Carol Burnett

Fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell, brand new shoes, walk in blues, climb the fence, books and pens. I can tell that we are gonna be friends, I can tell that we are gonna be friends.

We've got a quarker today, I'm joined by my pal Sona.

She's doing a junket and definitely we don't move for anybody, they come to us, but when it's Carol Burnett. We packed up our shit and we got here as fast as we could, and we got a room full of insects.

And then we're in this room and Sona, you have not been able to focus yet.

Do you see it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's bugs. There are these two, and I don't want to now say the name of the hotel.

It's a very fancy hotel. I don't want to denigrate them in any way, but there are bugs swarming around these beautiful, beautiful plants, tall plants. And I'm worried because Carol Burnett's going to be here and we'll probably have to spray the place before she gets in.

Maybe she brought those bugs in, I saw her release a vial of bugs at one point. Do you think, yeah?

Sorry, it was incredible. I'm sorry. I tried to say, Oh, we have. I tried to build, like in an old show business, some suspense.

Like, Carol Burnett's coming, this is going to be exciting. And then immediately, Sonia, you went, What do you mean? We already talked to her and there's bugs here.

Well, you just completely deflated our bouncy castle.

You own one jacket. I believe it belonged to Dr. Zayas on Planet of the Apes. It's a well-worn leather coat that you've had. I guess you found it in a bin somewhere a long time ago.

But anyway, you're not someone who dresses up a lot. You look fantastic today, you, you went all out for Coburnet.

I mean, there are similarities I have with Coburnet, we are both no red hair and it stops there.

No, no, it doesn't stop with red hair. Many women got into comedy because they thought I was a woman. No, no, no, no.

They were inspired that I got the Late night show in 93.

And then later on, they figured out I wasn't, but by then it was too late. They, you know, so yes.

Yeah.

And there's a leak in it, and so the inside of my car is kind of smells a little moldy.

One of the other.

Brake Fluid What is leaking in your car?

So you have a mildewy car that's full of trash. Yes, you brought the insects in.

I'm out, I'm out.

You let it cure in the sun for a couple of weeks. And once the smell is gone and it's hardened, you put it in your hair and it gives it great volume. Okay, and then I did that, and then mistakenly, I let my son eat it. What?

But six weeks later, he was out of the hospital. Oh my gosh these stories, this is so stupid, I'm so stupid.

But I'm going to stick with my reality. The reality is we already did the interview with Carol Burnett and it's fantastic, but I'm sticking with my old show. Business reality, which is that she hasn't entered the room yet. Okay, there are no bugs, your hair looks fantastic.

My hair is amazing. This is the reality I'm sticking with. You're a good assistant, oh.

And we're thrilled and we're excited, and we hear footsteps coming down the hall right now. She's coming right now, we better get this going, I hear her listen.

I don't know why they did that. Oh, she's probably doing a bit, or maybe it's the new fashion.

Here she comes.

That's the horse whinnying, whatever you like. Do you like it being horse whinnying? Or door opening? Oh, that's what it was. I thought it was door opening.

Okay, no horse whinnying is I'm a horse, that's a horse.

Hold on Carol. I'm going to finish with this bit in a minute. Carol. just calm down. No, no, Carol. Stand still.

Okay.

Yeah, then the door opened, I'm a door. The door said, I'm a door. In all my sound effects, the sound effect ends up saying what it is.

There's no confusion, anyway, enough screwing around because you've just heard some solid C-plus comedy. Let's get to the ultimate master. My guest today is a comedy legend who hosted the Carol Burnett show for 11 seasons. Now you can see her in the Apple TV Plus series Palm Royale.

It says, I'm honored.

Carol Burnett, welcome.

My parents called me and said, How did you get Carol Burnett? Because you are in the stratosphere? I'm sure you hear this all the time. But when I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn, Massachusetts. On Saturday nights, we would all huddle in our living room. And there was one heat vent that had the heat coming out of it.

And we would fight to see who got to sit on the heat vent. And we would watch that amazing night of television, that Saturday night lineup, which was absolutely....

I have bumped into you in different places, I've stalked you.

I've been escorted out of your home, dressed as the gardener. But the I'm driving here today and my assistant had to drive me today, I said, you need to drive me. Because I just need to think about the fact that I'm going to be seeing Carol Burnett again.

