- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Burnett Quotes
The comfort-zone show and the comedy team behind it.
This page gathers the tribute lines: how Carol Burnett is named alongside Joan Rivers as proof that funny women have always existed, and how a family sitting around one television felt like comfort.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.
- Comfort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason 'The Carol Burnett Show' did so well in the ratings is because people were looking for that comfort zone when the whole family sat around and watched television and enjoyed it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'The Carol Burnett Show' - I thought she was the funniest lady I'd ever seen.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took my first acting class at age 6 because I found out that's what Carol Burnett was doing - acting. Also she had an imaginary friend as a kid and went to UCLA, two things we have in common. I will always admire her and hope one day, I can make someone laugh a fraction as hard as she's made me bellyache.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching 'The Carol Burnett Show' with my parents as a kid. All those weird outfits she wore, like turtlenecks and long skirts, really stayed in my head.
- Carol
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- Nov 07, 2020