Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and writer, whose career spans seven decades of television. She is best known for her groundbreaking comedy variety show, The Carol Burnett Show, originally aired on CBS. It was one of the first of its kind to be hosted by a woman.[1][2] She has achieved success on stage, television and film in varying genres including dramatic and comedic roles. She has also appeared on various talk shows and as a panelist on game shows. She would later have several daughters joining her in variety of American television series and films. She is the mother of actress Carrie Hamilton, and Erin Hamilton, a singer.

This article is about the entertainer. For her TV show, see The Carol Burnett Show. For the 30 Rock character, see List of 30 Rock characters § Carol Burnett.

Carol Burnett
Burnett in 2014
Birth nameCarol Creighton Burnett
Born (1933-04-26) April 26, 1933
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
MediumTelevision, theater, film, writing
EducationUCLA
Years active1955–present
GenresParody, satire, slapstick
Spouse
Don Saroyan
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(m. 1955; div. 1962)​

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(m. 1963; div. 1984)​

Brian Miller
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(m. 2001)​
Children3, including Carrie and Erin Hamilton
Notable works and rolesThe Carol Burnett Show
Miss Agatha Hannigan in Annie
Eunice Harper Higgins on Mama's Family

Born in San Antonio, Texas, Burnett moved with her grandmother to Hollywood, where she attended Hollywood High School and eventually studied theater and musical comedy at UCLA. Later she performed in nightclubs in New York City and had a breakout success on Broadway in 1959 in Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. She soon made her television debut, regularly appearing on The Garry Moore Show for the next three years, and won her first Emmy Award in 1962. Burnett had her television special debut in 1963 when she starred as Calamity Jane in the Dallas State Fair Musicals production of Calamity Jane on CBS.[3] Burnett moved to Los Angeles, California, and began an 11-year run as star of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS television from 1967 to 1978. With its vaudeville roots, The Carol Burnett Show was a variety show that combined comedy sketches with song and dance. The comedy sketches included film parodies and character pieces. Burnett created many memorable characters during the show's run, and both she and the show won numerous Emmy and Golden Globe Awards.

During and after her variety show, Burnett appeared in many television and film projects. Her film roles include Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Front Page (1974), The Four Seasons (1981), Annie (1982), Noises Off (1992), and Horton Hears a Who! (2008). On television, she has appeared in other sketch shows; in dramatic roles in 6 Rms Riv Vu (1974) and Friendly Fire (1979); in various well-regarded guest roles, such as in Mad About You, for which she won an Emmy Award; and in specials with Julie Andrews, Dolly Parton, Beverly Sills, and others. She returned to the Broadway stage in 1995 in Moon Over Buffalo, for which she was again nominated for a Tony Award.

Burnett has written and narrated several memoirs, earning Grammy nominations for almost all of them, and a win for In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox.[4][5]

In 2005, she was recognized as "one of America's most cherished entertainers" and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom "for enhancing the lives of millions of Americans and for her extraordinary contributions to American entertainment." by President George W. Bush.[6] In 2013, Burnett was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts[7] In 2019, the Golden Globes named an award after her for career achievement in television, called the Carol Burnett Award, and Burnett received its first award.[8]

Early life
Carol and sister Chrissie on Person to Person, 1961

Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas, on April 26, 1933,[9][10][11][12] the daughter of Ina Louise (née Creighton), a publicity writer for movie studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager. Her maternal grandparents were William Henry Creighton (1873-1918) and Mabel Eudora “Mae” Jones (1885-1967).[13][14] Both of her parents were alcoholics, and at a young age she was left with her grandmother. Her parents divorced in the late 1930s, her mother then moved to Hollywood and she and her grandmother moved to a one-room apartment near her mother's in an impoverished area of Hollywood, California. There they stayed in a boarding house with Burnett's younger half-sister Chrissie.[15]

When Burnett was in second grade, she briefly invented an imaginary twin sister named Karen, with Shirley Temple-like dimples. She later recalled that, motivated to further the pretense, she "fooled the other boarders in the rooming house where we lived by frantically switching clothes and dashing in and out of the house by the fire escape and the front door. Then I became exhausted and Karen mysteriously vanished."[16] When Burnett was nine, she taught herself how to do the "Tarzan yell", which she realized years later was a good vocal exercise for volume,[17] and it became a fan favorite. Burnett's first experiences with singing occurred with her family. Her grandmother was a trained musician who could play the piano (although they didn't have one at the time), and her mother played the ukulele, so they sometimes sang popular songs in harmony together around the kitchen table.[18] Her grandmother frequently took Burnett and her sister to the movies - as well as taking a few rolls of toilet paper home from the theater.[19] Years later, the movies she saw in her youth influenced the sketch content in The Carol Burnett Show.[20]

