Tag: The Carol Burnett Show

Mark Your Calendars!

NBC will host Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love, a retrospective special to celebrate one of America’s favorite talents. The special will air on Carol’s birthday, Wednesday, April 26 at 8/7c on NBC and will stream the next day on Peacock.

Some of the guests include Aileen Quinn, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Bob Mackie, Cher, Ellen DeGeneres, Julie Andrews, Kristen Wiig, Laura Dern, Lily Tomlin, Marisa Tomei, Sofia Vergara, Steve Carell, Susan Lucci, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Vicki Lawrence.

Retrieved from NBC Insider.

Did You Know- They tricked Carol Burnett into doing those Q&A sessions before every show?

“Do you show the audience during the show?” a seemingly shy freckled woman asks in a 1967 opening segment of The Carol Burnett Show.

Burnett’s onstage in a bright yellow shirt and her eyes get a little wider when she answers the woman, “Sometimes we do, why? Do you want to be separated from this gentleman here?” The camera pans back and the woman and the gentleman both laugh, before Carol moves on to point out celebrities seated in the audience, including Elizabeth Montgomery and Ken Berry. Apart from seeing the hilarious live show, this was the moment many people in the audience had really showed up for. Keep reading on MeTV.com

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Did You Know – Went With the Wind

The original script called for Burnett to have the curtains tossed haphazardly over her shoulders, but Mackie decided that it would be funnier to create an actual dress and leave the hanger intact across her shoulders. He is slightly bitter all these years later that of all his magnificent creations, that “joke” dress has become his signature piece; of all the memorable glamorous gowns he’s created for celebrities over the decades, that curtain rod dress is the one that hangs in the Smithsonian.

Did You Know-The Carol Burnett Show

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