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Benchley (The Butler and the Maid)
Played by Tim Conway
Benchley is the long-suffering butler played by Tim Conway in The Carol Burnett Show's The Butler and the Maid (Season 9, 1976). Ordered to act out his employer's side of a marital feud, he trades ever harder slaps and blows with the maid…
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Benchley is the long-suffering butler played by Tim Conway in The Carol Burnett Show's The Butler and the Maid (Season 9, 1976). Ordered to act out his employer's side of a marital feud, he trades ever harder slaps and blows with the maid until he ends up slumped across the dinner table.
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