Fresh from the glow of a successful campaign to get Betty White on as the host of “Saturday Night Live,” a new Facebook drive seeks to get another veteran comedic actress on the show: Carol Burnett.
A Facebook fan page calling for Burnett to host the program points out that Burnett obviously has experience on a sketch television show and says it would be a great way to honor the classic comedian.
“The Carol Burnett Show” ran for 11 years, from 1967 to 1978, and Burnett has popped up occasionally in guest roles on television, most recently last year on “Law & Order: SVU.”
She recently released a new book, “This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection,” about her adventures in Hollywood.
Already, more than 54,000 people have endorsed the idea on Facebook, and, notes Entertainment Weekly’s Jeff LaBrecque, the irony of it all is that when Saturday Night Live launched in 1975 and The Carol Burnett Show was running on TV, the original SNL crew thought her act was too corny to ask her on the show.
After filing separate divorce papers last month, Larry King and his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick King, have reconciled and halted their separation.
“We love our children, we love each other, we love being a family. That is all that matters to us,” the couple said in a joint statement, according to Reuters. “We owe it to ourselves and our children to continue being dedicated to each other. We want to thank our friends for their loyal love and support – for being there for us.”
The CNN talk-show host, 76, and his singer wife, 50, have two children together – Chance, 11, and Cannon, 9.
Shannon Engemann, Southwick’s sister, told the New York Daily News the couple has cleared up the “confusion” that led to accusations that she was secretly bedding the 76-year-old talk show host.
“It was just a lot of misunderstanding and jumping to conclusions,” Engemann, 46, said. “Shawn and I spoke, and we’re getting along great. We love each other very much. She’s very clear on everything now.”
She said the married couple was “doing well.”
He once infamously bit off part of an opponent’s ear during a fight, but it seems Mike Tyson has lost his taste for meat.
The former boxer claims to have given up animal products in exchange for a purely vegan diet.
And it seems the change is doing him some good. After piling on the pounds in recent years, Tyson looked fighting fit as he headed out for dinner in Beverly Hills Tuesday night, according to London’s Daily Mail.
While recording a 90-minute interview for the Yes Network in New York last week he revealed that he had given up eating meat or animal products.
The 43-year-old said he’d become a vegan and finally had ‘no drama’ in his life.
From the beginning of his boxing career in the mid-’80s, Tyson was on a strict diet and spent hours at the gym building up his strength.
The father of seven was the youngest ever competitor to win the heavyweight title and through this he earned the nickname ‘Iron Mike’.
Throughout the ’90s Tyson’s muscular body was a well-oiled fighting machine.
However, his career took a battering when he was convicted of raping beauty queen Desiree Washington and served three years in prison.
Now something of a comedic actor, Tyson starred recently in the film “The Hangover.”
“Fifty years!” Bob Newhart marveled. “It’s like where the hell did the time go?” The comedian was ruminating recently as he relaxed between concert dates on a 14-city tour celebrating his golden anniversary in show business.
“I’ll tell you how the world has changed,” he told The Associated Press in the living room of his secluded Bel-Air home. “We were all called the sick comics. Time magazine did an article on all of us: Lenny Bruce, myself, Shelley Berman and Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
Lenny was knocking over all kinds of sacred topics, and we all were called ‘sick.’ I was making people sick because I made fun of a president — Abe Lincoln. Compared to today, it’s hard to believe.”
At 81, Newhart has reached the age when many performers call it quits.
“I’ve had time off and it drove me nuts,” he claimed. “I was crawling up the wall.
“I know some people who say, ‘I wanna quit making people laugh.
I’m tired of making people laugh.’ That doesn’t make sense to me.
Why would I want to stop doing it? When you do a show and it works and you come off stage and they’ve had a good time and you’ve had a good time. Why stop doing that?” He explained his modus operandi: “I have an idea and I’ll try it in Seattle and maybe refine it a little more in Calgary and refine it a little more in Vancouver. The art of it is doing it 10 milllion times and see what happens. That’s a kick. The art of doing it 10 million times but make it seem like the first time.
— The Associated Press also contributed to this report
lsmith@denverpost.com
