💖 59 YEARS LATER — CAROL BURNETT & VICKI LAWRENCE REUNITE IN THE SWEETEST THROWBACK EVER💖 K2

Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence.Credit: Vicki Lawrence/Instagram

Carol Burnett and Vicki Lawrence are palling around once again.

The comedians, who starred together on all 11 seasons of The Carol Burnett Show, shared a dinner together 59 years after the variety show premiered on CBS.

“Special night. Dinner with Carol,” Lawrence wrote in a caption of an Instagram post featuring herself and Burnett smiling in a restaurant. “Thank you Brian for a beautiful meal. Lotsa laughs and lotsa memories. I love her so…🥰”

The reunion sparked positive comments from other notable entertainers, including singer Melba Moore, who wrote, “My two beautiful ladies 🌹 Tell Carol I am tugging my ear.”

Meanwhile, Mary Steenburgen wrote, “Love this photo!”

Lawrence previously celebrated her friendship with Burnett in a post celebrating the latter’s birthday last month. “Happiest birthday wishes to simply the best lady in the world,” she wrote in another Instagram caption.

Lawrence and Burnett recently shared the screen on Apple TV’s Palm Royale. Burnett portrays Norma Dellacorte, the wealthy aunt-in-law of Kristen Wiig’s protagonist Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, while Lawrence recurred in four episodes of season 2 as Sister Lotte, a nun with a strong connection to Norma’s past.

“Being with Vicki again was like old times,” Burnett told Parade last year. “I mean, it was as if all the years had not passed, and here we are again together.”

She continued, “When she showed up on the set, you know, it was, as I say, it’s like the years just washed away. And here we were again, you know, Carol and Vicki together.”

The two comedians began their long professional partnership after a teen Lawrence invited Burnett, who was already a rising TV star, to see her appear at a local firefighter’s ball in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. A few months after the event, Lawrence was officially cast on The Carol Burnett Show, which kicked off in 1967. Lawrence and Burnett were the only two cast members to remain on the show for all 11 seasons until the show’s conclusion in 1978.

Lawrence’s most enduring sketch  from the show — “The Family,” in which she portrayed Thelma “Mama” Harper — debuted in the seventh season of The Carol Burnett Show, and was so popular that NBC ordered a TV movie spinoff, Eunice, in 1982 that starred both women. Lawrence then headlined the spinoff sitcom Mama’s Family for six seasons, two of which featured Burnett in a recurring guest role.

Burnett and Lawrence also reunited for 1978’s short-lived series Carol Burnett & Company as well as the short-lived Carol Burnett Show revival in 1991.