2007-02-25 06:31:36 · 18 answers · asked by Aylin O 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
Carol Burnett's Famous Ear Tug was an event that at the end of each installment of the comedy variety program THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW/CBS/1967-79, comedian Carol Burnett sang her closing theme song
"I'm so glad we had this time together/Just to have a laugh or sing a song/Seems we just get started and before you know it/Comes the time we have to say, 'so long'."
As the lyrics ended, she said goodnight to the audience and then tugged on her left earlobe. This tugging gesture was the silent personal message to her grandmother (Nanny) that everything was all right. Carol was also famous for doing her trademark Tarzan yell when asked to do so by members of her studio audience at the beginning of each show. TRIVIA NOTE: Years earlier on the game show WHAT'S MY LINE/CBS/1950-67 moderator John Daly would tug on his ear when trying to let a panelist know that things weren't all right and that their conversation was getting a bit too risqué, and that maybe they should change the subject.
2007-02-25 07:33:42 · answer #1 · answered by randyhuman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnette
2007-02-25 14:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett
2007-02-25 14:36:00 · answer #3 · answered by yessy yes no 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett
2007-02-25 14:34:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett.
Carol Burnett's parents were alcoholics, and her earliest memories are of their screaming, drunken fights. Her father abandoned the family when she was eight, and she and her mother moved in with Burnett's loving but eccentric maternal grandmother, a hypochondriac subject to "hissy fits." Burnett's mother soon faded from the family into the bottle, leaving Burnett to be raised by her grandmother. They became very close, and Burnett's famous "ear-tug" gesture, offered at the end of all her live performances and on her famous TV series, began as a silent signal to her grandmother, meaning "Everything is OK."
2007-02-25 14:36:58 · answer #5 · answered by Jim I 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett.
2007-02-25 14:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett.
2007-02-25 14:34:36 · answer #7 · answered by staisil 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The person who tugged her left earlobe was Carol Burnett.
2007-02-25 14:34:31 · answer #8 · answered by Me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol burnett
2007-02-25 14:34:34 · answer #9 · answered by stellabella 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carol Burnett, it was a signal to her Mom that she was thinking of her... pretty touching actually.
2007-02-25 14:35:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