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In the early days it was difficult to be a female showrunner, but Burnett remembers Lucille Ball did it with panache.
Comedian Carol Burnett recently sat down with Chelsea Handler to dish on her friendship with Lucille Ball, whom she found tremendously inspiring.
There were many challenges to being a female showrunner, as Burnett and Ball both learned. Here Burnett passes the torch to Handler, with a life lesson for the comedian who is today also at the helm of her own production.
