CAROL BURNETT SPECIAL, A: CAROL, CARL, WHOOPI & ROBIN (TV)
Summary
A special starring Carol Burnett and her guests, Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robin Williams, in an hour of comedy and music structured similarly to "The Carol Burnett Show." Burnett, Reiner, Goldberg and Williams introduce the show from lecterns in a mock-academic recitative number, called "Laughter," in which they examine laughter's "primary root and cause."
Sketches include the following: Carol plays a grieving widow who is accosted at her husband's funeral by an obnoxious, loudly dressed man (Williams) who, among others things, asks innapropriate questions about the details of her spouse's death and insists that Carol keen with him; Burnett and Williams repeat the same sketch -- but this time Williams unleashes his formidable ad lib gifts; Reiner and Williams have a backstage talk, which leads to a parody of Shakespeare, with Reiner performing as Laurence Olivier performing Shakespeare and Williams riffing on the Bard's characters and speeches; Carol coaxes a self-conscious Goldberg into singing a duet, called "That's a Friend"; Williams portrays an uptight businessman sitting on a park bench who is joined by hipster Goldberg, whose bongo playing brings out his wilder side; Burnett and Goldberg portray mother and daughter in a comic-poignant piece that presents the evolution of their relationship from the daughter's infancy to the mother's old age. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements. (This program is closed-captioned.)
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: February 10, 1987 Tuesday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:47
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:09313
- GENRE: Comedy; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; She Made It Collection (Carol Burnett); African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV, 1987
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers
- TV - Commercials - Clairol Nice 'n' Easy hair colorant
- TV - Commercials - Dristan cold medicine
- TV - Commercials - Mastercard credit card
- TV - Commercials - Michelob beer
- TV - Commercials - Nissan automobiles
- TV - Commercials - No Nonsense Light Support pantyhose
- TV - Commercials - The Travelers insurance & investment services
- TV - Commercials - U.S. Sprint long distance
- TV - PSA - "Don't Do Drugs"
- TV - PSA - Project Literacy U.S. (PLUS)
- TV - Promos - "Amerika"
- TV - Promos - "Emmanuel Lewis: My Very Own Special"
- TV - Promos - "Head of the Class"
- TV - Promos - "Jack and Mike"
- TV - Promos - "Ohara"
- TV - Promos - "Perfect Strangers"
- TV - Promos - "Starman"
- TV - Promso - "Spenser: For Hire"
CREDITS
- Marcy Carsey … Executive Producer
- Tom Werner … Executive Producer
- Stephanie Sills … Producer
- Dick Clair … Producer, Writer
- Jenna McMahon … Producer, Writer
- Robert Wright … Associate Producer
- Harvey Korman … Director
- Roger Beatty … Director
- Chris Durang … Writer
- Jim Evering … Writer
- Ken Welch … Writer, Music (Misc. Credits), Music Material by
- Mitzie Welch … Writer, Music (Misc. Credits), Music Material by
- Peter Matz … Conductor, Music Arranged and Conducted by
- Don Crichton … Choreographer
- Carol Burnett … Singer, Host, Performer
- Whoopi Goldberg … Singer, Performer, Guest
- Carl Reiner … Performer, Guest
- Robin Williams … Performer, Guest
- Laurence Olivier
- William Shakespeare