Carol Burnett on the Time that Tim Conway made Harvey Korman Wet his Pants

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Carol Burnett on the Time that Tim Conway made Harvey Korman Wet his Pants
by Jenelle Riley
Aug. 8, 2024


Carol Burnett is experienced at trying to keep a straight face opposite a hilarious co-star – though she infamously failed to do so during her 11-season run on “The Carol Burnett Show”. While clips of her and the cast breaking during Tim Conway’s antics have been around for years, Burnett says it was actually a rare occurrence.

“People think we broke up all the time and that’s not true,” she says. “It’s just that it’s so delicious to remember.”




She points to the infamous sketch where Conway plays a dentist and Harvey Korman is his trapped patient.

“That’s over 50 years old and still one of the funniest things you’ll ever see in sketch comedy,” she reveals. “Poor Harvey was helpless in that chair. And Tim swears Harvey wet his pants.” (For the record, she says Korman denied it.)




Asked about her most memorable Conway moment and she points to the recurring sketch “As the Stomach Turns,” a soap opera parody. In one episode, Conway’s character falls down the stairs. What she didn’t know was that Conway was going to make a meal of it.

“He was a gymnast in school, so he had great control over his body,” she recalls. “He fell down those stairs in slow motion. People think we slowed the film down. It took him minutes to fall down the stairs. Then he got to the bottom and there’ s a rug on the set – he rolled himself up in the rug and kept rolling on the floor.”

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