Hollywood Pacific Theatre in 2010, site of Burnett's star

For a while, she worked as an usherette at the Warner Brothers Theater (now the Hollywood Pacific Theatre). When the cinema screened Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), having already seen and enjoyed the film, she advised two patrons arriving during the last five minutes of a showing to wait until the beginning of the next showing to avoid spoiling the ending for them, but the couple insisted on being seated. The manager observed Burnett not letting the couple in and fired her, stripping the epaulettes from her uniform on the spot.[21] Years later in the 1970s after achieving TV stardom, when the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce offered her a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they asked her where she wanted it. She replied "Right in front of where the old Warner Brothers Theater was, at Hollywood and Wilcox", which is where it was placed,[12][22] at 6439 Hollywood Blvd.[23]

Hollywood High School, with mural including alumna Burnett at center

After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1951, she received an anonymous envelope containing $50 for one year's tuition at UCLA, where she initially planned on studying journalism.[17] During her first year of college, she switched her focus to theatre arts and English, with the goal of becoming a playwright. She found she had to take an acting course to enter the playwright program; "I wasn't really ready to do the acting thing, but I had no choice."[24] She followed a sudden impulse in her first performance; "Don't ask me why, but when we were in front of the audience, I suddenly decided I was going to stretch out all my words and my first line came out 'I'm baaaaaaaack!'"[24] The audience response moved her deeply:

They laughed and it felt great. All of a sudden, after so much coldness and emptiness in my life, I knew the sensation of all that warmth wrapping around me. I had always been a quiet, shy, sad sort of girl and then everything changed for me. You spend the rest of your life hoping you'll hear a laugh that great again.[24]

During this time, she performed in several university productions, garnering recognition for her comedic and musical abilities. Her mother disapproved of her acting ambitions:

She wanted me to be a writer. She said you can always write, no matter what you look like. When I was growing up she told me to be a little lady, and a couple of times I got a whack for crossing my eyes or making funny faces. Of course, she never, I never, dreamed I would ever perform.[16]

The young Burnett, always insecure about her looks, responded many years later to her mother's advice of "You can always write, no matter what you look like" by noting "God, that hurt!" in her memoir One More Time (1986). During her junior year at UCLA in 1954, a professor invited Burnett and some other students to perform at a party in place of their class final that had been canceled (which required a performance in front of an audience). Afterwards, a man and his wife approached her while Carol was stuffing cookies in her purse to take home to her grandmother.[25]

Instead of reprimanding her, the man complimented her performance and asked about her future plans. When he learned that she wished to travel to New York in order to try her luck in musical comedy but couldn't afford the trip, right then and there he offered her and her boyfriend Don Saroyan each a $1,000 interest-free loan. His conditions were simply that the loans were to be repaid within five years, his name was never to be revealed, and if she achieved success, she would help other aspiring talents to pursue their artistic dreams. Burnett took him up on his offer; she and Saroyan left college and moved to New York to pursue acting careers. That same year, her father died of causes related to his alcoholism.[26]

Career

1950s: Early career

After spending her first year in New York working as a hat-check girl and failing to land acting jobs, Burnett, along with other girls living at the Rehearsal Club, a boarding house for women seriously pursuing an acting career, put on The Rehearsal Club Revue on March 3, 1955. They mailed invitations to agents, who showed up along with stars like Celeste Holm and Marlene Dietrich, and this opened doors for several of the girls. She was cast in a minor role on The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show in 1955. She played the girlfriend of a ventriloquist's dummy on the popular children's program. This role led to her starring role opposite Buddy Hackett in the short-lived sitcom Stanley from 1956–57.

Burnett and Larry Blyden from The Garry Moore Show, 1960

After Stanley, Burnett found herself unemployed for a short time. She eventually bounced back a few months later as a highly popular performer on the New York circuit of cabarets and night clubs, most notably for a hit parody number called "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" (Dulles was Secretary of State at the time). In 1957, she performed this number on both The Tonight Show, hosted by Jack Paar, and The Ed Sullivan Show. Dulles was asked about her on Meet the Press and joked, “I never discuss matters of the heart in public.”[27]

She also worked as a regular on one of television's earliest game shows, Pantomime Quiz, during this time. In 1957, just as she was achieving her first small successes, her mother died. In October 1960, Burnett debuted at New York's Blue Angel Supper Club, where she was discovered by scouts for The Jack Paar Show and The Ed Sullivan Show.[28]

Burnett's first true taste of success came with her appearance on Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. The same year, she became a regular player on The Garry Moore Show, a job that lasted until 1962. She won an Emmy Award[29] that year for her "Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series" on the show. She portrayed a number of characters, most memorably the put-upon cleaning woman who later became her signature alter-ego. With her success on the Moore Show, Burnett finally rose to headliner status and appeared in the special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (1962), co-starring with her friend Julie Andrews. The show was produced by Bob Banner, directed by Joe Hamilton, and written by Mike Nichols and Ken Welch.[30]1 Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Music, and Burnett won an Emmy for her performance.[31] She also guest-starred on a number of shows during this time, including The Twilight Zone episode "Cavender Is Coming".

