In an interview , Carol mentioned this skit as one of the biggest flops they ever did but I think it was hilarious because of the spontaneous crack ups by the cast 😄
When Lyle dropped the keys and Harvey hits his hysterically laughing "boss" through the apartment door, well, I laughed as much as any moment in this entire show's run on TV. Sometimes the unscripted, spontaneous moments wind up as the most priceless.
Whenever I need relief from stress or to move away from depressing thoughts, I either think of this sketch, or pull it up and watch it again. No matter how many times I do, I laugh with tears every time, and any burdens I felt are lifted. One of the funniest and most classic moments in the history of comedy.
Carol was great. But, I loved watching Harvey and Tim together. This is one of my favorite skits ever! In fact, my wife helped me do something similar in front of my mother- in- law; who is a very proper East coast woman. My wife smushed a large chocolate mousse cream pie in my face and my mother-in-law's reaction was priceless! She stared at me with her hand covering her open mouth and I stared at her through a thick mass of cream filling and pie crust!
Harvey Korman just CAN'T keep a straight face or keep from laughing, but it just adds to the comedy, we love those "errors" they make on the show, humor wins out all the time when it's true like this show. (He's even still laughing after he went out the window.) SO funny! You just can't help laughing with them.
Honestly, that was so funny how everything went belly up through the skit. Harvey was such a great actor and always on the verge of breaking into laughter. This must be one of his real classics of all comedy and a brilliant tribute to all who participated in it. Thanks so much for uploading it.
Harvey spills drink on Vicki. Vicki loses earring. Chair moves when drink is poured on plant. Mis-timed doorbell. Lyle drops keys. Was Harvey supposed to get hit with the cake? Or did Vicki adlib the disintegrating skit? I really can't tell. And the Harvey falls out of the window wrong. Beautiful mayhem.
...Carol said THIS skit was her worst in the WHOLE Series, because everything went wrong...for the RIGHT reasons...She said that she was SO flustered by all the mistakes, she ad-libbed 6:37!! ...To be fair, a Variety series that aired as long as "The CB Show" did (1967-1978) is BOUND to have some 'flat' skits, but... the MISTAKES saved this one, and made it a Classic...let's review....: (CONT.) - Harvey spills some of the Martini on Vicki, at 1:51 ... - Vicki's earring falls off (& Harvey notices), at 2:19 ... - The audience feels a bit uncomfortable with Mary's manipulative sabotaging, at 3:00.... - Harvey 'reacts' to the doorbell too early, at 5:19, and the audience catches it.... - Lyle (accidentally) drops his keys at 5:33 , causing fits of laughter for BOTH Men.... - Mary (Carol) KNOWS what just happened, and SHE'S stifling her OWN laughter, at 5:46... - Vicki smacks Harvey with the Cake, causing Harvey AND Carol, to lose it....(6:02)... - ..& when Harvey jumps from the Window, he TRIPS on the ledge, causing Carol to BUST..(6:23) ...AND, the BEST part!??? ..The Director throws the script out the Window, at 6:45!! ...HA-HAAAA!!
This was one of the funniest skits because Carol and my dad couldn't get through it once Lyle drops the keys that was it for my dad.Carol never wanted to do it in rehearsal.Once Carol saw the pie in my dads face that was it for Carol.My dad laughing outside the window.
Your dad? You are Harvey Korman son? oh, I'd love to read more comments by you about your dad's work! We are all better for his comedy in our lives! Thank you for sharing him!
Harv and all the other regulars made that show a success.I grew up on that show and loved it.Was sad when it ended but thankfully we can watch it again and again.
I don't care if this goes of the rails. That's what made it hysterical! "So don't be surprised if I show up on your unhappy doorstep. Better yet, be surprised, because I'm never doing this again!"
Vaudeville. That is what generated such comedy acts. Once Vaudeville died all acting went downhill. Why? Because there was no longer any place actors and comedians could fail, learn from it, and hone their acts.
