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05-17-2003, 11:24 AM
Carol Burnett & Friends (January 2004)
For more than a decade, Carol Burnett and the talented cast of The Carol Burnett Show entertained America with song, dance and comedy in one of the most successful variety series of all time. The show was one of the most successful programs in television history. In an era when variety shows would come and go, the Emmy-award winning program remained successful, due in large part to the chemistry between Carol and her supporting stars. Burnett, one of television’s most versatile variety performers who could sing, dance, act, clown and mime was the cast’s binding force. Carol Burnett & Friends, the syndicated half-hour rebroadcast of the original, begins airing on TV Land January, 2004.
The show is filled with comedy sketches, spoofs of TV series and movies as well as other forms of mass entertainment. Among Burnett’s extensive range of comic characterizations are “Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins” in which she plays an inept office worker with a frustrated boss played by Tim Conway. In “Old Folks at Home” Carol and Roger, played by Harvey Korman, are an unhappily married couple always fighting with Carol’s sister Chrissy (Vicki Lawrence) and in “Ed and Eunice” she and Korman play a married couple constantly at odds with Eunice’s mother, played by Vicki Lawrence. That sketch was to become the basis for the series Mama’s Family, starring Vicki Lawrence.
The Flip Wilson Show (July 3, 2004)
TV Land will begin airing The Flip Wilson Show in July 2004, a ground-breaking variety show that forever changed the face of television and hasn’t been seen in over twenty years. This Emmy-award winning series, which aired from 1970-1974, solidified Flip Wilson as a proven Hollywood star, and combined some of America’s most talented performers with characters Flip had developed based on people he encountered in his own life. His best-known personality is his sexy, out-spoken Geraldine, who made millions laugh as she bragged about her jealous boyfriend, Killer, and would often exclaim, “what you see is what you get!”
For more than a decade, Carol Burnett and the talented cast of The Carol Burnett Show entertained America with song, dance and comedy in one of the most successful variety series of all time. The show was one of the most successful programs in television history. In an era when variety shows would come and go, the Emmy-award winning program remained successful, due in large part to the chemistry between Carol and her supporting stars. Burnett, one of television’s most versatile variety performers who could sing, dance, act, clown and mime was the cast’s binding force. Carol Burnett & Friends, the syndicated half-hour rebroadcast of the original, begins airing on TV Land January, 2004.
The show is filled with comedy sketches, spoofs of TV series and movies as well as other forms of mass entertainment. Among Burnett’s extensive range of comic characterizations are “Mr. Tudball and Mrs. Wiggins” in which she plays an inept office worker with a frustrated boss played by Tim Conway. In “Old Folks at Home” Carol and Roger, played by Harvey Korman, are an unhappily married couple always fighting with Carol’s sister Chrissy (Vicki Lawrence) and in “Ed and Eunice” she and Korman play a married couple constantly at odds with Eunice’s mother, played by Vicki Lawrence. That sketch was to become the basis for the series Mama’s Family, starring Vicki Lawrence.
The Flip Wilson Show (July 3, 2004)
TV Land will begin airing The Flip Wilson Show in July 2004, a ground-breaking variety show that forever changed the face of television and hasn’t been seen in over twenty years. This Emmy-award winning series, which aired from 1970-1974, solidified Flip Wilson as a proven Hollywood star, and combined some of America’s most talented performers with characters Flip had developed based on people he encountered in his own life. His best-known personality is his sexy, out-spoken Geraldine, who made millions laugh as she bragged about her jealous boyfriend, Killer, and would often exclaim, “what you see is what you get!”