![]() Wiggins," Conway played the boss and Burnett played a secretary who was "kind of a bimbo": push-up bra, microscopic skirt, constantly tending to her nails. But "innocent" is hardly the word for everything they did. The Carol Burnett Show specialized in family-friendly ensemble comedy - and what an ensemble: Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, et al. I mean, we could have had our heads blown off." "And in came a security guard with a gun pulled. "Right behind the saleslady, there was an exit door that burst open," Burnett tells NPR's Renee Montagne. Lacking options, needing stockings and seeing that the department wasn't especially crowded, Burnett obliged. The lingerie saleslady at Bergdorf Goodman, for instance, who cheerfully accepted a personal check without proper ID - but only after Burnett demonstrated her trademark Tarzan yell. Now, in a new memoir, Burnett tells stories about what went on behind the scenes of The Carol Burnett Show - plus a few tales about what went down when she ventured out among the show's fans. Her long-running variety show, with its outrageous costumes and its uproariously unpredictable sketches, offered a warm brand of wackiness that parents would let their kids stay up late to watch. ![]() The actress and comedian has won a slew of awards, including multiple Emmy Awards, Golden Globes, People's Choice Awards and a Tony.Ĭarol Burnett was one of the original queens of TV comedy. The Carol Burnett Show ran for more than a decade on CBS. ![]()
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