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Kara Kovalchik<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a> <\/b>present 16 Ear-Tugging Facts About The Carol Burnett Show<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 8. HARVEY KORMAN WAS THE FIRST CAST MEMBER HIRED.<\/span><\/strong> \n 9. TIM CONWAY RARELY FOLLOWED HIS SCRIPT.<\/span><\/strong> \n 16. THERE WAS ONLY ONE CELEBRITY GUEST THAT BURNETT WAS NEVER ABLE TO BOOK.<\/span><\/strong> Kara Kovalchik and Mental_Floss present 16 Ear-Tugging Facts About The Carol Burnett Show. Here are three of my favorites… 8. HARVEY KORMAN WAS THE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,65,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-trivia","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14583,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions\/14583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe producers wanted a \u201cHarvey Korman-type\u201d for Burnett\u2019s second banana, but didn\u2019t bother to actually ask Korman if he was interested in the job because he was already a regularon The Danny Kaye Show<\/em>, and most likely he wouldn\u2019t leave a steady job for an unproven new show. Burnett herself spotted Korman in the CBS parking lot one day and \u201cpractically threw him over the hood of a car\u201d begging him to join her show. Unbeknownst to her, Kaye\u2019s show was about to get the axe after a four-year run, so Korman cheerfully accepted her offer shortly after that first meeting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nConway had been a frequent guest star on the show and when Lyle Waggoner decided to leave the show in 1974 (he felt that he was being \u201cunderused\u201d), Conway was hired to replace him the following year. Conway was legendary for veering off-script and ad-libbing for lengthy stretches, to the amusement of some of his co-stars (Korman) and annoyance of others (Lawrence, who sometimes resented Conway\u2019s disruptions and spotlight-hogging). Lawrence finally slipped her own ad-lib in on one memorable occasion, as Conway rambled on and on about an elephant during a \u201cFamily\u201d sketch. Her NSFW remark brought the rest of the cast to their knees and was said to be Dick Clark\u2019s favorite all-time outtake on his Bloopers and Practical Jokes<\/em> TV show.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nOver the 11 seasons the show ran, a veritable \u201cWho\u2019s Who\u201d of the entertainment industry did a guest turn, from Steve Martin to Julie Andrews to then-governor Ronald Reagan to Robin Williams to Ethel Merman. The only guest who Burnett dearly wanted to have but never did get was Bette Davis. Davis was willing to appear but demanded more money that the show had budgeted. Joe Hamilton advised his wife that if they gave in to Davis\u2019 demand, it would set an unpleasant precedent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"