Carol Burnett's In Such Good Company takes its readers back to a happy place; a time when variety television could still draw an audience, and Hollywood was still home to mega-stars who could sing, dance and act.
In this book, Burnett looks back on the characters, guests and episodes of her famous television variety show. If you were a regular viewer of the show, In Such Good Company puts you in front of your TV, watching it all over again. The episodes and the memories come flying back as Burnett describes the people who joined her on stage in front of a live studio audience.
Many of the skits she described seemed like they were just on last week, not decades ago. I was a regular viewer, and many of the stories she tells revive a lot of memories. Some of the backstories she adds make these stories even more special.
The kind of television Burnett describes in the book is lost on most of our younger generation today, and that is too bad. Today's television fare makes it hard to imagine any type of variety program going over with today's viewers. This book is a valuable piece of TV history, giving everyone a glimpse of what family time around the tube was like. In Such Good Company takes you back to a different, and good, time in our entertainment history.
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