Carol Burnett accepts the SAG Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016
by The Screen Actors Guild honored Carol Burnett this year with a Lifetime Achievement Award, introduced by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and escorted to the …
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Carol Burnett recalls the advice Lucille Ball gave her about managing writers, producers
Carol Burnett visited Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday night and recalled the times that Lucille Ball guested on Burnett’s hit sketch comedy series, …
Who would make it onto the Mount Rushmore of Comedy?
This May, in celebrating Don Rickles on his 88th birthday, Jerry Seinfeld said of his elder hero: “”On the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy, there are …
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Ray Jessel’s audition on America’s Got Talent 2014, and what you may not know about the 84-year-old songwriter’s Broadway and TV past
Ray Jessel, at 84, would seem like an unlikely contestant to round out this season’s auditions for America’s Got Talent. And yet, NBC producers knew …
My Pod Week: Week ending 5/18/14
by Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the …
Comedians nominated for the 56th annual Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards have a longstanding reputation for being terminally unhip, and then trying to right that by swinging to the other extreme and rewarding …
Watch Carol Burnett win the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on PBS
Carol Burnett received the 16th annual Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor for 2013. Held in Washington, D.C., at The Kennedy Center in October, …
Carol Burnett to receive 2013 Mark Twain Prize from The Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center has announced it’s awarding Carol Burnett with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013. Burnett, 80, is the 16th recipient …
“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. …