When Sketches Go Hilariously Wrong... | The Carol Burnett Show Clip

[@christophercrawford2323]

When Carol says her final line, you can hear Harvey laughing.

[@tonyaviles5308]

I just love how they can't even keep a straight face 😂😂😂

[@sha11235]

Yeah, that's what makes it funny. And that's why SNL sucks most of the time.

[@ericstorey2919]

Did anyone else notice that when Carol poored the alcohol into the bushes, the chairs moved?! 😅

[@BlacKnightRising]

Harvey mentioning the door-bell when it didn't ring was hysterical

[@AngryFart]

"Oh yeah, it was the." 😂😂

[@christineherrmann205]

I've always loved how Harvey losing it would BREAK all the others. Except Vicki; she was always stone cold. Even Tim lost it when Harvey started, and Vicki kept it together. The elephant sketch.

[@jeffwhite4227]

Also the "Mr. Tudball Hires a Secretary" outtake - it's HILARIOUS! And Vicki stays stoic in that one too.

[@rinwhyte]

In the interview she gave about her breaking character and crushing them all with it, I believe Vicki said that she really didn't feel like she could break character since she was the "newbie." So it's my impression she did everything to stay stoic, despite the others cracking.

[@josepherhardt164]

"When one would sneeze, the other's eyes'd get REAL BIG." But Vicki's line destroyed them all: "You sure that little azzhole's through?"

[@ellencameron3775]

@@josepherhardt164 FNORK!

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

Vicki always kept it together UNTIL the infamous "elephant story" in the last season (it's where she finally let loose).

[@karlostj4683]

I love how the chair moves away from the table when Burnett pours the alcohol into the plants.

[@kathyh4804]

Korman always cracks me up!! He was so talented and I never realized it until I was older

[@kellycaviness4850]

Carol once said that nothing went right in this sketch but that's what made it so wonderful. And Harvey Korman could do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING! What a brilliant actor. Although he got a lot of accolades, to me he never got the credit he so richly deserved.

[@denniseldridge2936]

I was just going to say, that this sketch needs to be added to the pantheon of the greatest sketches of all time, for the very reasons you site. It's actually brilliantly written in such a way that it was almost meant to fall apart in the manner of those "when everything goes wrong" parody stage plays.

[@sirtrently77]

Well, Harvey couldn’t seem to keep a straight face around Tim Conway, but yeah…neither could anybody else!

[@kellycaviness4850]

@@sirtrently77 Tim was in a class all by himself! He was pure brilliance when it came to comedy and timing.

[@TheKoolbraider]

At the Oscars the year he died his name wasn't included in the list of other actors who had died. More than one person was angry at the slight.

[@sha11235]

@@TheKoolbraider Hey, look at the recent Oscars to see people pissed off at who wasn't mentioned.

[@christopherkraft1327]

Excellent skit!!! Carol, Harvey, Vicki, Lyle & Tim are pure comedy gold!!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@sha11235]

Tim wasn't in this, sadly.

[@FaytLinegod]

It's a damn shame Carol never did this again. It was utterly hilarious.

[@djmoch1001]

I’m truly not surprised. How on earth could they be expected to top THAT.

[@lisagibson2975]

this is comedy :D Everyone trying to hold in their laughter when it's almost impossible :D

[@DanielSelk]

5:20 is when it starts to really go off the tracks. XD It's HYSTERICALLY funny!

[@sha11235]

Doorbell screwed up, Lyle dropped his keys. But they kept going.

[@sunlion9676]

I just watched that 4x in a row 😅😅😅😅 I love hearing Harvey’s unmistakable giggle! When he talks with the cake on his face and bits drop off- I am GONE!!!! Thank you CBS team- for leaving us with such a great archive of comedy! 😍😍😍

[@pattibrooks1907]

I love watching The Carol Burnett on Cable TV !

[@pinkydogbear]

me too

[@chrisclausen9866]

That was the funniest skit of the whole series. 🤣💀

[@jusssayin480]

He actually got a cake in his face. LOL

[@DuelScreen]

I've never seen the whole sketch. It's so much funnier all together. Hilarious!

[@DreamDancer82]

I showed this one to my sister, and said to her, "you have GOT to see this one!" She knew about Tim Conway's habit of cracking up Harvey Korman and the rest of the cast, and I told her that Tim WASN'T in this sketch, and she cracked up along with everyone else. "Better yet, be surprised, because I'm not doing this again!"

[@tomhoward8304]

Such wonderful times!!!

[@ImnotassweetasIusedtobe]

This was amazing, it's like the skit with the drunk sound guy mixed with these 3 hooligans and hot Lyle lol 😂

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Vicky probably cracked up as soon as she walked away.