And one of the first things I wanted to talk about, that we explore a lot on this podcast.

We talk a lot about comedy and we talk a lot about where does it come from? And there's this common belief that it has to come from. You need some kind of tragedy.

And you, of course, had some sadness as a child, and you went through a lot.

Sadness, whatever. I actually had kind of a happy childhood for the most part.

My parents.

There was a problem, but I knew I was loved. They were alcoholics, and so I was raised by my grandmother. We were poor, but everybody in the neighborhood was.

Our rent was get this a dollar a day, $30 a month was our rent, and sometimes we barely made that, but we did save our pennies. And my grandmother and I, we lived a block north of Hollywood Boulevard.

We moved out from Texas.

But we would go to.

As I said, we'd save our pennies and we'd see maybe four movies a week, which would be double features, so that would be eight movies a week.

Second run. The movies were my salvation, really. My fantasy was I would go and I'd see Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.

You know these wonderful MGM musicals where they would say, we're going to put on a show, hey, let's put on a show. We're going to put on a show in the barn, and then it's going to go to Broadway.

So everything was always upbeat, the bad guys got their just desserts and nothing. When I was growing up in the 40s was cynical, right? And I just had this naive, optimistic quality.

And I think it came from the movies that everything was going to work out, okay.

You see a wide variety of ways that you can be funny, and you're young, it imprints on you.

You're going to have to help me because that was an incredible jock and a real leading man material.

I have a little nerd clubhouse you can join.

To major in journalism. But we couldn't afford it. It was funny, I saw myself on campus, I knew it was going to happen.

I just didn't know how. So we lived in this one room and it faced the lobby and there was a pigeonhole mailboxes for each room.

And ours was there, and I'd look out every morning to see if we had a letter in our little slot, so this one morning there was a letter.

And I.

Oh, but first, guess what the tuition was that we couldn't afford to go to UCLA?

$2,000 What was it?

Oh my god, okay.

Now I get this letter and I bring it back into my room and it's typewritten to Carol Burnett, 6434 Yucca Street, Hollywood.

I do not know where that came from, but that was my entrance to UCLA.

And I'm looking through and it said. Theater Arts English, Theater Arts, Theater, Theater Arts Film, Theater Arts Song.

And I said, Theater arts, English, well, I love to write, and I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.

But when you were a freshman in theater arts, whether you wanted to direct or write or whatever.

You had to take an acting course, you had to take scenery building, you had to take costumes.

So forth and so on. So I'm a freshman and I had to take an acting course. I was terrified and I had to get up.

And do a little scene or something, and I remember the scene where it would be a hillbilly woman.

And I'm from Texas and Arkansas, so that came easily.

So I went out and I read this scene and everybody laughed where they should, and I kind of liked that feeling.

Yes, and then after I'd done that, then some of the kids asked me if I'd be in a couple of one acts that they wrote.

They'd put on. Pretty soon, I was starting to do that and getting that kind of response, which I'd never dreamed I would ever get. Because had there been a major in journalism.

I wouldn't be here talking to you now about all of this.

If this is the big prize you get at the end of this incredible story, you made a mistake. I can relate very much to it because I loved comedy.

And watched comedy. I was a nerd, went to a very good school because I was a grind, I worked very hard.

And thought, Well, I considered journalism. I thought I'll just do some serious work, maybe I'll get into the law and then found my way.

And I heard it was very competitive and they're mean, and they cut people out. And I just started writing because I'd always loved writing funny things.

And it was like falling off a log. I did it, they said. Who is this guy? That led to me performing? That led to me being a comedy writer first.

But the thing that imprinted on me when I was young, I would say to my influences when I was very young, was Bob Newhart.

Yourself and that amazing Carol Burnett show and Warner Brothers cartoons, and I think you can take those three and no offense to Bob.

But if I had to, he can drop out and it will be Warner Brothers cartoons. And you and I know Bob well enough to be able to say that.

But that's all the comedy class you need in timing and just the joy of performing comedy. So that was in me somewhere, I had just watching you do your thing.

And it wasn't just the sketches, you did something, it was very unusual at the time. Question and answer You did a q&A segment on the Carol Burnett show.

