Carol Burnett honored for career achievement at TCA Awards

At the TCA Awards presentation last night, TV legend Carol Burnett was given the critics' award for career achievement. The award is in honor of almost fifty years of entertaining audiences, mainly via her weekly variety series The Carol Burnett Show, which ran from 1967-78.

Burnett deserves any award she gets; I only remember watching her show in the syndicated reruns (I think the first-run show was on too late for me to watch it), but even a young kid like me appreciated the slapsticky, physical humor that was performed by Burnett and her cast. Of course, Carol is multi-talented; she is a heck of a singer and has done pretty well in dramatic roles, too.

The TCA also gave awards to Steve Carell and Hugh Laurie for their performances in The Office and House, respectively, and cited Grey's Anatomy as the program of the year. Other award winners are listed at the bottom of this article.