Carol Burnett on turning 90: ‘I really feel like I’m 11!’

Carol Burnett could also be turning 90, however she doesn’t really feel it inside.

“I really feel like I’m 11!” the comedic legend tells Web page Six solely in a brand new interview.

Burnett is about to be feted with a TV particular titled “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love,” which was filmed final month however airs Wednesday, April 26 — her precise birthday — on NBC.

“I used to be completely gobsmacked by the night,” she shares. “It was unbelievable. It’s not a birthday celebration. It’s not a roast. It’s a spread present.”

The soon-to-be nonagenarian is finest identified for “The Carol Burnett Present,” which aired on CBS from 1967 to 1978. The variability present additionally starred Vicki Lawrence, Harvey Korman, Tim Conway and Lyle Waggoner and featured costumes by Bob Mackie.

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Sadly, Burnett doesn’t suppose the groundbreaking present would have the ability to air as we speak.

“I don’t suppose a community would go for what we did,” she tells us. “We had a 28-piece stay orchestra, we had 12 dancers, we had two visitor stars per week and Bob Mackie designed — get this — 60 to 75 costumes per week, the whole lot all people wore in all of the sketches and all of the musical numbers, on and on and on.

“And no community as we speak would spend that type of cash. The cash that it will price as we speak can be astronomical. So that they’re not gonna go for it. And so they, you already know, they really feel that selection is lifeless, which I don’t consider it’s,” the “Annie” star continues.

“There are lots of individuals who may do a spread present, however … they couldn’t do what we did due to the associated fee. That’s the issue. That’s why there aren’t any reveals like ours or Dean Martin or any of these, you already know, simply can’t occur as we speak.”

Burnett has unbelievably had two completely different folks change the trajectory of her life.

The primary was an nameless benefactor who paid her tuition to go to UCLA within the Fifties.

“It was $42 or $43. That’s all,” she remembers. “And we couldn’t, we couldn’t afford it. And so this at some point I — in our little mailbox factor on the constructing the place we lived — it was an envelope, with my identify typewritten on it and the deal with and the whole lot, and I opened it up, and there was a $50 invoice.

“And to today, I don’t know who gave that to me. I don’t know as a result of no one in our neighborhood that had that — consider me — had that type of cash.”

The second was a person who noticed Burnett carry out a musical comedy sketch at a celebration whereas she was attending faculty and requested her what she needed to do together with her life.

When the Texas native replied that she needed to go to New York and do musical comedy however couldn’t afford it, the person got here again with a proposition.

“He stated, ‘I consider in you. I’m going to lend you $1,000,’” she remembers.

“$1,000 then can be like any person giving me $100,000 as we speak. It was simply, like, remarkable. And he stated, ‘It’s a mortgage. You pay it again in the event you can inside 5 years. You need to use the cash to go to New York, and it’s essential to by no means reveal my identify. And if you’re profitable, it’s essential to assist different folks out.’”

Burnett was capable of pay him again inside the 5 years and has by no means revealed his identify.

Plus, she notes, “I’ve completed different issues for folks — scholarships and so forth — to pay it ahead. However these are my two unbelievable huge breaks.”

Regardless of coming into her ninth decade, Burnett isn’t displaying any indicators of slowing down.

She appeared within the closing season of “Higher Name Saul” final 12 months and filmed an upcoming Apple TV+ miniseries, “Mrs. American Pie,” with Kristen Wiig, Allison Janney and Laura Dern.

“I’m simply so lucky, at this age, to have the ability to be getting within the sandbox and enjoying with folks,” she says.