And I remembered that blew my mind that you could stand out there in front of people, not hide behind a character and talk to people.

And you'd see real people in the audience, ask you questions. I maintain, and I've said this before to people, human beings have this crazy ability to know.

When something is organic, they know when it's rehearsed, and they know when it's spontaneous. I don't know why we know, but we do.

And I would watch those segments and see you be funny in the moment in front of Back then.

Half the country is watching, and I thought, Where did that come from? The guts to do that on CBS?

One of the most watched shows on television that walking without a net on a tightrope.

Instead of having a comic come out and warm up the studio audience, you should come out as yourself before you get into all those sketches with your fat suits.

And blacked out teeth and bright wigs and all of that. So that they get to know you and just open it up to Q&A.

And I said, I don't think I can do that. I mean, I'd be too frightened, I'd be afraid that they wouldn't ask anything.

Or that if they did, I wouldn't have a good answer. And he said, Well, we'll put some plants in the audience, you know?

And I said, No, you know if we're going to do it? And if I could have egg on my face, at least they'll know it's real.

Four weeks, and if it's terrible, goodbye, we won't do it anymore. So I went out there.

First show I was terrified and some people did ask a question or two, but I mean, if you look at the first episode.

I was really goofy, it wasn't that good, but then it aired and then the next week.

Some people would come and they were ready to ask questions and ready, and then I started to get into the groove.

And love it, and it was. it became one of my favorite things to do, and it was it was great because.

I would do maybe about 15 minutes and then we do the show. if the show was long, we'd only have maybe five or.

Five minutes of q&a, or if it's short, we would have do the whole 15 minutes, but.

Some of the stuff that we did, that people were just wonderful.

There was this one woman, she looked like Bea Arthur when Bea did Maud.

I called on her and she said, I want to come up and sing.

And I said, Come on up, you know well, she was up there.

Like that, and I said, What's your name? and I remember, she said.

Terry McCann and I said, So what do you want to sing, Terry? And we had a 28 piece orchestra.

Over there and I remember, she said, looked at the band, and she said.

You made me love you in the key of g.

Okay, boom. And then she started, You made me love you.

I didn't want to, she was.

And I started to join with her, Yeah, so we were wailing away, and really because I knew the song.

She knew the song, you know, and the audience was clapping, you know?

You know, and then comes to where we're going to end it, right? I had a different way.

That I thought it should end. From what she said, I went.

You know, you made me love you. Yeah, yeah, I wanted that she had a different way.

So after all this wailing, clapping and everything, it was kind of petered out.

You know? And she looked at me and she said, You screwed it up.

Maybe it was actually B. Arthur? Yeah, it was B. Arthur in a wig.

It was.

Some of her relatives. About maybe five years ago, she died, she died at the age.

100.

And they played this at her memorial.

You know, I was thinking about when you just said you had a 28 piece orchestra.

Yeah, and I was thinking about it because I want to get this straight. A 28 this.

The Show That You Did, which ran on CBS from 1967 to 1978..

It won 25 Emmys. It could not exist today. No, it doesn't.

That world doesn't exist anymore. You had a 28 piece orchestra and you had 65 to 70 costumes a week.

A week.

Where you, you had a large portion of the country, and that meant.

Because of the advertising power and the star power of the people that would come by, it worked out. It was very different.

And you know, what's happening now to variety is it just is getting you have that feeling every now and then.

You'll, you'll pick up a magazine at the newsstand and it.

Weighs next to nothing because everything's online and it's a magazine that's a famous magazine.

It's been around forever and it's glossy, but it weighs, it's like 15 pages long, and I think that's what's happening.

In a lot of talk and variety, too, is it's unimaginable to have.

And I was fortunate enough to get Harvey, yeah, who was brilliant and.

Tim didn't come on the show as a regular till the ninth season.

And I was lucky enough to have him on the show and he came on and lay on the couch like it was a psychiatrist.

And he was wearing like a safari jacket, and I was crying, I was laughing so hard, and then Tim.

We were lucky enough to have him on a bunch of times. But you think of Tim?

As always, yeah, always being there. Ninth season.

Quite often, but he was doing other shows, he did Tim Conway, Variety Hour.

