They weren't an actual comedic duo though. Tim Conway was just funny as hell and was always trying to get Harvey to crack up. Korman tried his damnest not to , but Conway was a comedic genius and merciless. The whole cast had trouble keeping a straight face around him.Harvey Korman and Tim Conway... Carol Burnett show.![]()
They weren't an actual comedic duo though. Tim Conway was just funny as hell and was always trying to get Harvey to crack up. Korman tried his damnest not to , but Conway was a comedic genius and merciless. The whole cast had trouble keeping a straight face around him.
No, they were never (as far as I recall) an official duo. But people have associated them together since Carol Burnett. Certainly no one ever referred to them as "Korman and Conway" like I did. I was just naming names.I know, I used to laugh myself silly when I watched those two. I just never considered them a "duo", so when you mentioned their names together earlier, it just didn't hit me that's who you were referring to.
Funny thing about that... I didn't really like them as a team. I think he did his best when he was on his own and allowed to go nuts.
I loved the three Stooges as a kid, but as I got older, they just got more stupid. On the other hand, I didn't like Dean Martin when he was with Jerry, probably because he was always the mean one... but Martin could be hilarious on his own. I loved him in the Matt Helm movies, and he's also pretty good in a few westerns. I also liked his variety show.When I was a preteen, I loved Abbott and Costello and Laurel and Hardy ... as well as the Three Stooges. But, I didn't find Martin and Lewis as funny. Perhaps because I didn't like Dean Martin. As I grew older, I found subtle comedy more appealing and slapstick comedy too grating. Still, I did love the interaction between C-3PO and R2-D2. But then too, everything in Star Wars didn't revolve around C-3PO and R2-D2, so maybe that's the difference.