My mom loved carol Burnett, the shoe was amazing. Best thing is the comedy still stands up well, these were one of the greatest comedy actors of the time on television.
Right about 2:19, when Harvey accidentally smooches one of Vicki's earrings off, that's the first glitch. After that, it becomes a 'cascade failure', but as you said, it's all the funnier for it.
Talk about something being "so bad it's good." The basic premise for this sketch was one that could have (and, some might say, SHOULD have) worked, but so much went wrong with it once it finally came to be, and yet...LOL! Sheer comedy gold! Thanks for sharing! :)
After he got the doorbell poorly timed, he op he opens the door. That causes the other guy to come in laughing. Then he drops the keys. Again more laughter as he has to punch him laughing. Carol comes into the scene laughing. She was never meant to smash the cake into his face. But she had to get out of there. She was meant to taste the cake. After she storms out everything was impromptu from there. That's why Carol is forced to ask if it's too sweet. Korman is surprised that she left and decides to jump out the window. But also turned out to be an accident. Certainly the best piece on the Carol Burnett show! If you watch carefully, it's almost mystical how things go wrong after Carol's line, "Ohoh, trouble" at about 2.17, and this trouble only magnifies and blows up!
I would not be able to get through a skit because once I start laughing its all over.How they managed to keep it together as well as they did shows how professional they were.
@ArielCotton I don't think they could have topped this. Kind of like when Saturday Night Live did the Matt Foley sketches. The first one was funny, then they waned after that.
This skit is truly hysterical! I have never seen it before. My one wish is to "die laughing" but via Suicide from a window jump & to be heard laughing on the way down...What a way to go! Too too funny! 🎈
I didn't like this sketch the first time, because I thought the mistakes were part of the sketch and I didn't notice how many times they goofed. Now it's the funniest thing I've ever seen!
Unfortunately we don’t have decent tv anymore. Growing up with these shoes and people made it better. Poor kids now have garbage programs with reality shows, the trash Kardashians and soap plots that recycle the same people as lovers and marriages. Pitiful and in creative minds in the 21st century
Becuase bringing happiness is the only thing that makes me happy. Also her: Proceeds to destroy a marriage while in the process also makes the husband commit suicide........ Thats what i call happiness
abacab87: If I remember correctly, it's a parody of an actual news paper comic strip.I can't remember the actual name, Mary worth or something like that.
In an interview , Carol mentioned this skit as one of the biggest flops they ever did but I think it was hilarious because of the spontaneous crack ups by the cast 😄
I don't get that, this is easily one of the most hilarious skits they've done.
I think flop as in the skit a lot of mistakes had happened during the filming as nothing was going as originally planned.
Can't imagine anything Carol Burnett did was a flop. She also didn't like her chairwoman character
The fact that you think it's funny because of the mistakes says it all :) All the big laughs came from places other than the sketch.
ONE of their all-time great sketches. Definitely NOT worthless! The misc little errors make it work even better.
When Lyle dropped the keys and Harvey hits his hysterically laughing "boss" through the apartment door, well, I laughed as much as any moment in this entire show's run on TV. Sometimes the unscripted, spontaneous moments wind up as the most priceless.
" There's a couple in trouble .And I'm going to help them...whether they like it or not !"
This cracked me up 😂
It's a shame Carol never did this again. It was a riot.
Whenever I need relief from stress or to move away from depressing thoughts, I either think of this sketch, or pull it up and watch it again. No matter how many times I do, I laugh with tears every time, and any burdens I felt are lifted. One of the funniest and most classic moments in the history of comedy.
Carol was great. But, I loved watching Harvey and Tim together. This is one of my favorite skits ever! In fact, my wife helped me do something similar in front of my mother- in- law; who is a very proper East coast woman. My wife smushed a large chocolate mousse cream pie in my face and my mother-in-law's reaction was priceless! She stared at me with her hand covering her open mouth and I stared at her through a thick mass of cream filling and pie crust!