At one point, but nothing that he ever did lasted more than 13 weeks. Yeah, he even had.

His license plate 13 weeks.

But one of my favorite Conway stories is he did a film comedy.

Called Rango, Yeah, and it was film where he was this inept cowboy.

Yeah, Tim needs an audience where he can just go, and, you know, so they're filming.

And it was not good, was not good that, you know, he was kind of.

Hornswoggled, he couldn't do what he usually did.

So he's in his motor home, he's changing for the next scene and whatever, and there's a knock on the thing and the guy who?

Came in from ABC, was very nervous, it was like he was an underling, you know, and very.

He said, Hi, he said, Oh, Mr Conway, I'm Warren Tartt.

I'm from.

ABC.

And Tim said, Yes, hi, and he said, Well, stop doing this.

Stop doing this.

Is you just don't listen?

Would let me hire Vicki Lawrence. She was right out of high school.

In an occasional sketch as my kid sister, and she looked a lot like me and we all, and we hired her on the spot. Today, no network would let me do that.

No experience.

I mean, you clearly knew what you were doing and you could say this is going to work, I always thought.

Lyle Wagner was an amazing choice, because, yeah, he, you wouldn't think.

You've got everything you need, you don't need this handsome fellow there, but then you used him.

So well, and he was terrific.

Had such a deep bench of comedic ability, you could do anything. I also think it represented a time.

When people had a common reference point, I think now there's so much media and people are so fractured that it's very hard.

To parody one thing and everybody knows what you're talking about, so there was an error where you could do so.

Many of your parodies of famous movies were movies that we all knew, like, Gone with the wind today.

I think it's very it's a different time, it's hard for everyone to agree on one thing that they've seen.

And know all the nuances, yeah, and know all the little bits, like when you're taking the curtains out of the window to me.

Oh, I just saw it in the window and I. It's a famous line. I don't know if you could have a home run like that today.

On movies that weren't that well known, but they, but they were funny in their own right.

Mm Hmm. and it was bad, you know?

Or whatever. But so I was doing a takeoff on that character and it was very funny.

And people who didn't know it, it was still a funny sketch, as opposed to a parody.

And those who did know it got it, you know, doubly.

You know, the all the Emmys, Tonys, Grammys?

Seven Golden Globes, Presidential Medal of Freedom. I was reading your achievements and I started to laugh because it's comedically amazing.

I'm not even, and I'm halfway through the list. Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement.

There's a Golden Globe award named after you, and what's interesting is.

I get the impression that doesn't affect you, that you're still.

Carol Burnett And you're you're going to give it your all, and you still have that humility.

And cheer optimism. But it hasn't gone to your head in any way. Because if I had one of those.

I'd be an absolute madman.

Oh.

And that was the format for the modern sitcom, right? That has endured for, you know?

50, 60 years, and I know that she was very kind to you, she saw you.

AS Yeah, hey, this kid has something.

I like her. How did she reach out to you?

And we had just opened the night before and the second night there was a lot of buzz. I could hear in the audience and Lucy was in the audience.

The second night, I remember, I peeked through the curtain and I saw this big shock of red hair and there she was.

I was more nervous that night than I was opening night the night before, of course.

Because she was in the audience, of course. Yeah, anyway, it went okay.

And I had this funky little dressing room off-broadway. She knocked on the door after the show and came in.

And I had this couch and it had a spring coming up.

And she was going to, I said, Look out, she said, I see it.

I was doing, I did a few things and then CBS was going to give me a special, a one hour variety thing, if I could get a major guest star.

So the producer said, Call Lucy. I said, I don't want to bother her, he said.

All she can do is say, I'd love to, but I can't. I'm busy got her on the phone.

Called her office, she came up, Hey kid, you're doing great. What's happening?

I was just, I said, Lucy, I'm doing, I'm.

I'm, I'm, I know you're busy, she said.

When do you want me? Oh, and she didn't. We did the show so then.

When I got my variety show and then I did several guest appearances on her later, yes shows, yes.

The Lucille Ball Show and when she played Lucy Carmichael, that's right, all of.

This one time she's on my show and we have a dinner break before the orchestra rehearsal. So she and I went over to the farmer's market to have a little. So we were in the Chinese restaurant there and she's knocking back a couple of whiskey sours, you know?

