The Carol Burnett Show, American television variety and sketch comedy program comprising skits, musical comedy, and vaudeville-style performances by the eponymous Carol Burnett, members of her comedy troupe, and various guest stars. The Carol Burnett Show aired for 11 seasons (1967–78) on CBS and was a staple of the network’s Saturday-night lineup for most of that period. Burnett’s cast of regulars included Lyle Waggoner (until 1974), Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, and Tim Conway (first as a guest star, then as a regular after 1975). These entertainers combined the spontaneity and energy of live performance (including question-and-answer segments with the studio
Carol Burnett, in full Carol Creighton Burnett, (born April 26, 1933, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.), American comedian and actress who starred in a long-running eponymous television variety show in the 1960s and ’70s. As a young girl growing up during the Great Depression, Burnett spent many hours in movie theatres, developing a love for motion pictures and a desire to act. She studied acting at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in the 1950s, discovering in herself a natural ability to make audiences laugh. In 1955 a mysterious benefactor who enjoyed her work loaned her the money to move
Every few days it seems that we learn of another restaurant in the Capital Region that is closing for good. This time it's a well-known family-owned Italian restaurant in Guilderland.