“When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and
never let go.” – Carol Burnett
“I never intended to do the acting thing, but I had no
choice,” she recalled. She had to take
acting in order to do the playwright program.
In her first production the audience roared with laughter at her
deliveries and she was hooked.
“They laughed and it felt great,” she said. “All of a sudden, after so much coldness and
emptiness in my life (she was from a broken home and was mostly raised by her
grandmother), I knew the sensation of all that warmth wrapping around me. I had always been a quiet, shy, sad sort of
girl and then everything changed for me. You spend the rest of your life hoping
you'll hear a laugh that great again.”
And, of course, she did so thousands and thousands of times
for which she has been recognized with dozens and dozens of awards for her work
on stage, on television and in the movies.
Honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom and at the Kennedy Center
Honors, she was also named for the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and inducted
into several Halls of Fame, including the TV Hall of Fame.
Her first love, writing, played out in her work on her
comedy series, The Carol Burnett Show,
for which she was awarded 5 Emmys, including (twice) Most Outstanding Series. And she finally wrote a play, Hollywood Arms, based on her
best-selling memoir One More Time. Co-written with her oldest daughter Carrie Hamilton, it garnered several Tony
Awards. Recently she wrote a second
memoir, the best-selling This Time Together.
She said she still loves writing because, “Words, once they
are printed, have a life of their own.”
For a day brightener (or two) take a look at these two short
clips from classic Carol Burnett Shows, both of which won awards for their
creativity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksHElDPHNLI
(Gone With The Wind)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CSJw96SAeM (The Dentist)
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