I'm Alan Olver and this is Clear and Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

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

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

So that everybody could shine, everybody could score a touchdown.

Every Saturday night for 11 years Carol Burnett communicated a sense of family to the entire

country. She did it alongside other skilled comic actors but it wasn't just skilled.

There was always a sense of community among the actors and we in the audience felt we were

invited in as part of the gang. It was fall down funny belly laugh humor that new generations

are still discovering and they're still reacting to the warmth, still feeling that sense of family.

I wondered how she did it so we set up in a studio near her home in California and we had a talk.

Carol I am so happy to have you and the other end of the microphone here. This is so great.

I'm happy to be with you and to see you. It's been too long.

I know it. I know it's talk about how long it's been. Once when we were working together,

I don't know whether it's in six rooms review or when we were making four seasons or on your show,

we figured out that we grew up together and didn't know it. That's right. I lived in one room

in a part of the building with my grandmother. One block north of Hollywood Boulevard.

Right and I lived one block north of all this is one just song like this. I lived the block north

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

I was around 10 or 11 and as a kid we would roll our skate up and down, you know,

going towards Hollywood Boulevard and back and around the block and everything and then

you and I got to talking about that years ago when we first started to work together and you said

that you remember hearing us or seeing us out of a window, roller skating because your dad

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