Happy 85th Birthday to Carol Burnett who is returning to television this May with a new Netflix show, “A Little Help with Carol Burnett”.
The unscripted series features the legendary comedian asking little kids to give advice to fans and celebrities (like Derek Hough, Lisa Kudrow, and Wanda Sykes). Last December she invited comic greats like Jim Carey (clip below) to join her 50th Anniversary special on CBS, which honored The Carol Burnett Show. WHAT DO YOU THINK of this new Netflix trailer?… (1933)
Check out her 2016 autobiography about hosting one of the funniest weekly variety shows on television: In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox.
MORE Good News on this Day:
- An expedition of English colonists went ashore to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere, later calling it Jamestown (1607)
- Libya amended its constitution to allow for female participation in elections (1963)
- Physicists announced the first evidence of a top quark subatomic particle (1994)
- The nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions was signed by Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (2000)
- Under international pressure, Syria withdrew the last of its 14,000 troops from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (2005)
On this day in 1785, the French-American artist and birdwatcher, John James Audubon was born.As an ornithologist, he documented all types of American birds in great detail and illustrated them in their natural habitats. His color-plate book, The Birds of America, is still considered one of the finest ornithological works…
