All my life I wanted to make that dress with my mother. She passed away and I finally made the dress in her honor as she was paralyzed and could no longer sew in the last years. So when she died, I mourned her so much my sweet husband took me to Atlanta and I saw the original gown by Walter Plunket. After 2 hours of sketching, I finally made the gown. I showed it at the Washington State Fair and there was a glass case to display the gown, hat & purse in protection on a mannequin. I put a gold curtain rod in the case just for fun. I wondered if anyone would notice and know the skit after all these years. People would stop, laugh uncontrollably and go grab someone else and pull them over to see it. I won over 10,000 votes for People's Choice, Judge's choice, Sweepstakes Grand Prize and a Special Award for History. I was floored! I guess they still remembered.
“Thank you, I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist it”. An all-time classic line that I remembered even though I was 9 years old when I saw this skit. I’m in my 50’s now and still see it as pure genius.
YES GENIUS because we of course expected Harvey to say it a funny way! When Vicki suprisingly said it after the slap OMG died laughing because Sissy was abused throughout the skit and got her revenge!
This is a comedy masterpiece. Harvey Korman's impersonation of Rhett Butler was remarkable, how he transformed his face and his speech, you almost believe it's really Clark Gable saying those lines. I love you Carol Burnett, and I thank you for all joy and laughter you brought to my life.
I was blessed with a busy studio singing career for 60 years and took part in several musical variety shows in the 60’s, one of which was the Carol Burnett Show. Exactly how she appears on her shows is how she was to work with and be around….kind, loving, and hilarious. I have so many fond memories of those years and am grateful to have had the chance to work with such a legend. And her show was the best thing to ever happen to Harvey Korman, RIP
I am soooo pleased to hear this. Ms Burnett is one of my favorites. I watched her show with the family on Sat. Night and loved it! I had thought I wanted to be a background dancer on a variety show for years. Life had other ideas. Lol thanks for your comments.
He told a very funny story about that. He was panicking in his dressing room, because he couldn't find the voice for the character. Nothing he tried worked. But when he went ahead and put on the mustache, suddenly he voice came to him! He said the feel of the mustache on his face put him into that character.
The best show, the GREATEST skit ever written. Bob Mackie's costume creations were absolute genius. The curtain dress was the talk of the country for months!
@@PaperMate-zz4vt Oh yes indeedy, a classic for sure! (forgive the late comment, sometimes i don't get around to checking if anyone has replied to my comments)
I remember watching this special show and when Carol came down those stairs with the curtain rod on with the drapes as a dress... THE SCENE WENT EPIC it became a legend of comedy scenes.. People all over were talking about that special one for months.. had so many laughing in stitches. Best yet ever. Still luv and enjoy watching that scene today. Thank you Carol and friends. YOu were all perfect.
Comedic genius was in every department on that show. Mackie's idea for including the curtain rod on that dress and the Wiggins walk he suggested for Carol when choosing that skirt were sheer genius.
That curtain rod dress gave me the biggest laugh, and then when she said 'I saw it in the window and I couldn't resist' I just about busted a gut. Carol Burnett and her ensemble in that show was priceless.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Carol Burnett in that curtain rod dress. I was a teenager and I was watching this with my mother. We both laughed uncontrollably and could hardly stop. Next to the dentist skit, it’s one of the funnest.
The amount of times I have used “Well, that’s pretty, but it doesn’t answer my question.” In real life situations and conversations. This is truly one of the best movie parody sketches ever created.
I forgot about that line until I watched this again recently. I am going to start using that, too! It is a great response to people who do not want to answer your question and attempt to distract you with flattery or some such tactic.
I remember watching this when it 1st aired! I almost rolled off the couch I was laughing so hard. My parents were both roaring so loud, they scared the heck out of our dogs! It's 2017 & still one of the funniest routines on TV EVER!
Trixieb Beldon Until Trump and his 5 wives came South; that is, Ivana, Marla, Ivanka(wink, wink), Kellyann, and of course, that most faithful of all, LindsayG.
Trixieb Beldon meh it’s not that funny, it’s over acting. I find Kids In The Hall and MadTv funny, not this. Oh it’s a lil bit funny, but not lol funny.
@@JustanotherLiz It's called farce and you have to be familiar with the movie they are parodying. It's hilarious. KITH and Mad came much later and are funny, but any of them would kill for a classic tv comedy moment like this. You're just young, but you'll grow of out it.
My mother roared with laughter, too! I was a young teen then. I recently saw GWTW, again. Her impression of Scarlett is so funny. I even thought of Carol Burnett watching the original, especially how she treats Melanie. Carol got that spot on, lol. One of the funniest bits ever shown on TV!
That curtain dress was brilliant! And the comedic timing of "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist".....hysterically funny. This show was so much fun!!
Well, he got something even better. His costume has been displayed since 2009 in a place of honor in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the mall in Washington, DC.
@@Lauren-vd4qe I can't decide between that and the "Siamese elephants joined at the trunk". Remember? The one's that when one would sneeze, the other's eyes would get real big. "Snorkit!" Tim Conway was one of a kind.
I’ve always thought Vicki Lawrence was the most overlooked talent on the show. She could always stay in character, delivering the funniest lines, and keep a straight face throughout it all.
Ms. Lawrence was often the person who stole the scenes, an absolutely brilliant comedic actor! She was also very pretty, I think most people overlooked that part of her, too.
I remember seeing this when I was about 13, I also remember laughing so hard I was literally rolling on the carpet! When she came down the stairs in that dress it was recorded as the longest laugh in television history, they had to actually cut it short because of time and commercials. Damn, she was funny, I'm glad to see this again. She is proof that you don't need to be vulgar to be funny.