This is one of my favorite Carol Burnett skits. I love it when they can't even keep from laughing.
I've seen this so many times and it never stops being funny.
Harvey Korman just CAN'T keep a straight face or keep from laughing, but it just adds to the comedy, we love those "errors" they make on the show, humor wins out all the time when it's true like this show. (He's even still laughing after he went out the window.) SO funny! You just can't help laughing with them.
nobody could hold it together in this skit , imagine if Tim Conway would have been in the skit
Comedy cannot get any better than this!
I loved it even more when they cracked up during skits.
Honestly, that was so funny how everything went belly up through the skit. Harvey was such a great actor and always on the verge of breaking into laughter. This must be one of his real classics of all comedy and a brilliant tribute to all who participated in it. Thanks so much for uploading it.
Amazing how just an ill timed sound effect and a pair of dropped keys can destroy everything :P
Best part is when these actors, themselves can't control any longer to not to laugh..
Hats off to u all
Mind-blowing
Harvey spills drink on Vicki.
Vicki loses earring.
Chair moves when drink is poured on plant.
Mis-timed doorbell.
Lyle drops keys.
Was Harvey supposed to get hit with the cake? Or did Vicki adlib the disintegrating skit? I really can't tell.
And the Harvey falls out of the window wrong.
Beautiful mayhem.
Then the wall falls over, kinda.
Mike Spangler . Picky, picky, picky, Mike !
I'm reading carols book right now and she said the cake was suppose to be in his face
You left off CB cracking up laughing!
Vicki never adlib until the last episode when Tim was telling the elephant story during Mama's Family skit.
This marriage was all rosy until Miss Nosy, Mary Worthless, showed up! Great sketch all the way!
...Carol said THIS skit was her worst in the WHOLE Series, because everything went wrong...for the RIGHT reasons...She said that she was SO flustered by all the mistakes, she ad-libbed 6:37!! ...To be fair, a Variety series that aired as long as "The CB Show" did (1967-1978) is BOUND to have some 'flat' skits, but... the MISTAKES saved this one, and made it a Classic...let's review....: (CONT.)
- Harvey spills some of the Martini on Vicki, at 1:51 ...
- Vicki's earring falls off (& Harvey notices), at 2:19 ...
- The audience feels a bit uncomfortable with Mary's manipulative sabotaging, at 3:00....
- Harvey 'reacts' to the doorbell too early, at 5:19, and the audience catches it....
- Lyle (accidentally) drops his keys at 5:33 , causing fits of laughter for BOTH Men....
- Mary (Carol) KNOWS what just happened, and SHE'S stifling her OWN laughter, at 5:46...
- Vicki smacks Harvey with the Cake, causing Harvey AND Carol, to lose it....(6:02)...
- ..& when Harvey jumps from the Window, he TRIPS on the ledge, causing Carol to BUST..(6:23)
...AND, the BEST part!??? ..The Director throws the script out the Window, at 6:45!! ...HA-HAAAA!!
I thought it was hilarious
"I'm te...was that the..." **doorbell** "Oh yeah, it was the..." Love how this scene completely falls to pieces at the end.
PRICELESS......I come and watch these every so often and they just are Treasures of my Youth......Cheers Everyone!
Same here! I LOVED watching this show, in my youth, and appreciate it even MORE, now. Cheers back at you! :)
This was one of the funniest skits because Carol and my dad couldn't get through it once Lyle drops the keys that was it for my dad.Carol never wanted to do it in rehearsal.Once Carol saw the pie in my dads face that was it for Carol.My dad laughing outside the window.
Your dad? You are Harvey Korman son? oh, I'd love to read more comments by you about your dad's work! We are all better for his comedy in our lives! Thank you for sharing him!
Harv and all the other regulars made that show a success.I grew up on that show and loved it.Was sad when it ended but thankfully we can watch it again and again.
Yes, more stories! Especially about his interactions with Tim Conway, and his roles in the various Mel Brooks movies!
