"A Special Evening With Carol Burnett" -- Closing

[Biggerbyte]

When I was younger, not the later years of this show. Obviously...

[CMike61410]

I remember watching this with my parents. I cried then, and now! Thanks for posting this! GREAT memory!

[thomasholleman]

I was really feeling carol burnett! this was a sad night for everybody!

[petclark1]

I guess there's two words that sum up great talent, comedic genius, grace, poise and REAL class...Carol Burnett.

[findthebeauty]

What a class act.

[anthonyusaajr1]

My Grandma watched her a lot and I watched the reruns!! She was a legend.

[johninfl]

I watched this when I was 10, remember it like yesterday.....Carol is pure class, there will never another like her..

[Biggerbyte]

I cried through the entire video. It was like yesterday when as a young child was so disappointed to see her leave. I was so ready for bed by the time Carol would sing her song. My Dad would carry me to bed and tuck me in. I'm about to turn 49 years old now. Carol, we all miss you, and the rest of the gang so much. Television had it right back then. You are amazing.

[PatrickLHawkins]

@Biggerbyte Gosh if you are almost 49 now I sure hope when you fell asleep back in 78 watching this your dad woke you up and made you walk to bed. You would have been 16. : )

[Princessloohoo]

When she started crying, so did i.

[texasghost01]

And amazingly enough...that same studio Carol Burnett called home for all those years...is now called...the Bob Barker Studios where The Price is Right is now taped.

[1964nickel]

It's been over 33 years since I saw this the first time. I still get misty eyed when I watch it. Thanks for the upload. Muchas gracias. :-}

[73gossipboy]

lord the tears are flowing!!! What a amazing lady!!!

[willeecoyotee]

I was 16 then- how I long for those days

[TheSoccerTrainer]

Truly a classic show!

[1limey1a]

I'm fully comfortable in my manhood when I say that I lose it when she starts singing and her voice starts to crack. T.V. just isn't the same without her on it!

[WalterLiddy]

She never did say why she left the show. She just said it wasn't ratings.

[MichelleSheree1]

Carol Burnett is truly a legend and one of the most funniest woman i know

[djintheatl]

Thank you for posting this. Carol Burnett is the definition of class act.

[bxgrl4ever]

You have all hit it on the nail. Carol made us all laugh, but her crew was her "family".. I felt so bad for her when her daughter died. Anyone remember the TV show "Fame"? Her daughter was on that show. Now this was true TV~~~

[ole9421]

That was the night true entertainment died.

[Potomacstud]

I will always love this woman !

[lordcron]

So I'm a 42 year old African American man now. At the time this aired I was 9 years old. I Can't Tell You How Much I LOVED this woman and in some ways mother.

I felt to close to her. It's so good to see this footage again!

My heart just melted!

[andyx6766]

@lordcron I remember it well too, and was 12 myself when I watched this the first time. Really takes me back...

[lordcron]

@andyx6766 wonderful memories. Just wonderful.

[JeterSwisherFan88]

@Smalltowngal29 You can say that again.

[vfw454]

Her and Lucy had to be the best two female actress on TV ever.

[Potomacstud]

I really loved this lady , she's the best there is

[icecrystal666]

another good one is Noises Off.

[waxlurker]

As good a place as any to do it - I'd like to thank Carol and the gang for teaching the younger me, without my ever realizing it, how to be funny and spread that cheer too! :-)

[kelleyladydj]

Carol----How I miss you and your program so very much...TV was never quite the same when you left..We love you!

[tobar9561]

@kelleyladydj i agree 100 percent.carol ,harvey ,tim, and vickie were like family . those days were so inocent and full of happiness for so many.i wish i could turn back the hands of time and go back to that special time. tv was so much better and family friendly.why can"t things be that way again.

[bigroy38]

Like the end of Carson.

[viciousv422]

Dear Carol. These tears I'm crying...Please. Know you will live forever.

[KyliesMCJ]

I actually cried. I love The Carol Burnett show so much! I'd never seen this finale until today, and it made me really sad. This was, to me, the best show on television.

[catholicpriest1]

A great look at the large stage of the Bob Barker Studio (20 years before it was named the Bob Barker Studio). Carol exits through the same big stage door where prizes and games are brought into the studio for "The Price is Right".