We must be about the same age. I have fond memories of watching when I was almost 13. Hard to believe over 40 years have past. I still find it hilarious!
Yes,in his March to the Atlantic Ocean. He burned down Atlanta, which was where most of Gone With the Wind was set. They called it Sherman's March to the Sea.
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I am Russia and I saw " Gone with the Winds" maybe a hundred times since I was about 14! Read the book in three languages maybe 20 times. I HAVE NEVER SEEN IT, and I couldn't have! And now it's 2022, and I am 48 and I see this for the first time in my life and THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!
Best skit in television history. I remember it like it was yesterday-our entire family glued to the television set. When Carol came out in her curtain dress, the room exploded in laughter. Just thinking about it gets me laughing. Harvey Kerman really looked like Clark Gable.
One of the documentaries made on the "Making of..." this skit pointed out something, which obviously was edited out of this. Bob Mackie said that in the hustle to get this parody ready--they had a week--none of the other actors saw the famous drapery dress before Carol stepped out on to the upstairs landing. Nearly all of the actors lost it. The audience laughed so long that the producers were worried about getting the commercials in before the thirty minute show time limit. The audience laughter set a record for the longest sustained laughter/applause in TV history up to that time, and it stood for decades. And you gotta love how Cissy/Prissy steals Rat/Rhett's famous last line of the real movie. "Frankly, my dear, I don't a damn." Pure comedy gold.
Chris Case: Yes, kudos to Bob Mackie for designing the dress. He did creative and wacky work for both Cher & Carol Burnett. That green drapery dress definitely stopped the show, and it still works!
Bob Mackey was a genius 🥰I remember seeing this episode when it originally aired and we couldn't stop laughing when Carol came walking down the stairs wearing the curtain rod 😂 The writers were incredible coming up with new stories every week 🥰
Omg this is my Favorite Skit Ever. Growing up, I wanted to "BE" Carol Burnett! Fifty years later, I have the Hair Color and I entertain myself constantly. Plus, I *have* the Carol Burnett "Went With The Wind" doll on Display in my living room. Just Sayin'.
Omg, when he carried up the stairs, almost stumbling over her clothes and straining his back.. I just lost it! LOL! He could have dropped her too. And Carol tumbling down the stairs! Even SNL couldn't pull this off.
If you listen carefully, Carol Burnett says, "Just keep going" as he carries her upstairs. I don't know if he really strained his back, but it looked like it. Greatest sketch ever!
This skit is unbearably good. Anyone notice how despite it being the Seventies Vickie Lawrence et al had the good sense to not be in blackface. Good on everyone involved. Carol Burnett is a national treasure. ❤️
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When she came down in that dress with the track still in it I almost fell out of my chair. Bob Mackie was a genius. I understand they could hardly go one because they couldn't get the audience to stop laughing.
Rebecca Moore Even the Russian call girls, watching on TH-cam in Moscow, laughed so hard they almost, ahem, well, you know, fondly remembering 2013, and Ole Big MacDonald.
Yes the dress was funny, but the dress was like the jewel in a hilarious, brilliantly written setting - imagine not letting Rhat Butler finish saying his most famous line by slamming the door in his face and then giving the line to Sissy to say: Frankly, Miss Starlett, I don't give a damn! Nothing funnier or smarter. I hope those writers had lots of success in their careers...
it's genius, and a bit of relief in two ways. I know it's a dicey thing to judge a book or movie by modern day standards, but both Rhett's "hey, you destroyed my love for you" when he was just as cutting and dismissive as Scarlet, and how the slaves were depicted, is a bit creepy. So, watching him get a face slammed into his face, and Sissy shutting up the spoiled southern Belle, is just pure bliss.
So very true...especially back in those times, when saying the word "damn" was considered very shocking, and if it could be said, it had to be cleared by CBS executives, and they could only say it a certain number of times. (The Family sketches pushed that envelope the most...lol) So, when Carol cuts of Harvey from saying the word "damn," back in those times we all just assumed it wasn't allowed, because it really was rare. So when Vicki says it, it just blows that theory out of the water and makes it that much more hilarious!!
It was later syndicated as part of “Carol Burnett & Friends” in 1979 and 1980 according to this show’s intro at 0:00. The show was taped at CBS Television City which is now the legendary, Bob Barker Studio.
What’s great is that it’s comedy that doesn’t punch down at anyone. It’s just a loving tribute to a classic movie with clever humor, no one is really the butt of the joke so everyone can laugh.
Vicki Lawrence as Mama was just as funny. Too bad shows like this are no longer made. Sight gags, clean humor, comedic timing, what more could you ask for?
'Went with the Wind,' was one of Carol's funniest sketches ever. From the moment Carol makes her first appearance the audience starts laughing non-stop for nearly 30 whole seconds -- and that punchline at the end!! I won't ruin it for you. You'll just have to watch.
The audience laughed longer than that. They edited most of it out to fit the broadcast time slot. In an interview, Carol said that they did not tell anyone about the dress but had to tell Harvey so he would not break up when she started down the stairs. Only Carol, Harvey and Bob Mackie knew what she was going to wear.
'Went with the Wind' was simply one of the best sketches ever...... Especially for those who grew up reading Margaret Mitchell's epic 'Gone with the Wind'.
My Mom's favorite skit of all time. She laughed, just describing this for years. Cancer silenced your laugh early, yet I still hear you, watching this...