In 1964, Burnett starred in the Broadway musical Fade Out – Fade In but was forced to withdraw after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident. She returned to the show later but withdrew again to participate in a variety show, The Entertainers, opposite Caterina Valente and Bob Newhart. The producers of Fade Out – Fade In sued the actress for breach of contract after her absences from the popular show caused its failure, but the suit was later dropped. The Entertainers ran for only one season.[32]

Around the same time, she became good friends with Jim Nabors, who was enjoying great success with his series Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. As a result of their close friendship, she played a recurring role on Nabors' show as a tough corporal, later gunnery sergeant (starting with the episode "Corporal Carol"). Later, Nabors was her first guest on her variety show each season, as she considered him to be her good-luck charm.[33]

In 1959, Lucille Ball became a friend and mentor to Burnett. After having guested on Burnett's highly successful CBS-TV special Carol + 2 and having the younger performer reciprocate by appearing on The Lucy Show, it was rumored that Ball offered Burnett a chance to star on her own sitcom, but in truth Burnett was offered (and declined) Here's Agnes by CBS executives.[34] The two women remained close friends until Ball's death in 1989. Ball sent flowers every year on Burnett's birthday. When Burnett awoke on the day of her 56th birthday in 1989, she discovered via the morning news that Ball had died. Later that afternoon, flowers arrived at Burnett's house with a note reading, "Happy Birthday, Kid. Love, Lucy."[35]

1967–1978: The Carol Burnett Show
Main article: The Carol Burnett Show
The Bob Mackie–designed curtain dress worn by Burnett in the Went with the Wind! sketch, housed at the Smithsonian Institution
On the left, cast members in 1967 (clockwise from the bottom): Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner, on the right, the 1977 cast: Burnett, Tim Conway, Lawrence, and Korman

In 1967, CBS offered to put Burnett in a weekly comedy series called Here's Agnes. However, she had a stipulation in her ten-year contract with CBS that said she had five years from the date The Garry Moore Show ended to "push the button" on hosting thirty one-hour episodes of a music/comedy variety show.[34][36] As a result, the hour-long Carol Burnett Show was born and debuted in September 1967, garnering 23 Emmy Awards and winning or being nominated for multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Awards every season it was on the air. Its ensemble cast included Tim Conway (who was a guest player until the ninth season),[37] Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, and the teenaged Vicki Lawrence, whom Burnett discovered and mentored. The network initially did not want her to do a variety show because it believed only men could be successful at variety, but her contract required that it give her one season of whatever kind of show she wanted to make.[34][38] She chose to carry on the tradition of past variety show successes.

Burnett, in her well-known charwoman character, gets a hand from guest star Rita Hayworth in 1971.

A true variety show, The Carol Burnett Show struck a chord with viewers. Among other things, it parodied films (Went with the Wind! for Gone with the Wind), television (As the Stomach Turns for the soap opera As the World Turns) and commercials. Musical numbers were also a frequent feature. Burnett and her team struck gold with the original sketch "The Family", which eventually was spun off into the television show Mama's Family, starring Vicki Lawrence.

She opened most shows with an impromptu question-and-answer session with the audience, lasting a few minutes, during which she often demonstrated her ability to humorously ad lib. On numerous occasions, she obliged when asked to perform her trademark[39] Tarzan yell.

She ended each show by tugging on her left ear, which was a message to her grandmother. This was done to let her know that she was doing well and that she loved her. During the show's run, her grandmother died. On an Intimate Portrait episode about Burnett, she tearfully recalled her grandmother's last moments: "She said to my husband Joe from her hospital bed 'Joe, you see that spider up there?' There was no spider, but Joe said he did anyhow. She said 'Every few minutes a big spider jumps on that little spider and they go at it like rabbits!!' And then she died. There's laughter in everything!"[40] She continued the tradition of tugging her ear. The show ceased production in 1978. Four post-script episodes were produced and aired on ABC during the summer of 1979 under the title, Carol Burnett & Company basically using the same format and, with the exception of Harvey Korman and Lyle Waggoner, the same supporting cast. Beginning in 1977, the comedy sketches of her series were edited into half-hour episodes for syndication entitled Carol Burnett and Friends, which, for many years, proved to be extremely popular in syndication, and in January 2015 began airing on MeTV.

