Like Sonny and Cher and countless other 1960s and 1970s shows it was a musical comedy hour, after Burnett's show ended production on CBS it immediately got repackaged from 1 hour to 1/2 hour into a syndication show removing the singing and dancing, and was on the air on weeknights like 7pm.
Man that is history now, like all the movie musicals when talkie movies first came out ~ 1929.
From what I recall the show wasnt the same after Harvey Korman left. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway were hilarious together. You could catch Korman laughing at Conway in the middle of kits.
>>Harvey Korman and Tim Conway were hilarious together. You could catch Korman laughing at Conway in the middle of kits.<<
Conway made it his mission on every show to destroy Korman. The scripts were loose and let all the cast improvise. Tim Conway was BORN to improvise.
On so many episodes, Harvey spent 1/2 the skits trying not to laugh. Instead he laughed so hard he would cry sometimes.
You don’t see that talent today.
As with Robin Williams, Joan Rivers brought something unique to comedy and we are all the poorer for their passing.
In the PC world of today when humor is branded as hate, then the lefties who hate themselves and humanity have won since there are none who dare follow.
“...Harvey Korman and Tim Conway were hilarious together. You could catch Korman laughing at Conway in the middle of kits....”
The Dentist skit comes immediately to mind... Kormann had to turn away from the camera he was laughing so hard; you could see his whole body shaking. Conway was stabbing himself everywhere with the novacaine needle. My God, that was a hilarious skit!
Carol Burnett also did parodies of “Sunset Boulevard” and “Gone With The Wind” that were just unbelievably funny. I used to watch this show with my folks; there was nothing raunchy or nasty about it.
Yeah... all good things come to an end, eventually... and get replaced with pop-fad crap.