The Carol Burnett Show
Probably the finest comedy variety propgram on television at its time, The Carol Burnett Show, brought joy and tears of laughter to millions each week.
Starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner, it originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967 to March 29, 1978 for 278 episodes.
A unique feature of the show consisted of a question-and-answer segment involving Carol Burnett with the audience. Carol usually did this for about 3-4 minutes at the start of most shows. She would ask for the lights above the audience to be turned up ("Let's bump up the lights...") and then randomly pick audience members who raised their hand to ask her a question.
Sample question from one young woman in audience: "Have you ever taken acting lessons?"
Carol: "Yes, I have."
Young woman: "Do you think it did any good?"
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