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Article: Carol Burnett & friends blunder a bit with vintage bloopers special.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- November 21, 2001
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Not so glad we have this time together.
The Carol Burnett Show: Show Stoppers is no way to treat one of TV's three signature First Ladies, who also number Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore.
Much of the blame lamentably goes to Burnett herself, who's hosting and co-producing this ill-considered tribute to prime time's last long-running variety series. She apparently thinks it's a scream to give viewers a stream of clips in which cast members keep cracking each other up by blowing lines intentionally or otherwise.
After a while _ a very short while, actually _ these bloops and blunders lose their punch. The Carol Burnett Show was graced by ...