OK, I’ll admit it. My wife and I see an awful lot of live entertainment…
We can’t help it though!! There’s an insane amount of shows that come through Calgary!! Between theatre groups and concerts, we could be out every freakin’ night of the week. Now, THAT would be wrong…
However, of all the shows we have taken in, one last night just rose so far above so many others, we had to keep pinching ourselves, to make sure we were really there experiencing it.
Last night, we were in the audience for the current tour of Tim Conway & Harvey Korman, legendary TV stars, most especially on the old Carol Burnett Show.
If you’ve never heard of any of those three people, you may just want to get back to finding out where Britney Spears was last night, without her panties…
If you do recognize those names, you can only imagine how funny they are live. Looking fantastic for gentleman of 80 (Korman) and 72 (Conway), they started the show by each doing as bit of solo stand-up, where Korman did a little bit of a “blue” routine, but clearly within acceptable levels for the audience, many just a bit younger than the comics. We had an easy time getting to our seats, bypassing all the walkers and bad hips…
Over almost two hours, these guys did some famous sketches from the Burnett show (The Dentist), and trotted out several other familiar characters (Conway’s “Old Man With One Speed”), even a hilarious appearance by Dorf, giving his tips on golf. We were crying most of the night, I can’t remember the last time we laughed soooo hard!!!
They even did a Q & A session, like on the Carol Burnett Show. These guys are such pros, turning even simple requests for an autograph into laughs.
To seque some of the sketches and costume changes, they had along a female impressionist, Louise Duart. Occasionally hot, mostly cold, she could stand to update her act. How many people still want to hear impressions of Jane Fonda??
We did have some concerns before the show though. We had crossed our fingers back when we bough the tickets, that neither one would croak before the day of the show…
Chow for now!!
2 comments:
I still laugh when I think about Conway & Korman on the CB show. Especially when Conway was straddling a doorknob during a sketch and both he and Korman were doing their best (And failing miserbaly) at not laughing.
They were great together.
One of the funniest bits last night was when Conway was in his Old Man character, with the moptop hairpiece, and Korman was trying to book a flight on Conway's Speed-O Air. Conway was improvising a flight announcement, and you could tell Korman was trying not to crack up.
"Not this time, you sunnavabitch"...
However, he lost it when Conway went over the top, as usual.
Class acts, and still to this day as funny as you'll ever see...
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