RIP Tim Conway

[Ageless]

One of my favorite comedians


https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/7140...lished-the-role-of-comedic-co-star-dies-at-85

 

[annie720]

One of my favorite comedians


https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/7140...lished-the-role-of-comedic-co-star-dies-at-85

Mine, too. It’s been a sad couple of days.

 

[AxelAnnie]

One of my favorite comedians


https://www.npr.org/2019/05/14/7140...lished-the-role-of-comedic-co-star-dies-at-85

Me too. I laugh until tears are running down my cheeks especially at his sketch as the Dentist.

And the Siamese elephants.

 

[Kruss]

One of the funniest moments of the whole Carol Burnett show was this outtake.

RIP to a true one-of-a-kind legend.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

That was a great elephant story but Vicki Lawrence topped it off with a cherry by asking "Are you sure that little asshole is through?"

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

That was a great elephant story but Vicki Lawrence topped it off with a cherry by asking "Are you sure that little asshole is through?"

In perfect character as Mama, too - that's what made it so brilliant. Everyone else, including Conway, just literally fell over in hysterics.

 

[LeafOnTheWind]

I always loved the oldest fireman

Harvey Korman's laugh at 4:53 gets me every time.

 

[Kruss]

That's why I posted that particular one, because it doesn't bleep out what Vicki said.

 

[paskatefan]

A truly funny man in a wonderful comedy hour. RIP, Tim.

 

[Susan1]

It's too hard to find my favorite online, but as the world's oldest man, he said his name was Duu-wayne (and you'd have to remember how he moved his neck) and Carol's character said "o.k. Duu-wayne" and moved her neck the same way. We went around going "Duu-wayne" for days. Still every time I hear anybody say Dwayne on t.v. anywhere, I say "Duu-wayne".
And the one where he poked his head out of the barn door in a painting.
The dentist one is funny, but they show that all the time.

Oh yeah, and when he was the "flasher" and would go around opening his coat and go "oo-wah". My aunt got me a birthday card that had a pop-up that opened it's arms in what was supposed to be giving a hug and she wrote "oo-wah". LOL

 

[skategal]

We used to love watching him on the Carol Burnett show. He was so talented for comedy.

RIP Tim Conway

 

[skatesindreams]

One of the funniest sketches, ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IUSM4EKcRI

So much more than simply "funny":
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/obituaries/tim-conway-dead.html

 

[annie720]

We watched a Netflix video last night that had a compilation of Tim Conway skits that predated Carol Burnett, many of them from the '60's Hollywood Palace variety show. Watch David Janssen lose it in this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJANVuPt3D4

 

[vgerdes]

A comedy legend who shone brightest when he was playing second banana. And a true gem of a human being as well. Truly one of a kind. RIP, Mr. Conway.

 

[kittyjake5]

RIP Tim. He was a comic genius.

 

[quartz]

 

[AxelAnnie]

That was a great elephant story but Vicki Lawrence topped it off with a cherry by asking "Are you sure that little asshole is through?"

I know. Watched it again last night. Love Dick Van Dyke falling off the couch. Vicki Lawrence is really funny.

 

[Simone411]

I always looked forward to watching the Carol Burnett show each and every week. Tim Conway helped make that show what it was. The show wouldn't have been the same without him. What I loved the most was when Tim caused Harvey to crack up laughing and couldn't finish his lines. He was actually able to make all of them crack up and they couldn't finish without laughing.

One of the skits I loved the most was when they all sang to a song by Ray Stevens and The Henhouse 5 Plus 2.

In The Mood.

RIP, Tim. You will be missed.

 

[Rob]

I remember that my mother and I laughed till the tears flowed. And laughed even harder every time Harvey Korman lost it over Tim Conway. He was the best. Only other show I laughed this hard at was Arrested Development.