{"id":1917540,"date":"2023-04-21T05:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-comedian-carol-burnett-says-her-show-could-never-happen-today-misses-classic-comedy-sketch-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T05:12:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T09:12:04","slug":"legendary-comedian-carol-burnett-says-her-show-could-never-happen-today-misses-classic-comedy-sketch-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legendary-comedian-carol-burnett-says-her-show-could-never-happen-today-misses-classic-comedy-sketch-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Comedian Carol Burnett Says Her Show Could Never Happen Today, Misses Classic Comedy Sketch Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegendary-comedian-carol-burnett-says-her-show-could-never-happen-today-misses-classic-comedy-sketch-entertainment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1917540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Legendary comedian Carol Burnett said her hit show could never happen today as she acknowledged that she misses the classic comedy sketch entertainment shows and would love to see them make a \u201ccome back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 89-year-old actress reflected on her long career in Hollywood and doing \u201cThe Carol Burnett Show,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/carol-burnett-reveals-misses-comedy-dont-think-network-take-chance\">Fox News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to see variety come back,\u201d Burnett told the outlet. \u201cBut [the networks] could never do what we did because I think the cost would be extravagant now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a 28-piece orchestra, 12 dancers,\u201d she added. \u201cWe had 60 to 75 costumes a week. Bob Mackie designed for our guest stars. All of that you couldn\u2019t do today. It would be too much. We did kind of a Broadway mini-musical comedy review every week. And that couldn\u2019t be done today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there could be a hybrid of some way to do a variety show because there are people who could certainly do variety,\u201d Burnett continued. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think a network would take a chance. I just wish they would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hollywood star reflected on her career and admitted that CBS executives initially discouraged her from doing the show how she wanted. She said a vice president at the network told her that variety was \u201ca man\u2019s game\u201d reserved for the likes of then-stars like Jackie Gleason and Dean Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd [they] had a sitcom they wanted me to do, to which I said, \u2018I don\u2019t want to be the same person every week. I want variety, I want music, I want different characters to do,&#8217;\u201d Burnett said. \u201cThey had to put us on the air because I had a 10-year contract \u2026 I just said, \u2018This is what I know, and this is what I want to do.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t deterred at all. I just simply said, \u2018I want to have fun.\u2019 And I pushed for that. They had to put it on the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burnett went on to have monster success with her show on CBS from 1967 to 1978, followed by nine episodes in the fall of 1991.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-7187\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>At one point in the interview, she also opened up about the upcoming two-hour special in her honor titled \u201cCarol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I love about it was the fact that it wasn\u2019t a roast, and it wasn\u2019t a birthday party with a cake and balloons and stuff,\u201d Burnett told the outlet.\u00a0\u201cIt was a two-hour variety show. We had a 19-piece orchestra and I had so many friends who were there. And the live entertainment, my gosh\u2026 It was really exciting. It was just a party \u2013 everybody had a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary comedian Carol Burnett said her hit show could never happen today as she acknowledged that she misses the classic comedy sketch entertainment shows and would love to see them make a \u201ccome back.\u201d The 89-year-old actress reflected on her long career in Hollywood and doing \u201cThe Carol Burnett Show,\u201d Fox News reported. \u201cI\u2019d like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1917541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[16812,8825,13875,8194,7958,14890,6952,11846,15392,24789,11224],"class_list":["post-1917540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-burnett","tag-carol","tag-classic","tag-comedian","tag-comedy","tag-entertainment","tag-happen","tag-legendary","tag-misses","tag-sketch","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1917540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1917540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1917540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1917540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}