I loved your dad soooo much! Gave so much laughter to the world!
Chris, what a pleasure to see you on here...I work in TV game shows...drop me a line...your Dad was a gem!!
I don't care if this goes of the rails. That's what made it hysterical!
"So don't be surprised if I show up on your unhappy doorstep. Better yet, be surprised, because I'm never doing this again!"
I think if I knew Mary Worthless was even in my county, I'd move to the opposite side of the state! 😆
Like Johnny Carson, this cast can be just as funny when a sketch doesn't work as when it does.
Vaudeville. That is what generated such comedy acts. Once Vaudeville died all acting went downhill. Why? Because there was no longer any place actors and comedians could fail, learn from it, and hone their acts.
My mom loved carol Burnett, the shoe was amazing. Best thing is the comedy still stands up well, these were one of the greatest comedy actors of the time on television.
It starts to fall apart when Harvey anticipates the doorbell!
Was that the - yes, it was the!
No my dear it started whwn vicky's ear ring dropped
I loved to watch this show when I was a kid. This type of TV is gone forever. Thanks for posting and taking me back to a magical time.
6:33 Korman laughing after his less than perfect window exit.
Big Huge omg I didn’t even realize that was him in the background, but that’s totally Harvey’s laugh!
So many things went wrong during this skit... To make it soooo right! Omg, hilarious!
Right about 2:19, when Harvey accidentally smooches one of Vicki's earrings off, that's the first glitch. After that, it becomes a 'cascade failure', but as you said, it's all the funnier for it.
Carol completely lost it in the end.
Carol cracking up always gets me lmao 😂😂😂😂
Talk about something being "so bad it's good." The basic premise for this sketch was one that could have (and, some might say, SHOULD have) worked, but so much went wrong with it once it finally came to be, and yet...LOL! Sheer comedy gold!
Thanks for sharing! :)
Everyone is so adorable in this skit. That sounds like Harvey laughing towards the end @ 6:41.
Haha Harvey really blew out his shin when he slipped going out the window. Ouch!
After he got the doorbell poorly timed, he op he opens the door. That causes the other guy to come in laughing. Then he drops the keys. Again more laughter as he has to punch him laughing. Carol comes into the scene laughing. She was never meant to smash the cake into his face. But she had to get out of there. She was meant to taste the cake. After she storms out everything was impromptu from there. That's why Carol is forced to ask if it's too sweet. Korman is surprised that she left and decides to jump out the window. But also turned out to be an accident. Certainly the best piece on the Carol Burnett show! If you watch carefully, it's almost mystical how things go wrong after Carol's line, "Ohoh, trouble" at about 2.17, and this trouble only magnifies and blows up!
That was the funniest thing I've seen all year!
Carols ad lib at sketches conclusion was hilarious
Carol Burnett parodies are the funniest! I love this one, as well as "Cobumble", commercial parodies, "As The Stomach Turns", and so many others!
MARY WORTH was the name of the comic strip in the Sunday newspaper each week.
WAHAHAH that's one of the funniests 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 they were all laughing 😂 this is contagious
Great skit. It ready tells you how wrong words or actions can lead to major problems.
HILARIOUS...especially when the skit falls apart near the end! :D
"Actually, be surprised, because I'm never doing this again!"
I would not be able to get through a skit because once I start laughing its all over.How they managed to keep it together as well as they did shows how professional they were.
1:02
That's the most adorable thing I've ever seen a grown man do!
Awesome. I remember watching this with my parents back in the day. Hilarious. Wonderful.
This is one of the all-time best - thanks for posting!
Leave it to Carol to let us on on what a stinker sketch...and rolling through the mistakes..and she'd had it! Love it.
I don't think Harvey was expecting the cake in the face. Lol
What a great show.
The fact that the whole fell apart at the end made it more hysterical
When she said she wasn't doing this again @6:43, she meant it. LOL! ;)
Sad because I would of loved a reoccurring skit
@@RadioForYahweh Me too.
