Carol Burnett’s Net Worth Includes A Stranger’s $50 Gift To Launch Her Career
stylecaster.comShe celebrated her 90th birthday in 2023 and Carol Burnett’s net worth is indicative of her decades-long career in show business.
But she came from a very modest background. Her groundbreaking variety of The Carol Burnett Show debuted on 1967 CBS and was one of the first variety/sketch shows to be hosted by a woman.
It ran for 279 episodes until 1978. It aired again in 1991 for nine episodes. “I don’t think a network would go for what we did,” she told Page Six on April 23, 2023. “We had a 28-piece live orchestra, we had 12 dancers, we had two guest stars a week and Bob Mackie designed—get this—60 to 75 costumes a week, everything everybody wore in all the sketches and all the musical numbers, on and on and on.” She continued: “And no network today would spend that kind of money.
The money that it would cost today would be astronomical. So, they’re not gonna go for it. And they, you know, they feel that variety is dead, which I don’t believe it is. … There are many people who could do a variety show, but … they couldn’t do what we did because of the cost.
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