Carol Burnett, 91, Recalls When Tim Conway Made Harvey Korman Wet His Pants

The comedic Hollywood legend Carol Burnett, 91, 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.”

That’s professionalism, right there. Can you imagine being around those three and managing not to laugh?

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.”

Check out that sketch for yourself in the video below.

Full Story: The ‘Carol Burnett Show’ Skit That Was So Funny, Harvey Korman Had An Accident!

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.”

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Burnett Misses Golden Era Of TV Comedy

The Carol Burnett Show was on during the golden era of television comedy. Other programs that were on during that period include All in the Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and MASH. While Burnett likes modern television comedies, it’s clear that she misses this era.

“They are funny and character driven, they’re not scatological or blue,” she explained. “I’m not a prude, but sometimes I think some of the stuff today … it’s been kind of easy to get a laugh by being a little blue.”

“I don’t mind if its within the character but if they do it just to say a bad word, I think it’s boring and it’s not funny,” she added. “Funny is The Dick Van Dyke Show. Funny is Mary [Tyler Moore], Bob Newhart, All in the Family – and they hold up today.”

Sadly, both Korman and Conway are no longer with us. Korman died in 2008 at the age of 81 due to complications from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm. Conway passed away in 2019 at the age of 85  from complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus.

As for Burnett, she’s still going strong at 91. She was recently nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Apple TV+ television show Palm Royale. This officially made Burnett the oldest nominee for acting in Emmy history!