uh our first guest is uh one of the great stars of American television and this Friday night
ladies and gentlemen she will be returning to CBS to star in The Carol Burnett Show
it's a pleasure to have her back here with us tonight say hello to Carol Burnett Carol
thank you very much for being here I'm sorry we've had so much trouble but I think things will go
better now you look terrific thank you I just came from getting my haircut no did you really
Vidal Sassoon was the first person who ever cut my hair real short is that right yes you
know we heard we heard another story like that earlier tonight a woman on our staff said that
the same thing with her well up until then when I was going all through high school and college and
my first marriage maybe that's why it ended I used to roll have rollers in my hair and then finally
when Vidal came here in 1960 I went to his place and did that he was quite nice actually yeah yeah
that was the old video yeah uh you look terrific you know I I'm very excited about this program and
help me out here with a little bit of confusion because the last time you were here I think you
were getting ready to start a show on NBC that's right you had the show yes and it was on Saturday
evenings that's right and it was a huge hit it wasn't that huge yeah but it was doing okay but
uh doing an original 22 minute play a week and it wasn't the fun that a variety show was so
I uh asked if I could go back to do doing what I like best yeah now this is this is more than
just going back to another show yeah I mean this is going back to the I guess the studio
where you did the original variety show yeah and spent 12 years there 11 but thank you I'm sorry
yes and uh and with your old friends at CBS many of whom I guess are gone now right dead or gone
uh so was was this a difficult decision for you to make this thing no not a bit
and we had uh one day in which NBC could have said we'll do the hour variety show and so we
waited and legally then we could go over to CBS and I was really happy because uh I kind
of felt well I do feel more at home there sorry we're on NBC yeah we're just barely
okay what are the trucks here
um it's terrific to be back on that uh well you worked on that stage yeah I did that's
been one month there the last time I was here it's a great Studio it's super because it's
a real little theater and uh it's a hot little house I love it so so now you're you're back in
in the thick of things and uh have you given up your your home in Hawaii no I still have a home
in Hawaii and I go and veg out there as much as possible what is that like I mean is is it like
an eight-hour plane flight and then you take another plane to another Island no no I I'm on
Oahu which is where Honolulu is and right at the foot of Diamond Head and but I do have a house I
don't just sit at the foot of Diamond Head but uh I just sit on the Lanai I'm not a sun worshiper
anymore and uh then when I need a a city fix I go to Waikiki and just laugh at everybody but is
it don't you become when you leave your house part of other people's vacations you're kind of like oh
look there she is and only if you go to where the well to the hotels and where the tourists are and
stuff but around the neighborhood and everything I'm just another Hawaiian yeah do you see uh do
you see Don Ho at all do you you know he hasn't called me in ages is he near where you are yes
yeah and uh a lot of people live there you know I've never been to Hawaii well come on over is
that is that a serious invitation or a talk show invitation serious oh is it really okay
I'll tell you what let's do we have a clip of your show I think so yeah all right it's our
first show and Marty's short he's a very funny man very very funny and and ideal for this kind
of show I would think great I loved working with him uh do you want to tell us a little
bit more about the show or should we just look at the clip no okay this will be on the first
show beginning Friday evening okay here's uh Carol Burnett and Marty Short watch this closely
yes
he taught me a makeup trick in that that I never knew what is that well I've always used
tooth black if I want to chip a tooth or black it out but what he did was get tooth wide and
we painted the two front teeth white and they just popped out just like Bugs Bunny you know
that's what I do same thing I've done that for years oh I don't know if I mentioned this the
last time you were there you you remind me oh I'm sorry hey good catch that was an eraser I
pulled it out of my pencil thank you it did yeah everything is inventoried here at the network
get right back um you you remind me of my sister my older sister uh Jan you look like
my sister yeah I usually get you remind me of my mother no no my sister yeah sister and
when I say older I mean she's like three years older than I am that's what I meant I didn't
a lovely girl yeah she is a wonderful woman yeah um um um what do you want to talk about
well when you're going to come to Hawaii you know I'd like to come out there because I've
never been there and everybody says it's beautiful but now I'm I'm on the east coast
of the United States and that you know kind of like triples your flying time that's true yeah
um when you when you decided you were going to start the variety show at CBS again did
you hear from uh the old cast that was on your original variety show saying well what
do you think are we going back to work here or not didn't hear from him at all wow don't
you love these guesses yeah nope no uh there is an open invitation to to the gang to come
on I think Conway is going to come on Tim Conway yeah it's very funny man someone
probably around let's see where we're going to do 13 shows so we think we'll have them on the
13th and uh he wants to write a sketch about Mr tud ball and Mrs Wiggins that we used to do
I love what he wants to do because if you know those characters Conway
wants to write write a sketch Where Mrs Wiggins accuses him of sexually harassing
you know he's he's uh he's got the little uh dwarf things the little I know it's like
a multi-million dollar deal I miss working with him I I adore him very funny guy very
nice man nice man and you never knew what he was going to do from one show to the
next that was part of the appeal of that show I think people saw you folks having
fun and yeah yeah now was that again real fun or just TV fun oh that was real fun this is
uh you know who was here a couple of weeks ago and we had all kind of trouble with him a very
nice guy and a man for whom I have the highest regard as an actor and a really a decent fellow
uh Charles Grodin Chuck yeah now the two of you at one point joined a club started a club Chuck asked
me out to dinner once and I thought he was putting me on but uh because I'm a friendly person he said
why don't we start a club about being friendly and I said well how do we do this and why and he said
because most people are impolite to one another when you go out to a restaurant very few times
does somebody actually look at the person waiting on them and thank them for the cup of coffee and
or when you go to a uh the market or when you go to a department store that you actually say
that's a very nice jacket you're wearing or how do you get your hair that so that you should be
polite to people and nice and not not rude and so we went on various talk shows and we started Club
friendly and it kind of worked for about a week Peter probably we got a lot of letters and Chuck's
mother was answering all this mail from all over the country and it was it was a bit cutesy but
uh he is a quite a friendly person I understand uh he doesn't behave that way sometimes we have
trouble with trucks on talk shows uh and we have trouble with him you know because he's psychotic
he's not as friendly with us as he might have been with you he was terribly friendly with me
but was that was that a joke or was that no he really means it oh no yes he does
he does he doesn't yes no this guy would die if a stranger touched him
The Big Show begins what time is it on uh nine o'clock
Friday night good and and uh this one do you can you even imagine this one going 11 years
what would you be happy with if this were on the air for how long five years at least
13 weeks and then we'll see yeah through the first 13. that's it yeah a pleasure
to see you thank you very much and good luck Carol Burnett ladies and gentlemen