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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Carol Burnett: A favorite conversation

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At age 92, Carol Burnett still graces our screens with her presence and humor. Alan revisits a 2019 conversation that explores with her what made The Carol Burnett Show a comedy masterpiece and recalls the time she played his wife in his movie The Four Seasons.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Alan Alda, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

0:16.3

You look at our show. You can see me supporting Tim Conway or supporting Harvey, Harvey supporting

0:24.3

Vicky or Vicki supporting me. I mean, it was a true rep company, which is what I wanted,

0:30.4

so that everybody could shine. Everybody could score a touchdown. That's, of course, Carol Burnett

0:37.1

in a conversation we had back in 2019.

0:40.3

Carol is still enjoying a long and happy career with a regular role in the Apple TV series

0:46.3

Palm Royale and guest appearances lately in Hacks and Frazier.

0:52.3

But as she said in a recent interview, the Carol Burnett Show is the one

0:57.0

project she'd like to be remembered for. That landmark series started in 1967 and ran for 11 years.

1:06.9

We thought it would be fun to revisit our 2019 conversation when we explored what made her show so

1:13.1

special. And when we had a chance to reminisce about the times we've worked together, including the

1:19.5

time she played my wife in one of my favorite movies, The Four Seasons. Carol, I am so happy to have you on the other end of the microphone here. This is so

1:30.1

great. Well, I'm happy to be with you and to see you. It's been too long. I know it. I know.

1:35.8

Talk about how long it's been. Once when we were working together, I don't know whether it was

1:40.8

in six rooms review or when we were making four seasons or on your show.

1:46.0

We figured out that we grew up together and didn't know it.

1:49.7

That's right.

1:50.7

I lived in one room in an apartment building with my grandmother, one block north of Hollywood Boulevard.

1:57.7

Right, and I lived one block north of Hollywood Boulevard.

1:59.6

This is a song like this. I know. I lived a block north of Hollywood Boulevard, and. And I lived one block north of a song like this. I live the block north

2:03.2

of Hollywood Boulevard. And it was Yucca Street. Yucca and Wilcox. And we used to, as a kid, I was around

2:10.8

10 or 11. And as a kid, we would roller skate up and down, you know, going towards Hollywood Boulevard

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