Happy 90th birthday, Carol Burnett! Times TV critic Robert Lloyd looks back at her career ahead of a new special, “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love.”
. It’s common knowledge that tugging her ear lobe began as a message to her grandmother. We know CarolEleven seasons of “The Carol Burnett Show,” from 1967 to 1978, made Burnett family to more than one generation of television viewers, all the more as it was a show families watched together.
By the time “The Carol Burnett Show” premiered, Burnett had already won three Emmys: one for “Moore”; one for her 1962 special with Julie Andrews, “” ; and the 1963 “An Evening With Carol Burnett,” featuring Robert Preston. “Once Upon a Mattress,” which made her a Broadway star in 1959, was mounted for television in 1964 , following a 1963 broadcast of “Tracey Ullman as Princess Winnifred, left, and Carol Burnett as Queen Aggravain in the 2005 film version of “Once Upon a Mattress.
Her series brought her back west, to “Television City in Hollywood.” CBS had wanted a situation comedy, but Burnett had the contractual power to demand a variety show, combining sketches and musical numbers. And yet its long-running, little-changing central cast — Burnett,
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