harvey Korman accidentally says his line before the ringing doorbell goes,

00:36and things just fall apart from there.

00:39You've got a lot of explaining to do.

00:40So do you, you lush...

00:42Lush!

00:43I'm ta...

00:44Was that the...

00:45Oh, yeah, it was the...

00:47Lyle Waggoner can't hold onto his prop.

00:49Everyone is smirking and giggling.

00:51There's no saving this segment.

00:53Hi, Bill.

00:55Hey, I, uh, I hope...

00:56LAUGHTER

00:59Yeah!

01:02By the time Korman jumps out the window, we have no idea what's scripted and what's not.

01:06By the end, Burnett just gives up and breaks the fourth wall.

01:10So don't be surprised if I show up on your unhappy doorstep someday.

01:15Better yet, be surprised because I'm not doing this again.

01:18Number 9, Carol and Sis, House for Sale.

01:21Carol Burnett breaks with tradition and addresses the audience,

01:24telling them that this sketch isn't going to go on as scripted.

01:28She lets us in on the secret.

01:29While they've been rehearsing the sketch one way all week,

01:32she's decided to play a little prank on her co-star, Harvey Korman.

01:35He bends over like this and says,

01:37Carol, I'm supposed to come out and hit him in the head with the door,

01:40and that's the end of the sketch.

01:41And tonight, I'm not going to do it.

01:44We just want to see what he does.

01:45She's going to leave him hanging on the big punchline.

01:48She's supposed to push the door into him,

01:50but she decides instead to make him sweat a little.

01:54And you, Laffy, get into the kitchen and stay there until I call you, all right?

01:59The audience can barely contain their excitement,

02:02and somehow, it ends up being even funnier this way.

02:15Number 8, The Dresser.

02:17Some of Tim Conway's best sketches are the ones that make you laugh.

02:21Some of Tim Conway's best sketches on The Carol Burnett Show

02:24are just him pretending to be the oldest person ever.

02:26In this one, he plays a backstage dresser trying to help an actor through a costume change.

02:34Conway's antics have Korman going up on his lines halfway through.

02:37Once the old man starts getting dragged away by the moving clothesline,

02:40there's no hope.

02:42You want to stop fooling around?

02:48Each time he reappears,

02:49Conway is hanging from the clothesline in increasingly ridiculous poses.

02:53Korman does what he can,

02:54but he's barely managing to get his lines out as he's seized by laughter.

02:59Come on!

03:00I'm kind of gonna have to do this.

03:09Number 7, Houdini's Daughter.

03:11It's difficult to play off like things are going well

03:14when even the audience can see something has gone wrong.

03:16Burnett plays an escape artist being interviewed by Korman's character.

03:29Surprisingly this time,

03:30Korman is the one who stays in character,

03:32and we're really not sure how.

03:34There are a few prop malfunctions,

03:36and credit where it's due,

03:37Burnett does her best not to get so thrown off by them.

03:41Not really.

03:44Are you all right?

03:45No.

03:45I hear something cracking.

03:46Yeah, I hear it too.

03:49I think it's my rear end.

03:51At a certain point though,

03:52she's powerless to keep from cracking up,

03:54particularly when the crate that was initially supposed to break

03:58ends up stuck to her rear end.

03:59The whole thing goes astray,

04:01but we get a ton more laughs out of it that way.

04:03I'm gonna try to get out of this.

04:06I'm gonna distract myself from this.

04:09Number 6, Dog's Life.

04:11Physical comedy was Tim Conway's strong suit.

04:13Once again playing opposite Harvey Korman,

04:15this time he's a man's best friend.

04:17No, he plays a man who thinks he's a dog.

04:20He sniffs,

04:21pants,

04:22and licks at Korman throughout the sketch.

04:23The more I see of your work Benson,

04:25the more I like it.

04:34Conway's scene partner is almost able to play off his laughter.

04:38He has the advantage of looking down for part of the scene,

04:41but then you hear his unmistakable whimper of laughter.

04:49I've, uh, I've been feeling it.

04:52Conway is merciless,

04:54never giving Korman a chance to recover.

04:56There's plenty of footage of Korman breaking character,

04:59but this is one of the few times we see Conway break too.

05:02They think I'm gonna fall apart,

05:04but you know what I'm going to do?

05:08Tim Conway plays a very slow fireman called to the scene of a fire.

05:13Then Harvey Korman's character,

05:15the homeowner experiencing the fire,

05:17inhales smoke and requires mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,

05:20at least according to Korman.

05:22Color in your cheeks.

05:27Oh, I can't breathe.

05:28I, I, I, I choked it.

05:30It's not working, I need oxygen.

05:32What ensues is an apparent shift in genre as Korman's character

05:36is an apparent shift in genre as Conway starts flirting.

05:39Even more hilarious is how Korman tries to cover his laughter with cries of pain.

05:43It fools no one.

05:51He's hopeless to get through the rest of the sketch,

05:53and you can tell Conway is loving every second of making him squirm.

06:06Number four, The Family.

06:08Mama and Eunice Harper are two of the Carol Burnett show's most enduring characters.

06:12Their relationship, which you could call strained,

06:15makes for some of the show's most withering insults.

06:26Here, a heated board game night at the Harper house gets out of hand.

06:29As she unleashes a tirade of insults in this particular sketch,

06:33Carol Burnett makes it clear that some of the jokes were not in the script.

06:43Vicki Lawrence seems completely at home in the role of Mama as she stays stony-faced,

06:47but Burnett's resolve isn't so strong.

07:01Number three, The Dentist.

07:02In yet another sketch about a Tim Conway character being completely inept at his job,

07:07we find ourselves at the dentist.

07:08Conway's character keeps accidentally injecting himself with Novocaine,

07:13and as he continues with the exam, parts of his body keep going dead.

07:25Could it be fair to say it tests the limits of his physical comedy?

07:29But Conway doesn't seem to have limits.

07:31He almost manages to stay completely in character,

07:34while a helpless and captive Corman can only desperately try to hide how affected he is.

07:44But, as more of the dentist's limbs fail him,

07:47Corman ends up laughing harder than the audience.

07:57Number two, Number one or number two?

08:00Here's one big mistake that didn't make it to air.

08:03Originally, this spoof of an old-fashioned Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney musical

08:06featured a horse standing behind Carol Burnett while she sang her number.

08:18She tries her best, but when the horse, um, leaves a present on stage for Burnett,

08:23everything grinds to a halt.

08:30I know how you love me

08:36Burnett, after cracking up herself, makes a joke that leaves the audience in stitches.

08:41Is he through?

08:48You wanna pick it up from number one or number two?

08:51The imagery might have been worth the trouble, but the smell probably wasn't,

08:55and once the show aired, the horse was gone.

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09:14Number one, the elephant story.

09:16Breaking character was a hazard of the trade when Tim Conway was on stage.

09:20The ensemble knew he could improvise and throw in any ridiculous flair he wanted,

09:25and he would always be the last to break.

09:27But Vicki Lawrence, in character as Mama Harper, finally got him.

09:33As his character tells a story about sideshow elephants conjoined at the trunk,

09:37the entire cast is having a hard time keeping it together.

09:40Even Conway is stifling a smile at his own performance.

09:43By the end, Lawrence has finally had enough.

09:56Mama's primetime unfriendly punchline puts a perfect button on the scene.

10:00Conway falls off the couch, finally bested at his own game.

10:08Which blooper got you? Let us know in the comments.

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