Re Tim Conway.I was looking at some of his stuff on youtube, and while it’s not all that edgy if a skit was well written he handed his parts pretty well.
What your take on Tim Conway as a comedian?
Hilarious. One of the legends.
When I was in my teens, I watched McHale’s Navy, and Tim as Mr. Parker was certainly the best thing on it. A perfect boob, he was. He would say some completely idiotic line in this rapid, matter-of-fact way that made it funny. Put him next to Joe Flynn (the ever-flustered Capt. Binghamton) and you couldn’t lose.
In one bit he was posing as a supposedly rich investor (part of some typical McHale con), and someone handed him a picture of a house for sale. He says, “Oh my, that’s beautiful. Pretty clouds!” (You had to hear Tim Conway say it.)
I was surprised to later learn that McHale’s Navy is held in low regard among 60s sitcom fans - not up there with Dick Van Dyke, closer to Green Acres.
Well, I certainly hold McHale’s Navy in high regard. Loved it. Love Conway.
Just looked him up. Still alive. Eighty years old.
Absolutely hilarious on The Carol Burnett Show. His Mr. Tudball character, the boss, with Carol as his dim-witted secretary Mrs. Wiggins is one of the classic comedy segments and never failed to make me laugh. I’m surprised to hear he’s only 80.
Well, I think one problem is that it got compared to Sgt. Bilko (which I hadn’t seen at the time). And Ernest Borgnine was no Phil Silvers.
He turns 81 in December.
*The *best second-banana ever. When he had a proper straightman to play off of he was a genius.
what’s a Tim Conway?
Get off of my lawn.
I think my tastes in comedy have changed over time. I remember Tim Conway on the Carol Burnett Show leaving me gasping with laughter, but the stuff I’ve watched on Youtube recently was only good for a few smiles and chuckles. Same with many Monty Python skits.
About 80 pounds.
Yeah, Tim Conway (with Harvey Korman) on the Carol Burnett Show was comedy gold! Never failed to make me laugh.
As of just a few years ago, TIm was still hilarious as the voice of Barnacle Boy on SpongeBob SquarePants cartoons.
His old co-star Ernest Borgnine was also hysterical as the voice of senile superhero Mermaid Man in those same cartoons.
Rarely failed to make Korman laugh either-many clips out there of Conway putting Korman onto the verge of hysterics.
I liked his part in The Aristocrats, a compilation of comedians telling their version of The Aristocrats joke. Conway’s not known for blue humor, but they arranged for him to use the old man gimmick at the closing credits. As the credits roll by, the old man is walking up the hallway towards the camera, doing that short-step shuffle that takes him forever. When he finally gets close enough, he says “There were these two goats” then falls asleep.
I wasn’t a regular watcher of The Carol Burnett Show, but I caught it from time to time.
And I caught it during its original run the night of the famous dentist sketch. Now I love to laugh, but it’s relatively rare that a comedy bit will put me literally (yes, literally) on the floor in helpless, uncontrollable laughter.
But that sketch did. I know some of his other bits have been very good, too. But that’s one I’ll never forget.
Watching the CB troupe try to get through skits when one or another of them was working the lines is among my favorite comedy memories.
the elephant in the room even.
snerkle!
O deer ghod.
I think the answer to the OP’s question is Q.E.D., but Vikki Carr might have won the round anyway.