CAROL BURNETT: THE MARK TWAIN PRIZE
PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET
The star of The Carol Burnett Show, the beloved CBS variety series that ran for a dozen successful seasons back in the Sixties and Seventies, is honored as the recipient of this year’s Mark Twain Prize. She’s a very deserving recipient, and is toasted by an appropriate bevy of adoring celebrity peers and acolytes (Julie Andrews, Tony Bennett, Tiny Fey, Amy Poehler) – but when is this organization going to recognize, and give the Mark Twain Prize, to another CBS variety act that premiered earlier the same year Burnett first appeared in 1967? I’m referring, of course, to the Smothers Brothers, whose political and social commentary, and persistence in taking on sacred cows, surely makes them ideal representatives of the true spirit of Mark Twain. Just putting it out there. Check local listings.