[catholicpriest1]

Betty White somehow shows up everywhere....I met her briefly in 2004.

[justfoo2006]

A woman who has made all of us a little bit better people. Thank you so much for posting these.

[pattypence]

Finally after 32 years I can watch this without crying like a crazy teenager. I was so hysterical the night this show aired. Thanks for letting me relive the moment.

[Shoobee63]

Smalltowngal is right, it WAS the best goodbye ever, classy, articulate, and never do you feel as if she's overdoing it.

[Smalltowngal29]

And that, folks, is the best 'goodbye' I have EVER heard from a television show's star. Carol Burnett was, and STILL is, absolutely wonderful!

[er6789er]

The greatest variety show to ever grace the airwaves - Thank you Carol for the laughter...and thanks for the post...

[rothhar]

I grew up watching this show, will always be one of the greatest shows of all time I will always have happy memories of family watching and laughing together.

[timhere64]

this was tv greatness coming to an end.. what a loss... this show was gold to me.. i looked foward to it every saturday night ..

[Michael7878]

Still brings tears to my eyes to watch this.....Thank you for all good laughs Carol.

[celine2010]

You see Roddy McDowall as well. This brings me to tears every time. Pure class!

[prunscilla]

You can see Betty White, Jim Nabors, Harvery Korman, Bernadette Peters in the procession.

[lebamboo08]

We never have any classic t.v show like this any more today .Thank you for posting.

[lavb5474]

Class just class!!!!!!! Good taste never goes out of style!!!!!! Take note entertainment indusrty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ldclyw]

The first time I saw the Carol Burnett show, was over 20 years after it went off the air as reruns. And I feel in love with it at the age of 8. Carol became my female TV idol. The show was great in that it included not only pop culture from that time, but also things that have stood the test of time today. I am glad that Carol was able to share her comedic genius with the rest of the world.

[38Moju]

My kids also love laughing along with these shows. I told my daughter that the reason I liked watching them so much is because they aren't afraid to make mistakes and when they do they build on it and make it part of the show. Thanks for all the laughs we had watching all of you have fun and for letting us have fun with you.

[susan20182]

Thirty-two years later and my 14 year old laughs at these clips as much as I did way back when. Thanks for keeping them alive.

[joemama4twenty]

This still makes me cry! ♥ it!!

[patrickjd1966]

Simply put - The Carol Burnett Show was the best show ever!

[Sparxe]

Bawling like a baby I am. Ty for posting this.

[solovoyager]

I haven't seen this since it was first broadcasted and tonight I feel the same emotions I felt back then. It was like your best friend moving away. Carol Burnett will always hold a special place in my heart. Even though I've never met her, I truly love this woman!

[newman20072008]

my GOD my eyes are soaked

[maup47]

I ADORED this show, it was never replaced and holds a very special place in the hearts of millions.

[italobambino43]

I remember watching it to, I was about twelve, in fact we never missed it, I had to be in on Saturday night when the street lights came on, that was my que to come in to the house to get my bath, and then we would watch Carol Burnet. This show makes me feel very good, and that I recall my mother and father who are now gone. BTW, this show aired two days before my fathers 50Th. Birthday which was March 31st. ! The Mary Tyler Moore show also ended in 78" as well, that was a big good by to.

[forbearfun]

Crying buckets of tears....and I cant stop....just hits you in the gut :-(

[mtnyc89]

thanks for posting - I remember watching this as a child - knowing this was the end of something special.

[HardRokMiner]

This show was my moms favorite. We use to watch it together. This grown man is not ashamed to say that I am writing this comment thru eyes full of tears. Thank you for the laughs Carol. I love you and so did my mom.

[davisracquet]

Carol Burnett has been such a class act her entire career. She's a very talented entertainer from her beginning on Broadway in "Once Upon a Mattress" throughout her television show, making all our lives so much more enriching. It's a shame that now all we're left with untalented women depending on the "f word" and sexual references to entertain a young and naive audience, a poor state of affairs that somehow IS passing itself off as comedy.

[theoceanave]

WOW. I had no idea that this footage was even around, or that they did this kind of 'Last Show' format for the finale.  Just....wow. Truly amazing. And her walking off the sound stage makes it that much more heartwrenching - that the production was in fact being put to bed for the infinitely long nap. There's always the reruns, but they're never quite the same.

