Tim Conway's Elephant Story. I just need to see it now and then.

[nolabear]

Much as we overuse the smilie, not that many things come that close to making me literally roll on the floor laughing.

But this does. And it's possibly the finest moment in Vickie Lawrence's career.

[onehandle]

1. I loved it when they cracked each other up.

That and the Bob Newhart Show were the best things on TV back then.

[nolabear]

2. Loved both. I'm terrible about "catching" laughing and crying.

Get me started and it can get out of hand!

[Ptah]

3. Thank you for posting this classic live TV clip.

[nolabear]

6. It's my public service for the day.

[JBoy]

4. I loved Tim Conway. Funniest guy on TV ever.

[HarveyDarkey]

5. He and Jonathan Winters never failed to crack me up

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Oh dear...THANK you for that!!

[nolabear]

8. .

[Archae]

9. I saw Tim Conway on "McHale's Navy," early 60's...

He was imitating the skipper of another PT boat that had been through there.

Did a BEE-U-TEE-FULL John F Kennedy imitation.

[grandpamike1]

10. I have

saved this on my computer, as I consider it to be the best laugh inducing skit in TV history.

[nolabear]

13. As many times as I've seen it, I still just fall over. It feels soooo good!

[itsrobert]

11. too bad he has a jerk of a son

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Tim is great, jr not so much.

[nolabear]

12. That's for another time. This is for laughter.

[glowing]

14. What does she say? There's too much laughing..

[Live and Learn]

16. I think it was, "Are you sure that little asshole's through?" nt

[nolabear]

19. Exactly! And in perfect character.

Mama was awesome.

[sarge43]

27. How a legend is born.

[glowing]

28. thank you. That explains it even better.

[loudsue]

15. I wish I could give that more than one rec....

That's funny as hell!!

[bluesbassman]

17. Hilarious. What a treasure that man is. His physical comedy timing was perfect.

Loved him paired up with Harvey Korman too. Here's The Dentist sketch...

[nolabear]

18. Another of my favorites!

He had a reputation for torturing Harvey. You can see that little twitch of glee now and then.

[sarge43]

20. Good thing Korman wasn't in the elephant sketch

Conway could crack him up with an expression. That one would have put him in intensive care with a ruptured lung.

[nolabear]

21. I thought that too. Dick van Dyke got lucky.

I wonder if it's generational, but I don't think so. Conway's ability to keep pushing while everyone around him fell apart was wonderful. And unlike Robin Williams, whom I do like, he did it with careful precision. Deadly.

[sarge43]

22. Conway is a comedic sensei - master of the form

Deadly indeed. Burnett's groan of pain when Conway started his attack; she knew the place would be littered with convulsing bodies, including her own.

Williams uses a broadsword; Conway, a rapier.

[nolabear]

23. Exactly. I even quote him now and then in my therapy practice.

I haven't looked for the sketch, but somewhere he describes his girlfriend and him in a lifeboat, and she makes this heroic attempt to swim for help, and is immediately beset by sharks. The line is something like "Unfortunately she was wearing her good luck ham..." I describe some toxic partners as a "good luck ham".

(Edited because autocorrect wanted me to look for the scotch...)

[Bombero1956]

24. That was the spoof of Jaws

about 4:52 in this clip.

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[nolabear]

25. !! Well, I almost got it right.

[Bombero1956]

26. here's the skit where Tim as the old man is Harvey's dresser

in between scenes in a play, he absolutely destroys Harvey in that skit.

[Grateful for Hope]

29. Thank you for posting this

IMO, Tim Conway was the funniest ad lib person ever.

I wish that the Carol Burnett show was available on Netflix. As far as I know, it isn't.