[@RBS_]

...This sketch holds the dubious honor of being Carol's (personally) most HATED sketch, but it became a MASSIVE fan favorite, because of how WRONG everything went! ...Carol possibly didn't like the mean-spiritedness of "Mary Worthless", but, the mistakes that thread through the WHOLE sketch, is comedy GOLD! (cont.) ....a timeline, if allowed.... 1. ...the over the top skipping, and, the bawdy 'swirling' (1:41).... 2. ...Vicki's earring drops off, at Mary's arrival... (2:17) .... 3. ...the Chair moves itself, in the back... (3:08) .... 4. ...the Doorbell doesn't ring on time, throwing Harvey's timing... (5:18) ... 5. ...Lyle drops his keys (5:31) , prompting BOTH Actors to laugh ... 6. ...Harvey, Carol & Vickie start to lose it, when the Cake comes... (5:45).... 7. ...then Harvey trips, going thru the Window (6:21), causing Carol to utter the LEGENDARY line... (6:35).... ...then, the Director throws the SCRIPT, thru the Window! (6:44) ...CLASSIC TV, at it's FINEST....

[@HH-mw4sq]

I hadn't noticed the script being thrown through the window before. That makes this disaster seem even funnier. When the director says "eff" it, you know the skit was in trouble. LOL!!!

[@travisboman7531]

Also the wall moving like someone bumped into it right at the end.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

It all really starts to go downhill rapidly with the doorbell sound not happening on time (although before that, Vicki loses an earring around 2:15 in the video); from there on, somehow, everything begins to go wrong. It's fantastically funny. For CB fans, this sketch is a favorite. Other skits had problems (Carol as the escape artist is one) but this is the greatest one, for my money. Such a hoot. 💡 This channel ought to use the original sketch titles. Someone searching YT for "Mary Worthless" would find this particular video much faster that way, as well as others.

[@RBS_]

...thank you for giving this info! ...Carol indicated one that this was her MOST hated sketch, but it's become one of her most LOVED (by Fans), because of how everything went WRONG! ...ya forgot to mention Lyle Waggoner, dropping his Keys (5:32), & him & Harvey LAUGHING, after he hits him! (5:38)

[@agustusx1]

the people running the channel know what they are doing. the titles they use are appropriate for the audience and for how people use this site. Most people who end up on these videos are finding these all for the first time. and the modern approach helps bring people in.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@agustusx1 If you say so. It would just be nice if they had added a parenthetical subtitle here, like: (aka Mary Worthless). Just to help for fans, not noobs, searching the site.

[@fredoconn]

I thought the doorbell thing was legit because Carol B always did the same on As The Stomach Turns.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@fredoconn ikr? :D On "As the Stomach Turns" the running gag was that the sound guy for that soap opera was a goof off who never got the sound to be heard at the right moment. I love whenever Carol says "Why, there's the doorbell" but nothing happens. Then she says "I'll get it" and we suddenly hear the sound. Funny stuff.

[@sharonkutz8272]

Love this show now and growing up

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

Vicki and Harvey holding hands and skipping together.

[@rosemariemann1719]

Carol's shows, with the super - competent casts are so entertaining, course. we know that ! They ran for many seasons Just mainly came here to say, look at the gorgeous material in the lady's skirt ... but odd with such a plain "top". And look at the number of lights blazing ! Reflected in the glass bowl on the table. 😊Have you seen " Went With The Wind "? And the one with Tim Conway as" Simba" , the domesticated lion : they ( and many others , of course ! ) are SO good ! 😊 What Gems ! 🇬🇧💕🇺🇸 🇬🇧💕🇺🇸😊🦉🥀💕🇬🇧

[@quizmaster85]

"Was that the--" 🚪 🔔 "Oh yeah, it was the." 😂

[@jackrichey4931]

one of the funniest

[@sha11235]

I was just thinking that Sidney's name was going to come up when she said Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

[@sarahmiller5632]

So hilarious!

[@ivanj.conway9919]

I love watching these skits if only for the backdrops alone. The look of the 70s is so well captured in the sets on this show, and a look and style I so, so, long to see a revival of again. So rich, full, warm and homey. All the very things I'm trying to get across to the utterly, boring and untasteful people of today.

[@rtususian]

I get a nostalgic kick about room decorations styles and colors when I watch old episodes of ALL IN THE FAMILY, MAUDE and GOOD TIMES. Lots of harvest gold/yellow/green colors that were in style back then.

[@ivanj.conway9919]

@@rtususian: Yes My Brother, any of these shows from this time period. They really, captured the mood and taste of the time period, which overall, for all the flack it gets today, was infinitely, better than any of the dead, bland, boring, crap of today. I struggle with living in this time period, big time. Music sucks big time; interior design sucks big time; and to be honest with you; there is no real, pop culture to speak of, at all, really. I get more than nostalgic for this time period, when I see it reflected in these show; I want to jump through the screen and live in these sets, these backdrops, forever, really. Even today, I would be so, so, much more at home in these environments than anything garbage being pumped out today. I keep pushing the subject because I keep hoping against hope almost, that we will eventually, return to much of, if not all of, this look again. The richness, the vibrancy, really, can't be beat. It's so, very, sad all that we have lost in the modern era. Warmest Wishes. Be Well and Safe. Out. 🙂🖐🏼

[@kitsuneneko2567]

​@Ivan J. Conway I remember the 70s and their fashion. I prefer now tbh. That being said, there are some really interesting things to be found not in western culture that might be to your liking.

