Carol Burnett takes a deep dive into her classic CBS variety show

“The Carol Burnett Show” is making its streaming debut.

Starting up Monday, all eleven seasons of the fabled comedy/wide range display, which aired on CBS (1967-1978), will stream on shoutfactorytv.com, Roku, Amazon Fireplace, Apple Tv set and Android apps.

Fronted by Burnett, the series showcased a stellar ensemble forged — Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner — and cooked up a weekly recipe of comedy sketches, musical quantities and A-checklist visitors.

In 1973, it moved to Saturdays at ten p.m., capping CBS’ vaunted lineup of “All in the Household,” “The Jeffersons,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “The Bob Newhart Show.”

Burnett, 87, spoke to The Submit about the effect of her trailblazing series, her recollections of performing with her supporting forged and some really exclusive visitor stars.

What produced the display operate?

We all had great chemistry. I know it appears Pollyanna-ish but we beloved each and every other and I assume it confirmed.

I keep in mind when I was performing ‘The Garry Moore Show,’ when I was in my 20s — Gary was the star and Durward Kirby and I were the 2nd bananas. Gary would occasionally read a little something [in the script] and say, “You know what, Durward or Carol, you can say it funnier than I can.” I recognized that what was I had to do when I bought my possess display. And we weren’t that topical. We seldom addressed nearly anything that was heading on at the time. For the most element we desired to go for stomach laughs — and I dare anybody these days to look at the “Dentist Sketch” with Tim and Harvey and not shed it. It’s timeless, and humorous is humorous.

Your most unforgettable moments on the display?

Gloria Swanson referred to as us and desired to be on since of our takeoff on “Sunset Boulevard.” She reported, “Can I arrive and participate in in your sandbox?” She did a amount with the boys and she and I did a silent movie takeoff in black-and-white — I was a charwoman and she was Charlie Chaplin and the dancers were the Keystone Kops. She wrote in her autobiography that that was the most entertaining she ever had on tv. I grew up in the ’40s and ’50s and my grandmother and I would help save our pennies and to go the films and see the double capabilities. So I fell in enjoy with Betty Grable, and later on on, to have her on as a visitor was just unbelievable. We had Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, Bing Crosby — people today I was elevated on, so to speak. It was like I’d died and gone to heaven.

When I was three or 4 in San Antonio, in which I was born, I was with my grandmother in a movie theater when I observed Jimmy Stewart [onscreen] and reported to my grandmother, “He’s my good friend.” Afterwards on it came accurate: he did turn out to be my good friend and we bought to be near with him and his stunning wife, Gloria. When I did my ultimate display … all of the unexpected there was Jimmy at the piano singing “Ragtime Cowboy Joe.” I just burst into tears. All those childhood goals came accurate.

Favored visitors?

Steve Lawrence, Bernadette Peters — she was the first a single we signed [as a visitor star]. She was 19 when we observed her [off-Broadway] in “Dames at Sea.” Ken Berry was a single of my favorites: he could sing and dance and was humorous. Jim Nabors was my very good luck allure — he was a visitor on each first display we did for eleven yrs and was my middle daughter’s godfather.

Describe Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner in a nutshell.

I really do not know anybody superior at comedy than Harvey. He had comedy chops like you would not believe that. He produced my match superior.

Vicki rarely spoke the first semester (laughs). She was really shy and she was like a sponge the 2nd time. She started off out actively playing my kid sister in a recurring sketch and we began providing her roles in other sketches and she grew and grew. And she wound up staying my mother! [in “The Family” sketches].

I really do not assume there was anybody funnier than Tim. He would arrive up with things that was so creative. He was a visitor for the first eight yrs and then we reported, duh, why really do not you arrive on each week?

It was Carl Reiner’s suggestion that we seek the services of Lyle, a very good-on the lookout announcer I could go gaga in excess of. Carl assumed that was humorous when I did that on “The Garry Moore Show” … but following a though I didn’t want to maintain performing that. I was a developed female with youngsters. So we started off putting Lyle into more sketches and he made into a really very good sketch performer.

Do you consider by yourself a trailblazer?

I really do not [but] other people have reported that. It was what I knew since of “The Garry Moore Show.” CBS didn’t want me to do a wide range display. They reported that is a man’s match — Gleason, Caesar, Dean Martin, Milton Berle — but I had it in my deal that they would give me thirty a single-hour comedy/wide range shows. They tried using to chat me out of it and desired me to do a sitcom referred to as “Dear Agnes.” Oh God, I didn’t want to be “Dear Agnes” each and every week. I keep in mind the first taping with Lyle, Vicki and Harvey. Just before we started off I reported, “Let’s just go out there and have fun” — and that is what we did for 200-odd shows for eleven yrs.