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One-hour comedy variety show. so i pushed the button. and theyd forgotten about this clause in that contract. and they looked it up and called me back the next day and said, well, you know, carol, thats great, but comedy, variety is a mans game. its sid caesar, milton berle, jackie gleeson, its not for you gals. and i said, well, this gal really wants to do, and they had to put us on. >> because it was in the contract. >> yes, they wanted me to do a sitcom called "heres agnes". can you picture i...

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NBC is celebrating the comedian and actor with a special, "Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love."

We sat down with Carol Burnett to look back on all the laughs she has given us throughout the years, starting with her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959. Burnett discusses her 'big break,' reveals why she likes doing television more than Broadway, and how Bernadette Peters was the first person she asked to be on The Carol Burnett Show.

To the editor: I miss the days when the Catskills hotels featured performances by live entertainers like Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar.

Students of Mel Brooks – who has a more important place in American comedy than we, and I suspect even he, have acknowledged – have had thin gruel so far. The emphasis has always rested on Woody Allen, the other New York-born Jewish comic and film-maker who wrote for Sid Caesar – at least since

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A new museum celebrating the glory days of the Borscht Belt is slated to open this summer.

Comedians Henny Youngman, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Sid Caesar, Joan Rivers, Jackie Mason, Carl Reiner and even Jerry Seinfeld perfected their sharp one-liners in hotel resorts and bungalow colonies across Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties.

Will "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" go out on top? Hear from the stars of the show during a special episode that breaks down the iconic comedy.