Sunday, January 3, 2010

SHATNER SUNDAY: Carol Burnett as Captain Kirk



What you are about to see may disturb you. It certainly creeps me the hell out. It's a bizarre skit from a now-forgotten early '90s attempt to resurrect The Carol Burnett Show, in which the original crew of the Enterprise flies through some sort of magic gender-bending space cloud. The clip starts a ways into the sketch, but you'll get the gist in a hurry. Burnett's Shatner is actually pretty good, which only makes the whole thing that much wrong-er. That's SCTV's Andrea Martin as Spock. So, in addition to the squirmy horror of Kirk and Spock as improbably buxom ladies feeling each other up, there's the additional touch of ick from seeing this little scenario enacted by two classic comediennes of your youth.

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