He did it. She called me for lunch and she said she went back to her office, she said. I've got to be strong, I've got to be, I've got to confront this the way Desi would have done that, she said. So I knew what I had to do. Went back to the table, read. And I told him, in no uncertain terms, how I felt about the script, how we had to fix it, she said. And kid, and she took a little, and that's when they put the s on the end of my last name.

So we had a great bond, yeah.

It's so, I mean, I remembered you coming on the show and-.

I mean, it was wild. So this one time there was this little boy in the second row and he raised his hand. And I called on him. And I said, What's your name? and he said, Andrew? and I said, How old are you, Andrew? and he said nine.

And I said, And you know who I am? And without missing a beat, he said, Surprisingly, yes.

LAURA DERN Just this powerhouse cast. And I'm watching the show and I'm thinking, Well, I know Carol's in here somewhere, but I don't see her yet. And why isn't she with the other ladies? And then there's this reveal of your character, you are in a coma.

But you're still doing a little something in your coma. And I was like, only Carol Burnett can lie in a coma and kill it. I mean, you're the only one that can do it. And then I was in, I was like, I want to see, because I know there's no keeping Carol Burnett on this hospital bed.

No, she's coming out of this coma and I'm down for it. I want to see the whole, I want to see all of this. But it feels to me like you haven't lost this sense of joy of working with people and just the doing of it.

I always did, too, and I have friends who are lovely, people who are very well-known. And they just you'd never know it because they appear like extroverts, they're comedians. And then when? ...?

But they're very shy and they don't like it. And I just always felt very lucky that, and I sense that we're similar in some ways. I enjoy it. I'll talk to anybody.

Yeah, right, as long as they're nice and not too pushy or anything like that, right, yeah.

And I enjoy it.

And at one point, she was walking by us to get into the theater. And my grandmother, who was not shy, said Linda, Linda, this little girl just loves you. Give her your autograph and she looked at me and she said, What's your name, sweetheart?

And I was a couple of years into my show and they waited on me and I always say, Was I right? They always tell me, Nope. You were very nice and you did some bits with me and then you kept doing bits and we had to leave.

So goddamn needy Conan. But I always thought, you just never. I mean, you should be nice because it's the right thing to do for its own, but if you're not,....

I could have used him in 1993..

And I said, You know where I get to do 30?

Oh, let me get back to you, he said. So he called the next day. I'm sure he got a bunch of lawyers to talk to find out about that contract.

He said Yeah, I see that, Carol, but you know, comedy variety is a man's game, he said. It's Cesar, it's Jackie Gleason, it's Milton Berle, now it's Dean Martin.

Well, I think it's safe to say you proved them wrong.

We're all about six months apart, I don't know how my mom did that. And we we see Irish thing, but we would be talking about because we we loved your show. And I'm curious, as Carol Burnett, you must have been hearing from people the next day, people from the street, or just people in your life was there.

That's when we started giving Lyle more to do other than for me to go gaga over, right? And then we started getting more. I don't know, a little bit serious when we did the family show, yeah, where Eunice and Mama and Ed, and some of those were. You know, you look up dysfunction in the dictionary and you'd find that sketch.

So people identified.

That never came true. And I said, I want to, I think I want to play Eunice. So then we were going to hire an older woman to play Mama. And Bob Mackey, our costume designer, said, Oh, let Vicky do it.

Just take off her eyelashes and put her in a fat suit and put a wig on her, and that's it.

It was like she went to school, but everybody was watching her and Harvey was great with her. He helped her with her props, told her. Yeah, he said, don't just wait for your cue to tell you've got to listen when when people are talking, I mean, he.

He was a master at giving her acting classes, and she sure she was like a sponge.

You are working as hard right now as anybody I know, and so I don't want to monopolize your time. I want to let you go, but I do want to tell you that getting to know you just a little bit is one of the most meaningful things to me in show business. I'm serious.

I'm serious, you're just and you and the fact that you were always so good at what you did. And I got the sense watching you through the TV, they say, don't meet your heroes, but I always got the sense for the TV through the Q and A's. This is a nice woman who's real and she's connected. And then I got to know you and you're as amazing a person as I could have hoped for.