@@mkimmick61 I guess I am one of the few under 50 that would get it. We didn’t have cable for the majority of my childhood, so I watched a LOT of old TV shows. The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of my favorites. My mom was a big fan of Carol Burnett, so I was familiar with this episode. It helped me understand the storyline of GWTW since I was too young to really get it when I watched it. It never really made sense to me. I just remember a party at the beginning, a baby being born in the middle, the city burning, then Scarlett eats some carrots and throws up. Like I said, it made no sense 😄
Classic! The first time I watched this as a teenager the green drapery rod dress had me laughing so hard I could not catch my breath and tears rolling down my face….one of those absolutely memorable moments! Great to watch this…it has been decades! And its very different time! I needed to laugh!
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After 50+ years it is still so funny! It is a timeless skit. I remember sitting in our living room and the whole family was laughing so hard. It was a more innocent time when we actually had “family” shows.
I remember watching this on tv with my Grandmother. I was about 6 or 7 & can still remember my Grandmother laughing her ass off . Thank you Carol Burnett for all those laughs you brought to our home XO !!!
ME TOO! My grandma was born and raised on a Texas farm, and life was tough. The only time I ever saw her just flat lose it was when Carol came down the stairs with that curtain rod.
I had forgotten that Dinah Shore was in this sketch. It still makes me laugh, after all these years. "I saw it in a window, and I just couldn't resist it." 🤣🤣🤣
“Stick your face in the punch bowl”! Dying laughing! My husband brought me most of The Carol Burnett Show on DVD-as he knew how much I missed my family (my WWII Hero Uncle married my mom’s oldest sister, one of her 10 siblings, and though they married for the first time later in life, my Uncle had a house built for my aunt & 7 female family members of aunts, mom, me & my sister-all the rest moved away, and we all moved in with them, and I am so grateful for those memories-especially after my most beloved Gramma died on my 11th birthday & mom died 12 years later on Christmas my Junior year of college) , and we just watched the same day of self-quarantine & Went with The Wind was on the first Disc. And believe me, unless there is an Eagles game on, my husband & I rarely watch TV together. He’ll watch my DVD of the Gilmore Girls entire 7 years of the series, plus the revival, so the few things we watch together other than our Eagles, Gilmore Girls, and all the DVD’s of the Dream Martin Variety Shows & the Roast, which my sister & I bought for my aunt & I luckily was the one to inherit them.
Just saw the re-release of Gone With the Wind in the movie theater and when she sees the curtains and gets the idea for the dress I laughed because all I could think of was this sketch.
These 4 together were hilarious. I remember watching with my mom an dad when I was a kid. This particular skit had me in tears. The reactions between them all, but especially Tim and Harvey throughout the show were classic. I miss the good old days of nice clean humor. They were so far ahead of their time with their comedy and their writers were phenomenal as well.
I moved from the West to the Deep South just after watching this on TV. It has stayed in my memory for over 40 years as the most brilliantly hilarious skit Carol has ever done!
The Carol Burnett Show, as she said herself, (Los Angeles Times) had backup similar to a Broadway Show every week with on site writers, orchestra and regular professional performers of the best quality. Incredible. She had injured her neck I think with the curtain rod dress, she had said at another time. At the time they called it a "Variety Show." There were many of those. However this one was a GREAT show. Even the costumes were by renowned designer Bob Makie. His designs were individually valuable. Awesome.
I remember when me & my big sis would sneak down the stairs to watch the " Carol Burnett Show" after our bedtime on Saturday nights after 11pm, I think it was!! Carol was worth the risk & trouble back then!!
How many people realize the economics behind the crinoline hoop skirt fashion craze? It was to create a market for cotton cloth and whalebone! After the Civil War kerosene replaced sperm whale oil and the whaling industry collapsed, and without slave labor cheap cotton rose in price. But from a romantic point of view, the hoop skirt was prettier than the bustle that followed. In any case women must have spent all their time getting dressed and then going to the privy!
@@rogerpropes7129 - there are still hoop skirts around for really beautiful dresses. Years ago, I rented one to wear to the Marine Corps Ball. I also learned why they went out of style! They fit very poorly into cars and even more poorly into bathroom stalls!!!
sekan star they are gorgeous but because the middle hoop is around the buttocks, you have to lift the skirt up before sitting. I was one of six bridesmaids in a wedding party years ago and we wore gowns with hoops. They were absolutely gorgeous but we had to learn how to sit down. If you didn’t lift the hoop above your hip line, the entire front of the gown went straight up. Watching the six of us practice was hysterical. But learn we did. And we laughed ourselves silly. Watching this skit brought it back🙂
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All my life I wanted to make that dress with my mother. She passed away and I finally made the dress in her honor as she was paralyzed and could no longer sew in the last years. So when she died, I mourned her so much my sweet husband took me to Atlanta and I saw the original gown by Walter Plunket. After 2 hours of sketching, I finally made the gown. I showed it at the Washington State Fair and there was a glass case to display the gown, hat & purse in protection on a mannequin. I put a gold curtain rod in the case just for fun. I wondered if anyone would notice and know the skit after all these years. People would stop, laugh uncontrollably and go grab someone else and pull them over to see it. I won over 10,000 votes for People's Choice, Judge's choice, Sweepstakes Grand Prize and a Special Award for History. I was floored! I guess they still remembered.
What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing it here.
Is there any way you have it online so we all can enjoy your handiwork/tribute???
That's a great story, thanks for sharing it! I'm glad you got to finally make your dream come true, in your mom's memory....
how beautiful 🕊
Wow 😯
So cool!
“Thank you, I saw it in the window and I just couldn’t resist it”. An all-time classic line that I remembered even though I was 9 years old when I saw this skit. I’m in my 50’s now and still see it as pure genius.
Same!
Giving Sissy the "I don't give a damn" line was sheer genius😆
YES GENIUS because we of course expected Harvey to say it a funny way! When Vicki suprisingly said it after the slap OMG died laughing because Sissy was abused throughout the skit and got her revenge!
