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What are some funny Vicki sketches besides Mama's Family?

posted 10 years ago by BrohmaBull007
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Yes there was the Carol and Sis sketches but those were mostly focused on Carol and Harvey and Vicki was an after thought.

Yes she is well known for her Mama sketches but what other good skits with Vicki are out there? I'm having trouble finding anything on youtube. All I have found so far was the fortune cookie sketch.

Also I'm not finding sketches with Vicki and Tim together. I think the 2 of them re hilarious on their own and I would like to see them tear the house down in a sketch together *besides the Elephant Story).

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[–] DearJohnny 9 years ago

I can't really think of any sketches where Vicki 'starred.' She developed into a strong supporting player though. Offhand, I can remember her being very funny as a gypsy fortune-teller in a bit with Carol and guest Paul Sand and doing some clever bits as various characters on 'As The Stomach Turns.'

[–] iray-2 9 years ago

I was thinking of that gypsy fortune teller skit, too - she's great in it. She also played a great 'dumb blonde' - especially in a skit called 'Caged Dames' with guest star Lily Tomlin. Her finest bit, outside of Mama, of course.

[–] W.B. 9 years ago

Vicki's role as the doctor in the "One Way Ticket" sketch from 1974, where she diagnosed Carol's character, "Crinkles," as suffering from the incurable and ultimately fatal "movie disease" - and speaking the whole time with the same Maria Ouspenskaya-derived accent she'd used to good effect in "The Wolf Man" parody the year before. Who couldn't laugh at her blunt "You're a dead duck," or such descriptions as "You've got vot Bette Davis had in 'Dark Wictory'," or her telling Carol's shipboard lover (James Coco), "I'm the world's leading authority on incurable diseases, and she's the world's leading case"?

[–] AdrianLePier 9 years ago

Vicki was a great character actress on the show and always did a great job with her supporting characters in whatever sketch they were doing. As a performer, she had very crisp energy and a lot of "color". But offhand I can't think of any sketch where she played a character that particularly stood out or was especially memorable. Mama was basically her "it" character.

[–] sonofagun 9 years ago

She did a skit by herself playing a secretary answering the phones where every word started with the letter "b"; then switched to another desk where every word started with a "c" - never messed up a line and its a real hoot.

[–] don-lockwood 9 years ago

I love the one where she plays a secretary who sings "For Once in My Life" as Tim Conway is a window washer about to fall off the building.

I honestly would've preferred more Vicki-centered sketches than the extreme emphasis placed on Tim in the later seasons.

[–] don-lockwood 9 years ago

[–] Ken1260 9 years ago

She was good in the Gone With the Wind Spoof playing the part of Prissy.

[–] moistsnackcake 9 years ago

She did a good take on Mrs. Danvers in the Rebecky sketch and Vita in Mildred Fierce. My favorite was her dumb bimbo in the Caged Dames sketch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OyTmy8AwTw

[–] elena-28 9 years ago

And also a variation of her Gypsy woman, as a Jewish yenta, in a sketch about Snow White, 20 years later. She plays the Wicked Witch ("It's not an old ploy, it's a mackintosh").

Our family got a favorite quote from her gypsy fortune-teller: "I have two sons; one's a rock singer, the other's a werewolf. Come the full moon, you can't tell them apart. Go raise children."

[–] anthny_platt 8 years ago

It had to be really, really hard to top Carol Burnett, especially when you're just a kid. And when she's the star of the show, and has first pick of the roles available in the sketches that get written. So if Lawrence played the straight often, it's hardly surprising.

But she had her moments. She was brilliant in 'Went With the Wind', she almost got as big a laugh when she slapped herself as when Burnett appeared in that Bob Mackie curtainrod masterpiece. She was at her best at times like that, when she got to do a takeoff of a specific, familiar character--for example, she was also brilliant in the takeoff they did of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

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[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Her funniest performance was playing "Sissy" in Went with the Wind. It never gets old, especially when she keeps warbling during Scarlett's speech, LOL.

[–] Ken12602 (481) 4 years ago

That's the one that came to my mind first too.