The secret to the show's longevity, Burnett believes, is that it shied away from topical humor. "I get mail now from 10-year-olds and teenagers who discovered me on YouTube and MeTV," she said. on Sundays on MeTV - in Milwaukee, on Channel 58.2 and Channel 19 on Spectrum cable. A half-hour version of the show airs at 10 p.m. The questions keep coming because "The Carol Burnett Show" keeps finding new audiences. People usually end up asking questions about working with members of the show's cast, like Tim Conway or Vicki Lawrence or Harvey Korman, or the show's many guests, like Julie Andrews or Steve Lawrence. That said, there is some predictability in "An Evening of Laughter and Reflection," Burnett said. "I never know what the audience is going to ask because I don’t want any preplanned questions," she said. The one constant in the live appearances like the one at the Riverside is they're unrehearsed. My mother’s a hundred and three.’ ” 'Flying without a net'īurnett loves those kind of unexpected moments. And they're pretty determined.Īt an appearance last month, “I just called on this lady, and she said, ‘I bought two tickets two years ago for my 101-year-old mother and me.’ I said, ‘Oh, really?’ And she said, ‘And we’re here tonight. Many of the people coming to her shows on this year's tour have been waiting for two years. The May 1 show at the Riverside initially was scheduled for May 2020, then postponed to July 2020 and again to May 2021. And it soon became one of my favorite things to do.” "It wasn’t until the third or fourth week after doing it that the audience who had seen us came ready to ask questions. “I was terrified of doing Q&As at first, when it was suggested that I do that," Burnett said of the format she opened her TV show with for 11 years. She'd take the stage, audience members would get her attention, she'd call on them and they'd ask whatever question they wanted.
It's more or less the bit she used to open "The Carol Burnett Show," the still-beloved comedy-variety show that aired from 1967-'78 on CBS, and for decades since in reruns. If the format sounds familiar, that's because it is. " … It was like going back home.”īurnett is coming to Milwaukee's Riverside Theater May 1 for "An Evening of Laughter and Reflection Where the Audience Asks Questions." It felt like no time had passed at all,” the TV legend, who turns 89 on April 26, said in an interview this month. “It felt like getting right back on a horse again, or a bicycle - you know. View Gallery: Photos: Carol Burnett through the yearsĪfter two years in lockdown, Carol Burnett is back on the road, doing what she loves: Taking questions from and chatting with fans.
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