“NOT A PLANNED JOKE — BUT A STAGE MISHAP THAT TURNED INTO COMEDY LEGEND: TIM CONWAY WAS BETRAYED BY A RUNAWAY CHAIR, FROZE IN SILENCE, THEN DELIVERED A LINE THAT BROUGHT THE HOUSE DOWN AND SPARKED FIVE MINUTES OF UNSCRIPTED GENIUS.”
In the annals of comedy history, some moments are rigorously rehearsed, polished until they shine like diamonds. Others are happy accidents, moments of pure chaos that only a true master can wrangle into gold. This story belongs to the latter category. It recounts a legendary—perhaps even slightly mythological—evening in the late 1970s, involving the incomparable … Read more