{"id":86,"date":"2009-01-12T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/?p=86"},"modified":"2018-09-10T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T20:06:59","slug":"my-comedian-hero-carol-burnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/video\/all-interviews\/my-comedian-hero-carol-burnett\/86\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Burnett"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-86-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/carlob.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/carlob.mp4\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/carlob.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><strong>Carol Burnett<\/strong>: Oh.\u00a0 I loved <em>The Sid Caesar Show<\/em>.\u00a0 We, I never watched, never got the chance really to watch <em>Your Show of Shows<\/em> that much because I was going to UCLA at the time and we\u2019d just gotten a television set and I had homework, I had all kinds of projects that I was doing at school.\u00a0 So, when I got to New York, I moved into a place called the Rehearsal Club, which <em>Stage Door<\/em> was written about.\u00a0 It housed 25 young ladies interested in the theatre and had a, we had a, a woman who ran the club.\u00a0 It was all very proper.\u00a0 Young men couldn\u2019t go anywhere beyond the parlor.\u00a0 And I started on Saturday nights to watch Sid, because <em>Sid Caesar Hour<\/em>, I guess it was called that.\u00a0 And that was when Nanette Fabray was on.\u00a0 And of course Howie and Carl.\u00a0 And I think Pat Carroll.\u00a0 And I just couldn\u2019t get over how clever everything looked and how funny, how funny they all were.\u00a0 And, then I met a, a fella that we\u2019d always go to the Stage Delicatessen and get coffee [COUGHS.] And his name was Milt Kingman and he was a wonderful comic.\u00a0 And he stood in for Sid Caesar when they were blocking before they were gonna go live on Saturday nights.\u00a0 And we became friends and he said, \u201cWould you like to come see a rehearsal?\u201d I said, \u201cAbsolutely.\u201d And so he snuck me and, and I sat up in the balcony and I watched, watched Milt stand in for him and then Sid would do&#8230; looking at the camera shots.\u00a0 And then he\u2019d come out and then they\u2019d do this rehearsal with all of \u2018em.\u00a0 And then I\u2019d run home, and that would be at 5 o\u2019clock and then at 8 o\u2019clock the show would go on.\u00a0 And I could see where\u2019d they\u2019d made changes and done different things and how they had tweaked it and made it better. And <em>My Fair Lady <\/em>opened and two tickets were donated to the rehearsal club and I won the lottery.\u00a0 And so I won two tickets to <em>My Fair Lady<\/em> on a Saturday night.\u00a0 I never told this to Julie.\u00a0 Anyway, I gave the tickets to my roommate because I said, \u201c<em>Fair Lady<\/em>\u2019s gonna be running for a hundred years.\u00a0 I know I\u2019ll get to see it but Sid Caesar is live and I\u2019ll never see that again and I want to see what they\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/makeemlaugh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/14\/files\/carlob.mp4 Carol Burnett: Oh.\u00a0 I loved The Sid Caesar Show.\u00a0 We, I never watched, never got the chance really to watch Your Show of Shows that much because I was going to UCLA at the time and we\u2019d just gotten a television set and I had homework, I had all kinds of projects that I 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