The show's enduring popularity surprised many when a 2001 retrospective containing outtakes and discussions with the cast, and a tribute to Bob Mackie, drew in 30 million viewers, topping the Emmy Awards as well as all but the final game of that year's World Series.[26] Her Grammy-winning memoir In Such Good Company is about the show, and Burnett tells about how it was developed, with anecdotes about improvisations, the cast, crew, and guests.

1980s: Film roles
Burnett in 1974

Burnett starred in a few films while her variety show was running, including Pete 'n' Tillie (1972). She was nominated for an Emmy in 1974 for her role in the drama 6 Rms Riv Vu. After her show ended, she assumed a number of roles that departed from comedy. She appeared in several dramatic roles, most notably in the television movie Friendly Fire. She appeared as Beatrice O'Reilly in the film Life of The Party: The Story of Beatrice, a story about a woman fighting her alcoholism. Her other film work includes Alan Alda's The Four Seasons (1981), John Huston's Annie (1982), and Peter Bogdanovich's Noises Off (1992).

Voice roles

In 2008, she had her second role as an animated character in the film Horton Hears a Who!. Her first was in The Trumpet of the Swan in 2001. In 2012 she had another voice role in The Secret World of Arrietty. In 2019, she voiced a talking chair, named Chairol Burnett, in Toy Story 4.

1969–2015: Television roles

Burnett was the first celebrity to appear on the children's series Sesame Street, on that series' first episode on November 10, 1969.[41] She also made occasional returns to the stage in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974, she appeared at the Muny Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, in I Do! I Do! with Rock Hudson, and eleven years later, she took the supporting role of Carlotta Campion in the 1985 concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's Follies. She made frequent appearances as a panelist on the game show Password, an association she maintained until the early 1980s (in fact, Mark Goodson awarded her his Silver Password All-Stars Award for best celebrity player; she's also credited with coming up with the title Password Plus, when it was originally planned to be titled Password '79).

In the 1980s and 1990s, she made several attempts at starting a new variety program. She also appeared briefly on The Carol Burnett Show's "The Family" sketches spinoff, Mama's Family, as her stormy character, Eunice Higgins. She played the matriarch in the cult comedy miniseries Fresno, which parodied the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest. She returned to TV in the mid-1990s as a supporting character on the sitcom Mad About You, playing Theresa Stemple, the mother of main character Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt), for which she won another Emmy Award. In 1995, after an absence of 30 years, she was back on Broadway in Moon Over Buffalo, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Four years later, she appeared in the Broadway revue Putting It Together. In 2014, Burnett joined two-time Tony Award Winner, Brian Dennehy, on Broadway in A. R. Gurney's Love Letters.

Burnett had long been a fan of the soap opera All My Children, and realized a dream when Agnes Nixon created the role of Verla Grubbs for her in 1983. Burnett played the long-lost daughter of Langley Wallingford (Louis Edmonds), causing trouble for her stepmother Phoebe Tyler-Wallingford (Ruth Warrick). She made occasional appearances on the soap opera in each decade thereafter. She hosted a 25th-anniversary special about the show in 1995 and made a brief cameo appearance as Verla Grubbs on the January 5, 2005, episode which celebrated the show's 35th anniversary. She reprised her role as Grubbs in September 2011 as part of the series' finale.

She also starred in television films such as Seasons of the Heart (1994). She also returned in 2005 to star in a different role as Queen Aggravain in the movie version of Once Upon a Mattress. She guest-starred in season two of Desperate Housewives as Bree's stepmother, Elanor Mason.

In 2009, she made a guest appearance on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In November 2010, she guest-starred on an episode of Glee as the mother of cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester.[42] She has made a recurring role, traditionally on Thanksgiving-themed episodes, of Hawaii Five-0 as Steve McGarrett's Aunt Debbie since 2013, until Aunt Deb died from cancer in the January 15, 2016 episode.[43][44]

2010s–present

In 2010s aside from the occasional guest starring role on a television show, Burnett has mostly stayed away from the spotlight, receiving honorary awards for her groundbreaking work in comedy. In 2013 she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center. Those who were there to honor Burnett included her longtime friends and collaborators Julie Andrews, Vicki Lawrence, and Tim Conway as well as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, and Martin Short.[45]

In 2017, CBS aired The Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Special. The event featured Burnett, original cast members Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner, costume designer Bob Mackie, and special guests, Jim Carrey, Kristin Chenoweth, Stephen Colbert, Harry Connick Jr., Bill Hader, Jay Leno, Jane Lynch, Bernadette Peters, Maya Rudolph, and Martin Short.[46] Burnett spoke about the adversity she endured, saying "They said it was a man's game — Sid Caesar, Dean Martin, Milton Berle — because it hadn't been done. But that doesn't mean it couldn't be done."[46]

In 2019, the Golden Globes created an award in Burnett's name, the Carol Burnett Award, for career achievement in television. Burnett was also announced as the first recipient of the award. The Hollywood Foreign Press said in a statement "For more than 50 years, comedy trailblazer Carol Burnett has been breaking barriers while making us laugh"[47] Steve Carell presented the award to Burnett.