@ArielCotton I don't think they could have topped this. Kind of like when Saturday Night Live did the Matt Foley sketches. The first one was funny, then they waned after that.
I don't believe he was expecting the cake being thrown on his face.
I sooooooooo wish Carol Burnett had done MORE Mary Worthless skits!!! This could have been a recurring skit like Eunice............
Some of the best was when the cast busted up 😂
-Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? 🎶
*a beat*
-SyDneY pOiTieR?! 0_o
I literally bursted out laughing 😂😂😂😂😂😂
This skit is truly hysterical! I have never seen it before. My one wish is to "die laughing" but via Suicide from a window jump & to be heard laughing on the way down...What a way to go! Too too funny! 🎈
Stirring that Martini was funny,this whole skit is better than many shows today! I love Harvey Korman,he is greatly missed!
Funny skit.
LOL Harvey: "Gosh I missed you"
That is some funny old stuff
...Those people were having a ball!!!!
This is one of my favorite sketches.
This is hilarious. Thank u for upload. Bless u.
"I'm a " Do-Gooder""
-Mary Worthless
The way that cake stuck to Korman's face, was just perfect; after that he looked like a talking cake, LOL!
Proof that these people loved what they did! 🤣
6:28 You can hear Vicki cackling in the background!! LOL!!
Vicki loses an earing at 2:20.
Chair pulls out when Carol dumps drink on flowers.
Stu Mack I rewound it to see! That’s so creepy! 😆
@@stumack9755 yep - probably a stagehand under the table operating the 'low tech' flower wilting effect.
Lol
Sidney Poitier ?!!!!? I laughed to tears !
Everyone was cracking up on this one. 😂😂😂
I didn't like this sketch the first time, because I thought the mistakes were part of the sketch and I didn't notice how many times they goofed. Now it's the funniest thing I've ever seen!
How hilarious this is!!!!
Lyle comes in as a swinger ..... swinging his keys and dropping them
He was so classy
I have pain the corners of my mouth and my cheeks are swollen from being bunched up. My eyes are watering too.
DAMN! My wife is such a cheating LUSH!
5:34 the point where the actors were pretty much just blocking to get to the end of the skit XD
Carol hated this. It's one of their best skits
LOL john that was a riot i was in stitches
Lyle is heard laughing hysterically once Harvey goes out of the window...
Is he? He nearly never broke up
Comedy of Errors
I can't say enough about this one..
Vickie Lawrence!!👏👏👏👏👏
5:21 is when it starts to break up XD
Mary Worthless: Can I get you two sweet lovebirds something? A nice, super-sweet marriage on the rocks?
LOL, she said she is going to help them whether they like it or not....LOL
I love it when they lose their composure!!! :D :D ♥♥
Unfortunately we don’t have decent tv anymore. Growing up with these shoes and people made it better. Poor kids now have garbage programs with reality shows, the trash Kardashians and soap plots that recycle the same people as lovers and marriages. Pitiful and in creative minds in the 21st century
Does anybody else see the chair moving at 3:10?
1:02 Harvey Korman lol!! And Vicki Lawrence is especially adorable at 1:43
This is what I call "stirring the stew!"
Classic!!
@1:02 😂😂😂😂 someone's excited
Love this so much.
lol; very funny sketch!!!!
Loves Vicky’s dress
Lyle Waggoner! 👏👏👏👏
Am i the only one that noticed the chair move when carol pours the drink into the flowers
Harvey at 1:03 😂😂😂😂😂
So funny!!
2:19...her earring fell off!
Becuase bringing happiness is the only thing that makes me happy.
Also her: Proceeds to destroy a marriage while in the process also makes the husband commit suicide........ Thats what i call happiness
they just can't hold it together on this skit
It almost looks like the idea behind Mary Worthless was ripped off by Saturday Night Live with "Church Lady"
abacab87: If I remember correctly, it's a parody of an actual news paper comic strip.I can't remember the actual name, Mary worth or something like that.