Tag: Carol Burnett

Jack Benny: King of Classic Comedy

Many of our country’s most beloved entertainers started out in vaudeville, a national network of theaters offering bills of miscellaneous acts: singers, dancers, comedians. For Americans, it was television before there was television. TV variety shows, in fact, with hosts like Ed Sullivan and Carol Burnett, were vaudeville’s final encore. Performers known for one skill…


Theater Review: ‘Carol Burnett: An Evening of Laughter and Reflection’

CHICAGO—Time and age have not diminished Carol Burnett’s popularity.  When the beloved comedian stepped onto the Chicago Theatre stage, the audience went wild with applause. The one-woman show offered the same question-and-answer format that Burnett used to open her 11-year television variety show.  In person, she is as warm and engaging as she was on…