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In the fall of the same year, Conway was given his own hour-long variety show, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, [30] or The Tim Conway Comedy House, [17] which, as his other series had, folded quickly, lasting only 13 weeks. [30] Typical of his self-effacing humor, he ordered his car's license plate to reflect the short duration of the series: "13 ...
Vicki Lawrence, as Mama in one of their many "The Family" sketches, scored a rare turnabout on Conway (as Mickey, Ed's (Korman) hardware-store employee), who had reduced Burnett and Van Dyke to fits of laughter in the Siamese Elephant Sketch. After Conway's repeated interruptions during the sketch, making a bizarre story incrementally even more ...
Among plot techniques, "The Family" uses: (A) satire and observational comedy, as the sketch subtly pokes fun at real-life occurrences and real-life human behaviors, inflating them and making fun of them; (B) comedy of manners, as the characters satirize the behaviors of blue-collar, working-class southerners and speak in exaggerated southern drawls.
As a recurring guest star from the show's launch and later a regular cast member, Conway inserted unrehearsed bits into sketches that became known to the staff as "Conway's Capers". Conway would play the first taping straight, but (if the sketch had played well in the first taping, and could be used) would ad-lib bizarre scenarios during the ...
A soap opera parody taking place in the fictional town of Canoga Falls with Burnett as the main character Marian Clayton. Other recurring residents of Canoga Falls include Conway as different variations of the Oldest Man, Korman as Mother Marcus and Lawrence as Marian's daughter, who always comes home with a baby and hands it over to Marian, who shortly thereafter almost always ensconces it in ...
The Tim Conway Show: Variety/sketch comedy 1983 Ace Crawford, Private Eye: Ace Crawford Short-lived sitcom Great Day: Howard Simpson Television film 1987 Faerie Tale Theatre: Mayoral Candidate Episode: "Rip Van Winkle" 1990 Newhart: Himself Episode: "Dick and Tim" Tim Conway's Funny America: Various Short-lived hidden camera reality series ...
Tim Conway as Ace Crawford, Private Eye. Joe Regalbuto as Toomey, a CPA and Crawford's assistant; he always saw Crawford as a hero, and thought that his bumbling was simply some kind of cunning strategy. Billy Barty as Inch, owner and bartender of The Shanty, a wharfside bar where Crawford hangs out.
Aug. 7—On Aug. 22, 1986, "Good Morning America" was live from Cleveland with an episode devoted to Northeast Ohio. One of the people entrusted with showing the country Cleveland was more than a ...