Badass Birthday
On this date, in 1933, in San Antonio, Texas, Carol Burnett was born.
We'll get to her self titles show in a minute. Carol Burnett has been on Broadway, television and film. Over the years she's earned 7 Emmys, a Tony, a Grammy, and 7 Golden Globes. Her career has lasted 7 decades.
But really, she's a badass, if for nothing else, than The Carol Burnett Show. I remember in my youth, sitting on the sofa with mom at 10 pm on Saturday Nights and settling in to watch the show. Week after week after week.
Without her show, would we have ever heard of Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman or Tim Conway? Maybe, but it's doubtful they would have reached the level of fame they did.
From her show we got:
As The Stomach Turns sketches
The Family sketches (Eunice and Mama)
Nora Desmond sketches
The Oldest Man sketches
The Queen sketches
Stella Toddler sketches
Mrs. Wiggins sketches (and Mr. Tudball)
and tons of commercials and movies parodies
I mean, if you've not seen their parody of "Gone With The Wind" called "Went With The Wind", please, do yourself a favor and go watch it on youtube. Seeing her dress and the line about it is worth the price of admission alone.
And now, at the age of 93, she's still acting, currently appearing in Palm Royale.
Total badass!
POLT
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