The Carol Burnett Show (tv program)

(Reuters) - Actress and comedienne Carol Burnett will be honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the top award for American comics, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts said on Tuesday. Burnett, 80, whose Emmy-winning sketch...

The highlights Tuesday night: PBS presents the unusual duo of Carol Burnett and Syria. Burnett has been tirelessly promoting "Carrie and Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story," a memoir about her relationship with her late daughter. PBS turns the focus...

For normal people, the important thing here is hockey, not the revitalization of a downtown area going downhill, nor razzle-dazzle financial schemes in which only two things seem certain: Ultimately, the politically connected will do just fine while it...

I inherited an appreciation for slapstick humor from my father. Back in the late 1960s and early '70s, he and I enjoyed watching "The Carol Burnett Show" on TV. We roared at comedy sketches featuring Carol, Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence, but our...

Golden West College's rollicking comedy "The Servant of Two Masters" is credited to playwright Carlo Goldoni and adapters-translators Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi, but director Tom Amen's name should be included among the other creative...

Year-ending memories include those of people who made marks in entertainment before passing. In 2011, they included a significant number of behind-the-scenes talents whose television efforts endure. Andy Rooney: It's a sad irony that the pundit's death...

Vicki Lawrence said she likes to live by a motto: "Life is much too serious to be taken seriously." And Lawrence, who is known for her character Mama, has made a point to live by her own mantra. "When people meet me they always ask for Mama, like she's...

Vicki Lawrence told an audience of more than 600 people at a matinee in Hagerstown Wednesday that she had been playing the role of Mama since it was a written up as a skit on "The Carol Burnett Show" nearly four decades ago. The Inglewood, Calif., native...

America's funny lady, Carol Burnett, doesn't dwell on the past. She embraces it. "I have some wonderful stories to tell, especially about the show," she says. "The show," of course, is the legendary "Carol Burnett Show" that ran on CBS from 1967-1978....

Actor, comedian and chef Dom DeLuise has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 75. DeLuise died in Santa Monica Monday night surrounded by family, according to his son Michael DeLuise who spoke to radio station KNX. He passed away peacefully in...

Actors, actresses and entertainers Maila Nurmi, 85; actress created the character Vampira as hostess of late-night TV horror show (Jan. 10) Jack Eagle, 81; a comedian and actor who played Brother Dominic in a Xerox ad during the 1977 Super Bowl (Jan....