'I had to push for it!' Carol Burnette was discouraged from doing her own comedy
Carol Burnett was discouraged from doing her own kind of comedy. The 89-year-old comedienne entertained TV audiences for more than a decade in the 1960s and 1970s with her self-titled variety show but revealed that producers initially "poo-pooed" the idea and wanted her to do a typical sitcom instead. She told Fox News Digital: "I had done 'The Garry Moore Show', which was a very good variety show. So, I had all of that experience under my belt. [But] they poo-pooed my idea, saying, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ And [they] had a sitcom they wanted me to do, to which I said, ‘I don’t want to be the ...