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(More customer reviews)Though devoid of significant new material--the new stuff is almost exclusively the kind of audience questions that were so much a part of the original series--the gems they've managed to mine from the show's archive are well worth the modest purchase price.
Of all the pieces, however, none are as funny as the retrospective on the times the actors would totally lose their composure due to their co-stars' antics. Tim Conway, of course, was on a mission to deliberately block his co-star's sight of the Fourth Wall, and would deliberately come to the shows' tapings with plans of mischief. His ability to improvise Harvey Corman into fits of on-camera laughter were legendary, and no better examples exist than the "Dentist" and "Firefighter" sketches. Still, the greatest moments on this tape are surprisingly without Corman. There's a "Mama's Family" sketch where Conway makes up a ridiculous story about siamese elephants, only to be one-upped by a slightly foul-mouthed Vicki Lawrence, who finds an in-character way to make Conway and guest Dick van Dyke fall flat onto the floor. And, best of all, there's a simple little "Nazi interrogating an American POW" scene which shows Conway producing a surprise hand puppet of Hitler in what is a relentless attempt to get Lyle Waggoner to break up.
Of course, this anthology has a number of sketches and musical numbers that were completed WITHOUT a single twitter from any actor. But what's the fun in that? The best thing about _The Carol Burnett Show_ was the sense that the troupe of actors genuinely liked each other--and would do anything to make each other's lives on-camera a sweet misery.
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