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Flashback: Harvey Korman in The Carol Burnett Show

GiggleSugar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:00:00 -0700

Classic funny man Harvey Korman passed away last week, and fuzzles reminded me about a dentist sketch from the awesome Carol Burnett Show. Tim Conway is the obvious comedian here, but Harvey Korman's inability to keep a straight face makes it even funnier. What a great comic duo they were!

Flashback: Tim Conway on "The Carol Burnett Show"

GiggleSugar — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:00:00 -0700

I love watching "The Carol Burnett Show" re-runs. The show was live, the actors were always cracking each other up, and here, Tim Conway is having a hard time not cracking himself up. Talk about doing a lot with just one prop...

Biden Talks Crazy Crisis on SNL: Guffaws or Groans?

CitizenSugar — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:29:08 -0700

"Gird your loins!" Yeah! My favorite quote of last week made it into the opening of SNL last night where Joe Biden and John Murtha attempted to remove their feet from their mouths for certain "crises" and "redneck" statements. Biden just blusters on with the thought. "Our military may invade Pakistan, or surrender to the Chinese. We may sell Hawaii to Saudi Arabia or just destroy it, so it can't fall in to North Korean hands. But just reserve your judgment - we know what we're doing!" Really? Let's watch and just see about that.

Biden's bombastic soothsaying continues, "If Barack Obama is elected, we will have a crisis. And when this crisis hits, and it will! In the second week of February, we may do some weird things." It's followed by a list of other crazy things Biden could say when he should know better. Punctuated with Murtha trying to get a word in edgewise about how he didn't mean redneck, he meant racist and ignorant to the modern world, it was a cavalcade of "not helping! Stop talking while you're ahead!" moments. Just like the campaign itself. Ah, philosophy on a Sunday morning.

Also in the political scheme of things, Maya Rudolph made her debut as Michelle Obama in a sketch about the variety hour Obama is going to turn his 30-minute television spot into this week. I hope it's true! It looks better than the Carol Burnett Show and Hee Haw! combined.

Flashback: Davy Jones on "The Brady Bunch"

GiggleSugar — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:00:00 -0700

I remember it well. An interminable summer during my childhood made bearable by retro-television shows. "The Carol Burnett Show." "The Monkees." "The Brady Bunch." So imagine how thrilled I was when Davy Jones of The Monkees (a manufactured boy-band phenomenon of their time) guest starred on TBB. Man, I had such a crush on this fey little Brit! What an innocent time. (What do you know, just by chance our friend at Copyranter tells us that Davy Jones' career has sunk to "Davy Jones' locker level. Ouch!)