The Kennedy Center Honors Lucille Ball (Pt 1 of 3)

[1960galBSAM]

I love it at the beginning, when everyone is singing the National Anthem, I love to watch Lucy singing it(: To me, that just makes me smile!

[rickw1100]

Well deserved!!!

[MrsCullenJankowski]

This was just a few days after Desi Arnaz died :( Lucy is a genius.

[dia91101]

Do you have this in it's entirety? I would love to see it!

[POBox1999]

Cronkite was the man! RIP

[4615larkc]

@POBox1999 he was a man everyone loved & could trust & let enter their home

[POBox1999]

@4615larkc Unlike today's sensationalist anchors/performers.

[sugarlipz96]

aw its so sad thinking that 5 days before this desi was in a coma! i miss them!

[myrnaturner]

Lucy is so overrated. Honestly!

Oh, I am just joshing. The woman was a true comic genius.

[Erynsvoice]

your comment had me scared there for a second! ;)

[myrnaturner]

I know, right? :) :) :) :)

[TheDeanmartinfan1]

@myrnaturner geezzz dont do that you almost gave me a heart attack and i am only 13!!! lol

[stephenc77098]

Orson Welles guest starred on I Love Lucy one episode. One day during rehearsals he was absorbed in watching Lucy go thru her scene. One of the crew asked him what had him so enthralled. Welles responded " I am watching the greatest actress in the world perform".

[shaybean54]

lucille is a genius! love her and her work!

[gottamatch]

Lucille said that she wasn't funny, it was the writers on I Love Lucy that wrote the funnies for her. "Judy Garland was funny" she always said. Boy was she wrong. Judy was funny, but Lucille was just as much a natural comic! Lucille was a great actor other than a comedian too, perhaps one of the most underrated real actors ever. Thank you for posting this.

[shnooger]

She meant funny in real life. Other people who knew Judy personally also said she was funny.

[gottamatch]

Yep thanks for the clarification, in 'real life' is what she meant :)

[1simaddict1]

Aww where did you find this? Desi died five days before this.

[reshamari11]

"Lucille Ball was so funny that she could make you laugh without saying one dirty word. She was so funny that she didn't have to say ANY word to make you laugh. Just thinking about Lucy brings a smile to my face. She was that good". Those are the words said by Madonna when she was asked about Lucille Ball.

"Lucy is my favorite". Quote from Frank Sinatra

"Funniest woman ever" Quote from Chris Rock

"I used to eat my cheerios watching Lucy" Quote from Oprah Winfrey

Enough Said.

[beachbumrc17]

@reshamari11 Where did you find that quote from Madonna??

[reshamari11]

To answer your question beachbumrc17, Madonna said that quote about Lucy when Lucy died around 1989 and they were asking all celebs to comment about Lucy on the tv show Entertainment Tonight. At that point in 1989 Madonna had been famous for about 5 or 6 years.

[RealTime88]

@reshamari11 Great quotes. Lucy said she found herself brave but never funny. I could never understand that. She was funny, talented, AND brave.

[rebaluver27]

I luv lucille ball!! Thanks for posting!

[TheCampanile]

Thank you very very much for posting this up! :)

[stix2507]

I love Lucille Ball. She deserved this honor. Her show is one of my favorites.

[BigBearPaul]

This is interesting that Ronald Reagan, a Republican was doing this when, in the 1950s Lucy was almost blacklisted by McCarthy.

[rachelazw]

Reagan, having been in Hollywood when the blacklisting was going on, must have known it was all BS (and he was a member of the Democratic Party at the time). He was also a longtime friend of Lucy's.

[poosaypirate]

so?

[jook88]

watch this year's "kennedy center honors" tonight on CBS!!!!!!!

[terripbg]

Ok I am going to say what everybody eles said " Thank you for uploading this".

[1oo8jm]

Thank you sooooo much for posting this. God Bless America!

[clarisd]

Thank God! she didn't live to see the state of the US that she loved.Fascism is the disgrace that is America in these times.What we were ment to be has been subverted and what we dreamed to become had been stolen from us,or did we give it away and why dear countrymen are we not living up to the American Spirit.Remember George Washington was a named torrorist by the Crow of England.How can we not hate this wrong and set it right.

[er1nmj]

Thank you sooooo much for posting this! I saw it once on here a while back and then it disappeared. I'm so happy it's back!

[zombieporn]

omg i didnt think i would find this i love you!!

[CitzenVain714]

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[ckri2]

I'm happy to share this. :)