Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnettis an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans six decades of television. She is best known for her long-running TV variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, for CBS. She has achieved success on stage, television, and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedy roles. She also has appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth26 April 1933
CitySan Antonio, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
I'm so happy that we can share the many years of music and sketches from our shows with the students of UCLA and people interested in the entertainment industry,
I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking.
On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - it was a cardboard table with a linoleum top - and sing.
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I was loved. We were on welfare, but I never felt abandoned or unloved.
I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins.
This is to explain just how your mom turned out to be the kind of hairpin she is.
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.
She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You know, it's just too much.
I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.
The interviewer asked who he would like to be a guest and he said my name, which was very sweet.
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.