[JP5466]

If you can watch this entire video without shedding a tear or getting a lump in your throat, you are not human.

[adamdicy]

@JP5466 Who would've thought that Vicki Lawrence would be playing Mama Harper again 5 years later in Mama's Family, Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Betty White would make appearances, and it's the funniest show ever in the 80's.

[SeeMeAct87]

I must be human then!

[reebsrox]

@JP5466 Amen!! =/ I love you Carol Creighton Burnett♥

[himweproclaim]

There is a debate over which comedienne was more talented--Lucille Ball or Carol Burnett. For me, Carol Burnett hands down.

[BrownPlaid13]

weeping here. she touched such an interesting place where funny meets touching meets poignancy.

[honeycone71]

I'm sitting here in tears after just viewing this clip...same as I did when I watched it with my mother and grandmother 32 years ago when I was 8 years old. I haven't seen it since the original broadcast. Glad to see I'm in good company. Bottom line: there will NEVER be another Carol Burnett!

[lecurvey]

Class. There's not another like her.

[SuperPegacorn]

I had tears in my eyes when I saw this. It seems so sad to see her be upset.

[mca1218]

Pure magic. I was a CB devotee for almost all 11 years. And I watched this series finale in 1978 and cried with a smile on my face right along with everyone else in America. Watching this again at 47 gives me special nostalgic emotions: watching the cast all depart, followed by the moving departures of Harvey, Vicki, and Tim (note the extra long embraces of Vicki and Tim, as well as the autograph signings). Closing monologue was a dream. The CBS was, in a word, pure class.

[SEFYH]

Wow!! I remember being a small child with watch this final episode with my mom and siblings. We cried like babies that night. I will treasure those memories forever.

Carol Burnett is true CLASS personified!!!

[NFitalianGuy]

A VERY CLASSY LADY! The BEST ending to a show I have seen yet. GENIUNE to her core!

[nycboyforlife]

They just don't have talent like this anymore. this is a bygone era. I remember gathering with my family at our house in Brooklyn, NY every Saturday night at 10:00 pm on CBS channel 2 so we could watch these great shows. These people are not only incredibly talented and funny but really genuine in their affection for one another. R.I.P. Harvey Korman.

[richiguy]

@nycboyforlife

how funny. I am from Brooklyn and during the summer, different families on our block would roll out the portable TV on Saturday night and all the neighbors would watch CBS together, from the Mary Tyler Moore Show through Carol Burnett. It was a ritual.

[tubetoad]

Thanks, Carol...Blessings to ALL.

[LeonAcord]

Pure class. TV is trash now compared to then...

[Treemeadow]

I'm 21. I wasn't even around until 9 years after this was shot.

But I'm sobbing with the rest of you, here.

[0laila]

....wow this brings me to tears....

[OriginalAlphathewolf]

I don't care what anyone says. I may never be in the acting or film business but from what I've seen and what I know...

11 years worth of shows.. Everyone making it happen is family. Carol Burnett Show, M*A*S*H, and The Golden Girls are all examples of shows where everyone was family. Heck even the cast and crew of Harry Potter seem like a family now. TV has it's perks now day along with movies but... shows like The Carol Burnett Show were the best, ever.

[bjoelfn55]

Just last night I'm flicking through the channels and there is nothing on tv with humor creativity and just plain entertainment. I said to my wife I wish there was a show on like the Carol Burnett show. What a shame. So I put in an Andy Griffith show tape. Oh well maybe TV will change, I really hope so.

[samsamsammysam1]

me too!

[eddie1967]

Why can't television produce anything like this now? Instead of fun and creativity, we are bombarded by "reality" shows that seem to value conflict and negativity.

I don't think we will ever see a talent of Carol Burnett's caliber on television again....

[TIPTON340]

I was living in Kansas - - Dodge City -- if you can believe it and this last episode aired March 29th 1978.

[s13deb]

One of the ever. Love her so much. Thanks for posting. :-)

[marctheark]

Thank you for posting this. I am glad to see it again even though it still brings tears.

[tubetoad]

Carol-et al: Love, Blessings, and Thanks.

(Carol, Thanks for letting me kiss you, on the cheek @ the Majestic in San Antonio, Magic!)

[0laila]

OMG.....THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE... I wasn't even BORN and it brings me to tears....