Personal life

Burnett married her college sweetheart Don Saroyan on December 15, 1955; they divorced in 1962.

On May 4, 1963, she married television producer Joe Hamilton, a divorced father of eight, who had produced her 1962 Carnegie Hall concert; he later produced The Carol Burnett Show among other projects.[48] The couple had three daughters:

  • Carrie Hamilton (December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002); died at the age of 38 from pneumonia as a complication of lung and brain cancer.[26] She was an actress and singer.[49][50][51]
  • Jody Hamilton (born January 18, 1967); she is a producer and actress.[51]
  • Erin Hamilton (born August 14, 1968); she is a singer.[51]

Their marriage ended in divorce in 1984. The challenge of coping with Carrie's drug problems was mentioned as part of the reason for the separation, but the couple took the opportunity to inform other parents about handling such problems and raised money for the clinic in which Carrie was treated.[52] In 1988, Burnett and Carrie took a trip to Moscow to help introduce the first Alcoholics Anonymous branch in the Soviet Union.[26][53] Joe Hamilton died of cancer in 1991.[48] Also in the 1980s Burnett participated in a publicity campaign for MedicAlert, of which she is symbolically the one-millionth member with the one-millionth bracelet.[54]

On November 24, 2001, she married Brian Miller, principal drummer for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, who is 23 years her junior.[26][55]

She has enjoyed close friendships with Lucille Ball, Beverly Sills, Jim Nabors (who became the godfather to her daughter Jody),[33] Julie Andrews and Betty White. She is the acting mentor to her protégée Vicki Lawrence. They share a close friendship, as noted by Lawrence in a testimonial speech during her appearance at Burnett's 2013 Mark Twain Award in Washington, D.C. (recorded and broadcast on PBS Television).[56]

In a 2003 interview with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, Burnett said that both she and her daughter Jody had corrective dental surgery. Burnett had an overbite resulting in a weak chin, and her daughter had an underbite. After consulting the oral surgeon about Jody's bite, he said he could repair hers as well, giving her more of a chin, so both of them got operations. Prior to this, Burnett had worked on the 1982 film Annie and was called back to reshoot part of a scene after having recovered from the surgery. The scene involved her character entering and exiting a closet to retrieve a necklace. She told the director John Huston that she was concerned about her chin looking different from entering the closet to exiting it, and he simply told her to "look determined". The scene is still in the film.[20]

In keeping with her promise to the anonymous benefactor who assisted her in 1954, she has contributed to scholarship programs at UCLA and the University of Hawaii to help people in financial need.[57]

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Carol Burnett among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.[58]

In August 2020, Burnett and her husband petitioned to receive guardianship of Burnett's teenage grandson. Burnett is already "educational rights holder", meaning that she is the one who makes decisions about her grandson's schooling.[59]

Work

Films
Note: Made-for-TV movies are listed in the Television credits section.
Year Title Role Notes
1963 Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? Stella Irving[60][61] [62]
1968 Rowan & Martin at the Movies Herself Documentary short
Star Spangled Salesman Miss Grebs Documentary short
1972 Pete 'n' Tillie Tillie [63]
1974 The Front Page Mollie Malloy [64]
1978 A Wedding Tulip Brenner [65]
1980 HealtH Gloria Burbank [66][67]
1981 The Four Seasons Kate Burroughs [68]
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash Emily "Chu Chu" Laedecker [69]
1982 Annie Miss Hannigan [70]
1992 Noises Off Dotty Otley / Mrs. Clackett
1997 Moon Over Broadway Herself Documentary film[71]
1999 Get Bruce Herself Documentary film[72]
2001 The Trumpet of the Swan Mrs. Hammerbotham (voice) [73]
2004 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There Herself Documentary film[74]
2008 Horton Hears a Who! Kangaroo (voice) [75]
2009 Post Grad Grandma Maureen [76]
2012 The Secret World of Arrietty Hara (voice) [77]
2019 Toy Story 4 Chairol Burnett (voice) [78]
2020 All Together Now Joan [79]

