ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Broadway actress and comedian who starred in her own TV show from 1967 to 1978. She credits Lucille Ball as a role model and influence on her career. The networks were reluctant to giver the show because they didn't think a woman could lead a variety program, but the show was very popular and helped the careers of Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Vicki Lawrence, and Tim Conway. Parody was one of the common features of the show; the clip below is a take-off on the film Gone With the Wind.
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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