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Carol Creighton Burnett Wiki Biography

American comedian, singer, actress and TV producer Carol Creighton Burnett was born on 26 April 1933, in San Antonio, Texas, and is still probably best known as the host of the long-running “The Carol Burnett Show” which aired on CBS in the 1960s and ‘70s, although she has made many other notable appearances on both TV and film, as well as in live shows.

So just how rich is Carol Burnett, as of early 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Carol has a net worth as high as $25 million, accumulated during a career in the entertainment industry which now spans over six decades since her debut on TV in 1955.

Carol had a really difficult childhood with a dark background, as she was born to alcoholic parents, and was not the happiest child although actually raised by her grandmother M. E. White, and moving to an apartment near Hollywood. Her situation improved when she discovered her acting talent during her college years, although she couldn’t think she would ever seriously work as an actress, despite having had such a great dream since childhood. Carol matriculated from Holywood High School, and then began studying journalism at UCLA courtesy of a gift, but switched to acting as part of the writing program. She was then sponsored to move to New York, where after a year auditioning, Burnett made her debut on TV in 1955, appearing in “The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show”, only the beginning of Burnett’s bright career and net worth.

Carol had several more minor roles in shows before appearing in the famous “The Garry Moore Show” together with Durward Kirby and Garry Moore, definitely Carol’s break-through performance which also increased her net worth considerably, especially as she became a regular until 1962. Subsequently, she became known for her appearances in such movies as “Once Upon a Mattress”, “Pete ‘n’ Tillie”, “Get Bruce” “Annie” and “Post Grad” among many others.

However, none compared with “The Carol Burnett Show”, in which Carol starred together with Vicki Lawrence,  and Lyle Waggoner, which made her a household name in the US. The show ran from 1967 to 78, winning 23 Emmy Awards among mTin Conway, Harvey KormanTin Conway, Harvey Korman, any others, and maintaining its popularity with audiences because of the varied mixture of humor, satire and slapstick, so contributing significantly to Carol’s bank account. Concurrently, she was the first star to appear on “Sesame Street” in 1969, again ingratiating herself with the TV audience.

Her own show was hard to follow successfully, but Carol frequently guest-starred in TV series, including “All My Children”, “Mama’s Family” and “Mad About You”, as well as appearing on the Broadway stage in “Moon Over Buffalo” in the mid-90s, and “Putting it Together” in 2000.

Carol is still active in the entertainment industry – more recently in 2014 she participated in “The Colbert Report” created by Ben Karlin, Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Joe Antonetti, and has an annual recurring role in “Hawaii-Five 0”.

In her personal life, Carol has married three times, firstly to college boyfriend Don Saroyan from 1955 to ’62, then to Joe Hamilton – a TV producer – from 1963 to ’84, with whom she had three daughters. Since 2001 she has been married to musician Brian Miller, 23 years her junior; they continue to live in Los Angeles.

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Carol Creighton Burnett Quick Info

Carol Creighton Burnett Trademarks

1. Her very big strident voice
2. Red hair and hazel eyes
3. On The Carol Burnett Show (1967), her favorite on stage Tarzan yell
4. Tugs on her left ear during all on-camera appearances as a way of saying “Hello” to her grandmother. It was her grandmother who raised her and took her to the movies all the time.