Absolutely ! Vicki is rocking in this sketch !
This is a comedy masterpiece. Harvey Korman's impersonation of Rhett Butler was remarkable, how he transformed his face and his speech, you almost believe it's really Clark Gable saying those lines. I love you Carol Burnett, and I thank you for all joy and laughter you brought to my life.
He looked like a latter-day Clark Gable circa 1960's "The Misfits." It was uncanny.
When I see this show I am 14 again ... thank you Carole Burnett & Company, you made my youth!
The “look away” part of Dixie killed me. 😂
Harvey was perfect.
A lot of what these guys did was ad lib.
This skit just never gets old, it just gets better.
It really does
There is a Korean drama running right now called My Dearest that is based loosely on Gone with the Wind. It's really good. 😊
Oprah stole that "whoaaaaaa!" she does at the beginning
I was blessed with a busy studio singing career for 60 years and took part in several musical variety shows in the 60’s, one of which was the Carol Burnett Show. Exactly how she appears on her shows is how she was to work with and be around….kind, loving, and hilarious. I have so many fond memories of those years and am grateful to have had the chance to work with such a legend. And her show was the best thing to ever happen to Harvey Korman, RIP
You were so lucky to have worked with these legends!!!
Those where the days!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No one will ever forget the curtain rod dress either 😛
I am soooo pleased to hear this. Ms Burnett is one of my favorites. I watched her show with the family on Sat. Night and loved it! I had thought I wanted to be a background dancer on a variety show for years. Life had other ideas. Lol thanks for your comments.
That is awesome sauce.
I cannot get over Harvey as Clark Gable. What a gem he was...So much talent on this show.
and he looks very handsome
He told a very funny story about that. He was panicking in his dressing room, because he couldn't find the voice for the character. Nothing he tried worked. But when he went ahead and put on the mustache, suddenly he voice came to him! He said the feel of the mustache on his face put him into that character.
He always got the clue of the part or person he played-Rhett was one of his best-I watched this show every week
The best show, the GREATEST skit ever written. Bob Mackie's costume creations were absolute genius. The curtain dress was the talk of the country for months!
That curtain rod just makes that dress.
I got to see the entire outfit in person (at a Bob Mackie exhibit in Atlantic City). It was epic!
@@PaperMate-zz4vt Oh yes indeedy, a classic for sure! (forgive the late comment, sometimes i don't get around to checking if anyone has replied to my comments)
"I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it!" - one of the funniest moments in television history!
Peter Formaini
Agreed.
Gv
LoL
Best sight gag ever.
Cannot watch the scene in the actual movie without thinking of that line!
“I’ll never go hungry again... If I gotta make tuna casseroles“. 😂
And go without my grits.....
@@beckypalmer85112:57 and 9:31 *_"MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!!"_*
Genius. The writers, the set designers, the cast, the audience, TH-cam, the Internet, you, me, and all the ships at sea. All geniuses.
When Harvey Korman is struggling to carry Carol Burnett up the stairs, you can hear her say "just keep going". It's one of the funniest moments.
Dang that dress must've been heavy
It's at 16:52.
His reaction while carrying her up the stairs was so funny. "I'm pooped!"
Vicki Lawrence did a spectacular job as Sissy. The entire cast delivered!
And they were smart enough to avoid makeup letting viki's acting carrying the part.
🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️
Called Pittypat in the book iirc.
@@spiritmatter1553 Pittypat was Scarlett's aunt.
@@spiritmatter1553 Actually it was Prissy.
It's amazing how Harvey Korman was channeling Clark Gable's persona. Makes it worth watching all the more.
I was so impressed with Mr Korman's portrayal of Rhett.
2023 and it's still the best.
I remember watching this special show and when Carol came down those stairs with the curtain rod on with the drapes as a dress... THE SCENE WENT EPIC it became a legend of comedy scenes.. People all over were talking about that special one for months.. had so many laughing in stitches. Best yet ever. Still luv and enjoy watching that scene today. Thank you Carol and friends. YOu were all perfect.
It is just brilliant!
I remember too! I laughed til I had no air left.
Beautifully said.
you do know thats what Scarlett actually did
My favorite.😁
Once heard Bob Mackey say that his legacy is going to be that he designed the curtain dress for Carol Burnett's Gone with the Wind skit.
Comedic genius was in every department on that show. Mackie's idea for including the curtain rod on that dress and the Wiggins walk he suggested for Carol when choosing that skirt were sheer genius.
Yes, he said it will be ensconced on his tomb stone
She once said in an interview it really was a curtain she thought of it last second and shocked everyone..
And what a legacy that is! We should all be so lucky.
Mary Kay Gerrets It’s Mackie and him saying that’s a tall order given he’s done Cher’s clothes for years and THOSE pretty iconic in their own right
That was the best show on tv for the longest time.
That curtain rod dress gave me the biggest laugh, and then when she said 'I saw it in the window and I couldn't resist' I just about busted a gut. Carol Burnett and her ensemble in that show was priceless.
Just sitting watching by myself and this whole show cracked me up! There will never be anyone like Carol Burnett.
I don’t think I could ever watch Gone with the Wind again without thinking about this satire by Carol Burnett.
And the sketch actually got the story RIGHT - in capsulized form! Its _essence_ is all included!
Deborah Hoffman How did they ever keep a straight face???
You won't be allowed to watch Gone With the Wind again.
Bernard Brenner Oh, we shall find a way!
@@corvettedm1 you can see at times they could hardly get through it...this is priceless
I wish Clark Gable lived to see this. I am sure he would have thought it hysterical.
Yes he would.so funny.😁😂
Korman out-Gabled Gable!
