Amy Poehler & Tina Fey honor Carol Burnett at Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 FULL

and Amy Poehler Tina and I are thrilled to be here tonight to present the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award to Carol Burnett Carol Carol has been such an important part of all of our lives for the past 50 years since her Broadway debut in Once Upon a Mattress in 1959 through 11 glorious seasons of his hit variety show, through his unforgettable film roles in films like The Front Page and Annie, to this year's unauthorized biopic, Carol, about his long friendship with Julie Andrews. No, no, Tina, that's not what that movie is about. It was about seeing it again Carol Burnett is one of the few artists to have won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a Mark Twain Award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a combination known as the coveted Agathe, and she has deserved all the

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because comedy is much more difficult than comedy-drama.

Actors have to do the same things that dramatic

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do, but faster and often with the chimpanzee. Michael Keaton knows what I'm talking about, right? He takes these dramas to relax. Tell the truth. Michael Keaton, what was more difficult? Taking a serious look at a box of files in the spotlight or making grilled cheese on a griddle while holding a baby and Mr. Mom and while we're at it, let's all calm down about Leonardo DiCaprio and how hard it was to shoot the reborn, okay so you slept on a horse and you're not bison liver, big whoop, Carol would have slept on that horse if you had. a song and a dance and made a much funnier face after eating something very disgusting.

The point is that Carol is better than all of us, we'll give her an award for it. We both grew up watching The Carol Burnett Show and also watching comedy. every week and how funny she was and how beautiful she looked, it was important for us to see that Carol was also the boss, it was her show and that implanted itself in our brains and made us dream of a life where we could get paid for do. comedy with our friends but also being her boss we saw Carol yes, we saw Carol with our moms and our moms taught us 90% of what we needed to know to be the type of women we are today and the other 10% is Carol who we love. her and we thank her, you know, I've been watching Carol Burnett for four years and this amazing girl has never lost what to do or what to talk about. ghs this job.

I will do anything to get this job. I'm down in this beautiful, thank God, she came out in the wind and I couldn't resist. The lady says it all with her angry face, fear, passion, well she could stand in front of an audience and make that big house

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of people feel like she was speaking. to each one individually that is a quality that it takes in a very special human being to make that there are parts of her that are so genuine and pleasant that I look at her and say, I have to aspire to that because that is not necessarily in my wiring my book, you're the one who bought it, look, I don't know if I should sign it or not, I'm from UCLA, I'm sorry, watching Carol Burnett play these crazy, you know, so outlandish characters and then be herself and answer questions and you have to know who she really was.

I think that was really attractive to me. I will never forgive you for this as long as I live well. So he's even the next GI technician. My name is Barry. You're a wind-up doll haha, you're not. I'm so glad we spent this time together. I just laugh or sing. It seems like we've just started before you know it's coming. We have to say see you later. It is our pleasure to present the

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. Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award oh my goodness, thank you. Oh, Steve, thanks for helping me get the Stingers up to Tina and Amy.

They touched my heart a lot. I appreciate it, so I'm so excited that you guys are such a ball of wax. wonderful thank you I grew up not far from here block north of Hollywood Boulevard and when I was around here I will tell you the story of my life when I was about nine or ten years old my grandmother and I saved our pennies and we went I went to the movies three or four times per week and back then, in the covered wagon days, they had double features, which meant I watched six to eight movies a week and then my best friend, LeMay, and I, after seeing the At the Movies we played them and we were Betty Grable and Dan Dailey and Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald Mickey Judy Tarzan and Jane and then when we were done doing all that we would go up to the Hollywood sign, no actually we went up to the Hollywood sign when we could achieve it, the O's were my favorite.

I love O's. Then when I got my variety show, one of the biggest things I wanted to do and loved was our takeoffs on all the movies I grew up loving and this time us. we had costumes designed by the brilliant Bob Mackie, a 28-piece orchestra, yes, a 28-piece orchestra, our own management company, two guest stars a week, dancers and singers, in essence, we put on a musical comedy revue every week and Oh God, we had fun and at first the network didn't want me to do one, they tried to get me to do a half-hour comedy called Here's Agnes, Can You Imagine Here's Agnes?

I could see it, you know? But I had this fantastic, unheard of contract that said all I had to do was press the button and the network would have to give me thirty-one hour variety shows, yeah, and I told them that's what I wanted to do, but they said that no, no, no, no, watch all the comedy variety shows. are hosted by men Sid Caesar Jackie Gleason Milton Berle now Dean really isn't for a girl his comedy variety is a man's game I want to pay tribute to all the people who contributed to our show behind the scenes and especially my family in front of the camera, the brilliant Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence Lyle Wagoner and Tim Conway, their comedic skills made everything work and I was able to do what I did because of what they brought, not only their talents but their love, and I am very happy.

I pressed that button, my thanks to SAG later and to all of you. Wow for such a special evening and such a special

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. I'm so glad we spent this time together. Thank you Eva Longoria Taye Diggs idris elba Julia Louie Dreyfus keegan-michael Keys Eddie Redmayne and with a special tribute, the 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented by Jared the Gallery.