Carol Burnett's special gifts

There is value in being old enough to remember watching "The Carol Burnett Show" in real time. It was the best of that now-extinct species, the variety show, and in memory serves as something of a Camelot. Yes, there was a time when comedy was smart yet innocent, when satire did not have to be smug, when TV actors could sing and dance and execute a perfectly timed pratfall. Carol Burnett