Carol Creighton Burnett Quotes

• The best advice that I could give is be kind.
• [on working with Tim Conway when he went off script] I often thought that I should have some investment in Depends, because nobody could be with Tim and keep a straight face.
• I can’t dance! I was fair at faking it all these years, but I am NOT and never was, a dancer.
• [on her protégé Vicki Lawrence] I adore Vicki, we adore each other!
• When you have dream, you’ve got to garb it and never let it go.
• God bless the theatre. And please let there be a way for it to thrive..forever.
• [on her friend Vicki Lawrence playing Mama] Each time we did it, [Vicki] knocked it out of the ballpark, It’s so funny. She started out as my kid sister and wound up as my mother!.
• [on discovering the potential of her Friend and protégé Vicki Lawrence] There was something about her that drew the audience to her, and that’s something you’re born with, She bore such a resemblance to me; that was obvious.
• I’m glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn’t spend the money today.
• [on never trying stand-up comedy] I can’t tell a joke to save my soul. It’s just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes. I remember Ed Wynn, a famous comedian who started out in vaudeville, once said “Stand-up comedians say funny things. Sketch comedians say things funny.” Isn’t that a good distinction?
• I had the imprint as a child that if Mickey and Judy could put a show on in a barn and then it got to Broadway, well that’s just the way things are! Inside I always knew I would be okay.
• I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstance.
• I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy. We had a great staff of writers, and if we had a sketch we were rehearsing and it wasn’t working, we’d call the writers down and show them what we had come up with. And there were no egos. In 11 years, we never had a writer get angry because we made it a little bit more of our own and maybe a little improved. They would jump in and say, “Oh okay, how about this then, while you’re doing that?” We were all in the sandbox together.
• Having seen Harvey Korman as Danny Kaye’s second banana – this was like Carl Reiner to Sid Caesar and Art Carney to Jackie Gleason – I said, “We’ve got to get somebody like him.” And when Danny’s show went off the air, we said: “Duh. Why don’t we get him?” When I do the Q&As, I talk about Harvey and pay tribute to him. He approached everything from an acting standpoint, and having the comedy chops to go with it, that’s a jewel. When you play tennis, it’s important to play with a better player because it makes your game better. Well, Harvey made my game better. I miss him dreadfully. And Tim Conway, God bless him, is just a genius when it comes to improvising, coming up with stuff that we never rehearsed.
• Comedy is tragedy — plus time.
• [about her youth] Sometimes a guy would ask me to jitterbug, but nine times out of ten, they were not only a foot shorter than I was, but geeks to boot.

