I weighed 87.9 kilos before breakfast.
During song practice I played my Kramer electric and it only went out of tune slightly once in the middle of the session.
I was behind on my journal and before lunch I worked on getting caught up, but didn’t make it.
I took a siesta and slept almost half an hour longer than usual so by the time I got ready for my bike ride it was too late to go downtown. I rode instead to Ossington and Bloor and on the way home stopped at Freshco where I bought five bags of green grapes, a bunch of bananas, several avocadoes, some vine tomatoes, two packs of grape tomatoes, a pack of lettuce from Quebec, a pack of mushrooms, a bottle of Garden Cocktail, and a jug of orange juice. I did a price match on the grapes with the Walmart price of $6.55 and without my asking the cashier Reema gave me a lower price match on the avocadoes.
I weighed 88.1 kilos at 18:55.
I worked on getting caught up on my journal and it was half an hour after my normal supper time before I was.
I had a tomato, cucumber, and not quite ripe avocado salad with lime juice while watching season 1, episode 11 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup an audience member asks Carol who designs her clothes. She says Bob Mackie. She shows it off and then asks if they want to see the rest of her. Her cameraman Pat says, “No thanks I just had dinner”. She brings out her guest Don Adams. He says he used to be so self conscious that when he went to a football game and the players went in a huddle he thought they were talking about him. He talks about how glad he is that his catchphrase “Would you believe?” became part of the culture. He relates his experience playing golf in the Bob Hope Classic and actually playing against Arnold Palmer one day and Jack Nicklaus another. He was very nervous competing with the famous pros.
In the first skit a woman is obsessed with watching science fiction movies on TV. Her husband doesn’t like them and goes to bed. In a minute a man in a shiny green suit with antennae steps in from her balcony. He says he’s Zorel from Venus and needs to rest before he repairs his spaceship. Her husband shouts from the bedroom. Zorel asks, “Is that another Earthling?” Carol says, “No that’s a ding-a-ling”. Her husband asks, “Are you talkin to someone?” Carol tells Zorel he’d better hide but Zorel says that Venusians are invisible to male humans. Harvey comes out but only acknowledges Carol then goes back to bed. He tells her that men worship women on Venus but they aren’t as beautiful as she is. He would like her to come to Venus with him and she wants to. He gives her a levitation pill so she can fly with him to his spaceship. She steps off the railing and falls to her death. Her husband comes out and says to Zorel “I don’t know how you did it Charlie but I still think $50 is a little too high”, as he pays him.
The second guest Lesie Ann Warren does a song and dance number with a performance of “The Best Is Yet to Come” by Cy Coleman and Caroline Leigh. She’s a very good dancer.
The next skit shows what happens when the technical staff of a TV talk show goes on strike and the studio executives try to fill their jobs. The show is the Donny Bishop Show featuring Don Adams as a parody of Johnny Carson and Regis McMann played by Harvey Korman as a parody of Ed McMann. Regis laughs hysterically for too long at everything Donny says and Donny is clearly annoyed. Donny is sitting behind the desk in his underwear because the wardrobe department is also on strike. His guest is Sandy Saint Sweet (played by Carol) who keeps getting hit and knocked down by the boom mic.
Next, two fathers (Harvey and Don) are sitting on a bench waiting to pick up their kids from school. Harvey says his solution to not be annoyed with his kids is to have activities for them to go to out of the house. On Sundays they’re in church from 9:00 to 17:00. Don asks, “Isn’t that unusual?” Harvey says, “No kidding, since we’re Jewish.” Don talks about the difficulties he has with his wife and he’s a marriage counselor.
There’s a parody of a TV commercial for Fresha (mocking Fresca). A husband and wife are sitting and when Carol drinks the ice cold drink, a large dump of snow suddenly falls on them.
Carol sings “Enter Laughing” from the Carl Reiner movie of the same name. The song is written by Quincey Jones and Mack David.
In the next sketch Don the husband had asked Carol the wife to stop at the bank and pick up some papers from their safety deposit box. But while Carol was out she lost her purse. When Don comes home he explains that the papers are his finance records from last year that will help him avoid paying $2000 in taxes. After some comical evasion of the issue Carol finally admits she lost her purse and the papers. Obviously Don is not happy and derides Carol for quite a while for being so stupid as to lose her purse, until a grocery boy shows up with Carol’s purse. Don goes to give a generous tip to the grocery boy but discovers he’s lost his wallet.
The closing number is a song and dance bit with Carol Burnett and Lesley Ann Warren singing the jazz standard “All God’s Children Got Rhythm” by Walter Jurmann, Gus Kahn, and Bronislaw Kaper. The dancers are also beating out rhythms on the floor and various objects. Carol has cymbals on the inner sides of her knees.
Lesley Ann Warren began training in ballet at 6. She studied at the High School of Music and Art and won a scholarship to the School of American Ballet at 14. At 17 she became the youngest student to ever be accepted at the Actors Studio and studied under Lee Strasberg. Her film debut was in The Chapman Report in 1962. The same year she made her TV debut on The Doctors. She made her Broadway debut in 110 in the Shade in 1963 and won Broadway’s Most Promising Newcomer Award. She co-starred in The One and Only Original Family Band, Pickup On 101, Harry and Walter Go to New York, Choose Me (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe), Songwriter (for which she won a People’s Choice Award), A Night in Heaven, The Shore, The Sphere and the Labyrinth, Victor/Victoria (for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar), Cop, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Worth Winning, Life Stinks, Love Kills, Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish, Pure Country, The Limey, Peep World, 3 Days with Dad, Between Us, and It Snows All the Time. She replaced Barbara Bain on Mission Impossible for one season and was nominated for a Golden Globe. She won a Golden Globe for her performance in the TV movie 79 Park Avenue. She starred in When Do We Eat?, On TV she Bonda Jo Weaver on Dr. Kildare, played Jinx Shannon on In Plain Sight, and Millicent Prescott on Panhandle
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