[@ivanj.conway9919]

@@kitsuneneko2567 : But what is it about modern interior design that there is to prefer? I honestly, don't get this with anyone today. How is it people prefer everything white, grey, metallic and washed out, to all the awesome, richness if textures and colours we had then. Plants, nick-nacks and all the rest. There is no warmth or homeyness to anything anymore, and everyone keeps going all ga-ga over all this stark, bareness. I honestly, simply, don't get it, and it's made living in this day and age as depressing as all hell for me.

[@kitsuneneko2567]

@Ivan J. Conway i think there are some valid criticisms about modern decor, but I think 70s was worse. I prefer wood, leather, glass, you know, the really rich stuff. The 79s decor just feels bland and dated to me.

[@wildarms007]

You can see how drinking ages people!? 😂😂😂😂

[@Charlesb88]

For those keeping score, here aee all the screwups in the sketch I found: 1. The chair moves unexpectedly backwards when the leftover martini in the shaker is poured into flowers that then wilt (poltergeist?). 2. Vicki looses her right earring when hugging Harvey. 3. Harvey was supposed to wait for the doorbell to ring befor saying "Was that the...." but the doorbell rings after he gives the line forcing him to improvise with "Yeah, that was the....". 4. The boss (Lyle Waggoner) tries to swing his keys around and ends up unintentionally flinging them to the floor forcing him to bend over and pick them up. 5. After Vicki plants a cream pie in Harveys face, both Vicki and Harvey both start to crack up (aka corpsing). 6. With Pie all over his face, Harvey mutters something unintelligible that sounded something like "With him ???? I don't have ????..." (which makes no sense in contest) before stating he is going to kill himself. 7. Harvey trips over the window sill when trying to execute his "suicide jump". 8. Carrol follows her ending line "Don't be surprised if I show up on your unhappy doorstep again" with the (i assume to be) improvised line "Better yet, be surprised as i'm not doing this again." before corpsing (cracking up) again then walking to the table and finally wiping a tear off her eye from all the corpsing 9. The wall on the right of the set moved slightly back as if it was on wheels and it was bump into.

[@mkwanster07]

I think that was Carol Burnett, the maid, at the end

[@travisboman7531]

Also the wall moving like someone bumped into it right at the end.

[@retnavybrat]

#6: Harvey was saying something along the lines of that his wife was gone and how he couldn't live without her before declaring he was going to kill himself.

[@vickieharris9834]

5:49 😂😂😂😂

[@tlnn6598]

2:14 - Uh Oh trouble, Vickie’s earring fell off.

[@JaxenRossisback]

Did a double take, but glad I’m not the only one who noticed.

[@erichtomanek4739]

Harvey Korman with cake on his face, looks a bit like someone with late stage infection from The Last of Us.

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Funny!

[@sha11235]

SNL would never be able to do this.

[@JaxenRossisback]

Studio C anyone?

[@partonlvr]

I was wondering when this would be posted but I think you should put in the title "Mary Worthless" so people would know what they are searching for.

[@vickieharris9834]

It may not be funny to some people I think this episode is funny

[@sha11235]

Her not doing it again probably saved a lot of marriages.

[@littleredhairedgirlsteph3922]

How much they had to kiss each other on this show

[@rheannuhh24]

Whats the episode where she plays as a maid who is in love with her boss? It was a special guest&he was in love with himself as much as she was in love with him 😂 i cant find it anywhere 😩

[@normajeancaballero7959]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@aquatadevore9335]

Is it just me or does Vicki's dress look like Mrs Peacock's dress in the 1980s movie Clue?

[@angelhelp]

I wonder if anyone noticed that the wall moved just at the end of this sketch?

[@sha11235]

What was at the window at the end?

[@RBS_]

...the VERY BEST part, that no One mentions.....It was the Director of the sketch, THROWING the script thru the Window! (6:44) ...ha-HAAA!! ...that's who Carol was looking at, when she said that CLASSIC line!

[@sha11235]

@@RBS_ Her husband at the time, Joe?

[@sha11235]

Did a button fall?

[@retnavybrat]

One of Vicki's earrings fell off early in the sketch (right after Carol entered).

[@sha11235]

Too bad Tim wasn't in this.

[@sha11235]

That looked like a cake, not a pie.

[@sickheadache9903]

It wasn’t a PIE..it was a CAKE..DID YOU NOT WATCH IT? Failure

[@Kickem98]

I nice metaphor for government involvement in ordinary life.

[@retnavybrat]

Not everything in life is connected to politics. The sooner you realize that, the more you can enjoy your life.

[@Kickem98]

@@retnavybrat Thanks for the advise I don't need, do-gooder! LOL :P

[@CarmelDaly-oy3hx]

It was a cake

[@karlostj4683]

Why is Harvey Korman overly tanned?

[@sha11235]

Ed and Eunice this is not.

[@rafaelsoltren237]

Look how skinny CB is….

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

Mary Worthless. ie Today's Progressives.

[@retnavybrat]

Not everything in life revolves around social and/or political issues. You'll be so much happier once you realize that.

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Vicki was too young to be married to Harvey (even in a sketch.)

[@vickieharris9834]

6:22 😂😂😂