The Carol Burnett Show

TV Guide Magazine's 60 Best Series of All Time

• Dec 23, 2013 07:01 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts and Matt Roush

So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things up, blending drama, comedy and other genres to salute the shows with the biggest cultural impact and most enduring influence. What will the next 60 years bring? We can't wait to find out... read more

Carol Burnett Receives Mark Twain Prize

• Oct 21, 2013 10:17 AM ET
• by Liz Raftery

Carol Burnett was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the country's top humor honor, over the weekend.

"This is very encouraging," Burnett said in her acceptance speech, The Associated Press reports. "It was a long time in coming, but I understand because there are so many people funnier than I am, especially here in Washington. With any luck, they'll soon get voted out, and I'll still have the Mark Twain prize."

Keck's Exclusives: Betty White, Carol Burnett and Tim Conway Reunite on Hot In Cleveland

• Apr 15, 2013 07:01 AM ET
• by William Keck

Back on The Carol Burnett Show, the comedy queen and Betty White played sisters Eunice and Ellen Harper in the recurring "Mama's Family" sketches. More than three decades later, they're reuniting on the June 26 episode of TV Land's Hot in Cleveland. Carol Burnett guest stars as... read more

Keck's Exclusives First Look: Mama Meets RuPaul

• Aug 6, 2012 05:07 PM ET
• by William Keck

Vicki Lawrence will make a rare TV appearance as her old Carol Burnett Show/Mama's Family character, Thelma Harper, on Logo's RuPaul's All Stars Drag Race this season, which begins October 22.

"RuPaul knew details of the Burnett Show that even surprised me," says Lawrence, (here pictured with the out-of-drag host). "He's a real aficionado of the show." read more

Queens of Comedy: Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett Talk Sketches and Becoming BFFs

• Oct 20, 2011 07:01 AM ET
• by Michael Logan

No doubt about it, Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler is one of the funniest peeps on the planet. So who inspired her? As part of our ongoing series of interviews called "Icons & Innovators," we gave the former Saturday Night Live sensation a chance to chat with the comedy star she admires most: the legendary Carol Burnett. The winner of six Emmys — three of them for her beloved 1967-78 laughfest The Carol Burnett Show — Burnett came close to working with Poehler when they both did voice work in the hit animated film Horton Hears a Who! But these two comedy greats have never performed face-to-face. What's Hollywood waiting for?