“Funny Ladies” on PBS: Watch this hour of “Pioneers of Television”
The “Funny Ladies” hour of the PBS documentary series, Pioneers of Television, debuted this week. Narrated by Ryan Seacrest? Oh well. Can’t win ’em all. Unless you consider Seacrest an out-and-out funny lady, too. “Funny Ladies” zeroes in quickly on Carol Burnett as the biggest pioneer among the funny women in early TV, although it also goes back to the first small-screen superstar with XX chromosomes, Lucille Ball and I Love Lucy. The hour also shines a spotlight on the early career breakthroughs by Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, Mary Tyler Moore, Betty White and Marla Gibbs. Among those contributing...
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