| Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball and Nancy Wilson go wonderfully weird and dark | |
| Last Edit: DistantDrumming 08:56 pm EST 01/27/21 | |
| Posted by: DistantDrumming 08:54 pm EST 01/27/21 | |
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| So, I was just reading Holland's thread on that very random clip of Bea Arthur and Lucy performing on a variety special celebrating CBS's 50th year on the air. And right after watching it, YouTube suggested this clip from The Carol Burnett Show featuring Carol Burnett, Lucy and Nancy Wilson, all of course, great entertainers with varying degrees of connection to the theatre and theatre music. I'd never seen this sketch before. This is one of the most weird and even subversive things I've seen from the era. It feels way ahead of its time. I love Carol's show, but this sketch just feels like it's playing on a whole other level to most of her regular sketches. It's so dry, it's so smartly satirical. It seems to be simultaneously skewering the left and the right (see that brilliant unexpected turn when Nancy Wilson tells Eddie Albert that he's a credit to his race!) And Carol and Lucy and Nancy pitch their deadpan performances so perfectly... you can tell this must have been a ball to play. I can't quite think of another Carol Burnett sketch like this. It feels like a bit of an anomaly. Yes, there were other soap opera parodies, but this isn't just a soap opera parody, it's so much more. I wonder who the writers of this particular sketch were and whether they went on to write for other TV or theatre projects. |
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