Carol Creighton Burnett Important Facts

• $115 /week
• Comedian Vicki Lawrence is her protegee and share a very close friendship.
• Carol Burnett has signed for a TV sitcom with Amy Poehler, which will be only the second sitcom she’s starred it. The other was Stanley (1956) with Buddy Hackett.
• John Barrowman, Susan Egan and she awarded the 1998 Back Stage Garland Award for Performance for “Putting It Together” at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
• Surrogate grandmother of: Courtney Allison Schultz and Garrett Lawrence Schultz, both of Vicki Lawrence’s children.
• Liked to make weekend visits’ to Ralph Helfer’s, Africa U.S.A. Ranch in Soledad Canyon, California where together they rode his Indian elephant Modoc.
• Born in Texas, but grew up in Hollywood.
• Comedic partner is Vicki Lawrence.
• Graduated from Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California, in 1951.
• Surrogate mother of Vicki Lawrence.
• Friends with: Vicki Lawrence, Shirley Jones, Angela Lansbury, Florence Henderson, Betty White, Alan Alda, Ralph Helfer, Carol Channing, Gavin MacLeod, Debbie Reynolds, Julie Harris, Carroll O’Connor, Wink Martindale, Bob Barker, Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke, Michele Lee, Jim Nabors, Elizabeth Taylor, Marla Gibbs, Della Reese, Harvey Korman, Maggie Smith, Tim Conway, Robert Conrad, Larry Manetti, Julie Andrews, Steve Lawrence, Joan Rivers, Whoopi Goldberg, Mary Tyler Moore, Chita Rivera, Petula Clark, James Stewart, Lucille Ball, Liza Minnelli, Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall, James Garner, Ken Berry, Walter Matthau, Dinah Shore, Mickey Rooney, Lauren Bacall and Paul Dooley.
• When Carol and one cousin were children they played Tarzan and Jane, Carol would play Tarzan since she can do the Tarzan yell.
• Childhood friend of Alan Alda.
• During the first couple seasons of The Carol Burnett Show (1967) her Protégé Vicki Lawrence admitted that she idolize and looked up to Carol so much, even stating that she had Carol on a Pedestal that she could barely say two words to her at first. She still admires her.
• Discovered Comedy Legend Vicki Lawrence in 1966 when Vicki was only 17 years old and Still in High School.
• Ralph Helfer, renowned animal trainer, Hollywood animal behaviorist and author of several compassionate books about animals, was Carol’s best friend growing up in Green Apartments.
• Carol grew up in Green Apartments, one block off Hollywood Boulevard.
• Has said if she could go back and learn something she would learn to read music and taken dance classes.
• Fan of Actors James Stewart and Anthony Hopkins.
• Vicki Lawrence’s children call her Aunt Carol.
• Often called her protégée Vicki Lawrence by the nickname Wicks and wicki.
• Despite that The Carol Burnett Show (1967) charwoman was the trademark for the show Carol has stated that she did not much care for the character as she thought the character was empty.
• Appeared a lot on the Game Show Password through the 1960s to the early 1980s.
• Fan of the TV Show Modern Family (2009), Breaking Bad (2008), and House of Cards (2013).
• She wrote an endorsement for Vicki Lawrence’s album The Night the lights went out in Georgia.
• Is still very close to Vicki Lawrence.
• When she was age 12, she used to fool a boy by saying she was a twin and she would sneak out of the window pretending be both twins, this went on for two days.
• Acting mentor to Comedian Vicki Lawrence.
• Helped Actress and Singer Bernadette Peters get her first break.
• Her daughter Carrie Hamilton had a drug problem for three years when she was a teen, Carol put her through rehab and Carrie successfully overcame her addiction and started a career in the entertainment business like her mother.
• Wrote the foreword for her friends Florence Henderson and Tim Conway autobiographies.
• As of 2013 her Net Worth is estimated to be $25 million.
• Known to have taken Comedian Vicki Lawrence under her wing when she was 17 years old, their friendship has lasted for over 50 years so far.
• In a recent interview (2013) stated that she still lives in Southern California.
• Went on her Protégée Vicki Lawrence own television show, at least five times more than any other celebrity.
• Her mentoring Vicki Lawrence is in The Mentor Hall of Fame in 2013.
• She was the first woman to have own variety TV Show.
• In 2007, she sued 20th Century Fox for copyright infringement, trademark violation, invasion of privacy, and misappropriation of name and likeness over the use of an altered version of her signature closing song and the portrayal of her cleaning lady “charwoman” character in an episode of Family Guy (1999).The lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge. The judge used Hustler Magazine v. Falwell as the general basis for the decision, ruling that the cartoon was a permissible parody of a public figure.
• Is an avid animal lover and owns many pets, especially dogs.
• In 2012 reunion of The Carol Burnett Show (1967) her protégé Vicki Lawrence successfully copied her famous Tarzan Yell.
• Both her parents were alcoholics and after their marriage ended. She was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mabel Eudora White.
• Took care of her sister, Chrissie Burnett, for a while when she lived in New York.
• Big fan of the soap opera All My Children (1970).
• She has made guest appearance on The Twilight Zone (1959), Get Smart (1965), Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964), Mama’s Family (1983), Magnum, P.I. (1980), Mad About You (1992), Desperate Housewives (2004), and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). As well as the soap opera All My Children (1970).
• Vicki Lawrence’s kids Courtney and Garret Shultz were known to hang out with Carol at her house as kids, especially when they lived in Hawaii.
• Her acting mentors were Garry Moore and Lucille Ball.
• In a All-Star Party for Carol Burnett (1982) her protégé Vicki Lawrence copied her breakout song I Made a Fool of Myself over John Foster Dulles that Carol did on the The Jack Paar Tonight Show (1957) in 1957.
• Gave best friend and protégée Vicki Lawrence a trip to Hawaii as a wedding gift, when Vicki married makeup artist Al Schultz in 1974.
• For a short while she lived in Hawaii. She lived across the street from her good friend and Protege Vicki Lawrence who was also living Hawaii at the time. Vicki was the first to move back to California, Carol followed shortly after because of getting homesick. Actor Jim Nabors was also a neighbor.
