Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC

Jolly

@George-K said in Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC:

@Jolly said in Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC:

Just for shits and grins, what would a modern variety show look like?

LOL. We just heard that Saturday Night Live is what it would look like today.

Consider the source.

This is the same person that wants people to die, based on a vaccine status. A vaccine that has waning effectiveness, will not be effective in the future and the patient will be transitioning to immunosuppressive drugs after transplant.

SNL? Maybe by a certain description it would constitute a variety show.

But it's a stretch. And it's certainly not as good as the classic variety shows like Burnett,'s.

taiwan_girl

@Axtremus said in Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC:

Just looked up the Carol Burnett Show on YouTube, and YouTube claims it has nine seasons of the show that you can watch for free.

I clicked on S3 E2 and enjoyed it much more than I thought I would. Carol Burnett was very good!

Link to video

Ironically, there is a song in there waxing nostalgia about old movies, about how then don’t make ‘‘em like they used to anymore.

Hmm. Unfortunately, not available in Thailand.

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

Probably because of licensing issue? :woman-shrugging:

Axtremus

@George-K said in Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC:

@Mik don't you remember all the times that The Carol Burnett Show did all that political "humor?"

The S3 E2 of the Carol Burnett Show that I randomly clicked on had a joke denigrating Spirow Agnew.

All that "Weekend Update-like" news stuff?

Didn’t see anything like that in S3 E2. “Weekend Update” would not have made sense if the show was scheduled to play on weekdays. Wasn’t the show run by a network that also has proper news programs? From a portfolio perspective, it would not make sense for one network to have its “variety show” also doing “news.”

All those musical numbers?

Quite a few of those in S3 E2, if it’s representative.

Axtremus

@Jolly said in Carol Burnett 90th birthday special on NBC:

Back to variety shows...You had to have a tent pole the show could revolve around.

More importantly, you had to have limited avenues. You can gather many top talents under one tent only when most top talents could not pitch their own tents, and all the audience could only choose from very few tents. These days anyone can be the star on his own show, and the audience have a bazillion shows to choose from. Why be a sidekick on someone else’s show when you can be the star on your own show?