Lawrence also was nominated for an Emmy as Mama. "I think Harvey was really kind of responsible for turning her loose, and help me, or her, become the fun character that I think everybody loves so much." She's got to be silly now.' … He said, 'What have I taught you? She is you. You can't expect people to pop a beer open, put their feet up on a coffee table every week and watch her scream for a half-hour every week. "And he said, 'Well, she's got to be a sitcom star now. And I said, 'Harv, it just doesn't feel funny.' "I said it's not funny – we have to bring Harvey in, because Harvey was such a mentor to me. "I shut the production down," Lawrence says. Lawrence says the character needed time to develop. "Mama's Family" had an unspectacular two-year run on NBC, but found its audience in first-run syndication. So I thought, 'Well, OK, I guess maybe …'" You need to do this.' And she was deadly serious. "And I remember her saying, 'I really believe this old lady will take care of you. She said, 'This old lady is so special.' She said, 'You've got to.' She said, 'Harvey and I will come and play with you, but you really need to do this on your own.' "And it was, I think, basically, Carol's urging that convinced me. She said she had turned down the offer while Burnett's show was still on the air, but "no sooner did the credits roll" on the special that Burnett, co-star Harvey Korman and Burnett's husband, producer Joe Hamilton, "were all on me, going, 'You have got to do this as a series.' After it aired, Lawrence says, she was approached to do the spinoff show.
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I'm not sure she and CBS have decided what yet, but they've scheduled a tape day and we are going back to Studio 33 at CBS and we're going to do something to celebrate."Īfter "The Carol Burnett Show" wound down its epic 11-year run, Burnett decided to do a "Mama" TV special. We were really young, weren't we?'" Lawrence says with a laugh. She said, 'I know this is hard to believe but this September, 50 years.' I just went, 'Oh my God. "We went to dinner with Carol a few months ago. Lawrence says a television special to note the 50th anniversary of "The Carol Burnett Show" in September is in the works. So, um, I was right and I got a gold record and I got the dog … a little bittersweet chapter in my life." "It was the only good thing that came out of a totally dysfunctional marriage and I was the only one that thought that song was a hit. "My husband wrote it in like 10 minutes," she says of the hit. She recorded three albums, but never had another hit. Halfway through her time on "The Carol Burnett Show," Lawrence also had success as a singer when the song "The Nights The Lights Went Out in Georgia," written by her then-husband, the late country singer Bobby Russell, went to No. And if the judges don't vote you off, America will." If you're not Carrie Underwood out of the box, you're not going anywhere now. "And the thing is, that just wouldn't happen now. I have people coming up to me all the time and say, 'Oh my God, we grew up together.' Yeah, we probably did. "I feel like I got to go to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America and learn my craft…. "It's really where I grew up - it is very much like my childhood," she says. Lawrence says her time on the show was life-changing. And I would say it was, arguably, Carol's favorite character on the show. "And needless to say, as we know, it got so much great feedback that they ended up writing it many, many times over. … They walked out the first time they saw us do it.
And then she said, 'I think Vicki should play Mama - they were doubly upset. "When Carol saw the sketch, she said, 'I think I want to play Eunice,'" the character of Mama's daughter, Lawrence says.
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