So thank you for improving my childhood and adulthood, immeasurably.

Love you and just have an amazing day and let's and let's do it again.

I like this. We were in a different environment. I love our our home base, it's incredible, I love our little studio.

It's very comfortable, wonderful location, but we are today at this incredible hotel and I have very fond memories of this hotel. Because I used to live back when I was writing on the Simpsons I lived about, I don't know. A block and a half from here, we're standing here at this hotel. You could hit my apartment with a tennis ball, but I think you'd need, I mean, I couldn't do it.

I think you'd need, like, a pneumatic cannon, but still, it's close, but not close enough. You can't say you could hit it with a tennis ball if you had a cannon of some kind.

So I just want to say, please don't sue me for that.

It was the early Nineties I was writing for the Simpsons. This is a pretty ritzy area, so were you living that large back then? Well, I had already, I had been working in television.

At that point, I got started in 85. Yeah, and then I worked on Saturday Night Live and then I came out here for the Simpsons, so I had done.

Okay, at that point, I had just purchased a brand new 1992 Ford Taurus. Yeah, which when you see someone driving a new 92 Ford Taurus in 1992, you know, they've got bank. Oh, that's the Toyota Camry of Fords.

Yes, it is.

Which was the dodge neon of Camrys? So, anyway, I was living in this neighborhood and I remember my mom came to visit me. And she didn't know anything about the Simpsons or didn't watch it and didn't think it was a big deal. But I remember she came out and visited and I said, I know a good place for brunch and just walked her. Like a block and a half to this four seasons, which has the most amazing brunch. And I told her, you'll probably see a celebrity, we did not.

But I kept telling her that just random people were celebrities. You did lie, I did lie. Yeah, okay.

I said, That guy over there is Tony Curtis, and the guy had already left the room. She just saw the back of a shoe, she was excited and I don't know, I just have a nice time here.

I was a single guy living the life. What was Bachelor Conan like? Single Conan, Bachelor Conan of that era? What was he getting into?

91 Bachelor, 92 92 Bachelor Conan Oh my God, the ladies look out.

I had been way too skinny for years and my skin had cleared up. Oh good, it was a little more, I had a little more confidence. I had a credit card.

And then I'd have a hard time finding them. Oh okay, they'd take off. So one woman jumped behind a hedge.

It's an S8 show that's super high output. So it looks like a Taurus that you'd pick up your kids at soccer practice with. But it's actually got a stick shift inside.

Did you drive that cross country to New York? No, I had it shipped. You don't want an aristocrat? Yeah, I didn't want it to be damaged, so I had it put on the roof of another Ford Taurus.

And yeah, but I brought it out here. When I bought it, I did not drive stick, I bought it completely on faith. And then my brother Neil, I bought it in Massachusetts. So my brother Neil took me to a supermarket parking lot and taught me how to drive stick.

And then I brought it to L.

A and went right into L..A. traffic, grinding gears like crazy. But got good at it and then pulled up at the Simpsons lot in a Ford Taurus. And I think they knew then this was a badass in town, yeah.

Who definitely fucks?

It's got a stick shift and the gears that grind. And it was. But I lived in this neighborhood and it was really nice, I had a had a good time. I enjoy it.

I loved working in that Simpsons writing room and kind of loved it. And this was. This is the hotel where I met Jeff Ross for the first time. I thought you were going to say, where you lost your virginity, where I lost my virginity.

Well, that's true four years ago.

With the help of my wife. But yeah, I met Jeff Ross here because I was being considered for the late night job, and Lauren said, You should go meet with this guy, Jeff Ross. And we met about 15 feet from where I am right now, which I could hit with a tennis ball. OK, I'm a tennis ball that went through walls.

OK, anyway, that's my story. So this brings up a lot of nice memories, this hotel, this area, and I like getting out of the studio once in a while. Yeah, it creates a new vibe.

You do have a swagger about you today that makes me feel like you're back in your prime. Because it's I'm telling you, it's it's I'm channeling. 1992 single Conan.

I've only gone over twice.

I'll tell you, Matt, you don't know this. It's 215 in the afternoon. And if there's one thing I know about Sona, she's having wine, I'll join you on that.

Peace out, Tupac.

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