One of the greatest memories of my 70s childhood!! 👏 👏 👏
I’ll never forget the first time I saw Carol Burnett in that curtain rod dress. I was a teenager and I was watching this with my mother. We both laughed uncontrollably and could hardly stop. Next to the dentist skit, it’s one of the funnest.
Tim Conway as Simba the lion in the Born Free spoof is gold
The amount of times I have used “Well, that’s pretty, but it doesn’t answer my question.” In real life situations and conversations. This is truly one of the best movie parody sketches ever created.
crazyphan18 inuse that regularly in life haha.
“Well that’s nice but it doesn’t answer my question”.
I forgot about that line until I watched this again recently. I am going to start using that, too! It is a great response to people who do not want to answer your question and attempt to distract you with flattery or some such tactic.
That's Tru deau!
I agree completely. Tim Conway, Harvey Korman and Carol Burnett are icons in the world of comedy
I remember watching this when it 1st aired! I almost rolled off the couch I was laughing so hard. My parents were both roaring so loud, they scared the heck out of our dogs! It's 2017 & still one of the funniest routines on TV EVER!
Trixieb Beldon Until Trump and his 5 wives came South; that is, Ivana, Marla, Ivanka(wink, wink), Kellyann, and of course, that most faithful of all, LindsayG.
Agreed. I was maybe 13 or so when this show was introduced to me on Nick at Night and thank goodness. So funny.
Trixieb Beldon meh it’s not that funny, it’s over acting. I find Kids In The Hall and MadTv funny, not this. Oh it’s a lil bit funny, but not lol funny.
@@JustanotherLiz It's called farce and you have to be familiar with the movie they are parodying. It's hilarious. KITH and Mad came much later and are funny, but any of them would kill for a classic tv comedy moment like this. You're just young, but you'll grow of out it.
My mother roared with laughter, too! I was a young teen then. I recently saw GWTW, again. Her impression of Scarlett is so funny. I even thought of Carol Burnett watching the original, especially how she treats Melanie. Carol got that spot on, lol. One of the funniest bits ever shown on TV!
That curtain dress was brilliant! And the comedic timing of "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist".....hysterically funny. This show was so much fun!!
One of best iconic in television when she walked out for the first in drapes.
You must read the book
Perhaps the best sketch of the entire series! And Bob Mackie should have won an Emmy for that one costume alone!
Well, he got something even better. His costume has been displayed since 2009 in a place of honor in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History on the mall in Washington, DC.
@@bruced.campbell4498 As well it should be!
Bob Mackie is one of the best costume designers in Hollywood.
Yet, what's the thing that Mr. Mackie is best known for?
The curtain rod dress!
nah the dentist was by far the best
@@Lauren-vd4qe I can't decide between that and the "Siamese elephants joined at the trunk". Remember? The one's that when one would sneeze, the other's eyes would get real big. "Snorkit!" Tim Conway was one of a kind.
I’ve always thought Vicki Lawrence was the most overlooked talent on the show. She could always stay in character, delivering the funniest lines, and keep a straight face throughout it all.
Her first lines and energy in this were gutbustin
Ms. Lawrence was often the person who stole the scenes, an absolutely brilliant comedic actor! She was also very pretty, I think most people overlooked that part of her, too.
@@ckm3094 Vicki Lawrence got her start by winning a Carol Brunette look a like contest.
@@SethBrundleify They did sort of look alike, especially since they usually had the same color hair and style. I never knew that, thank you!
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I just watched Gone with the Wind and Vicky Lawrence, pacing around and humming during the birthing scene killed me! She was favorite.
I remember seeing this when I was about 13, I also remember laughing so hard I was literally rolling on the carpet! When she came down the stairs in that dress it was recorded as the longest laugh in television history, they had to actually cut it short because of time and commercials. Damn, she was funny, I'm glad to see this again. She is proof that you don't need to be vulgar to be funny.
We must be about the same age. I have fond memories of watching when I was almost 13. Hard to believe over 40 years have past. I still find it hilarious!
I was 6 we all laughed so hard. Best memories ❤❤❤
WHAT do YOU know!?
That's about how old I was, too. I don't remember laughing so hard before or since when she came out wearing THAT dress.
Me too!
The guy from Sherman's army asking for a match....priceless....didn't get that the first time.
I watched it as a child and, for obvious reasons, that went right over my head as well
I had forgotten that line. Love how they just slipped it in.
My favorite line in this by far
I think I get it? Because his army burned so many cities? I think?...
Yes,in his March to the Atlantic Ocean. He burned down Atlanta, which was where most of Gone With the Wind was set. They called it Sherman's March to the Sea.
02:45 "OH Billy Joe, my goodness I thought you jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Poor Billy Joe McAlister.
🤣🤣🤣
I love jokes that reference songs, even if I'm not too crazy about the song.
I remember that hit!
I missed that joke the first ten times I watched this skit.😊
"If I have to Lie, Steat, Cheal and murder, I won't be defeated," immortal flubs to live by.
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I am Russia and I saw " Gone with the Winds" maybe a hundred times since I was about 14! Read the book in three languages maybe 20 times.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN IT, and I couldn't have! And now it's 2022, and I am 48 and I see this for the first time in my life and THIS IS BRILLIANT!!!!
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!
*Music plays*
"Well that's pretty but it doesn't answer my question"
omg I died.
LOOK AWAY...LOOK AWAY
I can't. That dress is absolutely hysterical😆
😂😂😂
Thank ya!
I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it!
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For me,THIS was the BEST skit of The Carol Burnett Show!!
Still cracks me up after all these years..norhing like this today to make you laugh deeply...loooool
Best skit in television history. I remember it like it was yesterday-our entire family glued to the television set. When Carol came out in her curtain dress, the room exploded in laughter. Just thinking about it gets me laughing. Harvey Kerman really looked like Clark Gable.