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1955 The Paul Winchell Show Guest Episode: "Episode #6.19"
1956 Stanley Celia Episode: "The New Year's Party"
Omnibus Singer Episode: "The American Musical Comedy"
1959–62 The Garry Moore Show Herself Contract role
1962 Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall[80] Herself TV special[81]
1962 The Jack Benny Program Herself / Jane Episode: "Jack Plays Tarzan"
The Twilight Zone Agnes Grep Episode: "Cavender Is Coming"
1963 An Evening with Carol Burnett[80] Herself TV special
The Jack Benny Program Herself / Cindy Lou Wilson Episode: "Riverboat Sketch"
Calamity Jane Calamity Jane[82][83][84][85] Made-for-TV movie
1964 Once Upon a Mattress Princess Winnifred[86] Made-for-TV movie
1964–65 The Entertainers Herself Recurring role, 7 episodes
1966–67 The Lucy Show Carol Bradford Recurring role, 4 episodes
1966 Password Herself Celebrity guest star
1966 Carol + 2 Herself Variety/sketch comedy[87][88]
1967 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Sergeant Carol Barnes Episode: "Corporal Carol"
Get Smart "Ozark" Annie Jones Episode: "One of Our Olives Is Missing"
1967–78 The Carol Burnett Show Herself / Skit characters Variety/sketch comedy television series.
1969–71 Here's Lucy Herself / Carol Krausmeyer Recurring role, 3 episodes
1969 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. Sergeant Carol Barnes Episode: "Showtime with Sgt. Carol"
1971 Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center[80] Herself TV special[89]
1969–71 Sesame Street Herself Recurring[90][91]
1972 Once Upon a Mattress Princess Winifred the Woebegone Made-for-TV movie[92]
1974 6 Rms Riv Vu Anne Miller Made-for-TV movie[93]
Out to Lunch Herself TV special directed by Bill Davis.
1975 Twigs Emily / Celia / Dorothy / Ma Made-for-TV movie[94]
1976 The Sonny & Cher Show Herself / Various Characters 2 episodes
Van Dyke and Company Herself Episode: "Episode #1.5"
Sills and Burnett at the Met[80] Herself Music special[95]
1977 Insight Eve Episode: "This Side of Eden"
3 Girls 3 Guest Pilot
1978 The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank Dorothy Benson Made-for-TV movie[96]
1979 Dolly and Carol in Nashville Herself TV special
Password Plus Herself Celebrity Guest Star
Friendly Fire Peg Mullen Made-for-TV movie[97]
Carol Burnett & Company Skit characters Variety/sketch comedy television series.
The Tenth Month Dori Grey Made-for-TV movie[98]
1980 The Wild Wacky Wonderful World of Winter Stripper HBO special[99]
The Muppet Show Herself Episode: "Carol Burnett"
1981–95 Great Performances Herself / Carlotta Campion Recurring role, 4 episodes
1982 Eunice Eunice Harper Higgins Made-for-TV movie[100]
Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice Beatrice O'Reilly Made-for-TV movie[101]
1983 All My Children Verla Grubbs Recurring 1983–95, 2011
Between Friends Mary Catherine Castelli Made-for-TV movie[102]
Mama's Family Eunice Higgins Recurring role, 6 episodes
1984 Burnett Discovers Domingo Herself TV special directed[103][104][105]
1984–88 Magnum, P.I. Susan Johnson Recurring role, 2 episodes
1985 The Laundromat Alberta Johnson Made-for-TV movie[106]
Happily Ever After Narrator Made-for-TV movie[107]
1986 Fresno Charlotte Kensington Miniseries[108]
1987 Plaza Suite[80][109] Karen Nash / Muriel Tate / Norma Hubley Made-for-TV movie[110]
Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin[80] Herself Comedy special[111]
Fame Rose Episode: "Reggie and Rose"
1988 Hostage[112] Martha Made-for-TV movie[113]
1989 Julie & Carol: Together Again Herself TV special[114]
1990–91 Carol & Company Skit characters Comedy anthology series.[115]
1991 The Carol Burnett Show Skit characters Variety/sketch comedy television series.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Various TV special[116]
1992 The Larry Sanders Show Herself 2 episodes
1993 The Carol Burnett Show: A Reunion[80] Herself TV special directed by Dave Powers.[117]
1994 Carol Burnett: The Special Years Archival footage of herself TV special[118]
Seasons of the Heart Vivian Levinson Made-for-TV movie[119]
Men, Movies & Carol[80] Herself TV special directed by Paul Miller.[120]
1995 Women of the House Herself Episode: "Women in Film"
1996–99 Mad About You Theresa Stemple, Jamie's mother Recurring role, 10 episodes
1997 Touched by an Angel Lillian Bennett Episode: "The Comeback"
1998 The Marriage Fool Florence Made-for-TV movie[121]
2000 Putting It Together The Wife TV special[122]
2001 The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers[80] Herself Also executive producer
2004 The Carol Burnett Show: Let's Bump Up the Lights! Herself Also executive producer
2005 Once Upon a Mattress Queen Aggravain Made-for-TV movie
2006 Desperate Housewives Eleanor Mason Episode: "Don't Look at Me"
2007 American Masters: Tribute to Carol Burnett Archival footage of herself Television Special
2009 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Birdie Sulloway Episode: "Ballerina"
2010–15 Glee Doris Sylvester[42] Recurring role, 2 episodes
2013–14 Curious George Great Aunt Sylvia (voice) 2 episodes
2013–15 Hot in Cleveland Penny Recurring role, 2 episodes
2013–16 Hawaii Five-0 Aunt Deb McGarrett[43][44] Recurring role, 3 episodes
2014 Signed, Sealed, Delivered Ardis Paine Episode: "A Hope and a Future"
2017 Julie's Greenroom Mrs. Edna Brightful Episode: "Mash-Up: The Musical"[123]
Household Name Vivian Valmont TV pilot
The Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Special Herself TV special directed by Paul Miller.
2018 A Little Help with Carol Burnett Herself Host, 12 episodes
2018 Angie Tribeca President Priscilla Filcox Episode: "Air Force Two"
2019 Forky Asks a Question Chairol Burnett Episode: "What is Love?"
2019 Mad About You Theresa Stemple Episode: "Happy Birthday, Bon Voyage, Goodbye For Now"

