Carol Burnett, 90, reveals the one joke she took too far — and stuns in gorgeous photo shoot
nypost.comCarol Burnett knows she’s at times taken things too far. The actress, 90, cited an incident when she was touring with her famous Q&A act on the road in a new Harper’s Bazaar interview.
Shortly after 9/11, someone in the audience asked if Burnett could be a member of the opposite sex for 24 hours, who would she be and what would she do. “I said, ‘I’d be Osama bin Laden, and I’d kill myself,’ ” Burnett recalled.
She noted that the situation is one that she very much regrets. As for imposter syndrome? It’s not in her vocabulary. “It never occurred to me,” she told the outlet. “I always felt I was going to be able to do something.”The Emmy-winning actress also revealed that opening her long-running variety show, “The Carol Burnett Show,” with a Q&A instead of a traditional monologue was her producer’s idea — and she wasn’t on board from the get-go. “I balked at first,” she recalled. “I said, ‘What if they don’t ask anything?
Or what if they do and I can’t answer it?’ And he said, ‘Well, we’ll put some plants in the audience.’ And then I thought about it, and I said, ‘No, it’s got to be real.’”Eventually, she said, “I started to get comfortable, and it turned out to be one of my favorite things that we ever did.”“The Carol Burnett Show” ran on CBS from 1967 to 1978, earning Burnett several Emmys and Golden Globes.
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