Sunday, August 21, 2022

Watch Carol Burnett's 'Houdini's Daughter' sketch

In 2015 I did a post about a sketch on The Carol Burnett Show in which the comedian played Houdini's fictional daughter, "Flo Ziegfeld Houdini." The sketch went wrong in a number of ways. Now you can watch the sketch for yourself via The Official Carol Burnett Show YouTube channel. This was episode 22 of season 7 and first aired on March 9, 1974. Enjoy!


Thanks to Tom Odgen for the alert.
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 21, 2022 at 2:10 PM

    This aired 48 years ago about 48 years after Houdini died.

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    1. John CoxAugust 21, 2022 at 2:14 PM

      Oh, wow. So we are as far away from this as this was from Houdini. That kind of thing always blows my mind, especially as I was a Carol Burnett watcher.

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  2. AnonymousAugust 21, 2022 at 5:34 PM

    Yes, same here!

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  3. AnonymousAugust 21, 2022 at 5:44 PM

    I graduated high school in 1977, some 51 years after Houdini died. I look back and all around me were people in their 70’s and 80’s who very well could have watched Houdini live and I never asked them if they ever did. I did ask my Dad who grew up in the Scranton Pa area. He was 12 years old in 1926. He never saw Houdini but remembered a boy selling newspapers on a street corner yelling “Houdini is dead”.

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