Theatre
As Calamity Jane in 1963
Year Title Role Theatre Venue Notes
1959 Once Upon a Mattress Princess Winnifred Alvin Theatre
1961/63 Calamity Jane Calamity Jane Music Hall at Fair Park
1964 Fade Out – Fade In Hope Springfield Mark Hellinger Theatre
1974 I Do! I Do! Agnes National tour
1977/80 Same Time, Next Year Doris The Huntington Hartford Theatre
1985 Follies Carlotta Avery Fisher Hall
1990 Love Letters Melissa Gardner The Canon Theatre, Los Angeles
1993 Company Joanne The Long Beach Civic Light Opera
1995 Moon Over Buffalo Charlotte Hay Martin Beck Theatre
1999 Putting It Together Wife Ethel Barrymore Theatre
2002 Hollywood Arms N/A Cort Theatre co-playwright
2014 Love Letters Melissa Brooks Atkinson Theatre

Bibliography

Memoirs
Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6439 Hollywood Blvd.

Burnett and her oldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, co-wrote Hollywood Arms (2002), a play based on Burnett's bestselling memoir, One More Time (1986). The show was developed at the 1998 Sundance Theatre Lab and The Goodman Theatre before arriving on Broadway directed by Harold Prince.[124][125] Sara Niemietz and Donna Lynne Champlin shared the role of Helen (the character based on Burnett); Michele Pawk played Louise, Helen's mother, and Linda Lavin played Helen's grandmother. For her performance, Pawk received the 2003 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.[126] The show received a staging at New York's Merkin Concert Hall in 2015.[127]

Burnett has written three memoirs each receiving a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Books
  • Mendoza, George; Burnett, Carol (1975). What I Want to Be When I Grow Up. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0671221591.
  • Burnett, Carol (1986). One More Time : A Memoir By Carol Burnett (1st ed.). New York City: Random House. ISBN 978-0394552545.
  • Burnett, Carol (2011). This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection (Reprint ed.). New York City: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0307461193.
  • Burnett, Carol (2014). Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story (Reprint ed.). New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1476755793.
  • Burnett, Carol (2016). In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox. New York City: Crown Archetype. ISBN 978-1101904657.

Albums

Recording appearances as a singer.[130]

Solo/Duet Album:

Other Recordings:

