Your Mother Loved Martha Raye. You Loved Carol Burnett. One Sketch Had Them Both.

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:54:00 +0000

Saturday night on CBS, and the family has eaten and has nowhere else to be. The Carol Burnett Show sat in that slot for most of its eleven years, taped in front of a live audience with the mistakes left in, so what came into the house included performers cracking each other up and failing to get back. That was the appeal. You were watching people who were very good at this occasionally lose hold of it.

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Your Mother Loved Martha Raye. You Loved Carol Burnett. One Sketch Had Them Both.