![]() ![]() The nervous dentist does everything to convince his first patient to leave or simply get a cleaning, even telling him he’s only pulled teeth on animals and had Cs in dentistry school. Korman will be his first patient after graduating from dentistry school. On a Sunday, he goes to the dental office and discovers that his regular dentist is unavailable, but his dentist’s nephew, Conway, is on duty. «The Dentist» is about a patient named Korman who is suffering from a severe toothache. It’s so fantastic that Conway and Korman can’t stop laughing to get through the sketch. This is one of those scenes that you just can’t get out of your head. «The Dentist,» starring Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, is still one of the show’s most popular and funniest bits. It is still one of the most prestigious shows in television history. The Carol Burnett Show won eight Golden Globes and 25 Emmy Awards in just eleven years, and it helped launch the careers of numerous comedians. What Could Go Wrong in the Dentist’s Office? That is absolutely true of The Carol Burnett Show’s comedic routine, «The Dentist.» It continues to make generations of people laugh, confirming it as one of the greatest television moments of all time. I never get tired of Korman’s minor toothache becoming a forest fire, and Conway’s dental student commit mischief while drugged by not one but four Novacaine injections.This iconic TV disaster occurred almost 50 years ago.Ĭertain bits of television history, like excellent wine, improve with age. And the program became manic again as the pair reprised their “Carol Burnett” dentist skit. It was extremely enjoyable to watch Korman go into flattery overdrive, causing Conway to seethe silently. It picked up as Korman played interpreter/promoter to Conway’s Dorf, the midget golfer with an Italian-waiter accent and impossibly flexible limbs. The show’s high energy dipped a bit during Conway’s rather conventional monologue about dieting with his Italian wife. Replied Conway in his wonderful drop-dead, inside-joke manner: “That it doesn’t have any ad libs in it.” “What makes it so delightful?” he asked about the Deli Delite sandwich. When Korman hugged Conway to help pull a credit card through processing, Conway marinated in the possibilities and asked, ever so casually, “What’s your sign?”Korman proved himself much more than an ideal straight man by inquiring rapturously about the three in-flight meals. His bewilderment had a rainbow of tones, and his gullibility was almost Shakespearean.īoth men improvised superbly. As a potential passenger Korman was a perfect foil. All of Conway’s irritating delays - a loudspeaker rhyme using two stamps to mark “New” and “York” –featured an expert combination of disarming seriousness and playfulness. The pair were at their best in a routine starring Conway’s glacially shuffling, Ice Age-thinking Old Man as a representative for anything-but-Speedo Airlines. His gallery of wondrous faces included the wounded hound his bag of gestures included snoozing into his dinner plate, coming up for air with a pork-chop eye patch. ![]() Korman droned on beautifully about the wonders of corn, compelling Conway to scramble for relief. Conway displayed his skill at killing time in a sketch driven by a boring banquet speech. The killer one-two came when Conway sneezed and handkerchiefed his snout - er, spout - and then wiped his brow. “A lot of class,” for example, became “ass … ass … ass.” But the gestures, especially the ones that had absolutely nothing to do with what Korman was saying, were hilarious. Conway’s word changes were spot-on funny. No surprise here: he once instructed his children to wear hockey masks of styrofoam meat trays. Conway played the public-address system, distorting a stadium’s distorting echo with a tin watering can on his head. Korman uttered cliches with perfectly gooey vapidness he’s excellent at turning heroes into cads. The veteran teammates, who split so many guts on “The Carol Burnett Show,” slaughtered abdominals during a skit mocking an athlete’s farewell address. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway dosed the last of two sold-out shows (an estimated 3,000 for both shows) in the State Theatre with their usual deadly laughing gas, making slow service, guerilla dentistry and even corn painfully funny. ![]()
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