# Find a Carol Burnett sketch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338 "2014-12-28T04:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/1 "2014-12-28T04:22:52Z")
I can recall a few specific details - Burnett played a woman who had murdered her twin sister and assumed her identity but, oddly, couldn’t wear her dead sister’s shoes without screaming in pain and for some reason she had to lie in the chalk outline of the victim and her twin sister was noticeably bustier than her. Probably these inconsistencies that have hobgoblined my mind all these decades, but I’d like the see the sketch again. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/2 "2014-12-28T04:30:47Z")
I can’t help you at the moment, but that alone sounds funnier than anything else I’ve seen on TV in the last five years (admittedly, I don’t watch much of the Tube anymore). I miss ol’ Carol Burnett. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/3 "2014-12-28T05:42:31Z")
Just some quick googling suggests that on the Carol Burnett show there was an (at least) two part series called A Swiped life in which Carol played ‘twins’ names Patsy and Vera, but I’m not sure if either one of them killed the other. ---
**Author:** ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/4 "2014-12-28T06:46:34Z")
You’re remembering bits of 2 or 3 different sketches. The twins were a spoof of a Bette Davis movie where an identical twin takes over her sister’s life. The chalk outline was from a spoof of a classic film noir where a man falls in love with a murder victim. Joey P probably has the name for the first sketch, I’ll try and figure out the name of the second. Update: I think the second one is called “Flora,” a spoof of the movie “Laura.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/5 "2014-12-28T06:53:00Z")
> [@Postariti](#): > > You’re remembering bits of 2 or 3 different sketches. That was always a possibility. Thanks for your info, I’ll check it out. ETA: I quickly found a Burnett sketch called “A Swiped Life”, apparently in parody of Bette Davis’s _A Stolen Life_. I’ll check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/6 "2014-12-28T07:01:23Z")
The above post might suggest I was ignoring Joey P’s contribution. That was not my intent; just the product of hasty and inartful phrasing. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/7 "2014-12-28T08:05:29Z")
For anyone else The Swiped Life is on Youtube: Part 1: Part 2: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xc0AMV3mkQ) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/8 "2014-12-28T12:52:10Z")
OK, great. Now, can anyone find “Waterloo Bilge”? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/find-a-carol-burnett-sketch/708338/9 "2014-12-28T15:25:06Z")
It turns out _A Swiped Life_ isn’t the sketch I was thinking of, or wasn’t one of the two or three sketches I was thinking of.