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Airdate: Lucille Ball: We Love Lucy

Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Debra Messing & Suzanne Somers reveal how they were uniquely inspired by Lucy’s comic genius.

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Cheekily timed to benefit from a new movie, SBS is screening a documentary tonight, Lucille Ball: We Love Lucy.

Lucille Ball didn’t just make millions of people laugh uproariously. She blazed a whole new path for women in the entertainment industry that still resonates today. Her bravery and willingness to try absolutely anything to elicit a chuckle changed the rules of television. Comediennes Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Debra Messing and Suzanne Somers reveal to us how they were uniquely inspired by Lucy’s comic genius. But simply being funny was never enough for her. The shrewd, enterprising redhead – whose drama-filled personal life was constantly at odds with her public persona – struggled against a system created by men, all the while cementing her legacy by building an entertainment empire that would transform Hollywood as we know it.

Tuesday, 21 December at 9.30pm on SBS.

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  1. I only caught the last ten minutes of this. I loved Lucy. She was such a smart, talented, funny lady. I will try and find a repeat of this to watch the whole thing. Lucy was one of a kind!

  2. Lucy was such a Pioneer and an Icon
    But like with Jerry Lewis I have had a love/hate opinion with her over the years
    I’m watching this before I watch Being The Ricardos later today

  3. Just watched this and it was a treat. I remember the Here’s Lucy reruns in the 1980s (the one with the stop motion leggy puppet of her). Didn’t realise she had so many shows as the main star and named after her. Something else. And I don’t even like slap stick.

  4. By far the biggest legacy of Desilu productions is ‘Star Trek’-they were the studio that started the original series. The studio was then absorbed by Paramount who have milked it unto this very day!

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