Oh, great! Now the inappropriate laughter by Mary Tyler Moore... You realize the stress we've been under, trying to to suppress the hysterical posts?
Tim Conway goes off script during filming of the Carol Burnett show with an elephant story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs1ljs5Acig
Chuckles would have wanted you to laugh.
A little song,
A little dance...
There was a Far Side cartoon which pretty nearly described this situation, though the pith-helmeted victim was more pancake-like than in real life.