Incannerax
What a waste of my time!!!
Hattie
I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Kinley
This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Staci Frederick
Blistering performances.
Thomas
If my siblings and I were good, my mother would allow us to stay up until 11pm to watch 'The Carol Burnett Show' each Saturday night in the 1970s.To say Carol, along with her co-stars Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Vicki Lawrence, were talented and funny would be an understatement. Each Saturday at 10pm, Carol and the aforementioned regulars, along with some 'special guest stars' (such as Steve Lawrence, Betty White, Roddy McDowall, and Julie Andrews, to mention a few) would sing, dance, and perform the absolute funniest skits ever seen on American television.Who could forget Carol's "Eunice" constantly being belittled and nagged by Vicki's "Momma"? Carol's "Mrs. Wh-Whiggins" was a riot, along with Tim's "Mr. Tudball", and perhaps the funniest segments were those with both Tim and Harvey. The audience never seemed to mind it when Harvey lost control and laughed out of character.Today's Hollywood elitist performers could learn a lot from this classic TV show: Carol Burnett and her co-stars entertained us for ten years without foul language, tasteless humor, sexual innuendo, or inserting politics. On the contrary, Tim, Harvey, Vicki, and Carol conducted themselves as professionals.This show is classic American comedy for all ages. I highly recommend this outstanding program.
elijahbailey
The Carol Burnett Show was the last great stand of the variety show format and what a stand it was! One of the best comedy talent line-ups ever to grace a sound stage, enhanced by wardrobe genius Bob Mackie's fabulous costuming, gave the country a weekly joy ride.One of the funniest moments in the history of American television came during the show's send up of Margaret Mitchell's epic Civil War story retitled "Went With The Wind." The moment that "Miss Starlett" (Burnett in the Vivien Leigh role) appears at the top of the staircase in the green velvet dress made from curtains, complete with rods, ranks as one of television's most exuberantly hilarious sight gags. And one of the longest sustained laughs. This sketch alone fully justifies the Carol Burnett Show being remembered as one of the most entertaining comedy programs ever. And there were so MANY other skits as well!
TxMike
Carol Burnett is a talented singer and comic actress, and I don't doubt that she could have had a successful one-woman TV show. But she didn't try. Her variety show was wildly successful because of her supporting cast. Before Saturday Night Live ever existed, Carol and her regulars were putting on hilarious short skits.Tim Conway was arguably the most inventive and funniest guy on TV back then, and maybe even in the history of TV. He had this way of crawling into the character he was playing and make it completely off beat. Add to that all the ad libbing he did, and in many episodes you could see the others on stage with him barely restraining their laughter. Harvey Korman was also a jewel in the crown of her show. He was not as inventive as Conway, but was mostly effective as an ensemble player, and often the butt of Conway's humor.Vicki Lawrence was an interesting cast member. I remember when she was added. Carol was looking for a 'look alike' to play her sister, and Vicki was chosen from among a group being considered. She was not new to show business and even has a hit record on her own. She joined the troupe and became a TV success eventually with her own show.The list of funny and talented personalities that joined Carol on her show at various times is almost endless, but some of my favorites were Ken Berry, Joel Grey, Dick Van Dyke, Lyle Waggoner, Nanette Fabray, and Jim Nabors, trained operatic singer who became famous as Gomer Pyle.
Brian Washington
This was definitely the finest variety show of the 1970's. The thing that made it great besides the cast were the various recurring sketches that were very expertly created. Sketches like Tudball and Wiggins, the Old Folks, As the Stomach Turns, the kid sister and, of course, Eunice, which was the inspiration for the series "Mama's Family", helped to make this variety hour a classic. Besides "Mama and Eunice" any one of these shows could have become a series on its own. The only thing that caused the show to go downhill though was when Harvey Korman left. He was probably the best player among the supporting cast and when he left the show declined from there. Still, Saturday nights for me would always climax with this classic show.