Carol Burnett added another famous maternal guest-star role to her resumé when she signed on to play the Nazi-hunting absent mother of Jane Lynch’s Sue Sylvester.

“I became a Gleek when it first came on,” explains Burnett. “And at one point, I just mentioned to somebody, ‘I’d carry a spear on that show,’ because I really had such fun watching it.”

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