THE DEADBOLT: So that was your first court martial, correct?

CONWAY: Yeah. It wasn’t the big one where, you know, they go, "You can’t handle the truth." It was just a three guy thing, "Stop doing that and don’t be a smart guy and carry your rifle." So it was small - just extra time, as we say.

Conference call highlights:

Tim Conway on working with the cast of 30 Rock:

"I didn’t get a chance to meet any of them. My character was in a basement during the entire show so I didn’t really - I don’t even know if those people were there or not. No, they were wonderful. I’ve known Alec for some time and so that was very comfortable. Tina I had never met; she’s probably the most talented lady outside of Carol Burnett that I’ve ever met. I mean, she writes, she reads, she walks, she talks, she does everything. And she was so nice, it’s hard to believe that she’s in show business, really. She just was marvelous.

Conway on whether he and Harvey Korman will be working on anything soon:

"Well, when the Carol Burnett Show went off, I got custody of Harvey. So I just take him for walks and things of that nature. But we have been doing the Carol Burnett Show for the last, I guess, 11 years; we go down every Friday, Carol’s there, Vicky, myself, Harvey and we do the show. Now they haven’t been taping it unfortunately so they’ve lost, I would say about 20-25 years of shows there. But we’re still hoping, so we go down there every Friday and - actually Harvey and I went out for eight years on our own, just out in the yard.

"No, we went around the country with a show called Together Again, Harvey, myself and a girl called Louise DuArt, well, she’s not only called Louise DuArt, she’s named Louise DuArt and She was on Broadway. And we did an hour and a half show, we did about, gee, I don’t know, we were doing 150 shows a year for eight years. And it was such a delight because the Burnett audience is such a great audience. I mean, they were into family humor at the time and all our bizarreness and we did what amounted to a traveling Burnett show. And it was a pleasure to do. And now, it’s hard now with the travel and everything to get anywhere on time."

On the comedian who could crack him up every time:

"Don Knotts used to. Don and I were very good friends. And he was such a wonderful character and such a marvelous character actor. I mean, you could just look at him and that crazy face. And he didn’t try to do anything, you know, to break you up, but it was just his mannerisms and what he did with a little piece of material and blew it into large balloons and just was such a joy to an audience. I know being on the road a lot of times, you turn on the TV later at night after a show and there’s Mayberry and Andy and Don. And the stuff he did was just exceptional to me. So he was one of my professors really. And he could make me laugh at a moments notice because he just - not trying either - just doing what he does naturally."

Conway on what drew him to 30 Rock:

"Well, I like Alec. I had never seen Tina in this form before or other cast members that are on that show. And they are all in tune with what the show is aimed at as far as the kind of comedy that it’s doing. For instance Everybody Loves Raymond, I mean, that cast is as solid as you can get, I mean, they’re like the Burnett cast. Everybody knows what the other person is going to do, say or react to. And it’s the same with 30 Rock. And they’re doing off beat humor. I mean, it’s hard to stand up sometimes and do those lines because, in effect, you’re doing really funny inside lines with a very straight approach to it and they pull it off perfectly. They’ve become so cohesive and so - such a nice little unit that you want to stick around and see what they’re doing this week."

On why it was so easy to work with Harvey Korman:

"Because he is all the wonderful things that you want if you want to pick on somebody, he’s obsessive, he thinks that Bin Laden is after him. He doesn’t go to sleep until about 4:00 in the morning because he’s up and locking doors and things of that nature. He can be - he’s as bright as anybody I’ve ever met. He can do the New York Times crossword puzzle in 10 minutes with a pen but he can’t tie his own shoes. So I - being the dumbest guy in show business - got along with him very well because I would put him on, on everything."

Tim Conway on how sitcoms have changed and how 30 Rock stacks up to older shows:

"Well, I think that it’s gotten more relaxed; it’s funnier. A lot of people do refer to it as the Seinfeld of tomorrow. But it’s the Seinfeld of today. I mean, it really is - it’s inside but it’s understandable, it is not complex, it is crazy. And it just seems to flow. The cast works so well together; everybody seems to like each other. And it’s just comfortable. And I think they’re getting into a groove now where also the audience understands them. I think at first probably the audience was confused by the show in that it wasn’t he says/she says type of thing and now it’s just very comfortable in the craziness that they do."