Amy Poehler Teams With Comedy Hero Carol Burnett for ABC Pilot
Amy Poehler is joining forces with comedy legend Carol Burnett for a new ABC show! The pilot focuses on a family moving into their dream home under one condition: the older actress who used to own the place can reside there with them until she dies. Burnett will play the actress, and Michael Saltzman, whose credits include Mad Men, Murphy Brown, and Wings, will write the script.
In January of this year, Poehler and Tina Fey presented Burnett with the Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award and gave the 82 year-old actress a touching tribute, citing her as an important influence on her own comedy, and praising her groundbreaking comedy series, The Carol Burnett Show.
From 1967 to 1978, CBS aired the variety sketch show that featured a Gone With the Wind parody so popular that the costume is now on display at the Smithsonian.
In 2013 when Burnett was given the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Poehler took the stage as Burnett’s put-upon personal assistant. Burnett returned the favor by providing her voice for the audio version of Poehler’s best-selling memoir, Yes Please.
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