Carol Burnett, 90, is happy she’s ‘received all my components’: ‘I want to work’

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Carol Burnett has no plans to decelerate anytime quickly.

When talking with Extra on the premiere of her new present “Palm Royale” on Apple TV +, Burnett made it clear that she plans on working within the business for so long as potential.

“I always approach it as something new that I’ve never done before, so I’m just happy to be working and that I’ve got all my parts,” she advised the outlet. “I have my hips and my knees — and I think my brain — so as long as I can keep that up and work, then I want to work.”

The legendary TV icon can be celebrating her 91st birthday on April 26, telling Extra that one of the best birthday current can be a second season of her new present, explaining, “That’ll keep me working, which I like. Yes, as long as I have fun, and that’s what I want.”

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Carol Burnett wearing blue on the red carpet

Burnett is hoping to hold working for so long as she will be able to. (Photo by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage)

The new mini-series follows a newcomer to Palm Beach, Florida, as she tries to break into the town’s excessive society scene. The collection additionally stars Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney, Kaia Gerber and Ricky Martin.

“When they called me about doing it, I didn’t even have to read a script,” Burnett advised Extra. “I said, ‘I’m in,’ because of who I would be working with, and that was it. And then I read the script, and that was the icing on the cake.”

As her character enjoys the occasional cocktail, served to her by Martin’s character, Burnett shared that she “like[s] a cosmopolitan.”

Burnett turned a legend within the tv world when she landed her personal selection present on CBS in 1967, “The Carol Burnett Show,” turning into one of many few ladies to have her personal present in an business dominated by males. The present was on the air for over a decade, going off the air in 1978.

Carol Burnett performing on her variety show.

Burnett’s selection present ran for over a decade, from 1967 to 1978. (Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images)

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The present earned Burnett 10 Emmy nominations with three wins, as well as to many different wins and nominations for different initiatives. When filming the present, Burnett would ship her grandmother a particular sign by tugging on her left ear when telling the viewers goodbye, one thing she then turned identified for.

In 2019, Burnett turned the inaugural recipient of the Carol Burnett Award for lifetime achievement in tv, with subsequent recipients being Ellen Degeneres, Norman Lear and Ryan Murphy.

Her “Palm Royale” co-stars had been greater than happy to be working with Burnett, with Wiig telling People, “She’s such an inspiration” to everybody on set, for “everything she did for every person [and] every woman.”

“We have dinner and talk and text and she’s so funny. I did press with her yesterday and she was cracking everybody up. And I am a better person from knowing her. I just love her,” Wiig stated. “I literally said today, ‘I still can’t believe that we work together. I wanna like verify that it’s her. I’m like, ‘It’s Carol, right? Yeah, I mean, it’s Carol.'”

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