Carol Burnett on Replying To Fan Mail | The Dick Cavett Show
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- Dick Cavett interviews six-time Primetime Emmy winner Carol Burnett about whether she envy's over actors in the business and about whether she reploies to the fan mail that she receives.
Date aired - April 19th, 1979 - Carol Burnett
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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What's your favourite Carol Burnett movie/tv show?
I had the pleasure to stay with my cousin in hollywood so many years ago and had the opportunity to see the taping of the carol burnett show. Im sure it was 50 years ago or more and it was some of the funniest moments in my life.
LUCKY
What a wise person . . . impressed with her clarity.
"Envy is a big fat waste of energy that should be channelled into something else" G E N I U S
I went to school with her late daughter Carrie who definitely resembled Mom.
Carol is absolutely exquisite in this interview. Inside and out.
Carol Burnett looks exceptionally beautiful here. She’s correct that having a degree doesn’t necessarily make one intelligent. Unless they use the knowledge on a regular basis, most people forget what they learn in college. Some people drop out of college because don’t think they’ll be able to pay off the debt, especially if they pursue a subject that isn’t financially profitable. She’s also correct about hate mail. Trolls existed long before the invention of the internet, but the internet made it worse.
ANONYMOUS trolls in particular...
Ever since being a kid, I've always had a bit of a crush on her. I found her honesty, humility, confidence, and humor so attractive. One of my favorite movies starring Burnett and Walter Matthau is "Pete and Tilly." If you haven't seen it, please do/
On Higher education:
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
George Orwell
I don't get what was with Cavett and all these negative questions, with someone who was so positive. And I imagine Fonda just coming out and asking him, "WTF kind of question is THAT, DICK?" re: Vassar envy. I love Carol's answer. I hope Cavett learned something from her. Sheesh.
I had the same feeling. It was kind of uncomfortable that he didn't get it. She didn't want to waste the time or energy with the negative.
Love Carol Burnett! 💜
Carol is so amazing and funny and wise. She always reminded me of my mother when she was younger, they looked alike and my mom could be so funny. I love Carol Burnett and always will and seeing makes me feel like I’m visiting my mom.
Carol is incredibly beautiful. I love her smile.
You're sick!
Stunning
@@murielglass5333 You know "You're sick!" is a compliment these days, Muriel. With any heart or taste at all, that's how you meant it.
It is wonderful they are both alive today.
I agree there's a whole lot of dumb smart people
Cavett interrupted too much. I met them both on the set of Robert Altman’s Health, Carol was wonderful, a very kind lady.
Quite funny that he asks the seemingly well-grounded, common-sensical Burnett if she envies Jane Fonda and her Vassar "education". Would like to see a poll on which one people think is more intelligent.
Dick, you need a new copywriter: "...envy's..." Sheesh.
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I read that Vicki Lawrence was discovered through a fan letter to Carol Burnett. Lawrence invited Burnett to a show and she showed up --in her third trimester!
Most it today’s stars would not likely read or reply to fan mail. Based on what stars endure from strangers on the Internet, I cannot blame them for limiting exposure and self-protecting.
Here’s to all the positive fans!
You generalize a bit.
But also, famous people today have to be wary of stalkers; so, it can be dangerous to respond to fanmail.
I never knew that Carol was so deep and wise. Some of her answers in this interview are quite impressive and her attitude is outstanding.
Happy to hear Keith Michell mentioned! :)
Carol was hot
If you didn't know who she was you wouldn't know from watching this clip that she's one of the most famous comedians ever. I've noticed this over and over with interviews of female comedians/comediennes, they tend not to be very funny off stage. Compared, for example to a Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Johnathan Winters, Steve Martin in his prime, etc., they were always "on". Just an observation.
That’s what I was thinking. She doesn’t even seem nice
Maybe she and Dick Cavett just didn't hit it off. I've seen interviews in which she is adorable and funny.
You're comparing comedic actresses with stand-up comedians. They both may make us laugh, but they're two different professions, two different sorts of personalities.
I got the feeling that she was uncomfortable with his negative line of focus & questioning and even said so in another clip of the same interview. I was honestly kind of irritated by it too!
He seemed uncomfortable for some reason.
Is he really this cynical, or does he simply not get human nature?
He seems to confuse feeling lesser than, or inadequate, with envy.
No. Not at all. He’s just using other peoples issues or common behaviors to create conversation and get her response and view. Imo
Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel.
have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like these.
Love these great old talk show...where they truly talk as compared to today dumb not reality reality shows!
So well centered, comfortable, and smart. Ya don't get that so much anymore.
@5:22 is she talking about the comment section of today's comment section?
Her face changed a lot by this episode vs earlier ones. I guess it was age. Later she got plastic surgery that made her look like a different person.
i was very young when dick came about but damn now that seen some his shows he can ask the WTF questions 😄
He's asking weird questions.
Intelligent and over your head, perhaps.
Love her!!!!
Paula Malcolmson special guest appearance in the Eric smith show on November 22 1963
Please post the 3rd and 4th Bobby Fischer interviews from 1972
Dick Cavett comes across very pompous. It seems that carol knows that and is a bit sarcastic with him. Perhaps she realized he was one of those people should would prefer not to work with. This comment refers to another segment of this same interview on TH-cam.
Watching this makes me recall what a lousy interviewer Dick Cavett was, and why we all loved Carol Burnett
I thought I was the only person who think Dick was a lousy interviewer. I see a lot of people saying he’s the best & I don’t see/hear it. It’s weird lol
Awful toupee for years
There are people who are intelligent without a degree but in her entitled position, I'm sure she didn't meet many without.
What an erroneous and useless assumption on your part.
Didn't you listen to the interview? She mentioned the topic of college degrees and intelligence. She's in the entertainment industry. To assume the majority of entertainers have gone to college is ignorant. It's common knowledge that many of them didn't go to college which doesn't really matter anyway. Entertainers have natural abilities that can't be taught in college. They can be refined though. Also, you'd do well to revisit the definition of entitled.
@@jenniferwilcox9759 your rite Jennifur I gwas mistaken and ignorant two the fact that most peephole in the industry don't half college degrees. Your Wright. Thank you sur
Felipe, she worked her skinny butt off and earned her own success. No casting couch. No sugar daddies. She stayed married. Where did your sour little comment come from?
There's ugly, and then there's Carol Burnett. Dear god, what blasphemy on this earth. When she was a baby the tears would run down the back of her head to avoid her face. Good christ.
Yet when she dies the world will notice, when you die , few will.
@@darreylhenderson702 Sorry, but ugliness like that never dies.
@@darreylhenderson702 She's so ugly, she had to trick-or-treat on the phone.
@@darreylhenderson702 She's so ugly, she died of thirst. She couldn't sneak up on a glass of water.
@@darreylhenderson702 And as for when she dies, the world will notice, well, they noticed when the Elephant Man died too. And he was only SECOND ugliest person in the world. The first is, you guessed it, Carol Burnett.