Carol Burnett Receives Top US Humor Prize in DC

[Hum]

WASHINGTON ? When Carol Burnett launched her namesake variety show in the 1960s, one TV executive told her the genre was "a man's game." She proved him wrong with an 11-year run that averaged 30 million viewers each week.

On Sunday, the trailblazing comedienne received the nation's top humor prize at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Top entertainers including Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and others performed in Burnett's honor as she received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

The show will be taped and broadcast Nov. 24 on PBS stations.

"This is very encouraging," Burnett deadpanned in accepting the prize. "I mean it was a long time in coming, but I understand because there are so many people funnier than I am, especially here in Washington.

"With any luck, they'll soon get voted out, and I'll still have the Mark Twain prize."

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[Growled Member]

I've watched the show in reruns. It was very funny at times. I loved the way that Tim Conway and Harvey Korman would try to crack each other up.

[DocM]

TRY to crack each other up?!?

Conway OWNED Korman and could turn him into putty at will :D

One of the best shows EVER, and Carol Burnett deserved this long ago.