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Topic: Conway and Knotts .. an under appreciated comedy Team!
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 21, 2008 04:10 PM
I was watching another of thier films last night, and I was struck that Tim Conway and Don Knotts made a very good comedy team, and I can safely say, they were truly the last of the classic comedy teams.
Classic Comedy team? What makes a comedy team classic?
I'm referring to the subject matter of the material. The comedy is largely clean, (potentially a slight shift into naughtiness, but this isn't the norm) and a good deal of old fashioned slapstick.
This was definitely what Conway and Knotts were great at. They did at least four films together as a comedy team ...
The Apple Dumpling Gang (funny)
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (very funny)
The Prize Fighter (very funny)
The Private Eyes (best of the lot)
also appeared together as police officers in "Cannonball Run 2"
(Please correct me if I've forgotten one)
These were all very old fashioned and light hearted films that would literally offend no one. This was also the turning point from light hearted comedy of the past, to the toliet humor (largely) of the present. It should be noted that nearly all the comedians of the 50's and 60's couldn't make the transition to modern humor, which largely began in the 70's with Mel Brooks classic films, (which appear tame compared to todays films).
But, for a short while, Tim Conway and Don Knotts carried on that old fashioned wonderful humor.
Don knotts (If I'm correct) died a few years back. Tim Conway toured for years with another of his old "partners in crime", Harvey Corman, who died just recently, and toured with Conway almost until the end, (thier last tour being just last year!).
I actually got a REAL signed autograph from Tim Conway in the mid-eighties, and I treasure it.
Hears to Tim Conway and Don Knotts, the last of the classic comedy teams!!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 24, 2008 08:36 PM
I forgot to mention Tim Conway's last major money making venture, (and quite funny).
His collection of "Dorf" videos he made for direct to video, two surrounding golf ventures, and there was a very funny one of "Dorf at the Olympics" as well. It was a funny little fellow
that had very short legs, (actually, it was an elevated stage with holes that Tim would put his legs through, up to his knees,
and he would have shoes on his knees, making it look like short legs, and it worked very well!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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