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joeybee12

(56,177 posts) Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:20 PM Aug 2015

I can't believe I'm the first to post this: Carol Burnett to Receive SAG Lifetime Award

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The Screen Actors Guild is recognizing Carol Burnett for her six decades in entertainment.

The actors' union announced Monday that Burnett will receive its 52nd Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual SAG Awards in January.

Union President Ken Howard said the 82-year-old entertainer is "a creative dynamo and a comedic genius."

Burnett got her start on stage, where TV talent bookers spotted her. She joined the cast of "The Garry Moore Show" in 1959. She launched "The Carol Burnett Show" in 1967, which ran for 11 years and won 25 Emmy Awards.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Screen+Actors+Guild+recognize+Carol+Burnett+with+lifetime/11229339/story.html#ixzz3ipniR3ig

Well deserved...and it'a about time.

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I can't believe I'm the first to post this: Carol Burnett to Receive SAG Lifetime Award (Original Post) joeybee12 Aug 2015 OP

Hooray! shenmue Aug 2015 #1

Excellent! catchnrelease Aug 2015 #2

I think I may have seen one of her earliest TV appearances Lydia Leftcoast Aug 2015 #3

Carol certainly deserves it. Bluenorthwest Aug 2015 #4

Honestly, I am surprised she wasn't already honored! DawgHouse Aug 2015 #5

shenmue

(38,610 posts)

1. Hooray!

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:34 PM

Aug 2015

catchnrelease

(2,164 posts)

2. Excellent!

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Fri Aug 14, 2015, 09:05 PM

Aug 2015

She certainly deserves it. Not only for her own performances but also for showcasing the talents of the others that were on her show.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,225 posts)

3. I think I may have seen one of her earliest TV appearances

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Sat Aug 15, 2015, 12:24 AM

Aug 2015

and the Internet Movie Database confirmed it.

She was a guest on the Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show in 1955, her first listed TV appearance. (For you youngsters, Paul Winchell was a ventriloquist, and Jerry Mahoney was his dummy.)

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)

4. Carol certainly deserves it.

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:05 AM

Aug 2015

I will always be grateful to Carol for many things.

DawgHouse

(4,019 posts)

5. Honestly, I am surprised she wasn't already honored!

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Sat Aug 29, 2015, 06:54 PM

Aug 2015

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