[TomGuy]

the Carol Burnett Show

The original Harvey Korman-Tim Conway dentist script (spring 1969) was one of the funniest in TV history.

They repeated the skit in the revised Carol Burnett program, but it wasn't quite as funny. They took out some of the lines to make it fit, and that ruined it -- for those who remember the original.

[justlurking]

The original Harvey Korman-Tim Conway dentist script (spring 1969) was one of the funniest in TV history.

One of the cast's favorites is this one:

Carol Burnett Show outtakes - Tim Conway's Elephant Story

You have to listen until nearly the end at 4:21. Vicki Lawrence delivers the coup de grâce.