“WHEN COMEDY BREAKS CHARACTER — AND THE WORLD LAUGHS TOGETHER.” Harvey Korman tried. Oh, he tried so hard. The twitching lip… the hand clamped over his mouth… the desperate attempt to stare at the ceiling and pretend Tim Conway wasn’t right next to him. But there was no escape. As the slow-drawling, slow-walking sheriff, Conway weaponized silence — stretching every blink, every pause, every tiny movement until Harvey cracked wide open. The “outlaw” beside him dissolved first, then the entire cast, then the audience. By the end, the sketch wasn’t acting — it was pure, uncontrollable human laughter. That’s the Carol Burnett Show at its best: comedy so real it breaks the script… and everyone with it.
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