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Thelma Harper, better known as Mama, is a fictional character played by American actress Vicki Lawrence. Mama is a purse-lipped, thickset senior citizen in her mid-to-late 60s. She has lived in an unspecified part of the Southern United States called "Raytown" for her entire life, evident from the southern drawl of her speech.
Vicki Lawrence (born March 26, 1949), [1] sometimes credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz, is an American actress, comedian, and singer. She is best known for her character Mama (Thelma Harper) . Lawrence also originated many other characters on CBS 's The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978, the variety show's entire series run.
Mama's Family is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper).The series is a spin-off of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family" featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1967–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979).
Mama is in the hospital, having been hit on the head with a stew pot. In flashbacks, Naomi, Ellen, and Eunice each tell Vint a different account of how it happened. Notes: This was Carol Burnett's final physical appearance in the series, although in "Mama's Birthday", Burnett can be heard singing "Happy Birthday" to Mama on the telephone. Rue ...
Mama (Vicki Lawrence) – In "The Family" sketches, Mama is a cold, spiteful, cantankerous, elderly widow. Mama has other sides to her in Mama's Family , such as her tendency to make good-natured wisecracks and snappy retorts; however, her commentary in "The Family" sketches is limited to constant captious complaints, belligerent remarks that ...
Betty White's final words were a mention of her beloved late husband Allen Ludden.. Vicki Lawrence, who appeared on Mama’s Family with White in the 1980s, told Page Six the last thing White, who ...
We've got your August (and beyond) concert calendar with Willie Nelson, Luke Bryan, Ted Nugent, Rod Stewart and Jelly Roll among the highlights
In an appearance on Vicki Lawrence's talk show Vicki!, Lyman noted that she continued to perform on All My Children concurrently with the beginning of Mama's Family's production, flying back and forth each week between New York City and Los Angeles. While the commute was brutal, she remembered it fondly, referring to that stage of her career as ...