Carol Burnett
Dec 3, 2024 · 56 min · 12 segments
Carol Burnett’s life has always spun around the movies. She tells Ben Mankiewicz about her childhood spent in Hollywood movie theaters, the famous actor who helped her break into showbiz, and the…
Dec 3, 2024 · 56 min · 12 segments
Carol Burnett’s life has always spun around the movies. She tells Ben Mankiewicz about her childhood spent in Hollywood movie theaters, the famous actor who helped her break into showbiz, and the…
Carol BurnettGuest
Ben MankiewiczHost
After 65 years in the business, Carol Burnett is still acting, still doing comedy.
Set in 1969 at an exclusive country club in Florida, the show follows Maxine Delacorte Simmons, played by Kristen Wiig, as she desperately tries to be accepted into Palm Beach High Society.
What if I am? It would be if I could Smother you with this pillow.
won't you just freaking die, Norma?
See? You don't have it in you.
Must be very nice then to be included with all these incredibly gifted people like Kristen Wiig and Allison Janney.
Well, when they called me about doing it, this was a couple of years ago, I said, well, who's in it? And the minute they said Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Laura Dern, on and on, Julia Duffy, I said, I don't care what you want me to do.
You were not then an 88 or 89-year-old woman a couple years ago who didn't know who Kristen Wiig was.
After 65 years in the business, Carol Burnett is still acting, still doing comedy.
Set in 1969 at an exclusive country club in Florida, the show follows Maxine Delacorte Simmons, played by Kristen Wiig, as she desperately tries to be accepted into Palm Beach High Society.
What if I am? It would be if I could Smother you with this pillow.
won't you just freaking die, Norma?
See? You don't have it in you.
Must be very nice then to be included with all these incredibly gifted people like Kristen Wiig and Allison Janney.
Well, when they called me about doing it, this was a couple of years ago, I said, well, who's in it? And the minute they said Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Laura Dern, on and on, Julia Duffy, I said, I don't care what you want me to do.
You were not then an 88 or 89-year-old woman a couple years ago who didn't know who Kristen Wiig was.
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