I concur.
I remember laughing so hard I had tears running down my face.
I really loved the curtain dress!!
Wow Carol Burnette is sexy and beautiful as a Burnette ! She resembles the real Scarlet !!
The longest running laugh in TV history.
One of the documentaries made on the "Making of..." this skit pointed out something, which obviously was edited out of this. Bob Mackie said that in the hustle to get this parody ready--they had a week--none of the other actors saw the famous drapery dress before Carol stepped out on to the upstairs landing. Nearly all of the actors lost it. The audience laughed so long that the producers were worried about getting the commercials in before the thirty minute show time limit. The audience laughter set a record for the longest sustained laughter/applause in TV history up to that time, and it stood for decades.
And you gotta love how Cissy/Prissy steals Rat/Rhett's famous last line of the real movie. "Frankly, my dear, I don't a damn." Pure comedy gold.
I loved it when Dinah Shore started laughing toward the end (18:05), "pardon the intrusion, I do hate to be a bother...."
Chris Case: Yes, kudos to Bob Mackie for designing the dress. He did creative and wacky work for both Cher & Carol Burnett. That green drapery dress definitely stopped the show, and it still works!
Honestly the best costumes I’ve ever seen in a spoof, such a timeless spoof skit.
The Carol Burnett Shows were some of the best ever!
Vicky as Sissy was brilliant. Vicky is an awesome amazing actress.
2:57 and 9:31 *_"MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!! MISS STAHLET!!!"_*
Harvey Korman's Ratt Butler / Clark Gable is spot on!
Deb Babe Harvey Korman could also do a great John Wayne. Talent like that doesn't exist today.
Rich Little was great too. The good ole days!
When he does those Gable facial expressions, its hilarious.
He Out-Gabled Gable himself!
He looked more like Gable than gable did!
He had the Gable squint down!
So fabulously hysterical 40+ years later! The cast was unstoppable in their ingenious parodies.
Bob Mackey was a genius 🥰I remember seeing this episode when it originally aired and we couldn't stop laughing when Carol came walking down the stairs wearing the curtain rod 😂 The writers were incredible coming up with new stories every week 🥰
"For $300 I'll show him anything he wants!"
Her coming down the stairs with that curtain rod will stay with me forever. Comedy royalty
And let's NOT forget Dinah Shore as "Melody". She could clown it up, and did, with the very Best!!!
Omg this is my Favorite Skit Ever.
Growing up, I wanted to "BE" Carol Burnett!
Fifty years later, I have the Hair Color and I entertain myself constantly.
Plus, I *have* the Carol Burnett "Went With The Wind" doll on Display in my living room.
Just Sayin'.
Carol’s two fall down the stairs are amazing. To be able to fall down slowly and land it are comedy gold. She’s a genius. Great memories.
She does physical comedy so incredibly well.
Omg, when he carried up the stairs, almost stumbling over her clothes and straining his back.. I just lost it! LOL! He could have dropped her too. And Carol tumbling down the stairs! Even SNL couldn't pull this off.
@@Gwen3344 - Gilda Radner was famous for breaking a rib in an SNL skit but it looks like Carol outdid her!
SNL has nothin on these guys. Oh they make me laugh all the time.
He was giggling and holding his laugh when he finally made it up...
If you listen carefully, Carol Burnett says, "Just keep going" as he carries her upstairs. I don't know if he really strained his back, but it looked like it. Greatest sketch ever!
@@jessfrankel5212 You're right, she did!
I loved vicky lawrence playing "sissy"...she was absolutely hilarious! ! ❤
"Shoot for $300 I'll show him anything he wants" I choked on my drink xD
i know right
She was the best!
I can't believe she did her own stunt rolling down those stairs TWICE
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And about ten times practicing it.
Grew up with this show, and I miss it! This is good comedy, as opposed to much of the crap we have today on the public airwaves.
This skit is unbearably good. Anyone notice how despite it being the Seventies Vickie Lawrence et al had the good sense to not be in blackface. Good on everyone involved. Carol Burnett is a national treasure. ❤️
Wimp.
Does take away from it a little bit.
@@PotterPossum1989 So you're saying they shudda done blackface?
@@showguyusa No they said not having blackface takes away from it a little bit.
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When she came down in that dress with the track still in it I almost fell out of my chair. Bob Mackie was a genius. I understand they could hardly go one because they couldn't get the audience to stop laughing.
Rebecca Moore Even the Russian call girls, watching on TH-cam in Moscow, laughed so hard they almost, ahem, well, you know, fondly remembering 2013, and Ole Big MacDonald.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Why in the world would you want to say such a thing? 😝😣
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Thank God we don't have to be accountable for the ignorant thoughts/opinions of others!!!
@@dalredmond5879 it's a
fact, not ignorant. Bob Mackie is sexual deviant.
I wasn't referring to Mr. Mackie!!!
Yes the dress was funny, but the dress was like the jewel in a hilarious, brilliantly written setting - imagine not letting Rhat Butler finish saying his most famous line by slamming the door in his face and then giving the line to Sissy to say: Frankly, Miss Starlett, I don't give a damn! Nothing funnier or smarter. I hope those writers had lots of success in their careers...
Agreed ...Sissy and the I don't give a damn closer was sheer comedy genius.
it's genius, and a bit of relief in two ways. I know it's a dicey thing to judge a book or movie by modern day standards, but both Rhett's "hey, you destroyed my love for you" when he was just as cutting and dismissive as Scarlet, and how the slaves were depicted, is a bit creepy.
So, watching him get a face slammed into his face, and Sissy shutting up the spoiled southern Belle, is just pure bliss.
