Carol Burnett knows the impact her variety show had on viewers.
Burnett told People that she became enamored with variety television after performing on “The Garry Moore Show.” She became a regular on the show while starring in “Once Upon A Mattress” on Broadway.
“I really enjoyed doing the television show as much, if not more so, than I enjoyed doing the Broadway show for the simple reason that with the television variety show, I could do different characters each week,” she said “I could do different songs, different musical numbers each week as opposed to being the same character eight times a week on the Broadway stage for a year.”
When she got the chance to have her own show, five years after working on “The Garry Moore Show,” she said she knew she wanted the same type of program. But she said they initially steered her away from the genre because a woman had never hosted a show like that. “When I got my own show, they tried to talk me out of it to do a sitcom,” she explained. “I said, 'No. I want to do comedy variety.'”"I decided to hang it up after 11 years because we'd done just about everything that I could think of," she said."It was nice. The network wanted us back for a twelfth year, but I wanted to leave before they asked us to leave, before they started flicking the lights on and off. It's nice to leave while you're ahead.
Her comedy chops are beloved today. Before the premiere of Season 48 of"Saturday Night Live" last October, fans"Who agrees, it's way past time for Carol Burnett to host SNL? Come on Carol, do it!” one person
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