Carol Burnett

Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) was one of the most successful female comedians on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978.

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Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) was one of the most successful female comedians on American television, thanks largely to her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978.

Burnett was born in San Antonio, Texas to two alcoholic parents, Jodie and Louise Burnett, who left her with her grandmother. Carol moved to Hollywood, California with her grandmother where she graduated from Hollywood High School and then attended University of California, Los Angeles and worked her way up through bit parts on TV. Burnett came to prominence in the mid-1950s singing a novelty love song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles". About this time, she also appeared in a one-season NBC sitcom, Stanley, with Buddy Hackett. She achieved success on Broadway in the 1959 musical Once Upon a Mattress. In the same year she appeared on The Garry Moore Show as a regular until 1962, most memorably with her portrayal of a cleaning woman. With her success on this variety show she finally came to headliner status and appeared in the 1962 special Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall co-starring her friend Julie Andrews.