The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. That includes Burnett’s eventual rendering of “I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together” (written by her then-husband, “Carol Burnett Show” executive producer Joe Hamilton), and she noted that someone sings it with her for a special reason.A touching and hilarious memoir by the author of Carrie and Me: A Mother Daughter Love Story, This Time Togetheris 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible.Ĭarol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. I didn’t do a lot of those, though, because the show was so chock-full of stuff we had to get to.” And then, a lady asked about my grandmother and my pulling my ear. She has another of those openings in the new special, and she reveals that among the questions, “Two of them are asked by Tom Selleck and Pat Boone! They were in the audience. Some of those, naturally, are related to the question-and-answer session Burnett always opened her program with (and which she still does in the in-person show she tours with). Still, every time I go back and get on that stage, I think of all the wonderful memories that I have.” A winner of 20-plus Emmy Awards, “The Carol Burnett Show” ended its run in 1978, and the title star has returned to its studio a number of times since: “We did some specials and the 25th-anniversary reunion show there.
“It was pretty overwhelming,” the ever-friendly, much-honored Burnett said of doing the special. Bob Mackie, who designed countless costumes for “The Carol Burnett Show,” also appears. Among them: Bernadette Peters (who was the first guest ever booked for the series), Jim Carrey, Kristin Chenoweth, Harry Connick Jr., Martin Short, Jane Lynch, Stephen Colbert and Maya Rudolph. The late Korman is recalled by guests including Jay Leno and Bill Hader in a segment devoted to his antics, and many others participate in helping Burnett mark the half-century milestone. Lawrence and Waggoner also appear in the program, though Conway was “under the weather” at the time of the October taping, Burnett said.
The entertainment icon returns to the soundstage where she and comrades Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner did the show in CBS’ two-hour “Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special,” tonight at 8. Fifty years after her classic comedy-variety series debuted, Carol Burnett is still so glad she and her viewers had that time together.
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