Tim Conway’s side-splitting portrayal of a clueless bank robber will have you in stitches. He is playing someone who is very new to the whole crime thing and is still trying to get the hang of it. Watch the short but hysterical clip of Tim Conway trying to get his feet wet when holding up banks for large sums of cash.

As the popular saying goes, crime doesn’t pay. That’s especially true if you’re as bad as Tim Conway is at it in a classic skit from The Carol Burnett Show. He does absolutely everything possible wrong. His phrasing is entirely off, setting the tone for everything else. He forgets to keep the getaway car running and uses the wrong size bag to secure the loot. He’s not going to make a very good bank robber.

Luckily for Tim, who is still training to become a criminal, the bank teller he encounters is also pretty terrible. Vicki Lawrence is on her first day working at the bank, and to say she is clueless and airheaded would be to put it lightly. Everything she can do wrong, she does incorrectly and very much so. Carol is training her, but it’s clear very early that her patience with Vicki is running thin.

To keep things moving, Harvey Korman, who is training Tim in the fine art of bank robbery, and Carol both step in and help complete the criminal transaction.

But then something unexpected happens. Harvey and Carol appreciate each other’s competence and skills. Despite being on opposite sides of the law, it’s a case of love at first sight. However, they both realize that it could not possibly work between them.   

How no one broke character and burst out laughing at no point during this absurd but hilarious skit is beyond me. Anyone else would have understandably lost it very early.

Job 8:21 “The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips.”