Tim Conway Still Makes People Laugh, Still Does Family-Friendly Shows

He made millions laugh when he played Ensign Charles Parker in the 1960's on the television show, McHale's Navy. He was also popular for 11 years on the Carol Burnett Show, first staring as a guest in 1967. Thomas Daniel Conway, who changed his name to Tim to avoid being confused with actor Tom Conway, also started in a series of Walt Disney movies, often with Don Knotts, including the popular, Apple Dumpling Gang. Tim Conway also appeared in lesser known television shows, such as Rango, in 1967, in which he played an incompetent Texas Ranger and the 1970's Tim Conway Show, with Joe Flynn of McHale's Navy, set in a DC-3. Today Tim Conway is still making people laugh at family-friendly shows he is in. These days, some of Conway's work also shares the Christian faith.

On the Carol Burnett Show Tim Conway was the funny guy, and Harvey Korman was his straight man. Sometimes Conway was so funny that Korman would crack up laughing when the two were working on a scene. One such example was a scene, in which the two were having a swordfight in medieval clothing, and Korman appeared to run Conway through with a sword. Conway pulled the sword out, looked at it like it was a dipstick, and said, "Hmm...down a quart!" Tim Conway earned three Emmy Awards for his work on the Carol Burnett Show.

In 2001 Conway and Korman appeared in the 25^th anniversary reunion special, The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers. About 20 million people watched the still popular show. It was the highest rated show of the season. People from grandparents, who had watched the original Carol Burnett Show, to teenagers who had enjoyed watching reruns on TV Land watched the special.

Tim Conway has many times during his career turned down material because of content he did not deem appropriate, and to this day, he refuses to do a show that is not family-friendly. The actor says he feels more "comfortable" doing family-friendly programming. He says part of the reason he is such a stickler for doing family-friendly shows is that he grew up in a small town where everybody knows everybody.