“For more than 50 years, comedy trailblazer Carol Burnett has been breaking barriers while making us laugh”
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American comedian, actress, singer and writer. Burnett has played dramatic and comedic roles on stage and screen. She has received numerous awards and accolades, including seven Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, seven Primetime Emmy Awards, twelve People's Choice Awards, two Peabody Awards and a Tony Award. Burnett was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of F…
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Born 26 April 1933 · Q255565
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2026· 2 entries
“I should have been given the award for”
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2025· 2 entries
UCLA announced that Burnett had " endowed a scholarship at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT)
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Played herself in the Max comedy series Hacks season four episode entitled, "I Love L
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2024· 1 entry
At age 91, she became the oldest nominee for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, for her work in Palm Royale
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2023· 1 entry
Burnett was honored for her music, film, television, and theater roles by her friends and fellow actors and singers on her 90th birthday in the NBC special Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love, which was filmed at
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2022· 1 entry
“I was a big fan of Breaking Bad and I knew Vince Gilligan...When they started Better Call Saul, I got hooked on that and he said,”
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2019· 6 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Carol Burnett is dead.” Pants on Fire.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The actor and comedian Carol Burnett died in December 2019.” Labeled Satire.
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The Golden Globes created the Carol Burnett Award for career achievement in television, giving Burnett the first award
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Voiced a talking chair, named Chairol Burnett, in Toy Story 4
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The Golden Globes created an award in Burnett's name, the Carol Burnett Award, for career achievement in television
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Became the first recipient of the Carol Burnett Lifetime Achievement Award for Television, which was named in her honor
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2017· 1 entry
CBS aired The Carol Burnett Show: 50th Anniversary Special
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2014· 1 entry
Burnett joined two-time Tony Award winner Brian Dennehy on Broadway in A
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2013).
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Received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
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Received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center
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2012· 2 entries
Released album “The CBS Television Specials”.
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Had another voice role as the character Hara in the US Disney-dubbed version of The Secret World of Arrietty
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded California Hall of Fame (2009).
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Made a guest appearance on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
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2008· 1 entry
Had her second role as an animated character in the film Horton Hears a Who
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2005· 3 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by George W. Bush (2005).
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To star in a different role as Queen Aggravain in the movie version of Once Upon a Mattress
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Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, awarded to her by President George W
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2003· 1 entry
Was honored with the Kennedy Center Honor
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2001· 1 entry
Burnett married drummer Brian Miller, who is 23 years her junior
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Library of Congress Living Legend (2000).
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Released album “Carol Burnett Remembers How They Stopped the Show / Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings”.
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Lucy Award (1997).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for Mad About You (1997).
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1995· 2 entries
After an absence of 30 years, she was back on Broadway in Moon Over Buffalo, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play
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And made a brief cameo appearance as Verla Grubbs on the January 5, 2005, episode which celebrated the show's 35th anniversary
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1992· 1 entry
And in the sitcom Mad About You, playing Theresa Stemple, the mother of main character Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
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1989· 1 entry
Discovered via the morning news that Ball had died
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1988· 1 entry
Burnett and Carrie took a trip to Moscow to help introduce the first Alcoholics Anonymous branch in the Soviet Union
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1987· 1 entry
Starred in a variety sketch special, Carol, Carl, Whoopi and Robin alongside Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams
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1980· 1 entry
Awarded Crystal Award (1980).
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1977· 1 entry
The comedy sketches of her series were edited into half-hour episodes for syndication entitled Carol Burnett and Friends, which for many years proved to be extremely popular in syndication
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1976· 1 entry
The tabloid newspaper The National Enquirer published an article alleging that Burnett had been drunk and boisterous in public at a restaurant with U
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1975).
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The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2013, and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2015
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Featuring 'If I Could Write A Song'”.
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1969· 1 entry
Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (1969).
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “Together Again for the First Time”.
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1967· 3 entries
Won Los Angeles Times Women of the Year Silver Cup (1967).
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After CBS offered Burnett Here's Agnes, she exercised a stipulation in her ten-year contract with CBS that said she had five years from the date The Garry Moore Show ended to "push the button" on hosting thirty one-hour
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Released album “Carol Burnett Sings”.
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1964· 2 entries
Burnett starred in the Broadway musical Fade Out – Fade In but was forced to withdraw after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident
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Released album “Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings”.
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1963· 4 entries
Burnett married television producer Joe Hamilton, a divorced father of eight and brother of actress Kipp Hamilton who had produced her 1962 Carnegie Hall concert
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Made her feature film debut in the comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed
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Released album “Carol Burnett Remembers How They Stopped The Show”.
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When CBS aired that production on November 12, 1963
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1962· 1 entry
Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award (1962).
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1960).
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1959· 2 entries
Lucille Ball became a friend and mentor to Burnett
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In Once Upon a Mattress, for which she received a Tony Award nomination
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1958· 1 entry
Just as she was achieving her first small successes, her mother died
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1957· 1 entry
Performed this number on both The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show
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1954· 2 entries
A professor invited Burnett and some other students to perform at a party in place of their class final that had been canceled (which required a performance in front of an audience)
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Has contributed to scholarship programs at UCLA and the University of Hawaii to help people in financial need
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1951· 1 entry
Burnett received an anonymous envelope containing $50 for one year's tuition at UCLA, where she initially planned on studying journalism
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1933· 2 entries
Born 1933-04-26.
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At Nix Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of Ina Louise (née Creighton), a publicity writer for movie studios, and Joseph Thomas Burnett, a movie theater manager
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