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PASADENA, California (AP) -- Carol Burnett, whose long-running variety show became a TV classic, has received a career achievement award from the Television Critics Association.
"Does this mean I'll never get another bad review?" the 73-year-old actress-comedian joked Sunday as she accepted the honor.
Burnett went on to recount how "The Carol Burnett Show," which aired from 1967-78, got started. A pay-or-play clause in her contract with CBS for 30 hourlong variety shows was about to run out and she decided to exercise it.
The network, she said, wasn't thrilled. A CBS executive told her that variety was the proper domain of male stars like Jackie Gleason, Sid Caesar and Milton Berle and suggested she consider a proposed sitcom titled, "Here's Agnes," Burnett said.
"I'm so glad I didn't do 'Here's Agnes,' " she said, dryly.
The variety show represented "the greatest years of my professional life" and the TV critics' honor rightly belongs to the show's cast and crew, she said.
Burnett, also a singer, starred in a series of musical specials with guests including Julie Andrews, Beverly Sills and Dolly Parton and in three TV adaptations of the Broadway musical "Once Upon a Mattress," most recently in 2005. Earlier this year she was a guest star on "Desperate Housewives."
The Television Critics Association includes more than 200 reporters and columnists working in U.S. and Canadian print media.
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