• Is a big gamer, she was known to have gone on a lot of game shows like Password and was known to throw games at her house parties like mysteries game and others with friends like Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, and Betty White.
• Carol’s favorite character she did was from ‘The Family’ Sketches off the The Carol Burnett Show Eunice. Interestingly Vicki Lawrence who played her Mama was 16 years younger than Carol.
• Mama from the famous The Family sketches of her show and Mama’s Family was originally written for Carol, but Carol felt more of connection towards Eunice and passed Mama to her protégée Vicki Lawrence the role would become Vicki’s most iconic character.
• She and Vicki Lawrence often get mistaken for sisters because of their close resemblance.
• Is a registered Democrat.
• Mentor and best friend of Vicki Lawrence.
• Named recipient of the 2013 “Mark Twain Prize for American Humor” by the Kennedy Center [May 21, 2013].
• Discovered her protégé Vicki Lawrence when Vicki was age 17 and became a acting mentor to her. Vicki was discovered when she wrote Carol a fan letter and Carol went to see her contest and told her she will get back to her and they will discuss her career, Vicki was later cast in The Carol Burnett Show (1967). The story how they met has become known as show business legend. Carol has always felt that it was fate that lead to her discovering Vicki.
• Fan of Jane Lynch, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler.
• Mother-in-law of Kurt West.
• Older sister of Chrissie Burnett.
• Former stepmother of Jeffrey Hamilton.
• Nominated for the 1996 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for “Moon Over Buffalo”.
• Nominated for the 1960 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Musical for “Once Upon a Mattress”.
• Most familiar to children as the show-stealing “Miss Hannigan” in Annie (1982).
• In 1965, Carol broke her right leg playing softball.
• On the morning of her fifty-sixth birthday, her good friend Lucille Ball died – April 26, 1989. That afternoon, Burnett received the flowers that Ball had ordered for her birthday.
• Godmother of Emma Walton, daughter of best friend Julie Andrews.
• Bob Mackie is her favorite designer. He designed all of the costumes for The Carol Burnett Show (1967).
• Best friends with Julie Andrews, Vicki Lawrence, and the late Beverly Sills.
• Has appeared in three different television adaptations of “Once Upon A Mattress”, the Broadway version of the fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.” In the 1964 and 1972 versions, she played Princess Winnifred. 33 years later, she played Queen Aggravain in the 2005 Disney adaptation.
• Lucille Ball gave Carol her first baby shower.
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on 9 November 2005. Other recipients were Frank Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Gen. Richard Myers, Paul Rusesabagina, Andy Griffith, Aretha Franklin, Vint Cerf and his Internet codeveloper Robert Kahn, Jack Nicklaus, Alan Greenspan, and former congressman G.V. “Sonny” Montgomery.
• At age 10, comedian Jim Carrey sent her his resume.
• Was a good friend of Lucille Ball, with whom she appeared several times on The Lucy Show (1962) and Here’s Lucy (1968).
• Received a Special Tony Award in 1969. She was also twice nominated for the Tony Award – in 1960, as Best Actress (Musical) for “Once Upon a Mattress” and in 1996, as Best Actress (Play) for “Moon Over Buffalo.”.
• 1985: Inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame.
• Once worked as an usherette at the Warner (now Pacific) Theater on Hollywood Blvd. One night, the movie playing was Alfred Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951), a film Carol had seen and loved. She advised a late arriving couple to wait until the next show, because the film was so good, it should be seen from beginning to end. The manager overheard her, rudely fired her on the spot, and humiliated her by ripping the epaulets off her usherette uniform. Decades later, when she was to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was asked by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce where she would like it placed. Carol asked that her star be placed in front of the Pacific Theater. In her memoir “One More Time”, she states the name of the manager who so rudely fired her, followed by an epithet that won’t be repeated here. The star is at 6433 Hollywood Blvd.
• Ex-sister-in-law of Will Hutchins, Dave Geisel and Kipp Hamilton.
• Lost her daughter, Carrie Hamilton, on January 20, 2002 to lung and brain cancer.
• Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy”, by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 74-76. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
• One of 5 recipients of the 2003 Kennedy Center Honors; other recipients were James Brown, Loretta Lynn, Mike Nichols and Itzhak Perlman.
• When asked, on her show, who her favorite actor was, she replied, “Anthony Hopkins – you know, the little English guy?”
• Considered Jim Nabors to be her good luck charm. He appeared as a guest on the first episode of The Carol Burnett Show (1967), and when the show took off, she had him back on the first episode of every season.
• Daughter Erin Hamilton was Miss Golden Globe 1993.
• In 1981, she successfully sued the “National Enquirer” for libel, prompted by its article describing her alleged public drunkenness during an altercation with then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger while in a Washington restaurant. The case remains a landmark in the study of libel cases involving celebrities, even though the unprecedented $1.6 million verdict (including $300,000 in personal damages and $1.3 million in “punitive” damages) was later reduced on appeal and the case was eventually settled out of court. Burnett donated the money to charity. She said she pursued the lawsuit because, as the daughter of two deceased alcoholics, the gossip paper’s fabrication wounded her emotionally and that they should be punished for their irresponsibility when writing lies about celebrities.
• Was forced to drop out of the 1964 Broadway musical “Fade Out, Fade In” after sustaining a neck injury in a taxi accident. The show’s producers sued her for breach of contract, but the suit was later dropped.
• Born at 4:00am-CST
• A.A. from U.C. Berkeley [1954]
• Mother, with Joe Hamilton, of actress Carrie Hamilton, Jody Hamilton and singer Erin Hamilton.
• Attended but did not complete her degree from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in 1954.

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