Actor, Comedian Tim Conway Dies at 85.
BALDWIN: TV fans in the entertainment world are mourning the loss of a comedic legend today. Tim Conway has died at the age of 85 after battling a longtime illness. He played a central role in one of the most beloved TV comedies of all-time, "The Carol Burnett Show." Burnett says that she is heartbroken. CNN's Richard Roth has a look back at Tim Conway's amazing career.</s>RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Here's how comedian Tim Conway once summed up his whole life. I was born and then I did "The Carol Burnett Show" for 11 years. What else is there to know?</s>HARVEY KORMAN, ACTOR, COMMEDIAN: What are you doing?</s>TIM CONWAY, ACTOR, COMMEDIAN: Get my back into that wall there.</s>CONWAY: It was marvelous. I had admired her from afar, from the other side of the television set for a long time.</s>ROTH: Conway started outside of Cleveland, galloping horses for his father, the horse trainer.</s>CONWAY: First of all, I wanted to be a jockey, but as you know, they ask you to get off.</s>ROTH: Comedian Rose Marie spotted him on a local TV show, recommending him to network star, Steve Allen.</s>STEVE ALLEN, COMEDIAN: And I think -- wait! You don't have your suit on! You don't have --</s>ROTH: His feet now wet in Hollywood. Conway was hired as the bumbling ensign in "Mikhail's Navy."</s>CONWAY: Boy, you sure have a delicate touch. I didn't feel a thing.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I haven't done it yet, ensign.</s>CONWAY: Thank you!</s>CONWAY: I just do what I think is amusing. I did, and it worked. I couldn't go like the other elephants when they go whoop. All they can do is just blow and go --</s>ROTH: Conway was again a second banana on "The Carol Burnett Show", but comedy fruit ripened thanks to the host.</s>KORMAN: Tim Conway was so brilliant on "The Carol Burnett Show," and the main reason he was, was that Carol Burnett gave him so much space. Gave him so much latitude.</s>ROTH: Ad-libbing as seen in the old man skits.</s>CONWAY: Don't try to catch me!</s>CONWAY: I never did that old man until we were actually taping. It was a seven-minute sketch that went 23 minutes, because I was messing around.</s>ROTH: Conway described himself as the instigator, usually cracking up fellow cast member, Harvey Corman. In one of the show's most memorable sketches, Corman is the patient of a very inexperienced dentist.</s>CONWAY: Take a firm hold of the hypodermic needle, right.</s>ROTH: Conway told Conan O'Brien this actually happened to him.</s>CONWAY: In the army, Yes. A guy said, that we're going to pull his tooth, and so he took my lip like this and he stuck a needle in, and it went through my cheek and into his thumb.</s>CONWAY: I'll just give you a little shot here.</s>CAROLE BURNETT, ACTOR COMEDIAN: Poor Harvey, he had not seen the Novocain bit until we were doing it.</s>ROTH: Tim Conway won six Emmys in his career, four for his work on the "The Carol Burnett Show."</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You've got five minutes to live, you can tell one joke again before you peg it, what would it be?</s>CONWAY: I would go hold up a bank. I've always wanted to do that. And take as much cash as I could and run out and once my five minutes is up, bang.</s>BALDWIN: Mr. Conway's family has asked that donations be made to the Lou Ruvo Brain Center at the Cleveland Clinic in Las Vegas. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Thank you so much for being with me today. "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER" starts right now.