The Oldest Man: The Dresser

Racing offstage for a costume change, a stage actor finds his assigned dresser is the impossibly ancient Oldest Man. Every step of the change becomes an ordeal: a single waistcoat button takes ages, a loose moustache needs re-gluing, and simply washing and drying his hands leaves the old man tangled with a towel dispenser and sprawled on the floor. As the stage manager's warnings tick down, the actor's frustration dissolves into helpless laughter, and a final struggle with a heavy red coat ends with him hauling the coat, dresser still tangled inside, out the door toward the stage.

Harvey Korman breaks into laughter on camera during the quick change. Tim Conway introduced the Oldest Man on the show in 1969.