So very true...especially back in those times, when saying the word "damn" was considered very shocking, and if it could be said, it had to be cleared by CBS executives, and they could only say it a certain number of times. (The Family sketches pushed that envelope the most...lol) So, when Carol cuts of Harvey from saying the word "damn," back in those times we all just assumed it wasn't allowed, because it really was rare. So when Vicki says it, it just blows that theory out of the water and makes it that much more hilarious!!
Love this and Vicky is a scream - literally🤣🤣
2019 now - and this first aired in 1976. It is 43 years old and it still makes me laugh. It is comedy gold.
Eliza Gaskell ---. Indeed. GOLD !!!!!
It was later syndicated as part of “Carol Burnett & Friends” in 1979 and 1980 according to this show’s intro at 0:00. The show was taped at CBS Television City which is now the legendary, Bob Barker Studio.
This was brilliant 👏
I remember watching it in the 7th grade with my dad. We were the comedians of the family and watched each week.
Carol Burnett was my teen idol.
What’s great is that it’s comedy that doesn’t punch down at anyone. It’s just a loving tribute to a classic movie with clever humor, no one is really the butt of the joke so everyone can laugh.
Conway's Brashley - "We'll win the next one."
Absolutely epic. This is one of my all time favorite skits. Timeless!
This and the dentist. Outstanding!
"Why don't you stick your head in the punch bowl; it needs more sugar". That was hilarious. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.
i saw it in the window and just couldn't resist it....cracks me up every time! lmao
I can't understand the people who give this a thumbs down. They must have zero senses of humor!
Just a passel of damn Yankees, sugah.
I think it's just because they have such a hard on for the original movie
Their moral and laughter compass are not working!
Perhaps their sense of humor just went with the wind... *SWEEPING ORCHESTRAL LINE*
What wind?
When Carol wore the green velvet curtains with the rod still in, I never laughed so hard. It was the funniest skit I ever saw.
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Vicki Lawrence as Mama was just as funny. Too bad shows like this are no longer made. Sight gags, clean humor, comedic timing, what more could you ask for?
You could ask for more cursing and the N word. !!
Societie's sence of humor has drastically changed since then. A show like this would never make it today.
Dinah Shore's Cousin Melanie impression is awesome.
'Went with the Wind,' was one of Carol's funniest sketches ever. From the moment Carol makes her first appearance the audience starts laughing non-stop for nearly 30 whole seconds -- and that punchline at the end!! I won't ruin it for you. You'll just have to watch.
The audience laughed longer than that. They edited most of it out to fit the broadcast time slot.
In an interview, Carol said that they did not tell anyone about the dress but had to tell Harvey so he would not break up when she started down the stairs. Only Carol, Harvey and Bob Mackie knew what she was going to wear.
Real audience too.
'Went with the Wind' was simply one of the best sketches ever...... Especially for those who grew up reading Margaret Mitchell's epic 'Gone with the Wind'.
Much respect for not posting a spoiler!
And yes, the sketch is gorgeous from start to finish.
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My family is a carol Burnette show family, this is one of the 3 best skits in history. The curtain rod in the dress was frickin' chicken funny.
My Mom's favorite skit of all time. She laughed, just describing this for years. Cancer silenced your laugh early, yet I still hear you, watching this...
I LOVE the part when she comes down the stairs in the drapes. Priceless! I have wanted to use that as a Halloween Costume for years.
You only live once. Wonder if anyone would get it. I dressed like Alex from A Clockwork Orange recently and nobody got it. I had fun though.
That would be a great costume. I think anyone under the age of 50 wouldn't get it. This is comedy gold.
I absolutely love it that she remembered the woman and her brother from school. I have always loved her.
@@mkimmick61 I guess I am one of the few under 50 that would get it. We didn’t have cable for the majority of my childhood, so I watched a LOT of old TV shows. The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of my favorites. My mom was a big fan of Carol Burnett, so I was familiar with this episode. It helped me understand the storyline of GWTW since I was too young to really get it when I watched it. It never really made sense to me. I just remember a party at the beginning, a baby being born in the middle, the city burning, then Scarlett eats some carrots and throws up. Like I said, it made no sense 😄
@spirals 73 Funnels... water.... cloud (fiberfill)... and a stuffed toy shark.
Harvey was a great Clark Gable !
This is still the most brilliant comedy sketch I've ever seen.
Classic! The first time I watched this as a teenager the green drapery rod dress had me laughing so hard I could not catch my breath and tears rolling down my face….one of those absolutely memorable moments! Great to watch this…it has been decades! And its very different time! I needed to laugh!
Vicki going back and forth singing! 😂😂😂God, I love her!!
As a black woman...I loved Sissy. They made the point without being disrespectful even back then
Yes girl I was thinking the same thing. This whole skit was brilliant. Even more hysterical when you've seen the original Gone With The Wind. 😆😆
I liked mammy better. Sissy got on my nerves when she lied in a super critical time.
She was really really funny as sissy a.k.a. prissy she really did at Spot on
Vicki Lawrence (Sissy) sounded an awful lot like Flip Wilson's Geraldine
Wendy Williams
I loved Mammy. She was a strong woman.
Sissy was favored with me about not knowing anything bout birthing babies !!!
Can you imagine the live audience? They sound like they were in hysterics! Funniest sketch ever!
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After 50+ years it is still so funny! It is a timeless skit. I remember sitting in our living room and the whole family was laughing so hard. It was a more innocent time when we actually had “family” shows.
I remember watching this on tv with my Grandmother. I was about 6 or 7 & can still remember my Grandmother laughing her ass off . Thank you Carol Burnett for all those laughs you brought to our home XO !!!
