The Carol Burnett Show has been off the air for 36 years, but the hilarious sketches from it still hold up to this day. One iconic Carol Burnett Show sketch has just reemerged on social media, and it’s quickly going viral in a big way!
Hilarious Carol Burnett Show Sketch Goes Viral
This sketch is called “The Stand Up Wife,” and debuted in season 7, episode 16 of The Carol Burnett Show. This episode aired 50 years ago, on January 12, 1974.
In this sketch, Carol Burnett plays a woman who just can’t stop making jokes all the time. Her husband, played by Harvey Korman, tries to rectify this by bringing her to a doctor, who is played by guest Carl Reiner.
Of course, Carol isn’t going to stop doing her stand-up routine just because she’s at the doctor’s office.
Hilarity ensues as Reiner goes to desperate measures to stop Burnett from continuing to tell her jokes!
Check out the sketch for yourself below.
Fans Respond
Since being posted on YouTube last week, the sketch has gone viral. The fact that it is still beloved by fans all these years later shows just how incredible The Carol Burnett Show really was.
“I love Carol Burnett and her humor! The best entertainer EVER!” one fan wrote in the comments section of the video. Another added that Burnett has “always been able to make me laugh since I was little…I love The Carol Burnett Show and the rest of the cast made me laugh so much!”
“The Carol Burnett Show is one of the best shows,” a third fan commented. “Whenever I watch it I feel happy…it makes me laugh my head off and it warms my heart to hear Carol Burnett’s voice everyday!”
“Most Beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,” another fan wrote of Burnett. “Wonderful actress and she held her BEAUTY perfectly! I love her show still. Congratulations Mrs. Burnett!”
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The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show ran from 1967 until 1978. It starred Burnett and Korman along with legends like Vicki Lawrence and Tim Conway. Burnett, 91, is still incredibly proud of her eponymous sketch comedy show.
“In my fan mail, many say it was the only time the family would get together, to watch and laugh,” Burnett told People Magazine of The Carol Burnett Show last year. “And that sometimes they were lonesome and were cheered up by our show. That’s a good feeling.”
Burnett thinks that her show was a success largely because it “made people laugh, made them feel good when they might have been down.”
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However, Burnett also believes that something like The Carol Burnett Show wouldn’t make it to air today.
“[The networks] could never do what we did because I think the cost would be extravagant now,” Burnett explained to Fox News in April of 2023. “We had a 28-piece orchestra, 12 dancers. We had 60 to 75 costumes a week. Bob Mackie designed for our guest stars.”
“All of that you couldn’t do today,” she continued. “It would be too much. We did kind of a Broadway mini-musical comedy review every week. And that couldn’t be done today. But there could be a hybrid of some way to do a variety show because there are people who could certainly do variety. But I don’t think a network would take a chance. I just wish they would.”
Indeed, we simply don’t have programs like The Carol Burnett Show on television anymore. No wonder sketches like “The Stand Up Wife” have stood the test of time and are still making people laugh to this day!
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