Elvis Presley is a troublesome act to comply with — or, as Carol Burnett as soon as discovered, to precede.
The tv legend, 90, stopped by “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” on Tuesday and chatted about one in every of her earlier occasions on the Ed Sullivan Theater: when she appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Present” on the identical episode as Presley. This was when Presley was within the military, and “they did a complete massive factor” with him, she defined.
Sadly for Burnett, she went on earlier than Presley, so viewers members have been anxious to see the singer and had little interest in her.
“No one needed to see me,” she recalled. “‘Elvis! The place the hell is Elvis? We need to see Elvis!’ I bombed. Oh my God. It was horrible. It was terrible.”
On the brilliant aspect, Burnett met Presley that evening and obtained his autograph for her sister. “He was very candy,” she informed Colbert.
“The Ed Sullivan Present” initially aired from 1948 to 1971. Colbert famous that Burnett was on the present seven occasions, a quantity that stunned her. “I used to be?” she requested. Burnett’s personal self-titled selection present ran on CBS from 1967 to 1978.
Whereas chatting with Colbert, Burnett remembered one other terrible tv look, though this time, it was terrible on function. The “Carol Burnett Present” star defined that when she was nervous to be a visitor on “The Tonight Present Starring Johnny Carson,” she determined that she would deliberately be the “world’s worst visitor” with out telling the discuss present host beforehand. So in the course of the present, Burnett repeatedly answered Carson’s questions with “sure” or “no” solutions.
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“In fact, he caught on, and he began asking every kind of attention-grabbing questions, to which I may simply say, ‘Perhaps. No,'” she mentioned.
Talking of Presley, Burnett additionally regarded again on when she carried out a music on TV referred to as “I Made a Idiot of Myself Over John Foster Dulles,” which imagined a younger lady obsessing over the “boring” U.S. secretary of state the best way most women did about Presley.
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“All hell broke free” after Burnett carried out the music on the Jack Paar and Ed Sullivan exhibits, she mentioned, recalling that it “was front-page information” on the time.
The Emmy winner’s tv profession has spanned greater than 60 years, and her newest position is reverse Kristen Wiig in “Palm Royale,” now streaming on Apple TV+.