ME TOO! My grandma was born and raised on a Texas farm, and life was tough. The only time I ever saw her just flat lose it was when Carol came down the stairs with that curtain rod.
I had forgotten that Dinah Shore was in this sketch. It still makes me laugh, after all these years.
"I saw it in a window, and I just couldn't resist it." 🤣🤣🤣
The Trouble With Trebles Harvey K was a comic genius.
Dinah - "Miss Melody"! Perfect!
OMG.... I forgot Her name... But thank you for the reminder
...... DINAH SHORE....!
One of the greats AMONG greats!
It was part of the window display probably. Lmao.
“Stick your face in the punch bowl”! Dying laughing! My husband brought me most of The Carol Burnett Show on DVD-as he knew how much I missed my family (my WWII Hero Uncle married my mom’s oldest sister, one of her 10 siblings, and though they married for the first time later in life, my Uncle had a house built for my aunt & 7 female family members of aunts, mom, me & my sister-all the rest moved away, and we all moved in with them, and I am so grateful for those memories-especially after my most beloved Gramma died on my 11th birthday & mom died 12 years later on Christmas my Junior year of college) , and we just watched the same day of self-quarantine & Went with The Wind was on the first Disc. And believe me, unless there is an Eagles game on, my husband & I rarely watch TV together. He’ll watch my DVD of the Gilmore Girls entire 7 years of the series, plus the revival, so the few things we watch together other than our Eagles, Gilmore Girls, and all the DVD’s of the Dream Martin Variety Shows & the Roast, which my sister & I bought for my aunt & I luckily was the one to inherit them.
This is arguably the most hilarious piece of comedy in television history. Carol Burnett is a gift to the world and we are most undeserving
Genius Comedy has never been more appropriately applied.
My absolute favorite Carol Burnett performance of all time.
This is simply a classic. Just like Carol and the crew. Tim Conway & Harvey Korman could make dead people laugh.
Especially now. R.I.P., Tim.
Harvey and Tim were hilarious!
One of her most memorable episodes! Everyone was perfect in this! No one writes like this anymore, and if they did who could perform it?
Carol Burnett fans. 🙂
Literally was thinking the same thing about the genius of the writers and performers who brought it to life so brilliantly!
The curtain dress has to be one of the funniest things ever on TV! 🤣
R.I.P. Tim Conway.
Just saw the re-release of Gone With the Wind in the movie theater and when she sees the curtains and gets the idea for the dress I laughed because all I could think of was this sketch.
I think we all do, now! No way to un-see that curtain rod on her shoulders!!!
These 4 together were hilarious. I remember watching with my mom an dad when I was a kid. This particular skit had me in tears. The reactions between them all, but especially Tim and Harvey throughout the show were classic. I miss the good old days of nice clean humor. They were so far ahead of their time with their comedy and their writers were phenomenal as well.
Comedy that can't be made today.
Good clean comedy! Nothing funnier!
Sheesh ! I wonder what BLM would say about this today. Can’t believe You Tube hasn’t banned this. lol
@@Higherseekeraaaaaaaaand there’s the obligatory racist comment.
Typical commie response. Blame the other side for your own faults. Sorry sister, that doesn’t play anymore.@@seasonsstarsstudios
I moved from the West to the Deep South just after watching this on TV. It has stayed in my memory for over 40 years as the most brilliantly hilarious skit Carol has ever done!
The Carol Burnett Show, as she said herself, (Los Angeles Times) had backup similar to a Broadway Show every week with on site writers, orchestra and regular professional performers of the best quality. Incredible. She had injured her neck I think with the curtain rod dress, she had said at another time.
At the time they called it a "Variety Show." There were many of those. However this one was a GREAT show. Even the costumes were by renowned designer Bob Makie. His designs were individually valuable. Awesome.
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I remember this from decades ago, when I was young - soooo funny, and nothing insulting (I am a black woman)...
I had to see that dress walk down the stairs once more. Priceless!
I remember when me & my big sis would sneak down the stairs to watch the " Carol Burnett Show" after our bedtime on Saturday nights after 11pm, I think it was!! Carol was worth the risk & trouble back then!!
Comedy gold. Rest in Peace Tim Conway
I hope Mr. Conway was aware of how adored and loved he was. He brought great joy to so many people.
He was SO funny. A college friend managed to have a phone conversation with him a few years later.
Am I the only one that think those ball gowns look gorgeous 🤔
Nope! I've always wanted one, along with a dress similar to the one from Aristocats. :)
How many people realize the economics behind the crinoline hoop skirt fashion craze? It was to create a market for cotton cloth and whalebone! After the Civil War kerosene replaced sperm whale oil and the whaling industry collapsed, and without slave labor cheap cotton rose in price. But from a romantic point of view, the hoop skirt was prettier than the bustle that followed. In any case women must have spent all their time getting dressed and then going to the privy!
@@rogerpropes7129 - there are still hoop skirts around for really beautiful dresses. Years ago, I rented one to wear to the Marine Corps Ball. I also learned why they went out of style! They fit very poorly into cars and even more poorly into bathroom stalls!!!
sekan star they are gorgeous but because the middle hoop is around the buttocks, you have to lift the skirt up before sitting. I was one of six bridesmaids in a wedding party years ago and we wore gowns with hoops. They were absolutely gorgeous but we had to learn how to sit down. If you didn’t lift the hoop above your hip line, the entire front of the gown went straight up. Watching the six of us practice was hysterical. But learn we did. And we laughed ourselves silly. Watching this skit brought it back🙂
I think they're gorgeous, too.
I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Brilliant !!!!!!!!! I'm 59 and my parents watched the show, I can't remember much I was too young, I'm so enjoying watching now.