Awards and recognition
Year Award Category Nominated work Role Result Ref.
1962 Peabody Award Personal Award Her comedic performances Herself Won [147]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series The Garry Moore Show Won [148]
1963 Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall and An Evening with Carol Burnett Won [149]
1968 Golden Globe Award Best TV Star – Female The Carol Burnett Show Herself /Skit Characters Won [150]
1969 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series Nominated [151]
1970 Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy Won [152]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series Nominated [153]
1971 Golden Globe Award Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy Producer (shared with executive producer Joe Hamilton and producer Arnie Rosen) Won [154]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Performance in a Variety or Musical Program or Series Nominated [155]
1972 Outstanding Variety Series – Musical Won [156]
Outstanding Single Program – Variety or Musical – Variety and Popular Music Julie and Carol at Lincoln Center Herself Nominated [157]
Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy The Carol Burnett Show Herself /Skit Characters Won [158]
1973 Nominated [159]
Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical or Comedy Pete 'n' Tillie Tillie Nominated [160]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Variety Musical Series The Carol Burnett Show Producer (with executive producer Joe Hamilton and producers Bill Angelos, Buz Kohan and Arnie Rosen) Nominated [161]
1974 Outstanding Music-Variety Series Won [162]
Best Lead Actress in a Drama 6 Rms Riv Vu Anne Miller Nominated [163]
Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy The Carol Burnett Show Herself /Skit Characters Nominated [164]
1975 Nominated [165]
Hollywood Walk of Fame Achievement in the entertainment industry Herself Won [12][22]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series The Carol Burnett Show Producer (with executive producer Joe Hamilton and producer Ed Simmons) Won [166]
1976 Nominated [167]
Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music Sills and Burnett at the Met Herself (with Beverly Sills and producer Joe Hamilton) Nominated [168]
Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy The Carol Burnett Show Herself /Skit Characters Nominated [169]
1977 Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy Herself /Skit Characters Won [170]
1978 Won [171]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Comedy-Variety or Music Series Producer (with executive producer Joe Hamilton and producer Ed Simmons) Nominated [172]
1979 Golden Globe Award Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy The Carol Burnett Show Nominated [173]
Best Motion Picture Actress in a Supporting Role A Wedding Tulip Brenner Nominated [174]
Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special Friendly Fire Peg Mullen Nominated [175]
1980 Crystal Award Women in Film In recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television Won [176]
1982 Golden Globe Award Best Motion Picture Actress – Comedy or Musical The Four Seasons Kate Burroughs Nominated [177]
1983 Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical Annie Miss Hannigan Nominated [178]
Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice Beatrice O'Reilly Nominated [179]
1985 Television Hall of Fame Inductee Achievement in the entertainment industry Herself Won [180]
1991 Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actress in a TV Series – Comedy or Musical Carol & Company Skit characters Nominated [181]
1992 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series The Larry Sanders Show Herself Nominated [182]
1995 Achievement or Performance Music Dance Cultural Men, Movies & Carol Nominated [183]
1997 Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Mad About You Theresa Stemple Won [184]
Crystal Award Women in Film In recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television Won [176]
1998 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Mad About You Theresa Stemple Nominated [185]
2002 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers Producer (with executive producers John Hamilton and Rick Hawkins, producers Jody Hamilton and Mary Jo Blue) Nominated [186]
2005 Presidential Medal of Freedom Civil awards and decorations of the United States Civil award on November 9 Herself Won [187]
2009 Primetime Emmy Award Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Birdie Sulloway Nominated [188]
2011 Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection Herself Nominated [189]
2013 Mark Twain Prize Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Achievement in the entertainment industry awarded on October 20 Won [27]
2014 Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album Carrie and Me Nominated [190]
2015 Lifetime Achievement Award Screen Actors Guild Achievement in the entertainment industry Won [191]
2017 Grammy Award Best Spoken Word Album In Such Good Company: Eleven Years Of Laughter, Mayhem, And Fun In The Sandbox Won [192]
2018 Peabody Award Career Achievement Award Achievements in her career Herself Won [193]
2019 Golden Globe Award Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television Entire Career Herself Won [194]

Other honors

Litigation

Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc

Main article: Burnett v. National Enquirer, Inc.

In 1976, a false report in the nation's leading supermarket tabloid, The National Enquirer, incorrectly implied that Burnett had been drunk and boisterous in public at a restaurant with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in attendance. The fact that both of her parents suffered from alcoholism made this a particularly sensitive issue to her. Through years of persistent litigation, she won a judgment against the Enquirer, in 1981. Though the initial jury award of $1.6 million was reduced to $200,000 by a series of appeals, and the final settlement was out of court, the event was widely viewed as a historic victory for libel victims of tabloid journalism.[200][201][202][203][204][205][206]

The former longtime chief editor Iain Calder in his book The Untold Story asserted that after the Burnett lawsuit, while under his leadership, the Enquirer worked hard to check the reliability of its facts and its sources.

Carol Burnett and Whacko, Inc. vs. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

In 2007, Burnett and Whacko, Inc. brought a suit against Twentieth Century Fox requesting at least $2 million in damages, alleging copyright infringement, violation of publicity rights, and misappropriation of name and likeness due to the use of her charwoman character and an altered version of "Carol's Theme", the theme song used in The Carol Burnett Show, without her permission. The character and theme were used in the "Peterotica" episode of Family Guy when the characters discuss the cleanliness of a porn shop and one of them states it is so clean because Burnett works there as a janitor. The charwoman is shown mopping the floor in the porn shop, and the characters subsequently discuss Burnett's ear tug and make a crude comment about it. Burnett and her company requested that Fox remove all references to her, the theme and the character but the studio did not.[207][208] The suit was ruled in favor of the defendant because the bit was a parody, which is protected by the First Amendment. The judge agreed that the portrayal was crude but stated that the character Burnett created was far more creative than anything the Family Guy team could come up with on their own.[209]

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Notes
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