Do You Remember The Funniest Fall Scene In History By Tim Conway From "The Carol Burnett Show"?

Sep 05, 2018 by apost team

Tim Conway, a latecomer to the classic TV comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show", became an icon that has lasted for fifty years. With his drawn-out pratfall scenes, he kept both the audience and his fellow comedians in stitches. 

"The Carol Burnett Show" was the queen series of television comedy in the late 1960s through the 1970s. The funny and satirical sketches provided fodder for laughs with a variety routine that held its leading primetime position for eleven seasons.

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Some of the regulars that made the show golden included Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vickie Lawrence, Ken Berry, and Dick Van Dyke. Among the special guests were such famous faces as Madeline Kahn, Roddy McDowell, Sid Ceasar, Jim Nabors, Isabel Sanford, Lana Turner, and Sonny & Cher. 

One of the artists who brought their unique humor and skill to the life of the show was the incomparable Tim Conway. His physical humor, with its careful visual pacing and insane attention to detail, delighted audiences. He also managed to maintain character even while cracking up his fellow actors like Harvey Korman and Carol Burnett. 

One of Conway's characters that repeatedly broke up sketches on the show was his 'Old Man' routine. With deliberate movements, he shuffled, reached, fell, and rolled across the set, over furniture, and, in his most famous one, down the stairs. When he rolled down the stairs in a parody of an old man falling he made every motion as slow as possible- and as unlikely, too. Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman had to turn away from the camera to stifle their grins.

For a daily laugh in today's busy world, a video clip of 'The Carol Burnett Show', and Tim Conway in particular, brings a bright moment to any lunch break. Watch the clip and see if you can keep a straight face! 

If you remember watching it the first time around, let us know. If you have enjoyed watching Tim Conway do his schtick and you've become a fan, now's your chance to proclaim it to the world! This kind of humor needs to be preserved for the future so that new generations can be in on the joke and have a laugh that lasts for years.