[originalsin19]

Haha...me too. It`s crazy.

[colibri1]

Thank you so much for posting this. I remember when this aired. I was 13 and our family had watched the show weekly for years. I remember crying when she sang the final song. It was like an era of my own life had ended.

[Permaglo]

At :39 Betty White and Allen Ludden!

[kbirdusa]

What an amazing clip. Why isn't this ever mentioned when people discuss best TV series finales?

[daveusericuk]

It must be something that resonates with those of us in our 40's. I too remember being a kid sitting with my brother and sister on the pull out couch in our pj's watching the CB Show and our sides hurt and tears in our eyes from laughing so hard. Thank so much for posting this. Wonderful memories.

[ThickAzABrick]

I am a 43 year old Grandfather who is weeping as I remember watching this episode as a 12 year old boy with my big sister. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[coachirons]

Does anyone know where I can find the closing credits cartoon with the cleaning lady?

[angeloflove]

i actually cried when she started too

[MeAndMyRC]

This blew me away! I DO recall this episode, but don't have to much memory of it. Saturday nights were my favorite because I enjoyed watching this show with the family. How she even sang that song without breaking down is amazing. Carroll Burnett IS a class act all the way! I miss shows like this

[uvabarber]

Carol Burnett... a class act in every sense of the word. She defined the variety show for so many of my generation.

[cubanbach]

Oh, those wonderful innocent times...I'm so lucky I was there to enjoy them and to remember them now...

Thank you, CAROL for giving laughter and joy to our lives. We'll never forget you.

[JAldridge86]

Not sure if you got my private message, I just wanted to tell you that you have some excellent clips up!! I'm definitely subscribing. I have to ask, would it be possible for you to copy the Carol Burnett finale to DVD for me? I'd love to give it to my grandmother as a birthday gift. I would pay you for your work if you like. Please let me know if you can.

[calchick82]

Thank you so much for posting this. Watching the Carol Burnett Show on Sat. nights was one of the fond memories from my childhood. It was a show truly for the whole family, and it is a shame that there is not a show like this on the air now, but alas, it is a different world today. I am glad though there are clips like this that we can now view, along with the videos/DVD's of this show so we can look back and watch GOOD entertainment that still seems as fresh now as when these episodes were new.

[hardlines4]

The Best!

[1more4theroad]

It's a shame that the world is such a different place now. Such pure quality, wholesome humor and entertainment...no vulgarities, just pure talent. So sad to sit through this clip and realize what it means now, not knowing then what an impact the Carol Burnett Show would have. But isn't that always the case....not appreciating fully until it's gone? THANK YOU Carol, Tim, Harvey, Lyle, Vicki, and everyone else....We all love you!! sniff sniff

[newstart2009]

I'm comparing this to the 1970 clip posted earlier. It's a sad time in history when this was the real final variety show :( Thank you for posting.

[ddoyle11]

I was a teenager who grew up watching Carol every Saturday night. She influenced me in so many ways. I cried like a baby the night this episode aired. I never realized that it marked the end of an era as well as a show. Wonderful memories...thank you so much for posting this.

[ShowoffNYC]

What strikes me most about The Carol Burnett Show, both the episodes and the outtakes, is that it is as funny and fresh today as when it first aired.

This is television at it's best. Heartwarming, genuine and above all, hilarious. Will we ever see the likes of this again?

[brand666]

Moments like that remind me not every reflection requires dour cynicism.

[charlenedarlin]

Added to my favorites today in honor of Lauren Brower, also a star on stage and in the way she continues to live her life. I love you Lauren. Kayla

[beckyboolou]

Thanks so much for posting this. This was my all time favorite show and it was nice to remember a simpler and happier time for us all.

[terrypos]

Thank you for letting me have this time together, again.

[jook88]

aw, that was so sweet. that show was the best thing to ever happen to entertainment!

[ohbutyes]

I remember crying my eyes out the night this aired... I knew something special was over, but I didn't really understand how much was over. Now I know what was over was an era that would never be again...

[gameshowluvr86]

Very well put. It was so heart-wrenching to hear Carol sing I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together through her tears. My heart broke in two.

[chevy1cbs]

Great clip...brings back genuinely warm and heartfelt memories. Thanks for posting!

[tjmsgal]

Thank you so much for posting this!