Ask the Flying Monkey: How Soon Until the Arrival of 3D Gay Adult Movies?

This week: Dear Prudence screws up, and we find every gay bio-pic ever made! Plus, the (would-be) blistering Mary Tyler Moore/Carol Burnett feud!

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Q: Oh, Great Flying Monkey! My Aunt Mary Agnes comes to me and asks "Why haven’t Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore ever worked together? Two of the greatest comediennes from the golden age of television?" And she is right. I've checked most of my sources, and except for some awards show pictures taken together, I do not see anything. – TheFabulousThomasJ, Decatur, IL

A: Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore were famously linked on CBS’s classic 1970s Saturday night line-up: The Mary Tyler Moore Show at 9 PM and The Carol Burnett Show at 10 PM. (As a pre-VCR or DVR kid, I was always loyal to Carol, even though my straight friends all had the temerity to desert her for Fantasy Island on ABC!)

And it’s easy to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon between Carol and Mary: Mary Tyler Moore co-star Betty White, for example, also co-starred for a time on Mama’s Family, the The Carol Burnett Show spin-off. Likewise, Mary’s Dick Van Dyke Show co-star Dick Van Dyke was (briefly) a regular on The Carol Burnett Show.

The Carol Burnett Show (1967-1978)

But I too couldn’t find any evidence of the 70s comedy icons working together, and the other is not mentioned (except briefly) in all of the biographies they’ve each written.

Then again, maybe it’s not too surprising they didn’t work together in their hey-days. For one thing, they were both enormously busy, each the star of a wildly successful TV franchise running at exactly the same time (Carol’s from 1967 to 1978 and Mary’s from 1970 to 1977).

And while both their shows ran on CBS and the two stars surely saw each other at publicity and award events, their shows were taped at different locations: Carol at CBS Television City on Beverly Blvd. and Mary at CBS Studio Center in Studio City.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-77)

And while Mary was certainly capable of doing musical-comedy – she had a long background in both – and while Carol ended up doing her share of quieter situational-type humor, both were known, in the 1970s at least, for pretty specific styles of entertainment – styles that are sort of at odds.

I wish I could find evidence of a nasty Bette Davis/Joan Crawford-like rivalry (which, sadly, didn’t really exist anyway), but alas, I just can’t. Readers?

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