The Secret Message Behind Carol Burnett’s Famous Ear Tug
For more than 10 years, the Carroll Carol Show ended with a song … and an ear tug. Viewers didn’t know that when the comedian was pulling her left earring at the end of “I’m So Glad We Had This Time With Together”, she was also sending a message to the woman who picked her up: her grandmother. “My grandmother brought me up here in Hollywood. When I got my first job in New York, I called her and I said ‘Granny, I’m going to be on television on Saturday morning.” He said, ‘Well, you will say hi to me.’ We figured it out – to pull my ear off – and that was his sign for me, “she revealed.” It always meant ‘hi granny. I am fine. I love you. “Later that meant, ‘Hi granny. I’m fine. I love you. Your investigation along the way.’ Ending a difficult childhood, Burnett feels ‘safe’ with her grandmother His parents were alcoholics and divorced each other when he was young. Burnett was sent to live with her Christian Scientist grandmother Mabel White (aka Nani), and the two found a way to ...