SAG Lifetime Honoree Carol Burnett Is Clearly Not a Republican!

[joeybee12]

Versatile Carol Burnett is best known for her eponymous variety show, which ran for 11 seasons on CBS in the ’60 and ’70s. Nearly 50 years later, she’s still entertaining people, and will receive the SAG Life Achievement Award at the guild’s Jan. 30 kudos. But she was just 19 when she earned her first mention in Variety, appearing in 1953 at a benefit for the local Republican Committee at the Athletic Club on Hollywood Boulevard.

What was this gig about?

A guy at UCLA named Bill Beard and I had put an act together, scenes from musical comedies, and we’d go to different places and get $5. I don’t remember this particular evening, but we were doing that while we were still in college.

So you were accepting bookings for events at that time.

Yeah! We’d come out and open with “When you see a guy/Reach for stars in the sky,” you know, the “Guys and Dolls” thing. Then he would do “Luck Be a Lady.” I would do “Adelaide’s Lament.” The two of us would do “Sue Me.” And then we’d do the finale. It was like these little snippets, with a piano player who was also a student.

You stay awfully busy. You have a new book, “In the Sandbox,” coming out in November. You go on things like “Hawaii 5-0,” and you’re bringing out DVD collections of your variety show. Are you still available for Q&A’s, one-nighters, fundraisers?

Absolutely! But not for Republicans.

http://variety.com/2016/tv/features/carol-burnett-reflects-on-her-college-days-1201689493/

[randys1]

1. She is one of a kind. That is for sure.

I remember watching her and the boys, Harvey and Tim, and Vicki Lawrence.

I think I was a kid, wasnt I?

Watched it with my parents, I think.
My mom loved Carol.

Everybody loves Carol

Maybe not republicans, not now

[joeybee12]

2. I can watch those shows over and over...

Still funny.

[randys1]

3. Sometimes funny is just funny

[joeybee12]

4. Blocked at work...I'll play this at home...thanks

[pinboy3niner]

5. Indeed

[8 track mind]

6. The look on Carol's face

Says everything you need to know about Tim Conway

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Every single time they pull themselves together...

he says something else. He was great.

[loyalsister]

11. They really respected his talent

I saw a reunion show where they were reminiscing. She said that they had an unwritten agreement to let Tim unleash his best and it always left them completely unable to hold back their laughter.

[lunatica]

13. One of her many classics for the history books of show business

I think I split a gut laughing in that one.

[TexasProgresive]

8. I loved it when they would lose it a bit

in the skits. Their humor was universally funny; adults liked it, teens liked it and even little kids got a kick out of the show.

[MuseRider]

7. I have always loved her.

I have one of her Best Of videos that my husband gave me for a birthday present. I need the newer ones that are not so cut up. I have read two of her books, she is just so interesting and she shares so much of her life. YAY another book.

[OldHippieChick]

9. I so enjoyed listening to her on Stephanie Miller's show a few weeks ago.

What a classy, funny lady.

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. She was founder and CEO of No Frills Airline.

[joeybee12]

14. I love when she whispered the safety instructions